Welcome to the third news Roundup in April. It's a dry, dry month here, with temperatures way above normal, perfect for hanging out indoors and checking out some new games! I don't know how I missed this, but Johan Nohr, the driving force behind Mork Borg, is raising funds for Fomoria , their game of folk horror. The campaign is well and funded, and is almost over at the time this goes live, but I wanted to make sure to get a mention of it in. Simon Taylor is raising funds fo

Welcome to the News Roundup for the second Monday in April. An astute reader pointed out that I have neglected to mention Inkvein , by Murkdice, currently funding on Backerkit. I interviewed Murkdice a few weeks back for Sabre Rattlings, and I totally conflated that with a Roundup mention. Sorry about that! At the time of this writing there's nine days left in the campaign, for a Mork Borg powered mega-dungeon. Also, just as an aside, I'm having a fairly difficult time findi

Welcome to the first News Roundup of April. I started off writing this thinking there weren't going to be many entries, but it turns out there are a bunch this week! Jimmy Shelter, publisher of Hiria, the Eternal City and A Visit to San Sibilia , among others, is raising funds for Pine Shallows , a Goonies and Stranger Things-inspired game of meddlesome kids. For the next eleven days, there are two Tunnels and Trolls bundles up on bundles of holding: one for the rulebooks ,

It's the fourth Monday in March, and spring has sprung here in Central Virginia. Let's see what last week had in store for us, shall we? There are a lot of new releases to go over. One of my favorite things about doing this roundup is getting to promote the work of first time creators: viendhita has just released their first adventure, Like Flowers We Wither & Die , a system-agnostic horror pamphlet adventure. Looking forward to seeing what else viendhita releases! Someone wh

Welcome to the third News Roundup for March, 2026. Let's jump right in and check out the most recent releases! Utku has released Scalemail , a mass combat system for BX that has been released under the Creative Commons license. The release is currently in early beta. David Blandy is a publisherI really admire, and he's just released The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition , written by IsaacisAfraid. It's a sci-fantasy adventure designed to be run with any Mark of the Odd genre of

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

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

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

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

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