Old Oak Games is an Irish-owned tabletop roleplaying game studio founded by award-winning writer and designer Emmet Byrne. We specialise in creating games built around a strong central focus, be it exploration, survival, joy, mystery, or horror.  Our goal is to make games that let you tell stories, whether that means designing a new world for the system you love or creating a brand-new ruleset to give you an experience unlike anything else out there. These are our worlds, but they’re your stories. Ár Domhan, Do Scéal | Our Worlds, Your Stories.

Forged in the burbs of Ohio. Steeled on the streets of San Francisco. Artist & writer obsessed with movies, books, comics, toys, video games, and you! Creator Community Lead at BackerKit. Previous crowdfunding projects include — 2025 — COLD PIZZA PINZ (Enamel Pins) part of Holiday Market 2025 2024 — FANTASY (Enamel Pins) part of Pintopia 2024 2024 — REALM RUNNERS (Board Game) w/ Skinner 2023 — MOVIE MOTHS (Enamel Pins) part of Pintopia 2023 2022 — PIZZA PINZ (Enamel Pins) 2019 — RENTAL RUMBLE (Board Game) w/ Joshua Herbolsheimer 2017 — SAVE PEPE (Comic Book) w/ Matt Furie www.jasonfurie.com  ✌🏼 Jason Furie | Instagram 📸

Tim Roberts has been playing RPGs since the mid-80s, cutting his teeth on Fighting Fantasy books. He founded an RPG company, Critical Kit Ltd, in March 2019. Since then, he has written several 5th-edition adventures, an RPG colouring book, and the award-winning solo RPG, Be Like a Crow. He has also won the Faber Academy prize for his short fiction.

New EpicForged Pocket EDC Organizer Pouch coming soon! ⏩ SIGN UP HERE ⏪ Aaron Son & Yoshimi Son | Long Beach, CA Aaron & Yoshimi are a husband and wife duo, with a passion for all things posh and dapper. We work under Dapper Design to create purposeful products that are very useful, lightweight, simple, and minimalistic. Aaron helped co-found ZeroHour, Dapper Design, and EpicForged brands. He has successfully funded and fulfilled over 25+ Kickstarter projects. Yoshimi has over 8 years experience in finance, insurance, and underwriting. Dapper Design is inspired by larger companies such as Surefire, Gerber, Spyderco, and Benchmade. ✨ Online Store ✨ Missed our previous campaigns? Find them and more on our online store: www.dapperdesign.com

Mercedes Lackey is an award-winning fantasy author. Her recent crowdfunding campaigns include World of Valdemar, Deluxe Grandmaster, the ZOE/Valdemar Holiday Market, and Deluxe Heralds of Valdemar. Her website is https://www.mercedeslackey.com

Zachary Cox is the JellyMuppet (they/them) and serves as the Director of SoulMuppet Publishing. They are the moon-obssessed creator of Paint The Town Red, Inevitable and Best Left Buried, and one of the creators of Orbital Blues, Zach is a seasoned RPG creator and Kickstarter manager, who makes ideas into books. They also dabble in everything from printing, distribution and product and project management.

Hi I'm Moon, a 28 year old artist who makes cute and cuddly plushies! I live with my husband and four cats, and am a full-time artist! "Sugary Carousel" Began back in 2012, when I first began freelancing as a digital artist. Since then, the brand has evolved to become a shop full of my original designs, compromised mostly of candy colors! 

Hello!! We're ChimeraBunny, a small animation studio and toy company! Our first show, Polliwog, is currently in production after a successful crowdfund! Our ultimate goal is to make our indie animation studio sustainable and eventually help produce other indie shows. Follow along with our production through our social medias! https://chimerabunny.carrd.co/

SoulMuppet Publishing develops and publishes a range of roleplaying games by writers and artists from all around the world. We work hard to be a great publisher to work with and for, and we put out games that bring new ideas to the scene from places and voices you might not be familiar with. 

A long time designer, DM, and slayer of 5e slog.

Howard Tayler is the writer and illustrator behind Schlock Mercenary, the Hugo-nominated science fiction comic strip, available online at schlockmercenary.com. He also co-hosts the Hugo and Parsec award-winning “Writing Excuses” podcast, a weekly 'cast for genre-fiction writers, with Mary Robinette Kowal, Erin Roberts, Dongwon Song, and Dan Wells. Howard has written tie-in fiction for  Privateer Press, horror for the Space Eldrich anthologies, Planet Mercenary RPG and was the illustrator (and co-author) for X-treme Dungeon Mastery.    Sandra Tayler is a writer, editor, and publisher with credits in over thirty different titles. She is a consistently successful crowdfunder, and has spent the last thirty years managing a household alongside several small businesses. Her latest work-in-progress, STRUCTURING LIFE TO SUPPORT CREATIVITY (crowdfunding in late Spring of 2024), is a non-fiction book meant to help writers, artists, and other creatives make more art with less burnout. You can find Sandra online at sandratayler.com

Flaming Hand exists to champion artist-driven projects and create works that blur the line between art and artifact. We believe in the power of craft, storytelling, and play to bring people together and inspire imagination. Whether it’s a game, a book, or a carefully designed collectible, our goal is to make meaningful things that last.

