OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025

Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for December 15th, 2025. We're coming towards the end of the year and looking at ZineMonth 2026 starting in February. Kickstarter has launched their open call already, here, and of course there's the community run ZineMonth . . . actually, I'm not sure if they've set up their webpage for 2026 yet. I need to dig into this further. Anywho, here's a selection of last week's releases. It was kind of a slow week for releases.

• I'm a big fan of James Holloway's work (Tome of Tombs and Pamphlet of Pantheons) and I was excited to see he's Kickstarting a new project: The Booklet of Bounties, a collection of ten ne'er-do-wells and criminals that have bounties on their heads.

• Matt Kelly has released another supplement (for Cairn specifically, but other OSR games generally) entitled Ships & Buildings, expanding rules for, well, ships and buildings in your games.

• Tis the Season is a tongue-in-cheek, Holiday Hallmark movie game designed to emulate the tropes of that particular genre.

• Leicester's Rambles has just released Yet Another Baker's Dozens of d66 Lists, which is pretty much what it sounds like: thirteen d66 tables to add inspiration to your games.

• Christmas Capers is a holiday-themed rules-lite system where the PCs are crime-fighters trying to save their city (and Christmas!) against impending doom. Features the charming public domain art of Arthur Rackham.

• Another new release that makes use of great public domain art is Strange Monster Generator, a collection of tables to randomly generate weird monsters.

• I'd mentioned A Haunting in Glass in October, and it's now available through Drivethrurpg (you can also grab it in print form at Sabre). It's a super cool Shadowdark adventure for levels 3-5 with strong horror themes.

• Troika! is such a fun little game, and Strange Magical Oddities from Across the Spheres is a supplement that adds new magical items, monsters, and spells for it (as well as other OSR-style games).

• Ankheg is an adventure for Knave that features mind flayers and dwarves and ankhegs.

• Graeme Davis has released Mayhem in the Market, an interesting-looking adventure for OSE that was written as part of a collaborative effort during an event at an Italian game convention. It looks like there's been an error with the pricing, though, at least as of this writing.

• In the Squeak Midwinter is a system-neutral game of winter-themed, cozy mouse adventures. It comes with charming paper minis.

• Ever & Anon, the fanzine replacement to Alarums & Excursions, is out with Issue 6 of this free role-playing resource.

• Written for Castle Grief's Grief Engine, Tome of the Pyromancer is a supplement, setting, and adventure specifically designed for use with solo play (although it can be used for GMed games as well), that is fire-magic themed.

• BX Advanced Bestiary Vol. 3 launches later this week, expanding on monsters L-P from the BX/OSE Classic books. Sign up now to be alerted at the launch.