Shewstone Publishing LLC

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

We're here at ! We don't have a booth but you can recognize me by my wizard hat. Send us a DM or come up and say hi!

11/30/2024

Drintera® Magazine 009 is now available! 27 pages of fantasy lore for any . We know most gamers buy products to cherry-pick cool ideas so we're making a magazine that's all about cool ideas. Buy from our Patreon store or DriveThruRPG.com.

https://www.patreon.com/drintera/shop/drintera-magazine-009-november-2024-731834

11/28/2024

Magonomia® the TTRPG of Renaissance wizardry is included in the Cornucopia Bundle of Holding! Every PC is a wizard wielding spells based on 16th century occult writings and folklore! Get Magonomia and $152 worth of TTRPGs for a bargain price, for a limited time.

Adventurer! In time for the American Thanksgiving holiday, we present this all-new Cornucopia 2024, our twelfth annual feast of top-quality tabletop roleplaying game ebooks. For just US$14.95 you get all four complete games in our Starter Collection (retail value $73) as DRM-free ebooks:

11/02/2024

Sivora, Goddess of the Sea our the fantasy setting.
Free article on World Anvil
https://www.worldanvil.com/w/drinteraC2AE-shewstone-publishing/a/sivora-person

Illustration by Cagdas Demiralp

10/31/2024

Happy Diwali!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Photo (c) 123RF.com used with permission.

10/23/2024

The Orc-tober special issue of the Drintera® setting is here! Drintera is a fresh fantasy world built from the mythology up by a diverse international team.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/499633/drintera-issue-8

10/20/2024

According to Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, 13 dwarves counts as a throng.
Well, the Drintera Kickstarter has 39 followers so that counts as a TRIPLE THRONG! Pile on at

Fresh TTRPG lore each month as a diverse team builds a fantasy world as a PDF magazine

10/14/2024

We have a new free adventure frame for Enchanted England, usable in any fantasy TTRPG: The Gullimore Ghosts! Please share this spooky free adventure starter.

As a preview of our upcoming Magonomia supplement, 101 Adventure Frames in Enchanted England , here’s the completed text of another of the 101 frames” “The Gullimore Ghosts” by John Tibbetts and Mark Lawford. I promise not all of the adventure frames are about ghosts or cemeteries. We are po...

10/14/2024

Shewstone Publishing celebrates Indigenous Peoples' Day!

10/10/2024

Drintera® is a new fantasy TTRPG world
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shewstonepublishing/drintera-fantasy-ttrpg-world-2025
Created by a diverse international team
Designed for nuanced storytelling - plausible conflicts
Built from the mythology up by over-educated nerds
Fun to read
Fantastic original art

Fresh TTRPG lore every month as a diverse team builds a fantasy world in magazine form.