Started playing RPGs in 1981, started designing them in 1986 :).  Won DieHard Gamefan's Best New Game of the Year in 2011 for Compact Heroes and nominated for Best Creature Book ENNIE in 2023 for Twilight Fables.  Always looking to be better. Not just in game design, but as a human being sharing this world with a wonderfully diverse group of gamers. 

Founded in 2016 by Chickasaw siblings, Arledge Comics started as a hobby and became the home of the critically acclaimed ALEX PRIEST. Since its inception, Arledge Comics has grown to include a number of anthologies, – including TRIAL RUN, MY KINGDOM FOR A PANEL, and STRANGE WATERS – and creator owned comics (like SHUFFLE and NO GOING BACK). Native founded, queer owned and operated: our mission is to create inclusive comics for the whole family to enjoy. And, hey, we design pins, too!

In the realm of artistic brilliance, Tina Glasneck emerges as a notable, modern-day Renaissance woman—an esteemed USA Today bestselling author, game writer, and captivating singer-songwriter. Glasneck is a versatile, noteworthy, and accomplished author who has made a name for herself in the literary world with her imaginative and captivating writing style. With over 40 titles to her name, her enchanting tales are filled with magic and myth and transport readers to extraordinary realms.  Glasneck enjoys to write all kinds of books and genres, including romantasy, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance. But her love and passion are dragons and flawed women who are unaware of their own greatness. Be they shifters, riders, queens and gods, she is passionate about creating a magical world where love, danger, freedom and power are just a dragon's breath away. Her books are filled with fantastical tales of Norse gods, magical creatures, and the supernatural. She is known for her fast-paced, imaginative and suspenseful tales  with intricate plots, vivid descriptions, and relatable characters.  Each book is a "fantastic story filled with history, mystery, wonder and time travel," are "dense with character, detail, action, emotion, intrigue," and are "one journey you don't want to miss!"  Readers who enjoy series' that feature strong heroines who embark on a journey of self-discovery in a world filled with magic, action, and romance will enjoy Glasneck's versatility, creativity, and her imaginative and captivating writing style. She is passionate about her work as a writer (of books, games, and singer-songwriter), and opts to use all of her talents to usher readers into her musings and world. 

Owner behind KityCrylics. Passionate crowdfunder & small business supporter.  Creator of Magical Noopy. I've successfully crowdfunded over 20+ projects and have a strong reputation within the community for being reliable and ethical.  Thanks for your support in our visions!

Mike is an ENnie-winning freelance game designer, editor of EN5ider, design manager of Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition, author of various campaign settings, instructor for the Storytelling Collective, and a designer of all sorts of other RPG books (he made it his full-time job years ago). He lives in Squirrel Hill with his wonderful wife, the supposedly domesticated cat Olive, and two very enthusiastic dogs named Dali and Pepper. ♥

Jacob Fleming lives in Northwest Arkansas where works as an illustrator, specializing in traditional media. Originally a lighting technician for film and television, Jacob moved from California where he grew up to pursue illustration and self publishing.

Bookish artist, lover of fictional weapons. Find me as @geek_and_artsy_bookish on IG and geekandartsy.com

Howdy! My name's Rory, and I'm a writer and artist living in Salt Lake City. I'm a hobbyist at heart, and passionate about all things tabletop. I'v been working tirelessly for the last two yeas to develop custom, quality paint brushes and tools to help other people experience the enjoyment I do. www.minotaurhobbies.com

We love thinking outside the box. We build diverse fantasy worlds and games by assembling diverse creative teams. We follow ethical business practices, like paying folks fairly and on time and commissioning quality art made only by actual humans. Not only is it fairer for our teams, it makes better tabletop RPGs. Gnome Made Games was formed in 2021 when our inaugural game Those Who Wander went live for crowdfunding. Since then, we've created the expanding Demiverse campaign setting and the dice-hoarding game Luncheons and Dragonflies. The founder of Gnome Made Games is Adam Hancock, an Adamantine-bestselling tabletop TPG creator who's co-authored the "An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby" series. He's also a Hard Of Hearing demiboy with ADHD who's probably a gnome.

La Panthere Studio is a mystical indie publishing house specializing in oracle, tarot and playing cards. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, we create beautiful and magical products while ensuring that all our artists and authors get paid fairly. We strive to create inclusive, thoughtful, and well-written products that readers can enjoy for a lifetime and beyond. Currently our publishing focus centers around Southern magic, ancestor work, tarot, oracle and shadow work. Backers may remember us best from our earlier BackerKit campaigns... The Southern Botanic Oracle, Erika's Lenormand of Hope, and of course, Roses Dust & Ashes! https://www.lapantherestudio.com

Maker of games such as Pigsmoke, Bleak Spirit, See Issue X, and Strike Force Omega.

Windy & Wallflower is a small micropress based out of Montreal comprised of Tas (Windy) & Winter Jay (Wallflower) who create queer stories and fabricate weird objects.  They are best known for their work on their comics: Augustine, Paint the Town Red & the Sanity Circus. And their prose: Myth Retold & Prism Knights. But you can find everything they make & create on their shop for yourself: shop.windywallflower.com And learn even more about it on their website: windywallflower.com

Sam Sorensen is a game designer, writer, editor, and graphic designer; he specializes in tabletop RPGs, wargames, and simulation games. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and can usually be found at the Met.

