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Mind over Matter is now live on Backerkit. This book provides two psionic systems for use in Old School Essentials and other similar OSR-games, one based off of the 2nd edition's Complete Psionics book, but using activation rolls instead of psionic points, and the other inspired by the 3.x Tome...

I'm currently running a Backerkit campaign for an offset reprint of Volume 1 of the Advanced BX Bestiary. This volume takes monsters A-D from the OSE Classic book and expands on them with optional rules and variants based on the theme. It includes 100 new monsters (including some updated from...

I've just launched a Backerkit project for a compiled 320+ page of supplemental material for Old School Essentials and other OSR-style games, including a bunch of new classes, spells, a simplified skill system, rules of researching spells, crafting magical items, and founding temples, expanding...

I'm getting ready to launch my next project and have just set the prelaunch Kickstarter page to live. It's going to be a daily wilderness hex calendar, akin to a "word of the day" calendar, except with a new hex, complete with a hook, encounter, or feature, for each day. As part of the project...

The Into the Wild Omnibus is today's Deal of the Day at 60% off. This book combines A Guide to Thieves' Guilds, Filling in the Blanks, and Into the Wild, providing everything you need to run a high-level or hexcrawl campaign. DriveThruRPG It's written for Old School Essentials, but is easy to...

The BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol 2, is now live on Kickstarter. Expand your options for the classic OSE monsters with special qualities and variants. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/bx-advanced-bestiary-vol-2

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...

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...

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...

I've launched a new Kickstarter for the second compilation of Populated Hexes Monthly. Year Two compiles issues 13-24 into a single volume, with stretch goals to replace all existing stock art with commissioned art. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/populated-hex-monthly-year-two

Two partners and I are opening a game store this Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. We're calling it Sabre Games and Cards, and are furiously working to have everything installed and inventoried by then. You can find us on Facebook at Sabre Games and Cards, and if you're in the area we'd...

I've just launched a new Kickstarter that will do two things: revise the format and layout of Filling in the Blanks and A Guide to Thieves' Guilds to match the new formatting of Into the Wild, and to produce an offset copy of all three books compiled into a single volume...

I've taken the leap into podcasting. Episode 1 of Basilisk Hills Breakdown, an actual play podcast using Old School Essentials and featuring a mid-level hexcrawl and sandbox adventure, is now live. Ambushing the Ambushers -- Basilisk Hill Breakdown Episode 01 by Basilisk Hill Breakdown

My ZineQuest project, Hex 14.22 -- Troll Mountain, is now live. Written for OSE, it is a mountainous encounter location for old school games. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/hex-1442-troll-mountain #ttrpg #dnd #osr #ose #zinequest2023

I'm trying out using Crowdfundr to raise money for Populated Hexes Monthly, a zine for OSE. This campaign is for Issue 18, featuring a parrot-folk pirate sloop and two race-as-class parrotfolk options, totally not inspired by Avatar, the Last Airbender: Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 18 It comes...

The Pallid Fields, a mini-hexcrawl in Faery, is now live on Kickstarter. This revised edition of the hexcrawl adds a dozen pages of content as well as a staplebound version: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/the-pallid-fields-a-mini-hexcrawl-in-faery Written for Old School...

I've just launched a new Kickstarter, for a compiled book of Issues 1-12 of Populated Hexes Monthly: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/populated-hex-monthly-year-one

I'll be launching a new Kickstarter next week. It's a bestiary written for Old School Essentials, where I take the standard monsters from the BX/OSE core books and expand on them as well as offer variations. I've just done a sample page of layout, with commissioned art by Francesco Accordi.

I'm trying to compile a list of people who will be crowdfunding projects for August's Kickstarter ZineQuest. If you're going to be launching a project, or know someone who is, can you let me know so I can include it? I'm actually hoping to release a series of short interviews featuring these...

New Kickstarter is up, a quick 10-day funding drive for an offset print version of the Basilisk Hills Ultimate Hexcrawl. Basilisk Hills Hexcrawl Offset Printing The Basilisk Hills Hexcrawl covers a region of 107 six-mile hexes and compiles the nine original hexes in the Basilisk Hills cluster...