OSR News Roundup for July 20th, 2026

Welcome to the third News Roundup for July. We're coming in fast to GenCon season, and Ennie voting is officially over as of a few days ago. I hope everyone had a chance to vote for your favorite games and publishers this year. Last year was a little skimpy on new releases, but I'd like to apologize to the fabulous folks at 3d6 Down the Line: I somehow managed to neglect to mention that they've released their first adventure: The Tomb of Armansquagulat. It's available on Drivethru, itch, and the new RPGTrader.

I happened upon an interesting jam on itch that's running from now until the end of August: the Euclidean Dungeon Jam, which is built upon the conceit of creating a dungeon based upon one of Euclid's Propositions.

Also, I wanted to peel back the curtains a bit on how I promote stuff. I post stuff published to a variey of platforms -- Kickstarter, itch, Drivethru, and now RPGTrader. When I post a Drivethru link it is an affiliate link, meaning I get a small portion of any sales. However, whenever a release is available on multiple platforms I do my best to promote the itch version, as the creator will often get a larger chunk of the proceeds from itch sales. The same goes, now, for RPG Trader. It is my intention, going forward, to try and alternate between linking to itch and RPG-Trader storefronts, and only link to Drivethru releases if the title isn't available somewhere else. I will no doubt miss some things, but that is my intention. As always, one of my aims is to support small press publishers and platforms. That being said, Drivethrurpg is currently having their "Christmas in July" sale, and you can find all manners of deals on products, including many by yours truly.

• Goblin Archives have released the digital version of the Liminal Horror Deluxe Edition. Liminal Horror is, imho, one of the seminal indie releases of the past decade, and the Deluxe Edition promises to build on the initial edition.

• One of the harder things about running a game set in a world with different celestial bodies is making it unique; the Almanac of the Twin Moons does just that, at least for worlds with two moons. It provides a calendar of the phases of the moons, tidal movements, and more.

• Julian Kay's Mutant series has been one of the best "TMNT" type of game to come out in recent years, and they've just released Mutants from the Archives: Pet Shop, focusing on mutant animals from pet stores.

• Pieces of Eight, by Der_AJZ Golem, is a collection of 8 cursed NPCs for Pirate Borg. This is by the same publisher who just published Ravaged by Storms.

• Demi El Gato just published their second adventure designed to be kid-friendly. Fright! at the Fireworks Factory is also geared towards introducing older gamers to the OSR style of play.

• Adventures in the Mist is a campaign guide and supplement for the Land of the Mists setting, written for Old School Essentials. It includes a ton of new material for expanding the campaign world.

• Trollish Delver Games has released Dismal Keep, a rules-lite fantasy rpg and setting, designed for ease of play and inspired by the Into the Odd games.

• I haven't seen any releases from Elln the Witch recently, so I was excited to see they've just released Giant of the Copper Mine, a system-agnostic solo adventure.

• The Dolmenwood Quickstart -- the Weaver and the Redcaps -- is now available, and is designed to get new players immersed in the world and system of Dolmenwood as quickly as possible.

• Speaking of Dolmenwood, first-time publisher (at least, I think so) Jared Salmond has released Referee's Character Add-on Pack, a collection of NPCs that can be thrown into the game as the Referee needs.

• The Raspy Raven has released the ossuary mechanic, a horror written for the Liminal Horror summer jam.

• Of Coal & Corpses is a Mork Borg-driven hexcrawl game set in the haunted coal-fields of an alt-Britain.

• I'm a sucker for pixel art, and Goblinesque is a release that features it heavily. It's a game that reverses the dungeon paradigm and lets you play as the goblins, fighting off an invasion from above.

• Roundup favorite Munkao has released What Happened to the Silver Spoon Boys?, an adventure to find out what happened to a band of rich kids turned adventurers who disappeared on their most recent delve.

• Under a Smiling Moon is an adventure written for Shadowdark, designed for characters of levels 2-4. It's got gnolls, and I'm a sucker for anything with gnolls in it.

• Finally, I'm stoked to see that Lester Burton has released Grok! 2e. It's just in pdf right now, but I'm a huge fan of his work and the Grok! setting in particular, and am really glad to see the fast turnaround from Kickstarter to fufillment. If you're interested in weird science fantasy it's a solid entry into the genre.

• PHM 58, the Plateau of Leng, is currently funding on Kickstarter. It takes a closer look at the northern end of the Plateau, focusing on one particular hex that contains a statue to Chaugnar Faugn.

• Additionally, in the immortal words of Chumbawamba, I get knocked down, but I get up again. I had launched a Kickstarter for Bree-YARC that didn't look like it was going to fund, so I pulled it down and rejiggered some stuff. I'm going to be launching the adventure compendium featuring five adventures from different authors in the beginning of September. You can sign up to be notified for the Backerkit campaign here.