OSR News Roundup for April 21st, 2025

Welcome to the third news Roundup in April. Let's see what was new last week, shall we?

• One of my favorite cyberpunk games, Hard Wired Island, is currently funding on Kickstarter for a new print run. It's a nice, anti-corporate, anti-capitalist cyberpunk game set in an alternate Earth in the distant year 2020.

• Starting in about a week and a half, The Maple Jam is a jam on itch focused on promoting the work of Canadian game designers, culture, and arts. It's a pretty wide-ranging jam that has a lot of fun potential.

• I Don't Belong Here has just launched on Backerkit. For readers of a certain age and temperament, such as myself, for whom Radiohead was a seminal influence on our younger selves, this is an ideal project, as the game is inspired by the lyrics of Radiohead tracks.

• Accessibility has become an important topic in the gaming field, both as older gamers get, well, older, and the hobby opens up to be more inclusive. I was interested to see that there's a zine specifically geared towards accessibility in gaming. Titled Accessibility Gaming Quarterly, they just released Issue 13 on Drivethru.

• Created as part of the Gygax75 challenge, Grassbraids is a fascinating setting for blackpowder-era maritime adventures.

• Fragments of the Floating City is a starting adventure written for Worlds Without Number, and looks to be very well done. It's also the author's first published adventure, and I'm always thrilled to be able to promote someone's first venture into publishing. Go, check it out, and leave a review! You can also find it on Drivethru.

• I'm not sure how I missed this, and I apologize to Alan for not catching it sooner: Gallant Knight Games is crowdfunding Carrion Lands, a dark horror sword and sorcery survival game. Gallant Knight Games consistently publishes some quality material.

• LatinX creator Gavriel Quiroga is crowdfunding Hellworld Earth, a brutal old school rpg with an accompanying spotify metal playlist to get you into the mood.

• Doublecrossed World is written for Dungeon World, and seems to be a Rifts-homage, set in an alternate earth where an influx of magic has transformed the world.

• CM Lowry has released Tyrannosaur Inside, a Mork Borg adventure where, well, a Tyrannosaur appears out of nowhere in the middle of the adventurers' village.

• Speaking of Gallant Knight Games, they've just released All Axe Wounds at Once! Go! a rules-light fantasy rpg that borrows from Cairn and other similar systems.

• Appendix N Entertainment has released Angelology, the third in their series of bestiaries that focus on beings of the Outer Planes (Demonology and Devilry are both available in print through Sabre Games).

• We Squeak at the Moon is a beautiful, quirky bestiary of creatures for Mork Borg, with each entry accompanied by poetry.

• Speaking of accessibility, the Age of Adventures rpg has just been released in a revised, cleaner format for easier use and reading.