MISSION
The Brass Dragon exists to create a welcoming, inclusive gathering place where people of all backgrounds can connect through games, stories, and shared adventures.
We foster community by hosting game-oriented events, teaching and supporting games with care, and offering a space where newcomers and veterans alike feel safe, respected, and encouraged to belong.
VISION
Games are the doorway, people are the purpose.
We envision The Brass Dragon as a place known not just for games, but for kindness, mentorship, creativity, and human connection.
Our goal is to become a model for what a modern game store can be: inclusive without compromise, imaginative without exclusion, and rooted in the core belief that shared play builds stronger people and stronger communities.
Brass Dragon Games is a games store located in the quaint little hustling, bustling, quickly-growing hamlet of Mount Juliet, located just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Okay, maybe not as little or quaint as it once was, our city is one of the fastest-growing in Tennessee! With so many people moving to our town from all around the world, our goal is to connect people of all ages, walks of life, demographics and nerdy proclivities to the joy of making friends through tabletop gaming.
ONCE UPON A TIME... As told by founder Trey McCampbell
I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in about 1982, with friends from high school, and played a legendary campaign that lasted well into college years. Then I abruptly took about 30 years off from playing... As in, I didn't roll a d20 from 1992 till the pandemic of 2021. I was off doing his grown-up, "Corporate America" thing, getting married, having kids, playing music on the side and lost sight of his inner nerd who loved and lived for adventure around the tabletop.
When my kids got into Stranger Things, they asked me "Say, didn't you play D&D in high school? We'd like to learn how to play." My answer? "Yes, children. Yes, I did. I can teach you the ways of the d20 and the saving throw." Being the kind of dad I am, I ran out and picked up a D&D 5E Starter Kit, some dice and a few figures. Through my kids, I re-discovered my love, re-kindled the passion and basically caught the bug to play again.
In the years since the pandemic, I noticed that more than ever before, people love to congregate and play together; not just D&D and other role-playing games, but party games, strategy games and card games. There is a kind of magic in pretty much any game that brings people to a table to hang out, have fun, and lose their troubles for a little while. In fact, people's troubles seem to be mounting in this crazy world we live in, so that time around a table with friends playing together is more important than it has ever been. I've never seen a political argument take place around a game table.
I've also noted, aloud, to anyone who will listen, that there has never been a better time to be a nerd. Having grown up in a time when dragons, wizards, super-heroes, and things like that were not mainstream, much less the subjects of blockbuster movies and television shows, I love the fact that these days, it's pretty darn cool to be a bit nerdy! Mainstream culture seems to currently favor geek culture... There's a good chance even your grandparents know who Iron Man and Harry Potter are.
At Brass Dragon Games, we believe that good friendships can begin easily when people of potentially very different backgrounds find common ground. Tabletop gaming and the love of nerdy things can be that common ground. From there, strong friendships can become strong community. From that strong community, can become a stronger, better world.
Now, along with my friends, a smart-aleck wizard and a tavern named after a brass dragon who loves lively conversation and good, friendly competitive games, Brass Dragon Games is on a mission to make a positive change in the world.
Life is an adventure we're not meant to experience alone. Find your adventuring party and find out why we say: The best adventures begin at The Brass Dragon!
