Have a game shop, café, product, creative service, or tabletop-friendly business? Submit it to the Tavern Network and help RPG players, GMs, and fantasy fans discover what you offer.

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WHY JOIN THE NETWORK?
WHY JOIN THE NETWORK?
FAQ ABOUT THE NETWORK
FAQ ABOUT THE NETWORK

LET THE TAVERN POINT ADVENTURERS TOWARD YOUR BUSINESS

Many an adventurer passes through Mike’s Tavern everyday. Looking for tools, maps, shops, and good folk who share the same hobby.

If you run a shop, studio, café, store or another service that serves the tabletop world, there’s a seat waiting for you here!

The Tavern Network helps worthy merchants like yourself get seen, remembered, and visited by the very audience already searching for what you offer.

BE SEEN BY CROWDS OF RPG ENTHUSIASTS

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Your Shop Is Put Where Online Traffic Can Find It

Visitors come to the Tavern looking for tools, gear, dice, maps, terrain, cafés, and services tied to tabletop gaming. Your shop becomes part of the places they are already visiting.

Your Name Is Remembered By Tavern Visitors

Being listed in the Tavern is not just about visibility. It is about familiarity. Adventurers who see your name across articles and Tavern pathways begin to recognize and trust it.

Your Business Keeps Getting Tavern Traffic Forever

Unlike short-lived ads that give brief spikes of attention, Tavern listings live beside articles, tools, and resources that can keep bringing readers back over time.

You Reach The Audience Who Wants What You Offer

The Tavern draws people who already love tabletop gaming. Not random clicks, but readers who understand dice, campaigns, characters, maps, minis, tables, and the world you serve.

SET UP YOUR SHOP AT THE NETWORK
SET UP YOUR SHOP AT THE NETWORK

CHOOSE YOUR PLACE IN THE TAVERN NETWORK

Location Submission

Location Submission
Submit a Location

Own a physical location where tabletop players enjoy tabletop games to shop, eat, drink, browse, or play? You can submit your location here! The Tavern will showcase it!

  • Local game shops & cafes
  • Hobby stores
  • Cafes, bars, and restaurants suitable for game nights
  • Snack shops or dessert shops near gaming spaces
  • Community play rooms
  • And the like

Product Submission

Product Submission
Submit a Product

If you own a business offering something useful, fun, or flavorful for tabletop players, you can submit your products here! The Tavern will showcase it!

  • Notebook and journal creators
  • Snack, drink, or dessert brands
  • Miniature sellers
  • Companion app builders
  • Digital RPG product makers
  • App creators
  • Accessory makers
  • Any business offering something useful, fun, or flavorful for tabletop players

Creator Submission

Creator Submission
Submit as a Creator

Fancy yourself a creator who serves the tabletop community? You can submit yourself here! The tavern will showcase your services.

  • Artists
  • Musicians
  • Miniature painters
  • Forever GMs
  • Home-brewers & Writers
  • Streamers
  • Community organizers
  • Campaign consultants
  • Creators who serve tabletop players, GMs, or fantasy hobbyists

GET THE TAVERN NETWORK TO WORK FOR YOU

Joining the Tavern Network is meant to be simple, clear, and built to last.

When you set up shop here, your business becomes part of a growing network trusted by readers who return to the Tavern looking for tools, shops, and services tied to tabletop gaming.

Tell the Tavern about your venue, service, product, project, or creation. Share what you do, who you serve, and what makes your corner of the tabletop world worth discovering.

  • Tell us what your business, project, product, or creative work offers.
  • Explain how it connects to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, fantasy fans, board gamers, or hobby communities.
  • Share useful links such as your website, shop, booking page, portfolio, social media page, or other online platform.
  • If your work feels like a strong fit, the Tavern may reach out to discuss feature opportunities, collaborations, special arrangements, or complimentary first listings for partners who support Mike’s Tavern.

Once accepted, your listing is added to the Tavern Network with its own dedicated feature page, backlinks, supporting content, and visibility inside the growing Tavern ecosystem.

  • Your listing receives its own dedicated Tavern Network feature page.
  • Your page may include backlinks to your website, shop, booking page, social media, portfolio, or other approved online destination.
  • Supporting content and internal Tavern links may help readers discover your listing naturally.
  • Depending on your project, the Tavern may also offer featured banners, expanded Tavern Network features, larger multi-article coverage, and future collaboration opportunities.

