OSR News Roundup for March 3rd, 2025

ZineMonth is officially over, although there are still projects running that started late in February. I hope everyone who participated by launching a project had a fun time and were successful meeting their funding goals, and I hope everyone else saw (and backed) some fun and interesting projects.

This looks to be a pretty light week on the release end of things.

• The Crimson Caverns, by jofas, is a simple dungeon crawl written for Cairn 2e as a one-shot or a short adventure that can be slotted into an existing campaign. Explore the abandoned hideout of an evil sorcerer!

• Inspired in part by the shrines in Breath of the Wild, Pit is the first of a Spell Shrine written for the 2025 Zungeon Jam using Cairn. It's a neat idea; every spellbook has its own shrine that must be found and explored in order to master the contained spell. It's the first in what the author hopes is a planned series.

• Wayward Words is a late entry into the Zinemonth festivities and could use some support. It's a system-neutral supplement of weird books arranged in alphabetical orders; each book has something unique to teach the reader.

• The Rainy City is a fun and quirky setting zine that we consistently sell out of at Sabre, and I just saw the author is Kickstarting Vol. 3 of Flott's Miscellany, a new collection of goodies, tables, and encounters for the city where the rain never stops.

• Tales from the Spectral Sea looks to be a fun game where you play as the crew of a ship that died at sea but couldn't pass on to the afterlife, and instead sail the spectral sea, "living" out your swashbuckling dreams until you can pass on to the afterlife.

• Written for the Mork Borg family of games, Wraithborn is a setting where the players take on the role of the undead inhabitants in a realm of the dead and damned.