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I'm currently raising funds to publish Vol. 3 of the BX Advanced Bestiary series. This book covers monsters L-R from the OSE Classic monster section, expanding on each entry with variants and new monsters based on each. It includes several new classes (leech-folk, lizard-folk, gear-forged) and...

@Morrus, Bree-YARC is by Third Kingdom Games (I had set up my KS page years ago and they don't make it easy to change the creator name once it is set). Thanks for including Bree-YARC in the list; I wasn't expecting that!

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...

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...

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...

I'm having a 40% sale off all my hexcrawling/world building stuff for OSE through the end of the week

I'm glad to hear that. One of my main goals has been to help promote the work of smaller, lesser known publishers.

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...

Unfortunately no News Roundup today; I was sick this weekend and didn't get a chance write anything up.

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...