I’m a bit late posting this, but this was a fantastic show and not only promotes but serves as a corollary to Winning Secrets, presenting and expounding on some of the ideas which will prove foundational to Winning Secrets II.
*Not to be confused with Misha Burnett’s Dracoheim.
It’s hard to believe that it has been 10 years. It’s been quite a wild ride… It’s also a little hard to pinpoint the best time to actually celebrate our Anniversary. Was it when we first put out a call for submissions? Was it when we first announced the Kickstarter for Issue 1? Or when the Kickstarter funded? Or fulfilled? Or was it when Issue 1 was made available on Amazon? It’s all a little bit fuzzy, but the last in that litany occurred today. Sort of. The print copy dropped March 2nd, while the eBook went on sale March 14th.
Anyway, be sure to help us celebrate our 10th Anniversary by backing Jeffro Johnson’s Winning Secrets.
The 10th Anniversary issue will be out next month.
Jeffro Returns!
This insightful essay will serve as the foundation to the followup to Winning Secrets, already underway now!
Want to read it? Back the Kickstarter!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cirsova/winning-secrets/posts/4632996
Jeffro was on with Jack McCarthy talking about Winning Secrets!
RELEASING MARCH 20, 2026 from Seven Sorrows Publishing, CyberPub is the latest offering from Michael Gallagher, the critically-acclaimed author of the cyberpunk-action-horror novel Body and Blood.
This new 119-page novella tells the tale of Boniface Ahern, owner of the Crossroads Tavern on the far-flung settlement of Resnick VII. He’s a rare friendly face on a rough planet and makes a nice side business of connecting people with problems with people who solve them. Balancing unflinching Noir-style darkness and violence with unexpected humor, CyberPub promises an entertaining read.
Debt collections gone sideways, high society girls disappearing into the night, tragedy, revenge and things man was never meant to know—These are the tales of the Crossroads Tavern regulars; a bunch there ain’t nothin’ ‘regular’ about.
CyberPub will be available exclusively from Amazon for Kindle and in paperback.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR CYBERPUB:
“[Gallagher’s] trademark humor shines through.”
— Damascus Mincemeyer, CriticalBlast.com
“What a cool idea for an anthology.”
— Graham Bradley, Upstrream Reviews
“Sin City meets Bladerunner with some horror snuck in.”
— Steve Stark, author of Violent Ends
BOOK DATA: ASIN: B0GH93991Y | Print Dimensions: 8.5″x5.5″, 119 pages
Genre: Science Fiction | Price: $3.99 Kindle / $7.99 Paperback
This is a big deal! Bdubs hardly ever makes appearances, and due to scheduling conflicts, he will be unable to appear just about anywhere else while the Kickstarter is running!
Jeffro Johnson recently got with Jon Mollison, host of Joy of Wargaming, to discuss Winning Secrets and the history of the BrOSR.
Jon took the discussion and put Jeffro’s story in his own words, no debates, no arguments, no people talking over each other on a live stream to create this short documentary piece.
It’s definitely worth a listen [and a watch, for the memes].
Jeffro, Rule of Thule, and I will be on Harmony Ginger’s show tonight talking about Winning Secrets!
Or at least Jeffro and Thule will. All I feel like talking about is Agnes Tachyon. Gonna go catch Beginning of a New Era and Umapyoi one more time before it leaves theaters.
Anyway, tune in at 7 tonight!
youtube.com/watch?v=offn64Gkmuo&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE
The Winning Secrets Kickstarter is live!
Online discourse surrounding Dungeons & Dragons changed forever when elite gamer Meffridus sent Jeffro Johnson bodybuilder memes to bully him into playing 1st Edition.
What was this strange game that has been subject to a million folk interpretations, whose rules we have been endlessly gaslit into believing were impossible to discern from the text’s arcane High Gygaxian language? Jeffro Johnson, author of APPENDIX N: The Literary History of Dungeons & Dragons, undertook a journey to find out exactly what kind of game AD&D was when you played using the actual rules in the book, even the weird ones that didn’t seem to make sense!
What he found were Winning Secrets…
Contained herein are the chronicles of Jeffro Johnson’s Trollopulous campaign, the first campaign of the BrOSR, with essays and commentaries from RuleOfThule and Bdubs1776.
This seminal work definitively answers:
Jeffro Johnson’s Hugo-finalist work on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons’ Appendix N launched a revolution in pulp as dissident OSR gamers began to rediscover the literary roots of the hobby. Jeffro managed to capture lightning in a bottle again, however, reshaping the discussion around D&D for a second time, connecting the secrets of David Wesely’s Braunstein, Dave Arneson’s incorporation of the idea of Braunstein into Blackmoor, and the massive living world able to accommodate infinite characters, players, and tables in a campaign that is hiding in plain sight within the rules of AD&D.
Jeffro Johnson is a tenebrous vapor that translates his being out of non-Euclidean realms of nameless Stygian horrors only when the stars align such that the very best Lindy Hoppers and jazz musicians converge upon world class dance halls. He shuns both role playing games and the foetid stench of role players.
BDubs1776 is a film analyst and esoteric poster of long standing note, celebrated in deep corners of the internet for bringing unusual clarity and bombastic bite to cultural analysis. After aligning with the BrOSR movement in 2020, he became known for an effervescent style that frames games, films, and popular culture through questions of ethics, metaphysics, and the ever shifting shadows of the psychosphere. He is married with children and lives among the remnants of the former United States of America. A self described copperhead, he holds an abiding suspicion of Yankees. He is Roman Catholic.
RuleOfThule is a witness of seven heads and a whistler in white raiment from before the time, times, and half a time. His writings at Primeval Patterns call conventional RPG wisdom into question and suggest vast blind spots in normative RPG philosophy. He is the creator of BMD, an esoteric far-future galactic warfare RPG. He and his family endure the humidity of the conquered states and stand before the door no man can shut.
Winning Secrets is a 260 page coffee table-sized book, crammed with essays, session reports, original maps and more!
The seminal Braunstein tutorial written and compiled by the heavy-hitters of the BrOSR.
Far to the north of your campaign setting is a churning ocean of wyrms and icebergs. It’s where freezing winds blast the faces of PCs whilst streams of magenta weirding lights sway overhead in star dotted night. Upon this torturous sea, lying as a dead emperor in an ancient sepulcher sits BROZER: ISLAND OF WAR AND WINTER.
On this island rages war between dozens of factions. Whether it’s Romans or Aliens, spacemen or cavemen; BROZER’S factions fight for supremacy of the isle. In this windswept place of doom and dread, you and your players can experience a BRAUNSTEIN, PVP, and high adventure thus undreamed of.
BROZER is a ready-to-play Braunstein and game world setting for system neutral tabletop roleplaying characters of all levels. Dare to rule the island with a warm heart or an iron fist. Dare to BRAUNSTEIN.
All backers will receive a free print-and-play PDF copy.
Wait, isn’t Brozer free already? Yeah, but check this out…
If we reach $7000, all backers will receive a free physical copy of Brozer with their copy of Winning Secrets.
The 10th Anniversary Issue of Cirsova will be releasing April 15th!
Well be taking advertisements through the 15th of March. Space is VERY limited, and the cover has already been claimed. Details can be found on our ad rates page.
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