Todd
@thirdkingdom.bsky.social
Cabinetmaker, game store owner, aspiring author. Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Populatedhexes, Webstore at Sabregamesandcards.com
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Todd
@thirdkingdom.bsky.social
· May 12
Since it seems like my News Roundup has been getting some traction, I figure I'll lay out the groundrules: I don't promote racists, bigots, transphobes, or AI content. If you're producing work in the OSR or indie ttrpg fields, and would like me to mention new releases, please let me know.
The Anniversary Edition of the OSR News Roundup is now live. The first Roundup was published on December 20th, 2021, and it's still going strong. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #dnd
OSR News Roundup for December 22nd, 2025
Welcome to the penultimate News Roundup of 2025, and, as it happens, the anniversary of this newsletter. The first Roundup was published on December 20th, 2021. I hope that readers have gotten some be...
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December 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The Anniversary Edition of the OSR News Roundup is now live. The first Roundup was published on December 20th, 2021, and it's still going strong. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #dnd
The Bree-YARC Quickstart books have arrived! We're going to be fulfilling Kickstarter orders next week, and then they'll be going on sale. In the meantime if you want a mix of 3rd edition and BX D&D, you can download the pdf for free! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg #osr #dnd
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Bree-YARC Quickstart books have arrived! We're going to be fulfilling Kickstarter orders next week, and then they'll be going on sale. In the meantime if you want a mix of 3rd edition and BX D&D, you can download the pdf for free! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... #ttrpg #osr #dnd
The Kickstarter for the BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol. 3, is now live, raising funds for a collection of monsters from the OSE Classic and BX monster selections. www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #ttrpg #osr #ose #hexcrawl #dnd
BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol. 3
The third volume in the series, covering monsters L-R in the Basic rulebook.
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December 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
There's 16 hours left to back Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 52, an exploration of a region called the Ruins of Isenden, after a city overrun by the spawn of an elder god once imprisoned beneath the city. Cover art by @acidlich.bsky.social
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December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
There's 16 hours left to back Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 52, an exploration of a region called the Ruins of Isenden, after a city overrun by the spawn of an elder god once imprisoned beneath the city. Cover art by @acidlich.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi...
#ttrpg #dnd
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#ttrpg #dnd
Abyss of Hallucinations, Vol. 2, is a Mork Borg setting based on the works of Aleister Crowly. It's currently 40% off list price at Sabre Games. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #morkborg
Abyss of Hallucinations, Vol. 2 | Sabre Games
New, 44-page zine. Abyss of Hallucinations is a MÖRK BORG setting inspired by Aleister Crowley's Book of Lies. The setting is being built over multiple volumes. This opulent zine is hand-made with a t...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Abyss of Hallucinations, Vol. 2, is a Mork Borg setting based on the works of Aleister Crowly. It's currently 40% off list price at Sabre Games. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #morkborg
We've got a couple copies left of Scientific Barbarian 5 in stock, the zany zine of mutants from the mind of Jim Wampler and others. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #osr #mcc
Scientific Barbarian No. 5 | Sabre Games
PDF available upon purchase. The Mutant Megazine you didn’t know you needed marches onward! SCIENTIFIC BARBARIAN No.5 is packed with new content, new-to-us authors, and the same great art and articles...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
We've got a couple copies left of Scientific Barbarian 5 in stock, the zany zine of mutants from the mind of Jim Wampler and others. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #osr #mcc
The Touch of the Beast is a twisted fairy tale adventure set in revolutionary France. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #dnd
The Touch of the Beast | Sabre Games
The Touch of the Beast France, 1789.Dawn of the French Revolution.As the Third Estate pushes the nobility back to Paris, many are taking the opportunity to look (loot, not look) the abandoned chateaus...
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December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The Touch of the Beast is a twisted fairy tale adventure set in revolutionary France. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames #dnd
The OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025 is now live. Check it out for an overview of last week's releases in the #osr and #indiegames spheres of #ttrpg. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new...
OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025
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, ...
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December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025 is now live. Check it out for an overview of last week's releases in the #osr and #indiegames spheres of #ttrpg. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new...
