Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
How much is re-listed from the Trans Rights bundle of a few years ago?
I wonder how this will compare to the upcoming Black Company RPG?
Nice. Are you open to feedback about your store via ENW DM?
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How much is re-listed from the Trans Rights bundle of a few years ago?
I wonder how this will compare to the upcoming Black Company RPG?
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
It looks to be largely different. I got the previous bundle and I think there are only one or two overlaps.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
This is me every time I listen to St. Vincent. Her music is good and she, personally, is the coolest person on Earth now that Prince is dead, but I am clearly not cool enough to truly get what she's doing musically, as some (or much) of it is obviously flying over my head.
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Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
I always love that III can be read in many non-serif fonts as Ill, or visa versa
So maybe it's Candle Ill, a fantasy mix-tape in the theme of Beastie Boys stylings...
So maybe it's Candle Ill, a fantasy mix-tape in the theme of Beastie Boys stylings...
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Now here's a little story I've got to tell
About three bad hobos you know so well
It started way back in history
With A Rogue, A Wiz-A, (And me) Fight-E
(edit to add apologies for the thread bust...)
About three bad hobos you know so well
It started way back in history
With A Rogue, A Wiz-A, (And me) Fight-E
(edit to add apologies for the thread bust...)
Sure!
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Hah, I forget what I was going to say...
Welcome to the first news roundup in May. This year is just flying past.
- I'm not familiar with the work of nealyboy, but I see they've released a one-page rpg called Gune on itch. In this game you can ride a giant sandworm, have knife fights, and, as the author points out, buy a used van. The art is worth the pwyw price alone!
- I often see people asking where to find short adventures, and the One Page Dungeon contest is a good place to look. Chaotic Goods has released a compilation of their OPD submissions from over the years; it looks like there are some great short adventures found here.
- Longshot City is a Troika-based superhero game published by the Melsonian Arts Council, and Detyan has released The Waifs and Strays of Longshot City, a collection of weird and wonky NPCs to add to the setting.
- My Spoons are Stabby is currently raising funds on Kickstarter. It's billed as "A solo rogue-like tabletop RPG about exploring your mind through the lens of empathy, truth, joy, kindness, & anti-greed". There are some interesting ideas here; the Kickstarter is for a premium edition and you can download the basic game as a PWYW product on itch.
- David Blandy has released a little 2d6 World Engine SRD, a guide to creating simple, 2d6 based games. Even if you don't use it for game creation, it has tons of ideas and tables that can be mined for inspiration.
- I've mentioned before how highlighting the works of first-time creators is something that brings me joy, and Swords, Spells, & Skills, by Teuta, falls into this category. The game is currently in playtest phase, and folks buying in now will get the updates at the current price. It looks like there are some interesting ideas and tweaks in this system.
- I don't often get a chance to promote ko-fi pages, but I saw this release by The Moody Warlock and thought it looked interesting: it's an OSE DM's screen.
- Tides of Rot, by Games Omnivorous, is a unique release for Frontier Scum, in the form of an LP release along with music. As I discussed last week, some stuff I'm just not sure about how it works in practice and might just be too punk for me, but hopefully some readers will find things of interest in it.
- After a short hiatus, the folks at Red Ruin Publishing are back with a new issue of Casket of Fays, their free Dragon Warriors fanzine. This is number thirteen in the series.
- Brian Shutter has released a free quickstart version of Neon Lords of the Toxic Wasteland, his punk post-apocalyptic rpg.
- Farthest is a mini-adventure based upon the aforementioned Frontier Scum system.
- Jeffrey Regner Kickstarted the DCC adventure Exhuming John Barleycorn awhile back, and it is now available on Drivethru. It's set in the Shudder Mountains, and has some really cool and evocative art.
- Hexplore Publishing has released The Tower of the Elephant, an adventure written for OSE that adapts the classic Conan tale by the same name to OSR gaming.
- Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 33 is now available on the Sabre Games website. This issue clocks in at an impressive 56 A5 pages, and finishes up the look at creating artifacts and relics in your old school game. It's available in offset print for only 8.95 and pdf for 2.95.
