UKGE 2025 and Stamp Quest News

Lots of exciting things!

All the information within this newsletter is correct as of the time of writing and the details are subject to change.

On Friday May 30th at 8pm Taylor Navarro, Head of our Creatives of Colour Chapter, will be hosting an invitation-only networking event to connect people of colour (PoC) looking to begin or advance their TTRPG career with industry professionals who can offer them mentorship, job opportunities, or financial assistance (e.g. Actual Play sponsorship or publishing their games). Snacks, welcome drinks and masks are provided. This event is sponsored by Rowan, Rook & Decard, Pelgrane Press, SoulMuppet Publishing, Three Sails Studios, and Black Armada, and will occur near to the NEC during UKGE.

If you’re interested in attending there are a few spaces left! Priority for remaining spaces goes to PoC creatives and professionals. Please reach out to Taylor on Discord (@TaylorAnnNx) or via email (taylorannnavarro@gmail.com) expressing your interest.

UK TIN Stand [2-383]

A video overview of this catalogue is available here:

Key: ^ = £1.00 each or three for £2.40, † = £9.00 each or three for £24.00, # = £13.00 each or three for £33.00

Accessories

Ash Nocktem's Travelling Companions by Mikhail Malkin/ Sandstone District - £15.00

🤠 51 illustrated Character Cards | 📜 Tiny Backstory + Plot Hook | 🌳 Fantasy Flavored | ⚙️ System Agnostic

Darkened Hill & Dale - Artwork Postcards (x15) by Sarah Cole / Patchwork Fez Games - £18.00

15 A6-format artwork postcards, depicting NPCs, scenes, and the cover art for Darkened Hill & Dale. Provided in two envelopes, split into portraits and scenes.

Darkened Hill & Dale (NPCs/Scenes x7) by Sarah Cole / Patchwork Fez Games - £10.00

A pack of seven A6-sized artwork postcards, depicting NPC portraits or scene artworks from Darkened Hill & Dale. Packaged in a handy envelope.

Field Agent Handbook: Calibration Record by ÆtherCorp Games - £9.00†

A daily one-line journal with emotion & activity tracker. Made for psychic detectives. Used by all observant journallers

Game Master's Planner Binder by Happy Stoat - £65.00 for non-foiled Legacy Binder, £75.00 for the foiled Binder

Unique PU leather organizer binder for Game Masters, with a pouch for dice sets, slots for cards and spacious pocket for tokens, condition trackers and handouts.

Owlbear Notebook by Happy Stoat - £29.50

Large sized, 216 pages notebook with beautiful cream paper, featuring cozy Owlbear art, a pocket for handouts and stickers and fabric bookmark. This notebook will be perfect for Game Masters and lifestyle journaling alike.

Seed of an Idea by Eleanor Hingley - £9.00†

Created with writing groups and role-players in mind, Seed of an Idea is a book of prompts and questions to help you build a story quickly and easily using familiar tropes.

This Blighted Isle - Stickers by Sarah Cole / Patchwork Fez Games - £2.00

Two stickers featuring the skull-themed logo for This Blighted Isle. Each sticker is approximately 8x6cm in size, and the background colour is holographic/iridescent.

One-page Games

Anonymous Teabag by Ryan Wheeldon / The Moonlit Bard - £1.00^

A simple dice game of tea-based subterfuge.

(Untitled) Holiday Rom-Com by La Lionne Publishing - £1.00^

In (Untitled) Holiday Rom-Com, you are the protagonist in a heartwarming holiday romantic comedy adventure filled with meet-cutes, misunderstandings, and (un)surprising twists!

Visitor From The Stars by Steph "StickyHunter" Farrow - £1.00^

How would a prehistoric person and an alien communicate? Played with a d20 and 6d6.

YOU ARE A FROG by La Lionne Publishing - £1.00^

A one-page TTRPG about adventurous frogs. YOU ARE A FROG. You have always been a frog. You will always be a frog. But today, you are a frog ON A QUEST.

