OSR News Roundup for December 30th, 2024

Welcome to the last news Roundup for both December and 2024. There've been a lot of great new releases this year, and I'm curious to see what peoples' favorites were. Looking forward to 2025, we've got ZineMonth coming up, and I'd love to get more interviews in with folks looking to launch projects for it. I've posted the link before, but there's a great Discord server that is unafilliated with the Kickstarter run ZineQuest, with plenty of folks helping each other out in all aspects of the zine, including some great video tutorials on the nuts and bolts of zine creation. You can find that server here.

This has been a pretty slow release week, no doubt due to the holiday season. Like, reallllllly slow.

• Alfred Valley has released Fire in the Gorge, a one-shot adventure for Frontier Scum. Its designed to be used as an introductory adventure to the Frontier Scum, the wild west OSR game.

• I'd mentioned the Witches of Frostwyk before, a sprawling adventure for OSR, Cairn, and 5e, but it is now available in print on demand format.

• Carlos Castilho has released a ton of new stock art on Drivethru. I'm not going to link to any of them, but you can instead find their Drivethru page here. I use Carlos frequently on my projects, and highly recommend working with him or, failing that, purchasing his stock art.

• The original version had AI, so I was pleased to see that Beneath the Catacombs, 2nd Edition, has replaced the original AI assets with human-made art. It's a neat little OSR game that has a bunch of content.

• We've added The Painted Wastelands to the Sabre store. This is one of my favorite releases from the past year; it's an absolutely gorgeous book that is very well written and evocative; it reminds me a lot of the Ultraviolet Grasslands.