Tabletop Gaymers

🔥🐎Wishing everyone a radiant Lunar New Year filled with joy, prosperity, and endless gaming! 🏮 May your quests be legendary, your loot abundant, and your critical hits plentiful as we celebrate the Year of the Horse. ✨ #LunarNewYear #TabletopGaymers #YearOfTheHorse 🏳️‍🌈🎊

A side-by-side image. On the left is an illustrated tarot-style card titled “The Lovers,” showing two fantasy-inspired figures embracing one, a black elf, and the other, a half orc, both feminine, seemingly about to kiss, framed by roses and floral details in warm pink and red tones. On the right is a studio portrait of a man with short dark hair and facial hair, wearing a dark patterned shirt, looking directly at the camera against a gray background.

Chad Rowe and the tattoo and tarot inspired art he contributed to the Seasons of Pride calendar.

A colorful podcast cover with diagonal rainbow stripes and small white sparkles in the background. Large black text at the top reads “Proud to Gayme,” with smaller text below saying “by Tabletop Gaymers.” Two purple, meeple-shaped silhouettes wearing black headphones face each other. At the center bottom is a black, twenty-sided die-shaped microphone icon with white text reading “Episode #22” and “Ezeekat Press"

We interview Jaysen Headley (Jaysen), a books-and-board-games creator, on his journey from closeted youth to queer content creator, the community he’s found, and launching Ezeekat Press. Plus, Seasons of Pride artist Chad Rowe and the tattoo+tarot-inspired art he contributed.

Blue silhouette of Martin Luther King jr on faded habd wriiten letter bsckground with the quote "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” -Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail, April 16, 1963.

A bright purple graphic bordered by the Progress Pride flag colors. Large white text at the top reads “Calling All Queer Artists.” On the left is a yellow speech-bubble graphic that says “We Want You!” with a small white megaphone icon above it. On the right is an image of the Tabletop Gaymers Seasons of Pride 2026 calendar cover, featuring illustrated queer characters representing different seasons. At the bottom, bold white text reads “Submissions Needed for the 2027 Seasons of Pride Calendar.”

EXTENDED!! If you’re an LGBTQIA+ artist and want to help, bring the next Seasons of Pride calendar to life. Please fill out this form (forms.office.com/r/9...) by January 31, 2026. We want to help promote more talent in our community. If you're not an artist but know one, please share the link.

This short survey is a chance for Tabletop Gaymers to share what inclusive play actually looks like at the table, especially when things feel awkward, messy, or imperfect. Your voice will help shape practical tools we can bring to retailers, GMs, and organizers across the industry.
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Please take & share our Measuring Authentic Allyship survey (forms.monday.com/for...) by January 19! We’re gathering community input as we prepare our Authentic Allyship presentation for GAMA Expo 2026 (March 1-5), because allyship is strongest when it’s grounded in real, lived experiences.
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A four-panel collage divided by thin purple lines. Top left shows four seasonal illustrations of a couple across the year: spring flowers, summer vacation, autumn coffee, and winter scarves. Top right is a black-and-white portrait of Alfredo Roagui with short hair wearing a denim button-down shirt, arms crossed, smiling slightly. Bottom left is a colorful, expressive painting of two figures in winter coats and hats walking together through a bright, abstract winter landscape with a radiant sun overhead. Bottom right is a color headshot of Sidmarta Muskat with short hair wearing a sleeveless black top, smiling at the camera against a neutral background.

In two bonus segments, we interview LGBTQIA+ artists featured in the Seasons of Pride calendar. Hear how travel inspired January’s art by Sidharta Muskat (they/they) @sidharta.muskat & discover the hidden details behind the cover art by Alfredo Roagui (he/him)
@roagui.bsky.social
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A colorful podcast cover with diagonal rainbow stripes and small white sparkles in the background. Large black text at the top reads “Proud to Gayme,” with smaller text below saying “by Tabletop Gaymers.” Two purple, meeple-shaped silhouettes wearing black headphones face each other. At the center bottom is a black, twenty-sided die-shaped microphone icon with white text reading “Episode #21” and “Cosplay & Crit Rolls.”

In Proud to Gayme Episode 21, we chat with Gillian Foxglove (she/they) @gillianfoxglove on becoming a professional cosplayer, streamer, & TTRPG creator. From a nerdy childhood to bi self-discovery, she reflects on honest self-expression, gender, & embracing neurodivergence.
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A festive New Year graphic with bright fireworks bursting around the edges against a dark, smoky background. At the top is the Tabletop Gaymers logo. Large metallic purple balloon-style numbers read “2026” in the center. Below them, glowing white text says “Happy New Year.”

