Welcome to the last News Roundup for April. I don't usually post links to software-related projects, but I've got two this week that were brought to my attention: a simple turn tracker on itch, and there's also One More Adventure on Steam, an explicitly OSR hexcrawl rogue-like game. Otherwise, it's a short one this week. Halls of the Witch Queen is a free adventure for Cairn 2e, in which the adventurers are enticed to explore a ruined castle that is rumored to contain a relic

Welcome to the third news Roundup in April. It's a dry, dry month here, with temperatures way above normal, perfect for hanging out indoors and checking out some new games! I don't know how I missed this, but Johan Nohr, the driving force behind Mork Borg, is raising funds for Fomoria , their game of folk horror. The campaign is well and funded, and is almost over at the time this goes live, but I wanted to make sure to get a mention of it in. Simon Taylor is raising funds fo

Welcome to the News Roundup for the second Monday in April. An astute reader pointed out that I have neglected to mention Inkvein , by Murkdice, currently funding on Backerkit. I interviewed Murkdice a few weeks back for Sabre Rattlings, and I totally conflated that with a Roundup mention. Sorry about that! At the time of this writing there's nine days left in the campaign, for a Mork Borg powered mega-dungeon. Also, just as an aside, I'm having a fairly difficult time findi

Welcome to the first News Roundup of April. I started off writing this thinking there weren't going to be many entries, but it turns out there are a bunch this week! Jimmy Shelter, publisher of Hiria, the Eternal City and A Visit to San Sibilia , among others, is raising funds for Pine Shallows , a Goonies and Stranger Things-inspired game of meddlesome kids. For the next eleven days, there are two Tunnels and Trolls bundles up on bundles of holding: one for the rulebooks ,

Welcome to the final News Roundup for March. This has been a pretty busy month for ttrpg releases, so let's see if we can keep the momentum going into April. Titan of the Verdant Maw , an adventure for OSE, was released last year, but it's recently been updated with some new material and clarifications of existing content. It's a really cool looking adventure with some sci-fi elements. S. Murphy has released Outpost 33 , an investigative adventure for Mothership set on an ice

It's the fourth Monday in March, and spring has sprung here in Central Virginia. Let's see what last week had in store for us, shall we? There are a lot of new releases to go over. One of my favorite things about doing this roundup is getting to promote the work of first time creators: viendhita has just released their first adventure, Like Flowers We Wither & Die , a system-agnostic horror pamphlet adventure. Looking forward to seeing what else viendhita releases! Someone wh

Welcome to the third News Roundup for March, 2026. Let's jump right in and check out the most recent releases! Utku has released Scalemail , a mass combat system for BX that has been released under the Creative Commons license. The release is currently in early beta. David Blandy is a publisherI really admire, and he's just released The Knight Errant: Expanded Edition , written by IsaacisAfraid. It's a sci-fantasy adventure designed to be run with any Mark of the Odd genre of

Welcome to the second news Roundup in March. I've started a little podcast as a part of Sabre, and part of what I'm aiming to do is have some short conversations with people in the indie and OSR gaming spheres. Last week I posted an interview I did with Josh McCrowell, author of His Majesty the Worm, and tomorrow there's an interview going live with Marx Shepherd of the Far Horizons Co-Op. You can find Sabre Rattlings, the podcast, on most major podcatching platforms, and th

Welcome to the first News Roundup for March. While ZineMonth is technically over, there are a number of projects that are still running that started late. The Roundup is pretty light this week; I think a lot of folks are just taking a deep breath and relaxing after a hectic month. Sivad's Sanctum has released Inn of the Red Roof , a thirteen level dungeon written for od&d. They've been posting WIP shots of this project on Bluesky for a month or so, and it looks really neat. T

Well, this is the last News Roundup in February, and ZineMonth is wrapping up, although there will be projects still running into March. I haven't really been covering specific projects (for one, there are really too many great sounding ones that would just overwhelm the Roundup), but have been trying to point to resources to help find them instead. I'd like to plug one specific project, though, that ends very soon (I believe on Tuesday): Seedling Games is raising funds for T

