OSR News Roundup for February 2nd, 2026

Welcome to the first News Roundup for February. January felt like it was a year long, but now with February we're into ZineMonth, and all the projects that it entails. I'll be posting periodic interviews with ZineMonth creators for the next month and a half, and I encourage everyone to check out the projects being funded and to support small, independent publishers. As I'm writing this it's still too early for a lot of projects, so expect the ZiMo stuff to come at you fast and furious next week.

• I've made no secret that one of my favorite indie game designers is Tanya Floaker, and they've just launched a Kickstarter for their ZiMo project. Called A Thunder Perfect Mind, it's an occult action thriller in which the players are revenants dealing with the wreckage of their lives.

• Crypt_Rich has published Greed's Punch Bowl, part one of a planned three-part adventure collection. The first one features a bandit hideout, and is statted for Cairn.

• Winnifred's Cube is a isometric dungeon crawl in a non-euclidian space, submitted to the itch Isometric Dungeon Jam. It's written for Cairn, Shadowdark, and other OSR systems.

• Doogface has released Abigail's Wedding, a two-page monster lair for Dolmenwood, designed to be able to drop into the setting in any hex containing a ley line.

• If there are any Greyhawk fans out there, Forlorn Skulk has just launched a Kickstarter as part of ZineMonth that could use your support. It's called Sarkaasa'a Lair, and is written for OSE. It's a labor of love, and the previewed art is utterly charming.

• It's been awhile since I've seen anything by Lloyd Metcalf, but he's in the process of funding a short zine as a part of ZineMonth. Called Tales from the Hearth, it's not a gaming zine per se, but instead a collection of three stories written to spark the creative juices and provide fodder for adventures.

• Roll and Perish has released The Triangle Gorge, a generic OSR adventure loosely statted for OSE. It's a deadly, combat-heavy dungeon, with some fantastic artwork by the author.

• The Gribbit is a race-as-class amphibian option for Old School Essentials, reminiscent of gripplis.

• The prolific and talented Kabuki Kaiser has released Many Sought Adventure, a d6-powered OSR ruleset that's billed as a "Rosetta Stone" that allows running most of the OSR and original games without cumbersome conversions.

• Roundup favorite Munkao and Centaur Games has released Tragedy at Zaya's Theatre, an adventure for Cairn, Into the Odd, and their own Kala Mandala ruleset.

• Joseph Lewis and Dungeon Age Adventures has released Ragged Hollow Nightmare, an adventure and setting written for Cairn.

• The folks that publish Fortnightly Adventures have released Volume 5, the Forsaken Reserva, an OSE adventure for characters 1-3.