- Sabre Games is having a Spring Cleaning Zine Sale in anticipation on new titles coming in. For the month of May you'll be able to take 35% off all in-stock zine titles by uing the code "Spring24" at checkout.
- We've also been adding quite a few new titles to our Used selection, including a box set copy of the West End Ghostbusters RPG in surprisingly good condition. We always try to price competitively with other stores.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Tower of the Elephant is arguably the most iconic Conan adventure and clearly the model for many a D&D adventure. (It's almost certainly the most iconic Marvel Comics Conan story.) Awesome to get an OSR version.
This is likely to be a somewhat short edition of the Roundup. I caught whatever current variant of the flu is making the rounds of the east coast, and it knocked me out Friday and Saturday. I'll do what I can to post some of last week's releases, however.
Well, I lied. There's a fair amount of stuff I was able to add. Oh! Also, Sabre Games will be holding a mini-convention July 4th-7th at the store in downtown Charlottesville to celebrate our one year anniversary. We're still working on a schedule, but if you're in the area and think you might be interested in running a game hit me up and we'll try and make it happen.
Well, I lied. There's a fair amount of stuff I was able to add. Oh! Also, Sabre Games will be holding a mini-convention July 4th-7th at the store in downtown Charlottesville to celebrate our one year anniversary. We're still working on a schedule, but if you're in the area and think you might be interested in running a game hit me up and we'll try and make it happen.
- Every once in a while I come across a project being funded on Crowdfundr, an interesting crowdfunding platform that got a lot of love two or so years ago but seems to have dropped somewhat off the radar since then. But Cezar Capacle is using it to fund Wraithbound, a game of ghost hunters endowed with supernatural abilities.
- Mobile Hut has released The Choir, a short, 8-page adventure for Mork Bork. It features some art and design by Roundup favorite Evlyn Moreau.
- I often see people asking about a suitable mass combat system, and while I've written one included in Into the Wild I'm always interested in other peoples' takes on it. Killchain, by Castle Grief, is inspired by Chainmail but meant to be simple enough to be run via theatre of the mind.
- I do not speak Spanish, unfortunately, since so much of what is innovative in the OSR-sphere is coming out of Latin and South American, and the collective OSR Latam has just released Mestiza #1, a zine that collects essays, discussion on game theory, a small dungeon, and more. It's all in Spanish, though.
- We're both named Todd and are into hexcrawls, but Todd from Hexed Press has just released a one-page guide to dungeon-crawl procedures to help new Referees understand how it works.
- I've been plugging Chaoclypse's work for awhile now, and they've just released the first issue of Chaos Crawl, a weird old-school zine broadly compatible with BX-style games. It's got a bunch of weird and gonzo content.
- What Lurks Beneath Tidewater Tower is a short adventure written for OSE with an aquatic theme that features a cursed idol, undead sea creatures, and more.
- The prolific author James Floyd Kelly has released Issue 14 of his Delver zine, written as a gaming aid for OSR/OSE games.
- As Above, So Below is a short, system-neutral adventure that explores two dungeons, each a mirror of each other, one celestial and one infernal.
- Eric Bloat and Pete Spahn are both mainstays in the field of OSR publishing, and they're collaborating to produce WWII: Operation BX for Old School Essentials, a WWII rpg based upon Old School Essentials. It's currently raising funds on Kickstarter, and both authors have a proven track record of publishing high quality products.
- I'm unfamiliar with the work of Ed Stanek, but their raising funds for Cosmologia, a guide to planar geography in DCC. This looks like an interesting take on the standard fantasy planar cosmology, especially how it works with the implied setting of DCC>
- Hammer City Games is currently Kickstarting Earth: After Death, a post-apocalyptic survival game inspired by Gamma World, Fallout, and other similar systems.
- I'm running a Quickstarter for Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 34. By popular demand, this issue begins a look at Dry Gulch, a city mentioned in the Basilisk Hills Hexcrawl but never expounded on.
- Sabre Games is still having our spring cleaning zine sale. By using the code Spring24 you can take 35% off all in stock zines. We've also added a bunch of new titles to our selection of used books, including original TORG, Rolemaster, and more.
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