Anthony Zinni is raising funds for A League of Dark Few, a collection of three zines designed to help run city-based campaigns focused on secret guilds and mysteries. He was kind enough to answer some of my questions: Questions: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Answer: City campaigns have always been tough to run. The League of Dark Few Saga is a zine series designed to help GMs run them from the perspective of a guild member, giving players a home and a reason to

Welcome to the third news Roundup for February. We're in the thick of ZineMonth, as I believe I've mentioned once or twice before? Anyway, I've been conducting and posting print interviews on the blog (you can search for them using the ZiMo26 tag ) and audio interviews that you can find on the nascent Sabre Rattlings podcast (the link is the RSS feed), all to promote ZineMonth creators. I don't know why I missed this last week, but the No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live on i

1pagedungeons is raising funds for their project Runes in Ruins on Kickstarter. They were kind enough to answer some short questions about their project. Question: Easy question first: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. Answer: Runes in Ruin is a zine-sized adventure that enables crafting diverse magic items in a system-neutral sandbox. It introduces a simple but open-ended runecrafting system to spice up mundane tools an

Frank "Mottokrosh" Reding is currently raising funds for Knightcore , their project for ZineMonth 2026. They were kind enough to answer some questions for this interview series. Question: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. Answer: Knightcore: An aesthetic that combines gleaming armor, soft, flowing fabrics, and ethereal, haunting glows, now as a tabletop roleplaying g ame. Q: Is this your first ZineMonth project or have y

Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for February 9th, 2026. ZineMonth is in full swing, and I'll be releasing some print interviews over the month promoting various projects. I've also, because apparently I'm not busy enough, decided to start releasing a podcast. The goal is to release short, weekly episodes, with an emphasis on talking about topics in gaming that we're excited about. You can catch the first episode here (link is to podbean, but it should be available on all maj

OSR publisher Directsun has made quite a name for themselves with the puzzle dungeon—Aberrant Reflections and The Seers Sanctum are two of their well-regarded releases with that theme, and they're currently fund-raising for another, entitled A Familiar Tower , for ZineMonth. Q: Easy question first: Give us the elevator pitch of your project. Tell us about it in two sentences or less. A: A Familiar Tower is an escape room dungeon inside a non-Euclidean wizard tower. It's i

Welcome to the first News Roundup for February. January felt like it was a year long, but now with February we're into ZineMonth, and all the projects that it entails. I'll be posting periodic interviews with ZineMonth creators for the next month and a half, and I encourage everyone to check out the projects being funded and to support small, independent publishers. As I'm writing this it's still too early for a lot of projects, so expect the ZiMo stuff to come at you fast an

Everyone's favorite fantasy RPG, drinking themed board game is now a dungeon crawl! Instead for drinking your opponents under the table you'll be delving under the tavern in Tales from the Red Dragon Inn . This award winning cooperative tactical combat game is set in the same world as the original Red Dragon Inn and you'll play as some familiar faces while delving into the titular location's basement. It's scenario driven campaign system will have you and up to three friend

Welcome to the last News Roundup for January 26th. If you're reading this right now, it means we haven't lost power today; like much of the US, we're being hit by a severe winter storm. I hope everyone stays safe and as warm as possible. Last week was pretty light on releases -- I'm assuming many publishers are getting ready to launch projects for ZineMonth -- so let's see what is on tap for today. Also, fuck ICE. Matt Kelly has gradually been releasing supplements that expan

Welcome to the third News Roundup for January. ZineMonth is just around the corner; last week there were a lot of new releases, so let's see what this week brings us, shall we? The Fracture Between Jade and Ash is a system-neutral, city-based scenario that relies on the conflict between two factions -- Jade Serpents and Ash-born -- to ratchet up the tension in the adventure. Moonwhisper Magic has released What Hirelings , a collection of 35 NPC and hireling cards statted for