TTRPGs

Crying Wolf RPG by Michael Duxbury - £9.00†

Horror (Survival) | 3+ players

A survival horror game of kids vs the horror (as in It or Stranger Things). A dark take on the Aesop fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Edge of Survival by Steph "StickyHunter" Farrow - £9.00†

Sci-fi | Solo | 1 player

Play as an astronaut untethered from your ship in a solo journaling RPG of dire circumstances, of desperation and hope. Requires a d100 and a notebook.

Ex Libris by Eleanor Hingley - £9.00†

Cosy | Solo | 1 player

‘Ex Libris’ is a cosy solo journalling TTRPG about being the new librarian for a small town library in a fantasy world.

Fishbone Archipelago: Escape from the Tower of Dusk by Mikhail Malkin / Sandstone District - £13.00#

Fantasy | Solo | 1 player

In Escape From The Tower of Dusk you play as an inmate trying to break out of a cursed ancient prison controlled by a paramilitary cult. The game uses an original d6 Dice building system representing the protagonist’s virtues as an Attribute Dice Pool. Your allies and secrets provide modifiers to your dice rolls. It is a story about establishing connections, gathering allies, secrets and resources to outsmart your Bane and orchestrate a daring escape.

Me, the Singularity by Michael Duxbury - £13.00#

Sci-fi | 4–6 players

A one-shot haunted-house-in-space story like Interstellar or Event Horizon, based on the rules of party games like charades or pictionary that you already know how to play. You play the crew of a doomed space station, and the extradimensional “ghost” attempting to save them.

Not Yet: A Romantic Duet TTRPG by Taylor Navarro - £15.00

Romance | GMless | 2 players

Not Yet is a GM-less, two-player tabletop roleplaying game perfect for date night, romancing your friends, or creating a dramatic character backstory. Play as two characters fated to meet but just missing one another—or not if the dice say otherwise.

Numb3r Stations by LunarShadow Designs - £9.00†

Spy | Solo | 1 player

A solo spy RPG using real life number station transmissions. Receive your mission, determine the outcome and report back to your handlers.

Orchidelirium, Vol.I: Expedition Rules by ÆtherCorp Games - £9.00†

Historical | 2–6 players

Search for rare and exotic plants as a Victorian orchid hunter in 1865. Discover your character through the belongings they lose and the memories they use to succeed on their difficult journey. Orchidelirium is a one-shot game that uses cards, dice & pennies to help build the characters' story at the table.

Pet Rescue by Artemis Games - £13.00#

Fantasy (Modern) | 3–6 players

Demigod Pets try to find out what's happened to their caregiver, on a small Welsh island.

Project Cassandra: Psychics of the Cold War by LunarShadow Designs - £13.00#

Spy | 3+ players

A fast paced action adventure RPG about a group of psychics trying to prevent the Cold War from turning hot.

Scribe by Frederic Walker - £9.00†

Historical | Solo | 1 player

A Wretched & Alone solo journaling RPG, set during the Late Bronze Age Collapse.

Summit by Daniel Copper / The Copper Compendium - £9.00†

Exploration | Solo | 1 player

Summit is a game about climbing a mountain and the obstacles that you must overcome to reach the top. As you climb you build the story of your character, meeting people from their life and pushing ever upwards, towards the summit.

Talking Thunder by Eleanor Hingley - £9.00†

Dystopian | 2 players

‘Talking Thunder’ is a two-player correspondence RPG about finding connection in a dystopian world.

Tea & Toadstools by La Lionne Publishing - £15.00

Cosy | Solo | 1 player

Tea & Toadstools is a solo GM-less journaling game in which you will document your experiences as a hedgehog in a twill vest who just wants to be left in peace, but other folks in the forest neighborhood have other plans.

Tending: A Game of Devotion by Tori Truslow - £13.00#

Fantasy | Solo | 1 player

Tending is a mixed media journalling game where you take on the role of a devotee at a magical holy site. Roll dice, draw cards, write, draw or collage to create and explore a religion inspired by the natural world.

