OSR News Roundup for April 13th, 2026

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 finding new releases on itch to promote. I don't know if this means that not as many people are releasing over there, or if algorithms have changed, but it you're a creator with something you'd like to promote on itch, please let me know! The Roundup is a little light this week, but I hope you enjoy what I've managed to scrounge together.

Also, as a reminder, April is Orbital Blues Month on Backerkit, and there are six cool projects to back as a part of it.

• The imaginatively named Probable Claws is out on itch. It's a Shadowdark adventure for 4th level characters, and takes place in a sinking port city.

• It's been awhile since I've seen anything written for Wyrm, a system by GilaRPG, but I just happened across Forgotten City of the Salamander God, a wilderness hexcrawl adventure for that system.

• Crests and Symbols of the BoSS is a setting specific guide to the family crests and symbols of the Bay of Spirits setting, by the same author, but you may very well find some artwork or lore in here that can be easily ported over to other systems: crests and family shields being something oft neglected in fantasy games.

• Richard Kelly has released P.H.U.G., an osr-adjacent, rules-lite game that has some interesting stuff in there.

• Uptight Cultist has released Famine, Ash, and Steel, a solo rpg that spun out of the Gygax75 Challenge and is inspired by the slow collapse of empires and the ecology.

• Troubled Troll Grotto, by Dougal Cochrane, is an adventure for Dolmenwood centered around a two-headed troll and includes some amazingly great art.

• Philip Reed has released Horizon, the Endless City, an infinite city/dungeoncrawl.

• Dead Piety: Den of the Root Eater, is an adventure for Mork Borg that funded on Kickstarter last year and is now available.

• Funding now of Kickstarter, Two-Minute Caves is a short supplement designed to quickly generate interesting cave systems to explore.

• Eric Bloat is raising funds for Overworld, an rpg based on 80s and 90s video games, and the culmination of smaller zine releases.

• I'm raising funds for Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 56. This issue is set in the far north of Absalom, on the banks of the Great Inland Sea, and features an abandoned keep inhabited by strange fungal people.