Hi there!
It’s been a long time since we’ve done one of these, but it’s about time we gave people an update on what we’ve been up to (It’s a lot!).
In short: We attended our first convention abroad as traders, we opened a physical store, our 1st Kickstarter won an award, and we launched and funded our second and third Kickstarters! Phew.
Okay, let’s start with the latest news:
Denizens & Oddities
We’re launching our fourth Kickstarter!
Luna Fen-raven’s Denizens & Oddities of the Fey Realm will be a new TTRPG supplement on the same scale as our award-winning 1st Kickstarter, the Ritual Spellbook & Witch Class.
A collaboration with artist Andy Wright (who created a wonderful piece for the Ritual Spellbook), it will be a ‘wildlife book’ of sorts, as explorer and conservationist Luna Fen-Raven describes the many unknown creatures you might come across in the Fey realm.
Seasoned adventurers may have encountered fairies, hags or satyrs, but the flora and fauna contained inside this release are truly bizarre.
Andy’s imagination is vivid, and we’re ecstatic to be collaborating on this project. He’s come up with a menagerie of cute, creepy and chaotic creatures you’d expect to find in a Feywild National Geographic!
Luna Fen-Raven’s Denizens & Oddities of the Fey Realm launches Thursday October 31st!
Crisis at the Crossroads
Following the success of our first Kickstarter, we went back to one-shots for our second. Crisis at the Crossroads was launched at the start of the year and performed fantastically, allowing us not only a full print-run of the level 4 one-shot, but to also reprint three of our four other adventures! You can find it here.
D&D Pin-up Calendar
More recently, we launched our 3rd Kickstarter in September. Our first collaboration, we teamed up with UK artist Ellie Jordan to produce the 2025 DnD Pin-Up Calendar, a wall calendar of Ellie’s D&D class-inspired pin-up art. We even got an homage by reaching the stretch goal and having our Witch Class included!
We’ve just recieved the finished calendars and postcards and they look amazing. They’ll be off to backers this week and on general sale in a few weeks’ time!
Tabletop Emporium
We have a physical store!
Whilst looking for a venue to host an event in, Bree popped into the Corp Market in Cardiff for a cheese toastie, only to discover it not only had a host of market stalls inside, but it had an empty one. A whirlwind month passed by and when the dust cleared we had our first physical FLGS!
Tabletop Emporium isn’t just a place to sell our own products, though, we have a host of TTRPGs ranging from the new D&D Player’s Handbook to small print-run indie zines from local creators! It’s also given us a great way to showcase some of the fantastic creators we’ve met over the years, AND we get to run our Learn to Play D&D events in the venue’s ‘Nook’ area, creating new DM’s and gaming parties to widen the local community as a result!
If you’re local to Cardiff, Wales or visiting the city, we would love to see you!
CRiT Awards
In a result that utterly blew our minds, our very first Kickstarter, the Ritual Spellbook & Witch Class for 5e, was not only nominated but won the CRiT Award for Best Supplement or 3rd Party Content!
To say we’re honoured is an understatement. We’d never attempted something like it before, and threw so much of ourselves into the project. Seeing our hard work pay off is incredibly rewarding, and we can’t be more grateful to the panel and all the people who voted for it, it means the world to us!
Conventions
We’ve been very lucky to have attended some great conventions in the past year. We went to Tabletop Scotland and Airecon for the first time, and had a great UK Games Expo, but 2024 also marked the year we ventured beyond the UK, trading at RINCon (Roll Initiative Con) in the Netherlands. It was a lot of fun to meet so many new nerds who have never been exposed to what we do, and also wonderful to see so many great creators who, likewise, we didn’t know existed.
Thanks to (the joys of Brexit and) discouraging shipping fees, so many great independent creators in Europe are priced out of exporting to the UK’s ever-growing TTRPG scene. We set about returning to the UK with far more than we left with as we picked up excellent releases like the Cacklin’ Slayers’ Death Saves Deck and Initiative Tracker that slots onto your DM Screen, as well as the 35 Queer NPCs and wonderfully-titled That Time I was an Orc Husband D&D one-shot! As a result, the Tabletop Emporium can now boast a number of items not sold anywhere else in the UK.
Dragonmeet is our next big convention, on 30th November at Novotel Hammersmith, London.
Plus, we’re currently awaiting word from UK Games Expo about our table for next year (30 May – 1 Jun). We’re going bigger, and we’re trying for one of their premium areas, so wish our bank account luck and we’ll see you there!
Our next newsletter will hopefully be a little less packed, but at least you can tell we haven’t been sitting around!