The Shared Tabletop Initiative brings together tabletop game creators to transform their original artwork into collectible enamel pins, uniting studios, artists, and fans to celebrate creativity across the worlds we love to play in.
Board games are filled with incredible art. Cover illustrations, card details, character portraits, iconography, entire worlds. And most of it lives its life inside a box, pulled out for play and then returned to a shelf.
We created the Shared Tabletop Initiative because that art deserves more visibility.
There are countless illustrators and designers pouring hours, days, weeks, and months into creating something beautiful. Too often those pieces are underappreciated or never seen outside of a single play session. We wanted to help change that by turning select pieces of board game art into enamel pins that can be shared, worn, and celebrated every day.
Enamel pins already have a strong home in tabletop culture. They are collectible, expressive, and community driven. By bringing together multiple publishers and their audiences under one initiative, we can spotlight amazing artwork while also uniting fans of different games around a shared appreciation for the craft.
Every pin in this collection comes directly from or is inspired by in-game art, bringing characters, symbols, and moments from the table into the real world. We began designing pins with Vine, and through that experience realized our background in manufacturing could help other creators do the same. By making it easier for game designers to stock pins, we help them cross-promote their games in a new and accessible way.
The goal of this campaign is not only to fund pin inventory for these creators so they can continue promoting their games, but also to help their fun, wacky, and adorable art reach new spaces and new audiences beyond the tabletop.
Below, you will find a showcase of pins that celebrate the creativity and worlds behind the games they come from.
As an add-on, we are offering a variety of meeple pins in your choice of color. Represent your team's color by choosing from 5 of the most popular player colors in the tabletop space.
CavernHold was built by tabletop gamers who wanted better ways to carry, protect, and organize the games we love. Our main focus is designing premium, modular game bags made for travel, storage, and gameplay from game nights to conventions.
We also publish original tabletop games through our in-house studio, CavernWire Games. Our pins are an extension of that same passion: a way to spotlight the characters, worlds, and artwork that usually live on the table and bring them into the everyday.
CavernHold exists to bring people together through games.
Board gamers. Tabletop gamers. Trading card gamers. Everyone in between. We are focused on the shared gaming experience and the community that forms around it.
Every convention reminds us why we do what we do. It is always about the people. Games are one of the best community-building tools there is, and you will never convince us otherwise. Game nights tend to share the same goals too. Connection, laughter, and time well spent.
What we see missing in the industry is true camaraderie across titles, publishers, and player groups. The Shared Tabletop Initiative is our way of helping bridge that gap. We want to start by celebrating art, then continue building collaborative projects that bring the tabletop community closer together.
The tabletop gaming industry is growing at an incredible pace.
At a recent major convention, it was shared that over 1,800 games were expected to come to market in 2025 alone. That number does not even account for the many smaller projects that never get wide visibility or fall through the cracks of an increasingly saturated market.
With that level of growth, it is impossible for players to see and experience all the wonderful art each game holds. Incredible games and stunning artwork are missed simply because there is too much to discover.
We want to help fix that.
By spotlighting individual pieces of art from different games, we can give designers and illustrators another platform. One that reaches beyond a single box or rulebook. One that invites people to ask questions, discover new titles, and appreciate the work as art.
Projects like the Shared Tabletop Initiative allow us to unite multiple communities under one shared experience.
Instead of competing for attention, we collaborate. We bring together fans of different games, publishers, and artists and give them a reason to support something collectively. Each pin becomes both a celebration of a specific game and part of a larger statement.
We believe the tabletop industry can be stronger by working together. This campaign is our way of proving it.
January - February: 'The Share Tabletop Initiative' campaign is live on BackerKit during Pintopia 2026 February: Surveys are sent out March: Orders are placed with the factory March - April: Production and quality checking of the pins May: Shipping and delivery
You might wonder why you should back this project now instead of buying pins later directly from the creators.
The answer is simple. Some of these pins may never exist again.
In the tabletop industry, most projects operate within tight margins. Many of these pin runs are limited specifically to this campaign. If additional inventory exists afterward, pricing is likely to increase.
This campaign may be the only opportunity to get certain designs, and it will almost certainly be the most affordable.
We would love for this to become an evergreen project. That is the hope. The reality right now is uncertainty.
Backing during Pintopia is what turns these designs from ideas into something real.
📌 Pintopia 2026
Pintopia 2026 / Pins • Plushies • Ita Bags
This project is participating in the BackerKit event Pintopia 2026, a celebration of enamel pin, plushie and ITA bag project featuring an all-star lineup of creators crowdfunding together from January 22 – February 12, 2026.