Inkwell Ideas specializes in making RPG tools and accessories that help you unleash and explore your creativity. Here are some of our ENnie-nominated products: Worldographer map-making software. DungeonMorph dice and cards - roll or deal a dungeon. NPC Portraits Decks (with personalities & backgrounds on the back of each). Sidequest Decks - each card has a map on one side and a mini-adventure outline on the back.

The World Anvil Publishing is an independent publisher of high-quality tabletop role-playing games with a European twist. Broken Tales (2022) earned two ENNIE nominations, for Product of the Year and Best Adventure. Dead Air: Seasons (2023), a game about communities surviving in a world reclaimed by nature, was also ENNIE-nominated for Best Setting. We recently published Valraven: The Chronicles of Blood and Iron, a dark fantasy game in the vein of Kentaro Miura's Berserk, and are currently fulfilling two more titles: the Elden Ring/Bloodborne-inspired Bitter Chalice and the Sin City-meets-Tarantino Dirt City Blues. Our upcoming project here on Backerkit is Royalty.

Dungeon in a Box is the brand behind Monster Trainer's Handbook, Stonefold Kingdoms and Skinny Minis. Our goal is to bring a little bit of adventure into everyone's life.  We were established in Los Angeles California in 2018. We are proud to use all human-created content for our writers and artists. We'd love to hear from you. Contact us at [email protected] with any questions!

Twogether Studios is the game design & publishing studio of Keith Baker & Jenn Ellis.  Keith is best known for creating the world of Eberron for Dungeons & Dragons and the storytelling card game Gloom.  Their passion is to create opportunities for connection, storytelling, and delight through games. Together, Keith and Jenn have created and published card, dice, and storytelling games for a decade like Illimat, Phoenix Dawn Command, The Adventure Zone storytelling game, Action Cats, Cool Cool Cool, and The Banjo King.  They live in Portland, Oregon with their cat, Faye. 

Led by writer and creative director Kevin Roditeli, Roditeli Productions is behind the biggest single-issue Kickstarter of all time: Swat Kats - First Ever Comic Book, which raised over $1,000,000 in crowdfunding. Recently confirmed their presence as one of the biggest creation studios in the comic crowdfunding space by raising over $250,000 for POSTAL - First Ever Comic Book in less than 30 days.

Prisma Visions was created by James R. Eads in 2014, more information can be found at prismavisions.com

Small press role playing and board games publishers.

I am a Hispanic illustrator and character designer! I have worked for companies like DreamWorks TV, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, and much, much more. When not working professionally, I like making original goods! I am the creator of Anxiety Fox, a small brand that tries to spread awareness of mental disorders through a small fox friend. Thanks to Anxiety Fox, I was able to accept my mental disorders by imagining them as an innocent white fox that I had to learn to live with, instead of pushing away. While Anxiety Fox is what I am known for, I also draw a lot of dogs and cats and turn them into enamel pins, stickers, and more! I hope to release a formal line of critter goods soon! You can find more about me here: https://madebynao.art

An Independent Studio who strives to create wicked campaigns and immersive stories!  Build Worlds. Tell Stories. Slay Monsters. Website: www.storytellersforge.com Email: [email protected]  TikTok: @stforgestudios.com Twitter: @stforgestudios.com Instagram: @Stforgestudios.com

Welcome to TOMY+, where we bring a touch of magic to the world of collectibles! Creating a community where you can indulge in your inner super fan.

Bully Pulpit Games, run by Jason Morningstar and Steve Segedy, is a small press game publisher based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. BPG is best known for the games Fiasco, Star Crossed, Night Witches, and the Warren and has won an unprecedented three Diana Jones Awards for Gaming Excellence and been nominated for Origins and Ennie awards. 

Hi! I'm Jaron, and I'm one of the members of Action Fiction. We're a teeny, tiny tabletop game studio based out of Columbus, Ohio. We made the Monsters of Murka, the Cthulhu Dreamt TTRPG, and Goblin Cave (the board game, not the, uhh... nevermind). I've been working in game design for the better part of a decade. I'm also currently a narrative designer with TRAGSoft Studios, where I'm leading the narrative work on our newest game, Coromon: Rogue Planet! Unless that game is already released and I've forgotten to update this, in which case, I'm doing something else now!

Hello, we are tarot printing specialists and creative designers of unique tarot decks. With extensive experience in the tarot industry, we focus on high-quality printing and production for both our own designs and clients' projects.

Founder of Vite Ramen, Vite Kitchens. Cosplaying a CEO, wishing he were cooking and writing and gaming instead. More than a little unhinged. Formerly suffered cooking at a Michelin Star restaurant. @timjzheng on X/Twitter @timjzheng on Instagram

Strange Owl Games, LLC, publisher of role-playing and other entertainment properties including Amboria, Dragon Kings, and Space 1889: After.

Cinema Therapy Studios is the film studio from the hit YouTube show Cinema Therapy. I mean, I guess that seems obvious, now that I type it out. like that. Anyway. We're making movies that enlighten, uplift, and educate. But like, not in a boring way. Like in a good writing way. Trust us. Very good writing way.