Happy New Year, #Gaymers! 🎉We hope you're able to spend some time today reflecting on the year, celebrating with loved ones, and, of course, playing lots of games. 🍷🍷 Here's to new beginnings!

Have you heard about our Gayme Night Program? This initiative provides engaging and inclusive board game events for LGBTQIA+ Community Centers across the nation. Learn more at tabletopgaymers.org/...

A winter-themed graphic with a gradient blue sky filled with snowflakes, falling snow, and small white icons such as meeples, dice, cards, and the TG logo. In the center, large white script text reads “Happy Winter Holidays.” Along the bottom is a snowy forest of white and blue evergreen trees.

❄️ Happy Winter Holidays from Tabletop Gaymers! 🌈🎲 However you celebrate this season, we hope it's filled with love, laughter, and amazing tabletop gaming moments. 🎁May this holiday season bring you the gift of togetherness, understanding, and acceptance. 🏳️‍🌈✨

A bright purple graphic bordered by the Progress Pride flag colors. Large white text at the top reads “Calling All Queer Artists.” On the left is a yellow speech-bubble graphic that says “We Want You!” with a small white megaphone icon above it. On the right is an image of the Tabletop Gaymers Seasons of Pride 2026 calendar cover, featuring illustrated queer characters representing different seasons. At the bottom, bold white text reads “Submissions Needed for the 2027 Seasons of Pride Calendar.”

If you’re an LGBTQIA+ artist and want to help, bring the next Seasons of Pride calendar to life. Please fill out this form (forms.office.com/r/9...) by January 1, 2026. We want to help promote more talent in our community. If you're not an artist but know one, please share the link.

A purple graphic with large white handwritten-style text reading “International Human Rights Day.” Along the bottom is a crowd of multicolored silhouetted figures with raised hands in vibrant watercolor style shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and pink.

Today is International Human Rights Day. We stand with all those advocating for inclusion, equity, and justice. Let's advocate for human rights for all, especially our LGBTQIA+ community in the gaming world and beyond. #HumanRightsDay2025 #HumanRightsDay #HumanRights

Danielle Reynolds talks to Clara Mount (she/her), aka @bubblegumtitan.bsky.social, Head of Community at Goblins and host of the Re:Play podcast, about the importance of promoting queer visibility. Listen here: proudtogayme.podbean...

A white graphic framed by diagonal rainbow stripes displays a large red awareness ribbon centered over a faint world map. At the top, bold red and black text reads “December 1 World AIDS Day.”

World AIDS Day honors those we’ve lost, supports all living with HIV, and shows our shared commitment to equity, education, and care. As a community of gamers, we recognize the power of storytelling, solidarity, and visibility in advancing justice and ending stigma. #WorldAIDSDay

We're nearing the end of National Native American Heritage Month, which is more important than ever this year. Here are just a few incredible Native American Gaymers putting their creations into the world, including @kennaalexander.bsky.social and @hellotenbear.bsky.social

A thank-you graphic with a dusk forest silhouette background. At the top are the Tabletop Gaymers logo and the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner with rainbow accents. Large purple text in the center reads “Thank You!” To the right is the Herbalist chibi character with pink hair from the Queer Coven branding and the Queer Coven logo above them. Along the bottom are logos of the scavenger hunt exhibitors: 9th Level Games, Co-Operatives Puzzle Room, That’s Wizard!, Possum Creek Games, Snowbright Studio, The Storyteller Squad, UNPUB, and Wise Wizard Games.

We’re Back from @officialpax.bsky.soc U! Thank you to all the LGBTQIA+ companies that participated in Gaymer Quest! @9thlevelgames.bsky.social, Cooperatives Room, That's Wizard Game, @possumcreekgames.com, @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social, @storysquadcast.bsky.social, @unpub.org, & Wise Wizard Games!

A framed photo set within a spooky, stylized border of twisted tree silhouettes, stars, and a bubbling purple cauldron. At the top is the Tabletop Gaymers logo and the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner. In the center is a person standing in front of a purple Tabletop Gaymers backdrop and a Progress Pride flag. They are smiling, wearing glasses and a lanyard, and holding a completed Gaymer Quest card showing all collected stamps. A yellow star graphic labeled “Completed” appears in the bottom left corner, with swirling stars framing the photo.

Have you completed the Gaymer Quest at @PAXofficial_ Unplugged?
This gamer collected all eight stamps and finished the scavenger hunt. Visit each stop, learn about queer-led games and creators, and claim your free pin reward when your quest is complete!