Guild: Sword and Magick for Hire is a rules-lite old school rpg zine. We've got it on clearance for 35% off list price: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrgp #osr #indiezines #indiegames
GUILD: Sword and Magick for Hire | Sabre Games
Lift your feeble weapons like towers toward heaven! GUILD: Sword and Magick for Hire is a rules lite old-school style roleplaying game, inspired by heavier frameworks of the same era. Enough lies with...
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December 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Guild: Sword and Magick for Hire is a rules-lite old school rpg zine. We've got it on clearance for 35% off list price: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrgp #osr #indiezines #indiegames
A Grim Hack is a rules-lite, grimdark heavy zine rpg designed to emulate a deadly and perilous world. #ttrpg #indiezines #indiegames www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page...
A Grim Hack | Sabre Games
A Grim Hack is a Hack System with a pseudo-historical feeling that wears its influences on its sleeve, providing a streamlined rules system based on old school Grim & Perilous Fantasy Games from t...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
A Grim Hack is a rules-lite, grimdark heavy zine rpg designed to emulate a deadly and perilous world. #ttrpg #indiezines #indiegames www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page...
We've just added The Mecha Hack to our inventory. It takes the slick system of The Black Hack and adapts it to sci fi mech games. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #indiegames
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December 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We've just added The Mecha Hack to our inventory. It takes the slick system of The Black Hack and adapts it to sci fi mech games. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #indiegames
Someone yesterday had posted a link to their ko-fi page with a selection of "no-ai" logos, and for the life of me I can't find it again. If anyone remembers seeing this, can you point me in the right direction?
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Someone yesterday had posted a link to their ko-fi page with a selection of "no-ai" logos, and for the life of me I can't find it again. If anyone remembers seeing this, can you point me in the right direction?
Has anyone else noticed that Mixam no longer seems to have an option to print smyth-sewn books for US customers?
December 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Has anyone else noticed that Mixam no longer seems to have an option to print smyth-sewn books for US customers?
The Frozen Temple of Glacier Peak is a cold-themed dungeon crawl written for Knave and other similar OSR-games, available from Sabre in zine format. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #indiezine
The Frozen Temple of Glacier Peak | Sabre Games
Glacier Peak. Adventurers travel from afar to witness this legend come back to life, hoping to get a slice of the untold riches surely contained within. There is just one problem: The entrance is yet ...
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December 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Frozen Temple of Glacier Peak is a cold-themed dungeon crawl written for Knave and other similar OSR-games, available from Sabre in zine format. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #indiezine
It's been a long time coming, but Sabre finally got Slugblaster in stock! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames
Slugblaster: Kick-Flip Over A Quantum Centipede) Game of the Year Edition | Sabre Games
This is Slugblaster In the small town of Hillview, teenage hoverboarders sneak into other dimensions to explore, film tricks, go viral, and get away from the problems at home. It's dangerous. Its' stu...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It's been a long time coming, but Sabre finally got Slugblaster in stock! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiegames
Screams Amongst the Stars is a minimalist space horror game using the Into the Odd engine. #ttrpg #dnd #osr #horror #indiegames www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page...
Screams Amongst the Stars | Sabre Games
Screams Amongst the Stars is a minimalist, classically-inspired RPG about weird space horror in the frontier of known space, where organizations with conflicting interest are colonizing and exploring ...
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December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Screams Amongst the Stars is a minimalist space horror game using the Into the Odd engine. #ttrpg #dnd #osr #horror #indiegames www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page...
Filling in the Blanks, my guide to populating hexes for creating fantasy hexcrawls, is on sale now through the end of the month, for only .99 cents! That's a savings of ten whole dollars! #osr #ttrpg #dnd #hexcrawl www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Filling in the Blanks, my guide to populating hexes for creating fantasy hexcrawls, is on sale now through the end of the month, for only .99 cents! That's a savings of ten whole dollars! #osr #ttrpg #dnd #hexcrawl www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
The Tower is a system-agnostic puzzle dungeon in a beautiful risograph-printed zine format: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiezine
The Tower | Sabre Games
What is The Tower?The Tower is a system agnostic fantasy dungeon crawl adventure zine with riddles, puzzles and more. With puzzle rooms, creatures of the tower and Items to covet. Perfect for adding t...
