OSR News Roundup for February 16th, 2026

Welcome to the third news Roundup for February. We're in the thick of ZineMonth, as I believe I've mentioned once or twice before? Anyway, I've been conducting and posting print interviews on the blog (you can search for them using the ZiMo26 tag) and audio interviews that you can find on the nascent Sabre Rattlings podcast (the link is the RSS feed), all to promote ZineMonth creators.

I don't know why I missed this last week, but the No ICE in Minnesota bundle is live on itch. It contains almost 1,500 titles and all proceeds go to support a great cause.

Let's dive in and see what other projects were released last week:

• Roundup favorite Inkwell Ideas, the creator of the excellent Worldographer mapping program, is crowdfunding for Rock and Roar, a collection of monsters based on classic rock songs and artists! It's a pretty cool-looking project!

• New to me is the Menu zine, on itch, a collection of articles geared towards various rpgs. It's primarily 5e focused, but there's some interesting Shadowdark and other OSR material in there, as well.

• ManaDawn Games has released Valley of Wrecked Fortunes, a mini gothic hexcrawl that's a collaboration between Matt and Roundup favorite Perplexing Ruins.

• I had mentioned Abigail's Wedding, by doogface, awhile back, and just saw they've released a six page updated version, again with art by Perplexing Ruins. The updated version looks really good.

• Echoes of Mnareth is an interesting dungeon by Gnarled Monster that started as a one-page dungeon inspired by the Caverns of Thracia that has grown into something much longer.

• Necrotic Gnome has released a new collection of four Referee screen inserts on Drivethru.

• Kevin Crawford is, for my money, one of the best OSR small press publishers out there, and they've just released an 80+ page setting guide on Drivethru. The Proteus Sector takes me back to the early day of SWN when Crawford was releasing a ton of supplemental stuff for it.

• Goblin Grove is a short little mini-zine and adventure focusing on the Goblin King and his stolen magical sword.

• The folks over at Red Ruin Publishing have released issue 17 of their Dragon Warriors fanzine, Casket of Fays.

• A Pirate's Life for Me is a short adventure for Pirate Borg. With the recent notification that the last big Pirate Borg Kickstarter is now fulfilling, there's no doubt going to be renewed interest in PB (my personal version of the Borgs).

• Marco Fossati has released Liber Umbrae, a system-neutral toolkit for adding horror to your rpg.

• I'd mentioned Jade and Ash before, and the author reached out to me to let me know they've bundled all four of their products into a single discounted bundle.

• Richard Barton is probably one of my favorite authors publishing today, and he's just released The Thicket, a 50-page adventure that ties into Arden Vul, the masterful mega-dungeon.

• Cairn Press has just released a Barebones edition, a a free 48-page pdf that presents a setting neutral version of Cairn.