On a purple background with a rainbow border reads "Sunday To Do List: Check Your Email, Complete Your Quest."

Today is the final day of PAX Unplugged! Don't forget to complete your Gaymer Quest card and check your email if you registered your ribbon.

On a purple background with a rainbow border is an image of people playing board games. It reads "Gaymer Gatherings, 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Saturday, Community Room (202AB)"

Come join us in room 202AB for our Gaymer Gathering this evening at PAXU! Join LGBTQIA+ gaymers and our allies for a social ice-breaker event. Play games, meet new friends, make plans, and create new connections.

On a purple background with a rainbow border is the title "Get your gifts at PAX Unplugged." There are images of the Seasons of Pride 2026 calendar, the Queer Coven RPG, and the Queer Coven dice bags, all with red bows.

Get awesome Gayming gifts and support TG at PAX Unplugged!

📅 The Seasons of Pride calendar is at our table in Room 201

🧙 The Queer Coven RPG is at the @9thLevelGames.bsky.social booth and our table in Room 201

🎲 The Queer Coven Dice Bags is at the @BlackOakWorshop.bsky.social booth

On a rainbow background is a purple ribbon with text reading "Expansion Pack Launching Today!" alongside hexagonal game pieces and the logo for Move Rate 20 Games.

Support LGBTQIA+ creators and games with the @MoveRate20.bsky.social Kickstarter for the Mission to Planet Hexx Satellite Pack Expansion! It actively uses inclusive imagery, language, and gendered/gender neutral/genderfluid aliens/characters. Check it out on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/...

Complete the Gaymer Quest and get your exclusive free Herbalist pin! Find Us in the PAX Together Intersection and add the Hedge Witch and Herbalist to your Coven!

Events Friday 11/21 Daggerheart one-shot "Scions of Guahayona" 11:30 AM Saturday 11/22 Gaymer Gathering - 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, Community Room (202AB)

Hail and well met to all the gaymers and allies at @OfficialPAX.bsky.social Unplugged! Today is the first day of this awesome event. Come find us:

👉 TG Table @ PAX Together Intersection (Room 201)
👉 Gaymer Gathering Saturday, 11/22 from 8 to 9:30 PM @ Community Room (202AB)

A promotional graphic with a solid pink background. At the top, white text reads “Available Only During,” followed by the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner with rainbow accents. Below is a chibi-style character with pink hair, a green leaf hair accessory, and an orange bag containing a mushroom. Next to the character is the Queer Coven logo in black and white. Large white text centered at the bottom reads: “Exclusively at PAX Unplugged 2025, PAX Together Intersection.”

Adventure yourself into the convention to collect all eight stamps: @9thlevelgames.bsky.social, Cooperatives Room, That's Wizard Game, @possumcreekgames.com, @snowbrightstudio.bsky.social, @storysquadcast.bsky.social, @unpub.org, & Wise Wizard Games

Gaymer Quest is Back at @officialpax.bsky.social U! Add to your Queer Coven pin collection with our Herbalist, a gentle witch with earthy magic. This scavenger hunt increases visibility of queer-owned, queer-themed games, and games developed by queer individuals. Animation: Pixel Potion Creative.

A title reading "Transgender Day of Remembrance" over a brown hand holding candles over a transgender-flag background.

On this #TransgenderDayOfRemembrance, we pause to celebrate the lives and mourn the deaths of transgender people killed by acts of hateful violence in 2025. If you can safely do so, find a vigil in our area (many can be attended digitally) and take some time to acknowledge these victims.

The Unpublished Games Network (Unpub) is proud to uplift and include LGBTQIA+ voices in tabletop design. With queer board members and staff helping shape its mission, Unpub champions a creative and inclusive space where aspiring designers can grow, test ideas, and share their work. Visit Unpub to playtest innovative new games, connect with designers, and support a community built on collaboration, creativity, and representation in gaming!

Stop by the Wise Wizard Games booth to meet Jamie Sabriel, a queer, autistic, nonbinary designer behind Elemystic, a fast-paced, character-driven dueling game where elemental forces clash in an elegant 9-card showdown. Jamie describes two-player games as “beautiful, intimate intellectual conversations.” Come experience that vision firsthand and don’t forget to grab your Gaymer Quest stamp while you’re there.

The final stops on our @OfficialPAX.bsky.social Unplugged Gaymer Quest scavenger hunt feature the LGBTQIA+ designers at @UNPUB.bsky.social and Wise Wizard Games.

Possum Creek is a queer-owned company that publishes games that have an inherent queerness to them, from themes and characters to the game designers themselves. We create for people who have never played games before, for people who have always found games inaccessible or impenetrable, and for people who have always wanted something different than what games traditionally provide.

