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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...

They also have a printer in Australia, and maybe one or two others I don't know of.

That would be great.

It's the second Monday in December, and the end of the year is fast approaching, as is the three-year anniversary of this Roundup. Because Christmas falls on a Monday this year I will likely (but not definitely) be skipping that day. Haven't made up my mind yet. I'm also toying with the idea of...

I'm probably at about 1.2k pages of published material. Two hexcrawl books, each around 300 pages, 28 issues of a monthly zine that has around 12 pages of new content each month, plus an assorted 10 or so published hexes that average about 30 pages of content. Plus some implied setting stuff...

Yes, it is. I think all three look really good. I was a little concerned at first glance when I saw Beyond the Pale -- especially now, I think tackling Jewish mythology is a fraught subject -- but knowing the Yochai is involved made me feel confident it would be done well.

They are not all straight.

It's the first Monday is December. What's left of my Twitter feed lit up on Friday with a news of an "Indie RPG Creators Summit" put on by Goodman Games with a promo that featured headshots of ten of the participants; white males all. With as much creativity and innovation as goes on in the OSR...

I pointed out to one of the speakers involved with Goodman Games that the tag "indie" is misleading; if they had just stuck with "OSR" there would be less of a fuss -- although I thing that is still misleading and misrepresentative of the current OSR movement, although there is a perception that...

Jarrett is former Exalted Funeral, and one of the few speakers that I think exemplifies the "indie" tag. Otherwise, it's a pretty shocking lineup that omits the most creative and innovative voices in the OSR/indie fields, many of whom are BIPOC, queer, or women (or a combination).