Tabletop Games in the DMV: May-Jun, 2025

Every month Designed in the DMV highlights events featuring tabletop game designers based in the DC - Maryland - Virginia region. We’re an artist collective helping game designers improve our craft and connect with our audience.

Get involved

Join our Discord to chat events and game design.

Follow our BSky feed.

Come to our bi-weekly TTRPG designer meetups:
6pm, every other Tuesday (May 27; Jun 10, 24; Jul 8, 22)
Tatte City Center, 1090 I St NW, Washington, DC.

Join the Desert Dwellings Game Jam.

Upcoming Events

May 17 (Sat)

Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
12-3pm
Artz Library, Frederick MD

Story Weavers Workshop: Craft an RPG from scratch with local DMV designers
2-6pm
3 Gear, Laurel MD

May 18 (Sun)

Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
3-8pm
Game Kastle, College Park MD

May 31 (Sat)

Games are for Everyone with Angela Bell, Elizabeth Hargrave, Josh Heath, and Samphire Savage
2-6pm
McGee Library, Silver Spring MD

The Goodest Girls Launch Party & Cat Adoption with Scryptid Games
1-5pm
Omnihedral, Savage MD

June 1 (Sun)

Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
3-6pm
Crossroads Tabletop Tavern, Manassas VA

June 13-15 (Fri-Sun)

TryItCon2: Terry Con
A memorial, not-for-profit, game convention
Virtual / Online

June 15 (Sun)

Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
3-8pm
Game Kastle, College Park MD

June 21 (Sat)

Free RPG Day, DC
11am-6:30pm
Labyrinth Puzzles & Games

Free RPG Day, College Park MD
10am-11pm
Game Kastle

Free RPG Day, Savage MD
10am-10pm
Omnihedral

Break My Game: playtest tomorrow’s boardgames
12-3pm
Artz Library, Frederick MD

Crowdfunds from local designers

I Don’t Belong Here: Modern Horror RPG sparkbook, by Adam STATION.

Knock issue #5: An adventure gaming bric-a-brac, by Rise Up Comus.

May I Enter: A Vampire Game, by Josh Heath

Lily Hop: A “Ribbitting” Game of Strategic Hopping, by Matthew Hocker

The Bonsai Diary: Meditative drawing and journaling, by Gene Koo

Recently funded! The Goodest Girls: senior shelter animals living their best lives, by Brigitte Winter