Since 2024, BATS has been connecting indie tabletop roleplaying and storytelling game enthusiasts around the SF Bay Area. We serve as a central hub for finding games, promoting game design work, and making lasting connections.
Since 2024, BATS has been connecting indie tabletop roleplaying and storytelling game enthusiasts around the SF Bay Area. We serve as a central hub for finding games, promoting game design work, and making lasting connections.
Since 2024, BATS has been connecting indie tabletop roleplaying and storytelling game enthusiasts around the SF Bay Area. We serve as a central hub for finding games, promoting game design work, and making lasting connections.
Dive into community
In our Discord server, members promote local events, organize home games, and hold involved conversations on game design and GM styles. Not a Discord user? We've got an event locator on the site for you!
More on the horizon…
In 2025, we held our first mini-convention in Berkeley– and we’re only getting started. Stay tuned for more programming to come in 2026 and beyond!
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.
Dive into community
In our Discord server, members promote local events, organize home games, and hold involved conversations on game design and GM styles. Not a Discord user? We've got an event locator on the site for you!
More on the horizon…
In 2025, we held our first mini-convention in Berkeley– and we’re only getting started. Stay tuned for more programming to come in 2026 and beyond!
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.
Dive into community
In our Discord server, members promote local events, organize home games, and hold involved conversations on game design and GM styles. Not a Discord user? We've got an event locator on the site for you!
More on the horizon…
In 2025, we held our first mini-convention in Berkeley– and we’re only getting started. Stay tuned for more programming to come in 2026 and beyond!
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.
Hey, what’s this about?
A TRPG, or tabletop roleplaying game, is a collaborative storytelling exercise guided by set mechanics. In other words, it’s playing pretend using some rules. We believe that stories guide the ways we experience the world and relate to other people, and storytelling games are a powerful tool for building shared meaning.