The Kingdom of Prester John by Frederic Walker - £9.00†

Historical | Solo | 1 player

A solo journaling RPG of wandering between the reality of the late 1100s and the dreamscapes of medieval Christian mythology.

The Long Road Home by Plane Sailing Games - £20.00

Fantasy | GMless | 2–5 players

The quest is over, you are on your way home, remembering the triumphs, disasters, the friends made and lost along the way.

The Siren's Calling by La Lionne Publishing - £15.00

Fantasy | Solo | 1 player

The Siren’s Calling is a solo GM-less journaling TTRPG that uses the Major Arcana of tarot to tell the story of a mermaid following the call to adventure to explore the ocean beyond your home reef.

Universe At Your Door: The Traveller by Johnson Ofair - £12.00

Sci-fi | 1–5 players

Venture into space on a mission to gather and share knowledge and do no harm. Solo journal or collaborate with a crew to tell beautiful stories of a life out in the unknown. Supported by an open access Virtual TableTop platform.

TTRPG Supplements

CONT/EXT by Ric Wood - £9.00†

Sci-fi (Cosmic Horror) | Adventure | Requires Mothership by Tuesday Knight Games

CONT/EXT is a one-shot of cosmic horror for use with Mothership. A britpunk nightmare set aboard a failing research station.

Darkened Hill & Dale (Paperback / Hardback) by Sarah Cole / Patchwork Fez Games - £30.00 / £40.00

Horror | Adventures | Systemless

Seven system-agnostic horror scenarios set in the modern British countryside, provided with a folder of 21 player handouts (maps, news articles, book extracts, etc). Includes a complimentary digital copy, access to location reference photos, and a spoiler-free content warning guide.

Fishbone Archipelago: Lost Lighthouse by Mikhail Malkin/ Sandstone District - £13.00#

Fantasy | Adventure | Systemless

Lost Lighthouse is a system-agnostic fantasy adventure taking place in a swashbuckling setting of the Fishbone Archipelago and starts with a horrible shipwreck of the merchant ship you and your friends were assigned to.

To escape the uncharted island, players will explore moist jungles, face off with ghosts from the past and even challenge the endemic apex predator. Choose your fate by aligning with one of the ancient Gods and reignite the Lost Lighthouse.

Mysteries in Newfaire: A Collection of Candela Obscura Assignments by La Lionne Publishing - £20.00

Horror | Adventures | Requires Candela Obscura by Darrington Press

Step into the shadows of Newfaire with this new anthology of five Candela Obscura Assignments that invites your Circle to the country of Hale to battle sinister doppelgangers, uncover hidden plots of EONS, and face the nightmares of the Carnival of Dreams. Can your Circle protect Newfaire from the hidden dangers lurking just beneath the surface?

Stamp Quest

We are overjoyed to announce that we have almost finished organisting Stamp Quest 2025! There are a few outstanding items on our project timeline, none of which will impact our ability to deliver the trail, and we want to take this opportunity to introduce the people without whom we wouldn’t have a Stamp Quest this year, and all of whom are introduced in their own words..

A video overview of this list is available here:

The following list is presented alphabetically. Please visit stampquest.carrd.co for a list organised by ascending stand number and plenty of other information, including the prizes available, rules, and Terms and Conditions.

Map by Daniel / The Copper Compendium and available here: https://thecoppercompendium.itch.io/ukge-stamp-quest-map-2025

Sponsors

Leisure Games [3-1106] - Leisure Games is one of the UK's oldest brick-and-mortar shops, celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025. We specialise in stocking the widest possible range of tabletop RPGs, with a particular focus on small press and independent publications.

SoulMuppet [2-449] - We make and publish a huge variety of games, taking you from the fringes of the Outlaw Galaxy to the dying city of Myth and beyond. Our games are unconventional and atmospheric, dripping with vibes that pull you head first into unashamedly extravagant fantasy and sci-fi worlds.