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December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The Tower is a system-agnostic puzzle dungeon in a beautiful risograph-printed zine format: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #osr #indiezine
We've got one copy of the GURPS Uplift 1st edition book in stock: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... In fair condition! #ttrpg #gurps #usedrpgs
GURPS Uplift 1st Edition (used) | Sabre Games
Softcover, fair, used The Five Galaxies are a tough neighborhood . . . and humanity is the new kid on the block.Of the thousands of races in a galaxy full of aliens, ours is the only one that claims t...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We've got one copy of the GURPS Uplift 1st edition book in stock: www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... In fair condition! #ttrpg #gurps #usedrpgs
It's a bit pricey, but we've got one copy of the HackMaster Hackjammer setting book in stock. Good condition, rare title. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #hackmaster
Hackmaster: HackJammer | Sabre Games
Softcover, 117 pages, excellent condition. Welcome to HackJammer! This new campaign supplement includes new intelligent star-spanning races, new spells, new weapons, new monsters, and more! Command a ...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It's a bit pricey, but we've got one copy of the HackMaster Hackjammer setting book in stock. Good condition, rare title. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #hackmaster
With #tmnt back on folk's radar, we've still got a couple copies left of Julian Kay's Mutants in the Next; a reworking of the (unworkable) Palladium system. They're currently on sale! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #dnd #ttrpg
Julian Kay's Mutants in the Next | Sabre Games
Soft Cover The first expansion to Mutants in the Now is coming; Mutants in the Next! Adding human-born mutants, wild mutations, over a hundred species, weird psionics, fighting styles, and sinister vi...
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December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
With #tmnt back on folk's radar, we've still got a couple copies left of Julian Kay's Mutants in the Next; a reworking of the (unworkable) Palladium system. They're currently on sale! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #dnd #ttrpg
The Martial Cult of Blood Knight Gaius is an old school dungeon crawl set in a monastery of vampires who only feed upon those able to defend themselves. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #osr #ttprg #dnd
The Martial Cult of Blood Knight Gaius | Sabre Games
THE MARTIAL CULT OF BLOOD KNIGHT GAIUS is a 20-page dungeon crawl about a religious order of vampires who deny their feeding urges, instead only drinking the blood of those whom they have given a form...
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December 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Martial Cult of Blood Knight Gaius is an old school dungeon crawl set in a monastery of vampires who only feed upon those able to defend themselves. www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #osr #ttprg #dnd
Vol 3 of the BX Advanced Bestiary will be launching soon, covering monsters L-P from the BX and OSE Classic books: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #osr #dnd #ttrpg #kickstarter
Coming soon: BX Advanced Bestiary, Vol. 3
The third volume in the series, covering monsters L-P in the Basic rulebook.
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December 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Vol 3 of the BX Advanced Bestiary will be launching soon, covering monsters L-P from the BX and OSE Classic books: www.kickstarter.com/projects/thi... #osr #dnd #ttrpg #kickstarter
The OSR News Roundup for December 8th, 2025 is now live. Check it out for an overview of the latest releases in the OSR and indie #ttrpg spheres. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #indiegames #osr #zines
OSR News Roundup for December 8th, 2025
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 re...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The OSR News Roundup for December 8th, 2025 is now live. Check it out for an overview of the latest releases in the OSR and indie #ttrpg spheres. www.sabregamesandcards.com/post/osr-new... #indiegames #osr #zines
A Selection of Slimes, by Phillip Reed, introduces eleven new slimes for use in your OSR game. We've still got a few copies left! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #osr #indiezines
A Selection of Slimes | Sabre Games
Welcome, gamemasters! A Selection of Slimes is an A5-sized, 32-page booklet featuring eleven different slimes and a small number of random slime encounter ideas. Created by Philip Reed, this booklet w...
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December 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
A Selection of Slimes, by Phillip Reed, introduces eleven new slimes for use in your OSR game. We've still got a few copies left! www.sabregamesandcards.com/product-page... #ttrpg #dnd #osr #indiezines