Shewstone Publishing LLC

03/01/2025

FREE issue #11 of Drintera Magazine is posted to Patreon! Download it today to get an inside look at the Adventurers' Guild, including 14 creative adventure hooks and 3 NPC adventuring parties by our talented freelance team.

Support us on Patreon to keep our fairly paid, talented freelancers working on this rich and innovative setting!

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02/09/2025

I want to share this article by Wolfgang Baur of Kobold Press about where the money from a Kickstarter actually goes. Spoiler: it's not Swiss bank accounts.

Gamers, please understand, Kickstarter is not a scam, it's the best available way to finance publishing a product.

CEO and Kobold-in-Chief Wolfgang Baur discusses the costs behind a Kickstart and the secret reason publishers go to all the trouble!

01/26/2025

A 57-minute deep dive on Drintera on the GMS Magazine podcast! We talk about the world (a lot), the style of game experiences it's designed to promote, and the awesome creative team I've assembled.

As Paco explains in the introduction, the Kickstarter for the 2025 year of the magazine is cancelled. If you believe in the vision of Drintera I articulate in this interview, support us on Patreon! (https://patreon.com/drintera)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VLcRzu8wVM

Drintera® is a lore-rich fantasy TTRPG setting inspired by world cultures and heroic mythology. The gods have proclaimed the Age of Destiny. Adventurers, str...

01/20/2025

Just launched on Patreon: a lore-rich TTRPG setting for narrative roleplaying, with broad cultural representation and built by a diverse international freelance team. Support us to keep building this remarkable fantasy world.

Get more from Drintera® fantasy roleplaying game setting on Patreon

01/14/2025

With regret, I must announce that the Kickstarter for Drintera® Magazine 2025 is cancelled. It never launched. The gap between a realistic Kickstarter goal and the actual costs of publishing a magazine for a year was too great. There was no way to break even.

We're looking at options for how to sustainably fund ongoing development of the Drintera setting, and will let you know when we have a new plan.

01/12/2025

Shewstone Founder Andrew Gronosky—and his cat!—are featured on the StoryComic podcast. We discuss the design principles of Drintera and the power of a diverse creative team.

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01/09/2025

Drintera® Magazine Issue #10 is now available! This issue highlights wilderness adventures: The Hinterwood, an enchanted forest in Niere; the fey, immortals who blur the boundary between people and minor gods; Rothar, god of thunder and the wilderness; and mysterious reports of Titan sightings.

Buy now on DriveThruRPG.com and sign up to be notified when our Kickstarter launches!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/508147/drintera-issue-010

01/04/2025

Here's the latest installment of our famous year-end updates! Thank you all for being friends and followers of Shewstone. 🥰🧙‍♂️

2024 was Shewstone Publishing’s eighth full year in business (founded June 2016), and this is our fifth end-of-year update (which I suppose should really be called a retrospective) on the shewstone.com blog. I keep expecting these updates to become boring—but that would require an uneventful yea...

12/22/2024

We're building the Drintera fantasy
setting with writers of East Asian, South Asian, Latinx, Native American, and Euro-American heritage. It's an honor to have their vision and voices shape our imaginary world.

Follow our Kickstarter to see this diverse world take shape and to support our ongoing worldbuilding project!

Inspired by heroic mythology and world cultures. Published monthly in zine form.

12/18/2024

Shewstone Publishing is featured on the Roll Play Grow podcast! In episode 93, Andrew Gronosky talks with host Courtney Stover about the secret origins of , quite a bit about magic and wizards, and how our new project is a game world created by diverse creative voices.

Roll Play Grow is a podcast interviewing entrepreneurs in the tabletop roleplay gaming space. Learn how to merge business with your passions!

12/14/2024

We're giving away 50 free digital copies of Drintera Magazine! Drintera is a lore-rich fantasy TTRPG setting published in magazine form. If you love reading well-crafted imaginary worlds, Drintera is for you! Offer expires Dec. 21, 2024. See link for details. Please share with your gamer and fantasy friends!

Drintera® is our lore-rich TTRPG setting, inspired by world cultures and created by a diverse international team. It’s published as a monthly magazine. If you love reading imaginary worlds, Drintera is for you! To promote our coming Kickstarter, we’re giving away 50 digital copies of Drintera M...

12/06/2024

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