Three Sails Studios [3-T23] - Three Sails Studios are an indie TTRPG design studio and publisher based in Manchester. We are the creators of 'Mappa Mundi - An Exploration + Ecology RPG', which successfully funded on Kickstarter in February 2025, and the forthcoming TTRPG 'Gallow's Corner - A Peasants' Revolt RPG', which will be shown publicly for the first time at UKGE 2025!

Quest Givers

Bardic Tools [3-367] - Bardic Tools is a modern soundboard for TTRPGs. Get rolling in seconds with our premade soundscapes, or customize to your heart's content with our intutitive, drag-and-drop UI!

Biscuit Fund Games [3A-815] - Biscuit Fund Games is the small press name for the creations of Chloe Montgomery and Alyssa Ridley, two trans women in their late-20s working together to create exciting new roleplaying and tabletop games. You may know us from Tournament Arc, Goblin Country, or Skirmish: Wallet Friendly Wargaming!

Black Armada Games [2-822] - We create games that unleash your creativity, bring your favourite genres to life, and give you feelings in your heart.

Blackwell Games [3-231] - Blackwell Games is best known for its solo RPGs including DELVE, Apothecaria, and For Small Creatures Such As We.

Button Kin Games [2-975] - Button Kin Games is an indie TTRPG studio run by GM and writer, Yvris Burke. Best known for Bumbling, a solo game about being a bee, and Drama Llamas, a reality TV TTRPG with a llama-flavoured twist. Yvris' latest work, Jude's World is available for the first time at UKGE.

By Odin's Beard RPG [3-307] -Indie TTRPG designer based in the North of England. Publisher of games such as Runecairn and We Deal in Lead.

ChaosCurios [2-727] - ChaosCurios offers handmade RPG inspired candles, wax melts and RPG accessories with every budget in mind! Add ambience to your games with an RPG Inspired wooden wick scented candle, finished with wax embeds on top. Whether you're looking for your first set of dice or that special set to honour your favourite character, Chaos has the set for you.

CobblePath Games [3-558] - CobblePath Games is a small company which makes games - so far, this is expressly role playing games, but we have ideas on the backburner for board games and more. We design our games with thematic goals in mind and build them from the ground up to offer a comprehensive and cohesive gaming experience.

DWYN [2-981] - Dwyn is a Dark Fantasy concept artist and illustrator whose work explores the queerness of ancient creatures & legends in a mix of watercolour, acrylic, ink, and digital artwork - alongside the occasional medieval batik banner. Their work is inspired by the idea of monstrosity as a place of safety and homecoming.

Eren's ArtVenturing Guild [3A-B10] - Eren's ArtVenturing Guild creates TTRPG accessories, supplements and art! From illustrated NPC decks to D&D 5e and system-agnostic resources, and merch. Drawn, written and designed by Critical Role artist Eren Angiolini.

Final Boss Fight [3-B66] - Final Boss Fight is an independent gaming website focused on storytelling through Dungeons & Dragons, tabletop RPGs, and video games. We foster an inclusive community built on integrity, kindness, and respect while creating and sharing unforgettable adventures. This year, we’ll be selling D&D content, including adventures and a campaign setting book.

Fistful of Crits [3-625] - An award winning TTRPG game and Short Run Print company. We make games, products and modules that interest us, from D&D5e all the way to indie.

Four Score Woodwork [2-721] - Handcrafted wooden gaming accessories. Dice Vaults and Towers, Bespoke GM Screens, Painting Handles and much more. All made by hand to the highest standards of quality and sustainability.

Hand Over Fist Games [2-228] - Unleash your inner Bearbarian or join forces with a wise Wizard Bear in a collection of adorable, 3D-printed adventurers! Each charming bear hero is lovingly crafted, ready to embark on countless adventures at your side. Collect your favourite party and let the epic tales begin!

Hive Mind Games [3-828] - Solo board games and TTRPG creator and designer.

Inktron [3A-753] - Illustrator specialising in high detail pen and ink artwork. Celtic creations as well as Wildlife maps.

Jodie's Dice Farm [3-327] - Handmade gothic art and dice: bringing the dark arts to tabletop gaming, Jodie specialises in dice and oddities that are sustainable and gorgeous.