Hello!!! My name is Winterra and I’m a full time artist (see Winterra_art on TikTok and Instagram) and an ecologist. Come join the cozy crew!  Https://linktr.ee/winterraart

If you can't find it, make it yourself, and make it right: NerdyKeppie's philosophy and business model grew out of one family's need for representation. When Spider Perry's daughter Cat wanted a sturdy, cute transgender Pride yarmulke, the mother/daughter pair scoured the internet and came up dry. Spider took matters into their own hands - literally - and developed the first of NerdyKeppie's products. In the seven years since they sold their first yarmulke, NerdyKeppie has expanded. Now co-owned by Spider & one of his partners, Emet, their shop now centers around two embroidery machines and an industrial sewing machine, and their offerings have grown to over a thousand items: patches, t-shirts, footwear and activewear. Many of those items are made in their home-based studio in Portland, Oregon - and what they can't physically produce is outsourced to a network of manufacturers. 

I'm a husband, father, pastor, educator, composer, designer, dreamer, and master of esoterica. My wife Melody and I started AKT with a dream putting innovative and useful gear into the pockets of our friends in the EDC community.  If we can provide a useful tool, merch that makes you smile, or an encouraging word along the way, we'll feel like we've done what we came to do.

I'm an independent TTRPG author. I freelance for Goodman Games on Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG and Mutant Crawl Classics RPG. Under the banner of Horse Shark Games I self-publish. DCC RPG/MCC RPG compatible works include: The House of the Red Doors, Cats of Rahtlü, Unveiled Elisions #1, Enchiridion of the Computarchs, and the limited series, Scions of the Computarchs. My current passion project is Netcrawl, an RPG about adventuring inside a computer system. Everyone goes in, seconds pass in the meatspace as players spend hours conquering a cyber-dungeon - together. Check it out at https://patreon.com/lectrotext. Launching on Backerkit on September 3rd, 2024

Manual creates home goods for slow living.  Manual was founded by Craighton Berman—a designer with work in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the first person to use Kickstarter to launch a product. Manual embodies this spirit of D.I.Y. and creativity through slow design.

small press tabletop rpgs from Adam Vass (they/he) made in Michigan. worldchamp.io.

Im a Cartoon Enthusiast and Owner/Creator of Studio Bad Egg!

Don't Panic Games is a French game company made out of a small but extremely passionate team of (mostly) veterans from the gaming and entertainment industry. Since 2013, like hitchhiker traveling the galaxy, we've been bringing an array of mostly harmless games to the world — manby of them with a distinctly Japanese flair.

FairSquare Graphics is the only family, immigrant and minority owned comics and graphic novel publisher. Founded in 2019, it not only provides a home for under-represented creators and stories, but also presents fair contracts to them. Our motto is: "Stories from the Rest of Us."

POROFUL grew from a passion for all things food, and started from sculpting food & animal miniatures from polymer clay, and now into designing food & dessert inspired merchandise to share love and drools around the world. As a creator who lives in Hong Kong, where there is still a lot of sigma about mental health, I decided to expand our collection from not only cute ad drool worthy merchandise, but delve into a journey creating more relatable content and to bring more awareness into mental health. You will see us integrate more mental health and affirmation illustrations into our art in the future.  Poroful has run numerous successful Kickstarter campaigns with over 4000 backers to bring cute merchandise and products into this world, and we are so grateful for every single one of you for being part of this journey! 

 Mike Lafferty is a tabletop roleplaying game (TTRPG) writer, designer, and publisher. He is the founder of Fainting Goat Games, a small press RPG publishing company. Fainting Goat Games is known for producing third-party supplements for systems like Mutants & Masterminds, Icons Superpowered Roleplaying, and various other superhero and genre RPGs.  His games often blend humor, pop culture homages, and genre-savvy design. 

Vortex Verlag is a publishing house owned by the two brothers Michel and Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Their team includes German, American, British, Italian and French creatives. Vortex Verlag has published the German version of Unknown Armies and – in 2023 – successfully kickstarted "The Straight Way Lost", an adventure and sourcebook for 5e. Serenissima Obscura is their latest project and others are in the pipeline. 

Astraea Creative is a publisher of tarot, oracle decks and art books with a focus on reflecting the beauty of the natural world as well as all things ancient, magical and mystical. All products are created with the highest possible production values and planet friendly publishing and distribution methods. The brand was founded by writer and illustrator Nicola Allan in 2022, co-creator of Faunabelle Tarot, and creator of The Wild Way Oracle Deck.

Founded in 2012, Nydaria Entertainment is a Pittsburgh-based game and graphic novel publisher.

Developer of software for tabletop RPGs and boardgames, including virtual tabletop software (Battlegrounds RPG Edition and Battlegrounds Gaming Engine) and map-making software (MapForge and TileForge).

I'm an artist with a passion for all things that stick, pin, or sit wondrously for the world to see. As a cancer patient, I'm always looking for the next thing to bring more joy to my life, and the lives of others. I love all things nerd from Pokemon to Starwars, Dungeons and Dragons, Science and beyond! If you see a campaign of mine, I hope it's one you'll consider backing. Feedback always welcome! Come Join me: https://www.instagram.com/waywardenigmadesigns/