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

Welcome to the second News Roundup of November, 2025. The big news is that Mausritter Month is upon us, on Backerkit, and there are some really neat projects being funded right now. All of the projects look fantastic, and you should check them out. One of the ones I'm really excited about is the only one (at the time of this writing, at least) that hasn't fully funded: Mechritter is pretty much what it says on the tin, but instead of minis it comes with a selection of mix a

Welcome to the first News Roundup of November, steaming towards the end of the year. I had a number of people reach out to me to share their new releases, which always makes me happy because it makes my life easier and tells me that people are interested in this newsletter. I don't share as much about Dragonbane, for some reason, but it definitely falls into the Old School Category. Tom Lagier has released Belles of the Bog , a tongue-in-cheek adventure inspired by Mark Twain

Welcome to the final News Roundup for October. Mothership Month , the Backerkit sponsored Mothership extravaganza, is in full swing. I'm really looking forward to November, when Mausritter Month launches, also through Backerkit. I've seen some really neat projects being promoted for this event. It looks like last week was relatively slow on releases, but I found some that I think are worth taking a look at. Marta's Vineyard of Despair is up on itch. It's a really interestin

It's the penultimate Monday in October, and the winter holiday season is rapidly approaching, along with the end of the year. The big news of this week is Mothership Month is underway, and raising funds for a ton of cool-looking projects on Backerkit. If you're on Bluesky, you've no doubt seen an overwhelming number of posts tagged "over/under", all part of a massive, 1,000+ member strong play by post game Sam Sorenson spearheaded in conjunction with Mothership Month. In a R

This is going to be a bit of a short Roundup; I had covid and flu boosters on Saturday and they really knocked me for a loop. Just a...

It's the first roundup for October, and the big event for this month is Mothership Month. It starts on October 14th, and will be chock...

Welcome to the last OSR News Roundup in September. This month has just flown by, at least for me, and we're staring down the barrel of...

Welcome to the third OSR News Roundup for September 2025. There were a ton of entries last week; one reader commented that it was like...

I try to catch as many new releases as I can, but sometimes I miss one, and I'll try to plug stuff that I missed that seems really...

Welcome to the first news roundup for September. Here in the States it is Labor Day. The first thing I wanted to plug isn't a release,...

Welcome to the last News Roundup for August. First, I'd like to apologize to Will, of Inverted Castle Press. I had fully planned on...