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For NPCs/monsters you can use abilities with recharge, rather than tracking activation rolls. For PCs, I would suggest using cleric or magic-user level limits, whichever is the most appropriate, except for creatures that are inherently psionic (traditionally), such as duergar. For these, use...

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...

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...

I hope it works for you! This was my first experiment with offering a no-art free version with the hope that if people like it they will purchase the full version. It's also available in offset print through Drivethru's retail program.

I'm currently raising funds for the Year Four Compilation of Populated Hexes Monthly on Kickstarter. Populated Hexes Monthly is a zine for Old School Essentials that I've been publishing for, well, over four years now, and this is a crowdfunding campaign to compile the fourth year -- Issues 37...

The art-free version is free! It contains everything the full book does, except the art: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/518335/mind-over-matter-an-osr-guide-to-psionics-art-free-preview

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...

I was actually on the fence about including this title, largely due to the name, but in the end I went through with it, largely on the strength of Waclav Traier's art and the author's previous works (Waclaw has done work for me before).

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...

It was rolled out pretty quietly last week, but Drivethrurpg has made their "retail" program official, where individual publishers are able to list printed versions of their books for sale, giving many publishers the ability to sell offset printed books along with print-on-demand options. Right...

Yeah, it looks great. It's filling a niche that, quite honestly, I'm surprised hasn't been filled sooner, what with the number of indie LatinX and BrOSR (Brazilian OSR) creators out there these days.

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 caveat before we dive into the week's releases: I hope that I'm not coming across too critical of some of these projects, specifically when discussing lead and...

Oh, yeah, totally. I would have just assumed it would have been easier to take something a little more abstract, like a sector, or a theme, like corporate malfeasance, and go with that, rather than something much more laser-focused.

It's a curious choice, to be sure. It seems like it might require a fair amount of coordination between the different participants, rather than doing something more open ended/larger in scope.

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 full of projects Mothership. Exeunt Press is running an event for October as well, called Morktober, which is for all the various Mork Borg games. Backerkit has...