Welcome to the first News Roundup for March. While ZineMonth is technically over, there are a number of projects that are still running that started late. The Roundup is pretty light this week; I think a lot of folks are just taking a deep breath and relaxing after a hectic month. Sivad's Sanctum has released Inn of the Red Roof , a thirteen level dungeon written for od&d. They've been posting WIP shots of this project on Bluesky for a month or so, and it looks really neat. T

Well, this is the last News Roundup in February, and ZineMonth is wrapping up, although there will be projects still running into March. I haven't really been covering specific projects (for one, there are really too many great sounding ones that would just overwhelm the Roundup), but have been trying to point to resources to help find them instead. I'd like to plug one specific project, though, that ends very soon (I believe on Tuesday): Seedling Games is raising funds for T

Anthony Zinni is raising funds for A League of Dark Few, a collection of three zines designed to help run city-based campaigns focused on secret guilds and mysteries. He was kind enough to answer some of my questions: Questions: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Answer: City campaigns have always been tough to run. The League of Dark Few Saga is a zine series designed to help GMs run them from the perspective of a guild member, giving players a home and a reason to

Welcome to the third news Roundup for February. We're in the thick of ZineMonth, as I believe I've mentioned once or twice before? Anyway, I've been conducting and posting print interviews on the blog (you can search for them using the ZiMo26 tag ) and audio interviews that you can find on the nascent Sabre Rattlings podcast (the link is the RSS feed), all to promote ZineMonth creators. I don't know why I missed this last week, but the No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live on i

1pagedungeons is raising funds for their project Runes in Ruins on Kickstarter. They were kind enough to answer some short questions about their project. Question: Easy question first: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. Answer: Runes in Ruin is a zine-sized adventure that enables crafting diverse magic items in a system-neutral sandbox. It introduces a simple but open-ended runecrafting system to spice up mundane tools an

Frank "Mottokrosh" Reding is currently raising funds for Knightcore , their project for ZineMonth 2026. They were kind enough to answer some questions for this interview series. Question: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. Answer: Knightcore: An aesthetic that combines gleaming armor, soft, flowing fabrics, and ethereal, haunting glows, now as a tabletop roleplaying g ame. Q: Is this your first ZineMonth project or have y

Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for February 9th, 2026. ZineMonth is in full swing, and I'll be releasing some print interviews over the month promoting various projects. I've also, because apparently I'm not busy enough, decided to start releasing a podcast. The goal is to release short, weekly episodes, with an emphasis on talking about topics in gaming that we're excited about. You can catch the first episode here (link is to podbean, but it should be available on all maj

OSR publisher Directsun has made quite a name for themselves with the puzzle dungeon—Aberrant Reflections and The Seers Sanctum are two of their well-regarded releases with that theme, and they're currently fund-raising for another, entitled A Familiar Tower , for ZineMonth. Q: Easy question first: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. A: A Familiar Tower is an escape room dungeon inside a non-Euclidean wizard tower. It's i

Welcome to the first News Roundup for February. January felt like it was a year long, but now with February we're into ZineMonth, and all the projects that it entails. I'll be posting periodic interviews with ZineMonth creators for the next month and a half, and I encourage everyone to check out the projects being funded and to support small, independent publishers. As I'm writing this it's still too early for a lot of projects, so expect the ZiMo stuff to come at you fast an

Everyone's favorite fantasy RPG, drinking themed board game is now a dungeon crawl! Instead for drinking your opponents under the table you'll be delving under the tavern in Tales from the Red Dragon Inn . This award winning cooperative tactical combat game is set in the same world as the original Red Dragon Inn and you'll play as some familiar faces while delving into the titular location's basement. It's scenario driven campaign system will have you and up to three friend

Welcome to the last News Roundup for January 26th. If you're reading this right now, it means we haven't lost power today; like much of the US, we're being hit by a severe winter storm. I hope everyone stays safe and as warm as possible. Last week was pretty light on releases -- I'm assuming many publishers are getting ready to launch projects for ZineMonth -- so let's see what is on tap for today. Also, fuck ICE. Matt Kelly has gradually been releasing supplements that expan

Welcome to the third News Roundup for January. ZineMonth is just around the corner; last week there were a lot of new releases, so let's see what this week brings us, shall we? The Fracture Between Jade and Ash is a system-neutral, city-based scenario that relies on the conflict between two factions -- Jade Serpents and Ash-born -- to ratchet up the tension in the adventure. Moonwhisper Magic has released What Hirelings , a collection of 35 NPC and hireling cards statted for

Welcome to the second News Roundup in a 2026 that has already felt about six months long. ZineMonth is three weeks away, and I've already collected some interviews to promote projects; if you're participating in this year's ZineMonth and want some promotion please get in touch with me and I'll send over some short interview questions. The first thing I'd like to plug is the free zine released by the NSR Cauldron Discord server. To me, this Discord has some of the same energy

Welcome to the first News Roundup for 2026. The holidays (in the US, at least) are over, and we're heading towards ZineMonth in a matter of weeks. I've already got some interviews lined up, and just want to remind folks that if you're participating in the event, and want some free press, there are a few options: You can send me an email at thirdkingdomgames at gmail dot com and I'll hook you up with a few short and sweet questions. I've started a thread on rpgnet for people t

Welcome to the last News Roundup for 2025. I know this year was fraught and stressful, at best, for a lot of people, and we're looking at a 2026 with plenty of unknowns and economic uncertainty. A big bright spot for me in the upcoming year is going to be ZineMonth2026, starting in February. I've already seen a number of people start promoting their projects, and I'd love to help with that. If you're going to be participating in the event, and have time to answer a few short,

Welcome to the penultimate News Roundup of 2025, and, as it happens, the anniversary of this newsletter. The first Roundup was published on December 20th, 2021. I hope that readers have gotten some benefit from it; I know for me it has opened up a wide range of indie and OSR publishers and some fantastic products that I otherwise might not have heard from, and the simple act of maintaining this as a routine as helped motivate my writing in general (I am, if anything, a routin

Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025. We're coming towards the end of the year and looking at ZineMonth 2026 starting in February. Kickstarter has launched their open call already, here , and of course there's the community run ZineMonth . . . actually, I'm not sure if they've set up their webpage for 2026 yet. I need to dig into this further. Anywho, here's a selection of last week's releases. It was kind of a slow week for releases. I'm a big fan of James

Welcome to the second News Roundup for December, 2025. Last week was a bit slow on releases, so let's see what this week looks like as we steam towards the end of the year. One development that I'm really pleased about is that Drivethrurpg has now made it mandatory for publishers to indicate if their releases contain any AI assets, as opposed to just an optional disclosure. It should hopefully make my job easier; I'd like to see them ban all content with AI assets, but that's

Welcome to the first News Roundup for December, the last month in the year. I hope all of the USians reading this had a nice, relaxing Thanksgiving. We, like pretty much everyone else in the world who runs an online business, are having a Cyber Monday sale . If you use the code CyberSabre at checkout on Monday (today), you can get 20% off everything in your cart. Releases are a bit thin last week, I think because they were split between PAX U, Thanksgiving, and Dragonmeet in

It's the last Monday in November, and we're entering the home stretch to close out 2025. It felt weird missing last week's Roundup, but I just didn't have any energy last weekend to compile it. I'm hoping to do my interview series to promote ZineMonth in 2026, so if you're planning on participating in the event, and have the bandwidth to answer a few softball questions about your project, please reach out and I'll get some questions sent over. If you are participating, and yo