OSR News Roundup for February 9th, 2026

Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for February 9th, 2026. ZineMonth is in full swing, and I'll be releasing some print interviews over the month promoting various projects. I've also, because apparently I'm not busy enough, decided to start releasing a podcast. The goal is to release short, weekly episodes, with an emphasis on talking about topics in gaming that we're excited about. You can catch the first episode here (link is to podbean, but it should be available on all major podcatchers under the name "Sabre Rattlings"). If you're a creator, with something you'd like to promote, and you'd like to sit for a short interview let me know and we'll try to get a time scheduled.

There's a lot going on with projects funding, so in lieu of covering everything I find interesting here (it would be a long Roundup) you can find various projects at the following locations:

• ZiMo 2026 independent page

• Kickstarter

• Backerkit

Let's jump into some of the releases, shall we?

• Matt Kelly has been releasing a number of short, slick supplements designed to expand options for OSR-games, specifically Cairn. Their most recent release is called Enterprises, and is geared towards mercantile ventures.

• Liquid Euphoria is funding on Backerkit, and is an open-ended adventure for Cairn set in a small village in the official setting for Cairn.

• Most of the projects for ZiMo are either Backerkit or Kickstarter, but Sivad's Sanctum is using itch to slowfund their project: The Bastardized Classics Redux. Their series remixes the early TSR modules and modernizes them, and the itchfunding is for four adventures: two already written and two upcoming, that update S1-S4.

• Wyld bills itself as a "cozydark" fantasy, built on the Cairn 1e engine, that focuses on anthropomorphic forest folk.

• Funding on Backerkit, YAB Bag #1 is an interesting release by a newly formed collective of creators. It features six mini-games with an eclectic, thought-provoking focus.

• I don't see many releases for Basic Roleplaying, so wanted to make sure to plug A6: Beneath the City of Keys, an adventure set in a city plagued by lycanthropy.

• Frankie Breakbone has released a pretty slick looking print-at-home character screen designed specifically for B/X.

• I plugged Choir of Flesh awhile back, and I see that Blackoath Entertainment has released Apocrypha, an expansion that dives into the sins of the Gnostics.

• The folks over at Dank Games have released Something Wicked, an adventure for Mothership 1e, featuring the mansion of a reclusive treasure hunter who has disappeared, leaving a house full of traps, treasures, and something else, something wicked, behind.

• Jeffrey Jones is running a Kickstarter for his Blood Sands setting, including four zines (an adventure, bestiary, class options, and setting guide) written for OSE. Blood Sands is a science fantasy setting.

• I'm currently raising funds for Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 54, a collection of two small dungeons, one inhabited by wyverns, one by ogres, in a remote mountainous hex.