OSR News Roundup for April 6th, 2026

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, the other for the adventures.

• Lyme, the author of the Ennie-nominated Dawn of the Orcs, has just released Cooking with the Orcs, a recipe-crafting expansion to their initial game.

• Gowanusaurus Rex has released Amontillado, a two-player, one page rpg based on the Poe short story.

• Orbital Blues is one of our best-selling indie rpgs, and there's currently an Orbital Blues month going on over on Backerkit, part of the Backerkit trend of promoting game months.

• John Flood has just released the Psion, a mentally-themed class for Shadowdark.

• Way of the Warlock is a 46-page supplement for OSR games that introduces a warlock class and accoutrements.

• Tentacles Press has just released Fighter Wizard Elf, a collection of notes by Jonathan Tweet condensing his experience running barebones d20 games.

• The prolific Tabletop Engineer has just released Runes #9, their zine geared towards Shadowdark.

• Jeffrey Jones has released three supplements for their Blood Sands setting: an adventure called Rising Tides, and two zines, issues 1 and 2.

• Jeff's been pretty busy, because they also released Gary's Appendix Issue 9, a collection of themed articles, and an Omnibus, that collects the first six issues into a single volume.

• Expeditious Retreat Press has released three adventures for OSRIC, Den of Thieves, Attack of the Mushroom People, and The Heart of the Titan, all three designed for mid-level parties.

• The Fairy Master class, written for Dolmenwood, is a class where you summon and control small, annoying, fey creatures.

• James Spahn and Barrel Rider Games has released White Box Quarterly Issue 2, a quarterly zine with content for White Box.

• Block, Dodge, and Parry is a fun retroclone, and Steel & Survival is 28-page supplement of gear and tactical combat.

• There's probably no need for me to promote this, since it's doing so well, but the Gauntlet Gaming Community (the same folks behind Brindlewood Bay), are crowdfunding Public Access, their rpg inspired by analog and found footage horror.

• Wet Ink Games, the folks behind Cess and Citadel, Wyrd and Wild, Never Going Home, and more, are crowdfunding for Precious Things, a cozy-themed game of small dragons hoarding precious objects.

• I'm raising funds for Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 56, an issue that features an abandoned keep inhabited by fungal-folk.