Black Blade Publishing

03/18/2026

Announcement on Black Blade Publishing not attending GaryCon this year:

Allan Grohe's game design column covering the elements of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventures with practical examples useful in campaign play.

09/26/2024

[Channeling Steve Martin:]

The new rulebooks are here!
The new rulebooks are here!

Black Blade Publishing just took delivery of a new batch of OSRIC (v2.2) hardback rulebooks today. Time to get busy!

07/25/2024

Hey Friends!! Black Blade Publishing took delivery of a new printing of the OSRIC companion monster book, Monsters of Myth, today!

It’s been a long wait to get these in, as we had some binding issues we just couldn’t resolve with the old supplier-printer. This batch was printed and bound for us by the same printer who prints our awesome OSRIC hardbacks, Total Printing Systems of Newton, IL.

Take a look at these beauties…. bindings completed with goldenrod endsheets!

(Note to those who have preordered copies: we will begin resuming shipping immediately. Thank you for your patience!)

05/05/2024

Wayne's Books highlights our Black Blade Publishing editions of Rob K***z’s classic adventure modules: https://waynesbooks.games/2024/03/16/the-last-founder-a-trio-of-old-school-dungeons-dragons-modules-by-robert-j-kuntz/

All three are available from Wayne, as well as from us directly.

Who was Gary Gygax’s Dungeon Master in the old days? Robert J. K***z was like a son to Gygax. Not only did K***z play in his Greyhawk campaign, but the elder was also a player at K***z’…

03/25/2024

Delivery was taken today on a new batch of OSRIC hardbacks. Regular shipping will resume tomorrow.

02/17/2024

This is a familiar sight!! Thanks to our customers, we’re temporarily out of the OSRIC hardbacks. A new batch has been ordered and should be available in about a month.

04/07/2023

02/19/2023

Friends, this is what is left of our December printing of the Black Blade Publishing OSRIC hardbacks…one case of 10 copies (and these are sold already, too)!

For those that missed out or who might just have come across this, we’ve ordered another new printing. They’ll be ready by the end of March.

Thank you to everyone who has ordered from us these past couple of months!! It’s been a super busy month for us, thanks to you!

01/04/2022

New video flip-through of the current Black Blade/Usherwood printing of OSRIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVQ1hgMMYY&t=5s

From Samwise Seven RPG :D

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07/29/2021

We’ve had a lot of interest in our Black Blade Publishing OSRIC hardbacks over the last two years…so much so that we had to order another batch of the 3rd prints. The new order arrived today!!