Ask your Friendly Local Game Store, comic shop, or bookstore if they carry locally-designed games. If not – let us know, and we’ll send them our catalog: [email protected].
Local designer Connie Vogelmann (Apiary, Wyrmspan) delivers the Unpub 2026 keynote
Thanks to everyone who came to the Unpublished Games Festival and/or to Awesome Con last month!
Local happenings
Apr 4
Designed in the DMV Game Demos: Play with the designers!
ft. Swords & Science and Death Cap Sauté
RSVP: [email protected]
Silver Spring, MD: Pure Panic
6:00-9:00pm
Apr 10-12
Circle DC 2025: a conference on history, education & play
Hosted by Fort Circle Games
Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library
May 16
1d4 Con: The gaming convention of the Shenandoah Valley
Martinsburg, WV: Holiday Inn
May 23-24
GameFace Con: Baltimore’s biggest annual indie tabletop game convention.
Baltimore, MD: Peabody Heights Brewery
Playtesting!
Sun, Apr 12, May 10
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Manassas, VA: Crossroads Tabletop Tavern
3:00-6:00pm
Mon, Apr 13, May 11
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Baltimore, MD: Creative Alliance
6:00-10:00pm
Sat, Apr 18
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Frederick, MD: C. Burr Artz Public Library
12:00-3:00pm
Sun, Apr 19, May 17
Break My Game: public playtesting event
College Park, MD: Game Kastle
1:00-6:00pm
Sat, Apr 25
Break My Game: public playtesting event
Richmond, VA: One-Eyed Jacques
12:00-3:00pm
DMV-based crowdfund campaigns
Arcana by Level Zero Gaming: Shape new realities through the science of spellcraft
🔜 Soot and Charms: Boston by Graftbound Press: Fight for justice in this alternate history, urban fantasy TTRPG for fans of Mistborn Era 2, Shanghai Noon, & the Dresden Files.
Still want more?
Follow the Tabletop Designers of the DMV starter pack on BSky.