OSR News Roundup for December 2nd, 2024

It's the last month of 2024, and I hope that everyone in the US had a relaxing Thanksgiving. I'm going to mention again next year's upcoming ZineMonth. If you'll be participating I'd love to interview you about your project and promote your work, so please reach out to me (thirdkingdomgames at gmail dot com) and I'll send some survey questions over to you.

One of the big pieces of news to emerge over the past couple of weeks is the explosion in popularity of Bluesky as a place for OSR and indie ttrpg creators to network and post. There are a number of "starter packs" that include relevant folks that you can sign up for to follow everyone at once. Roundup fave Yochai Gal has been instrumental in curating and publicizing some of these packs.

• Roundup favorite Evlyn Moreau is running a Kickstarter along with Sofia Ramos and Luna P. A Feast for a Sphinx is a dungeon crawl adventure for Mork Borg, and has about a week left to fund as of the publication of this issue. Evlyn's projects are always great, and I cannot recommend her work highly enough.

• It seems like it was just yesterday that Jeffrey Jones released the first issue of Gary's Appendix, and now he's funding Issue 7. It's a collection of articles and resources for OSR games, especially OSE; this issue focuses on underground exploration.

• Endling is a pretty cool looking solo, tarot-driven game that uses hex flowers to create a journaling game of being the last human alive after an apocalypse.

• Loot the Room has released The Witch of Drithwyn Weald on itch. It's an advent calendar style hexcrawl, system neutral, and the price will rise as the month progresses; those that back early will get the entire release at a lower price.

• The Lost Chronicles of Oz is a new project funding on Kickstarter that uses a custom system is open-source, creative commons, with some really neat artwork and concepts. It looks like its still aways from funding, and if you're interested in this sort of thing it's definitely worth checking out.

• Melf has released Wud on itch, a collection of encounters in a dark, fairytale forest, written with Cairn 2 rules. It would also be an excellent addition to solo play games.

• Depths of Dark Bargain is a compact dungeon delve written for Cairn and Block, Dodge, Parry. It's designed to emulate the claustrophobia of deep, dark, dungeon delving.

• If there are any pro-wrestling fans in the readership you're going to want to check out Legendary Pro-Wrestling, currently itch-funding a print version, in which you play a supernatural creature who has joined the pro wrestling circuit.

• R Rook Studios is one of my all-time favorite indie publishers, and they've just released A Merry Little Christmas, an adventure/setting for Liminal Horror. You can find my interview with Richard here.

• A Hundred Years of Yeoldlands caught my attention earlier this week. Available on Drivethru as a PWYW product, it is over 600 pages of session reports of a campaign run for over one hundred sessions over a period of three years.

• I've got about a week left in my current Backerkit campaign, raising funds for Year Three of Populated Hexes Monthly. This project is raising funds to commission new art as well as an offset print version of the collection.

• Sabre Games is having a Black Friday weekend sale; 20% off all in stock items through Monday night by using the code "BF2024" at checkout. This includes a wide selection of indie and OSR zines and games, new and used. https://www.thirdkingdomgames.com/products