What started out as a fun crafting date night has now become an actual D&D world creation game changer.
From dungeon master to world building stamp creator, Jacob Harris has designed an additional tool for D&D and other tabletop gamers.
With the help of Karoline Moore, Harris – born and raised in South Surrey – launched a kit of 25 “Tabletop Stamps” on a Kickstarter program. The stamps have specific designs that would work for D&D or other fantasy role-playing board game map creations.
“I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons for many years and I’m often the dungeon master, the person writing the story,” Harris says before explaining that being the person writing the story also means prepping the world. “I was 3D printing a bunch to create terrain for the game. It was taking me a lot of time.”
Moore shares that she had recently attended a craft club night with friends, and they were doing some lino printing, which is a printmaking technique where a design gets carved into a linoleum block. The raised, inked areas are then pressed onto paper or fabric, creating a print.
After the class, Moore brought some of the materials to their shared East Vancouver home, and she and Harris made an at-home date night out of the supplies she brought.
Later that evening, Harris got his idea.
“That night, when I was falling asleep, I kind of had this dream. I was half dreaming and in a half-awake state. I was like, ‘What if we made stamps to prep D&D maps? That would save so much time,’” Harris shares, adding he nudged Moore awake to share his idea.
Half-asleep herself, her response was similar to “Yeah, OK, sure.”
The next day, however, the idea grew to something so much more.
“The next day I busted out the line of carving supplies and I carved out the very first prototype just to prove the idea,” Harris says.
To start, he made a very rudimentary map, and once he saw that this worked the way he wanted, he got right on making more stamps to design the rest of the map.
Moore agrees that Harris was the perfect person to create something like this because he understands the worlds and is a passionate fantasy-type gamer. Both of them enjoy games that involve being social rather than competitive, which is why they like the premise of D&D gaming.
“Diving beneath the surface, you see that it’s such a huge world and there’s so many people getting so much from it, just having fun with their friends, exploring themselves and building relationships and community,” Moore says before sharing the deeper impact behind these games. “There’s so much literature and research on how D&D can help people explore identity, gender, pronouns and relationships. Making decisions and just trying out things in a safe playground, in a way.”
Harris furthers her point on a digital versus in-person game perspective. “We are definitely in the middle of the digital age. But a lot of people are starting to feel the digital age fatigue. So board games kind of allow you to break out of that, unplug and just have a bunch of laughs in front of your friends, which is great.”
Moore and Harris think Netflix’s Stranger Things really helped this generation see that nerd culture can be cool again by making D&D more mainstream.
This is even more evident by the support coming from people on social media about Tabletop Stamps.
“It’s exciting because this is like really as far as we got plan-wise, and then it just kind of blew up and now we’re like, ‘Wow, there’s so many more things and whole worlds that we could explore,’” Moore shares.
Harris explains that many people have requested different locations to make stamps in the D&D universe.
As of right now, people can purchase these stamps on Kickstarter, but Moore and Harris hope to be able to sell on their own website in the spring of 2026.
“We’re also hoping to kind of explore like getting them into brick-and-mortar game stores and hobby shops,” says Moore.
Harris also hopes that they can soon make expansion sets with different areas and potentially make smaller stamp kits as well.
Harris and Moore’s Kickstarter goal of $10,000 has been surpassed greatly and currently sits at $287,000.
For more information on these stamps, check out the Tabletop Stamps Instagram page (@tabletopstamps). You can also find them at kickstarter.com – search for ‘Tabletop Stamps: Dungeons.’