Every listing becomes another road sign pointing travelers toward your work. The Tavern Network grows stronger as more venues, creators, tools, and services join.

  • Readers may discover your listing through Tavern Network pages, articles, tools, recommendations, and internal links.
  • Your listing becomes part of a wider discovery path for RPG players, GMs, fantasy fans, and hobby communities.
  • As the network grows, more adventurers can explore it looking for places to play, tools to use, stories to follow, and communities to join.
  • The more paths that lead to your tavern, the easier you are to find.

As long as the Tavern stands, your listing remains part of the network. New readers can continue discovering older listings through the Tavern’s growing web of content.

  • Your listing remains part of the Tavern Network after it is published.
  • Readers may continue finding it through articles, internal links, recommendations, search engines, and Tavern Network pathways.
  • The network becomes more useful as more related listings, articles, and resources are added over time.
  • A good tavern sign does not stop working after one night on the road.
SET UP YOUR SHOP AT THE NETWORK

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The Tavern Network is a discovery section on Mike’s Tavern that helps tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, fantasy fans, and hobby communities find useful places, products, creators, and services connected to the roleplaying world.

It is not just a normal directory. It is built to help good businesses, creators, tools, and venues become easier to discover through helpful listings, relevant backlinks, internal links, articles, search engines, and AI tools.

The Tavern Network is for businesses, creators, venues, and product makers who want to reach tabletop RPG players, fantasy fans, board gamers, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, and hobby communities.

It is also for players and GMs who are looking for new places to visit, useful products to buy, interesting creators to support, or community-friendly services that fit the tabletop RPG lifestyle.

No. Game shops are a natural fit, but the Tavern Network is also open to many other businesses and creators that support the tabletop RPG, fantasy, board game, and hobby community.

This can include cafés, hobby stores, dice makers, miniature painters, fantasy artists, mapmakers, RPG writers, app builders, snack brands, drink brands, and other tabletop-friendly businesses.

Yes. Cafés, bars, snack shops, restaurants, dessert shops, and other food or drink businesses can join if they are suitable for tabletop RPG players, board gamers, fantasy fans, or game night gatherings.

A comfortable café, a game-night snack shop, a memorable restaurant, or a fantasy-friendly bar may all be useful to players and GMs looking for places to meet, plan, relax, or gather before and after a session.

Yes. Online businesses can join if they offer products, services, tools, or creative work that are relevant to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, fantasy fans, or hobby communities.

This can include online dice shops, digital RPG tools, character sheet apps, printable maps, downloadable adventures, fantasy artwork, miniature painting services, RPG writing services, and worldbuilding resources.

A Location Submission is for a physical place that tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, or fantasy fans may want to visit, support, or discover.

This can include tabletop game shops, board game cafés, hobby stores, dice shops, miniature shops, comic shops, fantasy-themed cafés, snack shops, restaurants, bars, event spaces, community play spaces, or other tabletop-friendly venues.

A Product Submission is for a physical or digital product that is useful, interesting, or enjoyable for tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, or fantasy fans.

This can include dice, miniatures, terrain, maps, notebooks, character journals, GM screens, RPG accessories, snacks for game night, drinks for game night, fantasy merchandise, printable resources, digital downloads, apps, and campaign tools.

A Creator Submission is for independent creators, artists, writers, makers, performers, designers, and creative professionals whose work connects with tabletop RPGs, fantasy worlds, board games, or gaming culture.

This can include character artists, fantasy illustrators, mapmakers, miniature painters, RPG writers, homebrew designers, musicians, prop makers, terrain builders, voice actors, streamers, and content creators.

Creators can submit themselves if their work is relevant to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, fantasy fans, board gamers, or hobby communities.

Independent creators, freelancers, small studios, and emerging artists may all be a good fit if their work helps players enjoy, prepare, run, decorate, record, or remember their games.

Yes. Artists, miniature painters, writers, musicians, and mapmakers can join if their work is useful or interesting to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, fantasy fans, or board game communities.

The Tavern Network can feature creators who make character portraits, party art, painted miniatures, adventures, lore, campaign settings, battle maps, world maps, ambience, music, props, and other fantasy or tabletop resources.

Yes. App developers, website owners, software creators, and digital tool builders can join if their tools are useful for tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, fantasy fans, or hobby communities.