Lantern Man Gaming [3-510] - Lantern Man Gaming is a small collective of creators, writing third party content for TTRPGs, including adventures, magic items and unique subclasses.

Leith Illustration [2-983] - Leith Illustration is run by Norwich-based non-binary artist/writer Harrie Leith (they/them), selling original digital prints, riso prints, zines, stickers and notebooks. Their artwork explores identity, gender nonconformity and mental health through the lens of fantasy, mythology and fairytale themed illustrations. They also create character designs for independent RPG companies and individuals who wish to see their ideas brought to life.

Montford Tales [2-824] - Montford Tales makes award-winning games and illustrations that are More Than Fluff.

Print is Dead [3-740] - Print is Dead is the work of Nottingham based artist Elyssa Long, where she creates beautiful gothic art inspired by nature, dark fantasy, mythology and folklore, offering art prints, stationery, stickers, badges and original art.

Rat Wave Game House [3A-813] - Rat Wave Game House and friends will be offering strange and stylish games, full of impactful writing, slick design, and gorgeous visuals. Pick up the latest works from indie darlings Kayla Dice and Laurie O'Connel, the creators of games like PSYCHODUNGEON and Hieronymus, respectively.

Roll & Play Press [4-407] - Roll & Play Press is a London-based independent publisher of award-winning books like One-Shot Wonders and Roll & Play: The Game Master's Fantasy Toolkit. Our expertly crafted products make running TTRPGs effortless, giving Game Masters everything they need to create unforgettable adventures. Whether it's Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, or another RPG, our products help you run impactful and immersive games with ease.

ShrimpFriedDice [2-T41] - ShrimpFriedDice is the queer owned kitchen for Handmade Resin Dice with the new menu addition of Indie TTRPGs by FinleyJinley!

Snowy's Maps [3-B84] - Hi, I am Snowy! I create immersive content for TTRPGs, with epic battlemaps and ready-to-run DnD5e and PF2e sessions and oneshots for Dungeon Masters. This includes three awesome physical dry-erase battlemap books, monster zines for PF2e and DnD5e, and more!

The Adventurer's Apprentice [4-B34] - The Adventurer's Apprentice is an interactive fantasy book series for ages 4+. The roll of a dice and infinite imagination allow for the story to change every time you read together. This book is an ideal first experience of role playing games for young children.

The Autumn Realm [3-T13] - Lost in the Autumn Realm is a TTRPG about ordinary folks, lost in a fae woodland. Innovative ‘therapy-punk’ mechanics put your character’s emotional development at the heart of the story.

The Wanderer's Tome [3-B96] - The Wanderer’s Tome is an Ennie-nominated indie studio that creates and publishes tabletop roleplaying games that are defined by their unique settings and unforgettable experiences. Co-founded by two sisters - Fleur and Chelsea Sciortino - Wanderer’s Tome is the only tabletop RPG publisher currently based in Malta. We sell TTRPGs and accessories including our acclaimed TTRPG Flabbergasted! A 1920's comedic TTRPG and our newest solo map-making game Deadline - A Clockwork Press.

The Wayward Adventurers Guild [3A-671] - A social enterprise dedicated to helping adventurers of all ages to create their own fantasy worlds, characters and stories. Their drawing and worldbuilding quests help you to explore your imagination, discover new ideas and inspiration, and combine them into fantastical environments, items and creatures. 50% of their traded profits are reinvested back into supporting introverted and neurodiverse adventurers.

UK Tabletop Industry Network [2-383] - A peer support and advice network, we provide table space at conventions for indie, UK-based tabletop creatives who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend, host regular seminars on a wide variety of industry-focused topics, and maintain a thriving Discord community that is happy to help with any problems you may have.

While many of prize donors are also Quest Givers, several are not. Not all of the following donors have a presence at UKGE 2025.

ÆtherCorp Games.

Beyond Cataclysm.

Bindwood Gaming.

Eran Aviram.

Handiwork Games.

LunarShadow Designs.

Mousehole Press.

Rowan, Rook, and Decard.