In a constantly evolving TTRPG industry, game conventions provide game publishers the opportunity to showcase their latest games and their upcoming projects to an enthusiastic and intrepid community of players and game masters.
This month, I reached out to a number of publishers at the vendor hall of Game Hole Con 2025 in order to get the details on what projects each are most excited about. Whether you are a player of Dungeons and Dragons, Daggerheart, Mork Borg, Fabula Ultima, or countless indie RPGs, there’s something here for you!
Ghostfire Gaming
Founder-led, direct-to-consumer TTRPG publisher with over 10 highly successful crowdfunding campaigns under its belt! … This year, we’re excited about:
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Grim Hollow. 2nd Edition coming in 2026, kickstarted in 2024 and available for late backers!
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Seekers Guide to Twisted Taverns, a supplement with fantastic taverns, story ideas, characters and more. Created by Youtuber Runesmith.
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Dungeons of Drakkenheim, a dark 5e setting designed by the Dungeon Dudes and based on their ENNIE award winning live-stream campaign. Work is marching forward on a Drakkenheart book, transforming the setting for the Daggerheart ruleset. Kickstarter coming soon!
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Aetherial Expanse, an interplanar 5e setting hosting Dreams of the Drowned God adventure, currently in production with late backers welcome!
Splattered Ink Games
TTRPG publishing company by Darryl T Jones (son in photo), specializing in RPGS, board games, one shots, acrylic monster tokens, and other accessories.
- Premium acrylic and digital tokens for your fantasy TTRPG (Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder, etc.) campaigns!
- A Time Travelers Guide to Dinosaur Hunting, a two-book 5e setting that throws a time machine at your adventurers and sends them on a Jurassic World-esque journey across genres (Wild West, Sci-Gi, Murder Mystery, Sky Island, and more)! … Successfully kickstarted, and available for pre-order!
- Conquest of Baird, a 5th level adventure and primer for the setting above. Easy to drop into any game! … Available for VIP backers, with possible regular backer offering soon!
Need Games!
Known worldwide for its Fabula Ultima TTJRPG, Need Games is a publisher based out of Milan, Italy, with its start in localizing RPG games into Italian. Now, it seeks to develop original TTRPG products.
- Fabula Ultima Celebration Edition + Bestiary Vol 1. was just funded on Kickstarter for over $1.6 million, and is accepting late backers!
- Also, stay tuned. In 2026, Need Games is going full speed ahead on marketing, community building, and club organizing for Fabula Ultima, with plan to unravel demo sessions with their own private room at GenCon, amongst other live play endeavors! … Now is a great time to get into the game!
With their first foray at Madison, Wisconsin, Need Games may be a smaller company, but it’s one with big motion!
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Bright Bard Games
A Minneapolis-based TTRPG publishing company led by art-and-editor power duo: Bri De Danann (art), Jon Boyle (writer/editor) delivering weird and whimsical indie TTRPGs since 2022. Here’s what their showcasing this year:
- Axolotl with a Gun, an arcade-style one-shot RPG about adorable amphibians with comically oversized weapons and cute hobbies fighting evil robots bent on destroying their habitat. … A revised edition is in the works! Also… check out my past review of this game here!
Trash to Treasure, a magical girl goblin game thats a mix of Sailor Moon and Captain Planet, and built like a season of an anime with multiple arcs. Play one of the five magical girls saving the world from pollution, whether air, land, plastic, cultural, or that of the heart!
Check out their other games at their main site, or their Itch.io site. There’s one in there for spooky lovers of fruitloops as well!
Storytellers Forge
Creator-focused studio specializing in immersive gaming and compelling full-length campaign experiences co-designed with partners vision in mind.
- The Black Ballad, a 300+ page TTRPG and full novel series. … The perfect game to run after a TPK. Set in the afterlife, it send characters on a journey of dark and mystical challenges, faced with moral choices concerning the consequences of resurrection.
- Includes 10 chapters with full soundtrack for each chapter, with music by DiAmorte, plus Mike Pittman from Riot Games and Michael James Romeo.
- Also check out The Chronicles of the Crossing, a novel series tied into the Black Ballad setting.
- The Red Opera is a setting and campaign deep-focused on the realm of warlocks. 300+ pages including new patrons, Warlock subclasses, factions, and more! … Another multi-media setting with an original soundtrack by DiAmorte. … Keep an eye out for a 2026 relaunch of the setting!
Founded by Rick Heinz, previous writer of DM tips for Geek and Sundry.
Wet Ink Games
Wet Ink Games is an art-forward publisher, showcasing and promoting artists, writers, creators, and their works, with Brandon Aten and Matthew Orr as business and creative directors. Tons of great games to highlight:
- Never Going Home is an 2020 ENNIE nominated game for Best Interior Art depicting a setting filled with eldrich horror in the trenches of WW1.
- Garbage and Glory is a recently-Kickstarted game letting you playas raccoons scavenging weapons and items from the trash to gain power. Late pledges available!
- Heckin Good Doggos is a family-friendly game of dogs doing dog stuff! Find treats, bark at squirrels, banish ghosts from the neighborhood. Good normal dog fun! …
- Upcoming games: … OMG Cats! a counterpart to Heckin Good Doggos, … Herd: a Dinosaur Survival Card Game,… Precious Things where you play as tiny cottagecore dragons, and We The People, a game of resistance against a repressive regime.
Critical Kit Ltd.
Award-winning indie publishing company focused on hyper specific narrative experiences, connecting indie developers to industry voices, and hosting an assortment of quirky games!
- Punk is Dead is a Mork Borg game where you play a band born from the ruins of the Un-United Kingdom. The only way to stop the autocracy enemy is with the power of friends and punk!
- Death Valley, a horror western RPG where you play the undead, whether it be ghouls, ghosts, zombies, hellhounds, and more. Strive to keep what’s left of your sanity as a creature that goes bump in the night! … Now crowdfunding on Backerkit!!
- Be Like a Crow, a solo-or-two-player game taking flight as a crow, completing objectives and collecting treasures from one world to the next! Also check out Be Like A Cat.
- Also, a handful of resistance-oriented games, such as Insurgent and White Sands, and lighter games such as Unleashed, a game about dogs on a heist!
So many game! So little cat! … Except if you could the two games above about cats, which look to be a fancy free romp through the life of yours truly! … To that end, who wants to be a dog!? or a bird!? Yeechh! … No thank you, hoomans!
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