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No thank you. There are plenty of non-problematic people doing cool stuff in the OSR and I feel no need to give Gillespie any money.

Ew.

It's the second Monday in February and the we're entering into the second full week of ZineMonth. Last week I conducted the following interviews: Tanuki Games, with HIC: Tapestry Toilet Roll Game, an art journaling game inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry. Michael Putlack, with Be Kind, Rewind, a...

I agree, and I say this as a business owner with two businesses and about a dozen total employees, but preventing/discouraging employees or ex-employees to discuss their experiences -- whether it be salaries, or unethical behavior, or anything else -- is advantageous to only employers and...

That's . . . not that different from what I said. It is a relatively common phenomenon for someone to say: "Person X couldn't have done 'Y'. I've known them for years and they never did 'Y' to me." Hanging out socially with someone is a totally different power dynamic than being dependent on a...

Playing D&D with a person is nothing like working for a person. There are plenty of people I know and like that I would never want to actually work for.

ZineMonth is here, and I've started posting interviews with creators who are participating in the event. They'll be posting Monday through Friday at 1:00 pm eastern time. Thus far I've posted two interviews: Jim Hall of Brooklet Games crowdfunding one of the games I've been looking forward to...

In honor of ZineMonth24 all zines in the Sabre Games webstore will be 20% off. Plus, we offer free shipping on orders of 100.00 or more! https://www.thirdkingdomgames.com/products?Category=Zines

PHM Issue 31 is now live on Kickstarter as part of ZineMonth24. This issue will be standard A5 zine size, and continues a look at deities and godhood, introducing clerical channeling divinity, a way to replace turn undead with custom abilities, and three sample gods created using the methods...

Actually, use this link for the current ZiMo projects: https://zinemonth.spread.name/

It's the last Monday in January, which means that ZineMonth is right around the corner. I'm sure I'll keep banging this drum over the next month or so, and I hope y'all will humor me with this. There are three places you can go to check out the projects on tap this year: Kickstarter's ZineQuest...

A reader pointed out that I had used 2023 as the date for last week's roundup, so I made sure to write 2024 for this week's. Zine Month is right around the corner, and I'll be posting a series of interviews with participants as it gets into full swing. If you're interested in participating, or...

As I'm sure most of the readers of this series will know by now, last week we lost one of the true luminaries in the gaming field: Jennell Jaquays. She had fallen sick last year, and finally succumbed to her illness. I never met her personally, but we did correspond via email occasionally. She...

Yeah, it got messed up with the scheduled post, somehow. Here's the link. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/466355/Hexmap-Templates

PHM Issue 30 is now live on Kickstarter for a short little campaign. It features a mountainous hex and begins a deep dive into religion, providing guidelines for creating random deities in OSR-style games, with a focus on small, local gods...

JE Shields is a well-known artist that works in the OSR community (I've mentioned a couple of his projects here in the past). His son recently passed away, and the NTRPG community is hosting a GoFundMe to help with the funeral expenses. If you'd like to help out the link is here. February's...

February's annual ZineMonth is fast approaching, and I was wondering if it would be okay to start a thread to allow creators to post about their ZiMo projects. This obviously verges on advertising, but since it would be supporting indie and small press creators doing (typically) interesting and...

Welcome to the first news Roundup of 2024, and the start of the third year of this newsletter. I have not had a chance to do a year in review of previous roundups, but I'd be interested in hearing from readers about your favorite releases from 2023. I've been getting ready for ZiMo24, the...

We're having an end of the year sale at Sabre Games. Take 25% off your purchase by using the code "Bye2023" at checkout. We've got a wide selection of products, from rpgs, board games, miniature games, tcgs, used games, and more: https://www.thirdkingdomgames.com/products

Welcome to the third Roundup of December. This is the two year anniversary of these Roundups, and I look forward to bringing y'all another year. If I've got time in the next week or so I'm going to try and work up a "Year in Review" post. Looking forward, 2024 is going to be bringing us another...