This can include character sheet apps, campaign planning tools, map tools, encounter builders, dice rollers, virtual tabletop support tools, worldbuilding tools, note-taking systems, random generators, and digital rule helpers.

Yes. Businesses, creators, venues, and product makers from any country can submit to the Tavern Network, as long as they are relevant to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, fantasy fans, or hobby communities.

Physical locations should clearly explain where they are based. Online businesses and creators should explain what they offer, who they serve, and whether their products or services are local, regional, or worldwide.

A Tavern Network listing may include a dedicated feature page on Mike’s Tavern, a clear description of your business, product, location, or creator service, and links to your official website, shop, social pages, booking page, or other approved online destination.

Depending on the submission, the listing may also include business details, product highlights, creator information, location notes, images, service descriptions, article mentions, and internal links from related Mike’s Tavern content.

Accepted Tavern Network submissions may receive their own dedicated page on Mike’s Tavern. This page can act as a searchable feature page for your business, product, location, or creator service.

One of the main benefits is the backlink to your website or chosen online destination. Over time, your Tavern Network page may also receive internal links from related Mike’s Tavern articles, guides, roundups, and other Tavern Network pages.

One page is a strong starting point, but more relevant articles usually create more visibility. The more useful content and internal pathways your business has, the more chances readers, search engines, and AI tools have to discover it.

Mike’s Tavern may write articles, feature content, roundups, or related mentions about accepted Tavern Network businesses, products, locations, and creators when they are a strong fit for the site.

To help Mike’s Tavern understand your submission properly, you will need to fill out the correct form: Submit a Location, Submit a Product, or Submit as a Creator.

Article coverage is valuable because every article creates another possible path to your business. A listing gives your business a home on Mike’s Tavern, while additional articles can help readers, search engines, and AI tools discover your business through more topics, keywords, and internal links.

Yes. A Tavern Network listing is designed to include backlinks to your official website, shop page, booking page, social media page, portfolio, product page, or other approved online destination.

A backlink is a clickable pathway from Mike’s Tavern to your online presence. It helps readers find you directly and helps connect your business, product, or creator profile to the tabletop RPG, fantasy, gaming, or hobby space.

Yes. You may submit more than one product, location, service, or creator offering, as long as each submission is relevant to tabletop RPG players, Dungeon Masters, Game Masters, board gamers, fantasy fans, or hobby communities.

If you submit multiple items, Mike’s Tavern may decide whether they should be grouped under one listing, separated into different pages, or mentioned across multiple articles.

No. Not every Tavern Network submission is accepted.

The Tavern Network is built around online discovery, backlinks, and stronger digital presence. Because of that, your business, product, location, or creator service needs to already have some kind of online presence before it can join.

This can be a website, online shop, booking page, portfolio, Instagram page, Facebook page, TikTok page, YouTube channel, Patreon page, marketplace profile, or another public online platform. It does not need to be large or already popular, but Mike’s Tavern needs somewhere useful to send readers, search engines, and AI tools.

A strong submission is clear, relevant, and easy to understand. It should explain what you offer, who you serve, where people can find you online, and how your work connects to tabletop RPGs, fantasy gaming, board games, players, GMs, or hobby communities.

Strong submissions usually include a website or social page, useful images, a clear description, accurate business details, and a good reason why RPG players or fantasy fans may care about the listing.

A backlink is a clickable link from one website to another website. For example, if your Tavern Network listing links from Mike’s Tavern to your business website, online shop, social media page, booking page, or creator portfolio, that link is a backlink.

Backlinks matter because they create pathways for people to find you. They may also help search engines understand that your business is connected to a relevant topic, such as tabletop RPGs, fantasy gaming, dice, miniatures, maps, cafés, creators, or digital tools.

A backlink does not guarantee traffic, sales, rankings, or instant growth. However, it can support your long-term online presence, especially when it comes from a relevant website and is supported by useful content.

Yes, in some cases. If you approach Mike’s Tavern and are willing to support the Tavern Network in return, your first article, backlink, and relevant internal links may be provided for free.

This usually means writing a feature, mention, or write-up about Mike’s Tavern on your own website, and/or sharing Mike’s Tavern through your social media channels.

This free first article is intended as an introductory collaboration. Any additional articles, extra feature content, or ongoing promotional write-ups after the first article will not be free, unless separately agreed upon.