Snowbright Studio is proudly queer-owned and operated, led by designer Grace Collins (they/them), creator of the Teatime Adventures series and an advocate for inclusive, heart-centered storytelling in tabletop games. Snowbright’s team of LGBTQIA+ designers, writers, and artists craft cozy, story-driven experiences that celebrate kindness, creativity, and connection. Snowbright champions representation and joy at every gaming table, from the warmth of Teatime Adventures to their newest expansion, Teatime Adventures: Campfire Tales.

The Storyteller Squad is a deeply heartfelt actual play series that presents high fantasy adventures, against the backdrop of a modern setting infused with cozy lofi vibes. Our unique blend of dramatic action and wholesome slice of life storytelling is apt to make you smile, gasp, reel in wonder, and cry tears of every kind. Join our ensemble cast as we weave themes of queer relationships and community into our story about the joys and perils of magic, friendly and flirty cryptids, and rising above challenges with the support of found family.

The next 3 stops on our @OfficialPAX.bsky.social Unplugged Gaymer Quest scavenger hunt feature the LGBTQIA-owned @PossumCreekGames.com, LGBTQIA-owned @SnowbrightStudio.bsky.social, and the LGBTQIA+ designers at The @StorySquadCast.bsky.social

A promotional graphic with a dusk forest background and silhouettes of tangled branches. At the top, the Tabletop Gaymers logo appears in white, followed by the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner with rainbow accents. On the left is the 9th Level Games logo: a black geometric symbol inside a circle. On the right is text describing the game Starlee Davidson by Nat Mesnard and Pat Watson. Rev your engines and shuffle the tarot. Starlee Davidson by Nat Mesnard & Pat Watson is a no-prep indie TTRPG about heartbreak, motorcycles, and the magic of moving on. Co-created by non-binary designer Nat Mesnard and published by 9th Level Games, this story-driven game lets players explore loss, healing, and the open road through tarot-guided play. At the bottom is a purple button reading “LGBTQIA+ Designers” and a small silhouette of the Queer Coven character.

A graphic with a sunset forest silhouette background. The Tabletop Gaymers logo sits at the top, followed by the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner. The center-right text describes Co-Operatives, a puzzle design collective featuring non-binary creators. On the left is the Co-Operatives Puzzle Room logo featuring two stylized houses connected by a doorway. Visit Co-Operatives to experience a collective that blends creativity, community, and queer representation through immersive puzzle design. Every puzzle they feature is built or co-created in collaboration with non-binary designers who are also part owners of the company. In addition to their acclaimed escape rooms, Co-Operatives is once again hosting the Puzzle Hunt: Oddities Inc at PAX Unplugged, developed by a colorful cast of queer creators. At the bottom is a purple button labeled “LGBTQIA+ Designers” with a small silhouette of the Queer Coven character.

A promotional graphic with a gradient dusk forest background. The top displays the Tabletop Gaymers logo and the “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banner. On the left is the “That’s Wizard!” game logo in metallic lettering. On the right, text introduces Manaworks Games, a transgender-owned indie studio. Manaworks Games, a transgender-owned and designed indie studio founded by queer game designer M. Sorrentino, creator of That’s Wizard! This fast-paced spellcasting strategy game marks their first self-published title and celebrates creativity, inclusivity, and the magic of queer representation in gaming. Manaworks is proud to be part of a community where everyone can feel welcome and safe at the table. At the bottom is a purple button reading “LGBTQIA+ Owned” and a small silhouette of the Queer Coven character.

A full-page event graphic with a forest-at-dusk background. The top features the Tabletop Gaymers and “Gaymer Quest: A Queer Coven Scavenger Hunt” banners. Below are the Queer Coven logo, a chibi Herbalist character with pink hair and an herb pouch, and the PAX Unplugged logo. The lower half displays two boxes: on the left, participating studios in Gaymer Quest; on the right, a quest card titled “Quest to Find the Herbalist Pin!” listing booths and checkboxes for stamps. At the very bottom are the logos of participating companies including 9th Level Games, Co-Operatives Puzzle Room, That’s Wizard, Possum Creek Games, Snowbright Studio, Storyteller Squad, UNPUB, and Wise Wizard Games.

Our first 3 stops on our @@officialpax.bsky.social Unplugged Gaymer Quest scavenger hunt feature the LGBTQIA+ designers from @9thlevelgames.bsky.social, LGBTQIA+ designers from Cooperatives Room, and LGBTQIA+ owned company That's Wizard Game.