OSR News Roundup for March 9th, 2026

Welcome to the second news Roundup in March. I've started a little podcast as a part of Sabre, and part of what I'm aiming to do is have some short conversations with people in the indie and OSR gaming spheres. Last week I posted an interview I did with Josh McCrowell, author of His Majesty the Worm, and tomorrow there's an interview going live with Marx Shepherd of the Far Horizons Co-Op. You can find Sabre Rattlings, the podcast, on most major podcatching platforms, and this is the RSS feed.

• Matt Kelly is back at it again, this time with a supplement titled . . . Titles, all about fantasy-style titles and the duties and responsibilities that come with said titles.

• My Friend Mike is an adventure written for Luke Gearing's Violence.

• I'm not sure if there's something in the water, but there's another release for Violence: Amelia is a ten page adventure revolving around stealing a bronze statue of Amelia Earhart.

• I'm a sucker for hex maps, and Uptight Cultist has just uploaded a charming hand-drawn blank hexmap to itch.

• I've been a big fan of Jim Hall for awhile, and he's just launched a Beetle Knight Pamphlet Jam on itch. Beetle Knight is his recently released game about, well, insect knights and warriors (Looks like we still have one copy of the bundle left).

• Secrets of the Old Ruins is an adventure for OSE that focuses on a ruined noble hall and the outlaw band that dwells within.

• One of the best deals in gaming is the Lazy Litch Adventure Bundle that's currently on Drivethru. It includes Mana Meltdown, Haunted Hamlet, Toxic Wood, and Willow.

• Paul Partington has just released another solo gamebook, designed for a fourth level fighter, entitled Hunt on the Borderlands, in which you search for a missing relic.

• The Crypt of Atan-Thu is out on Drivethru, statted for Advanced Labyrinth Lord, an undead-themed adventure for characters levels 6-8. It's also available statted out for a bunch of different OSR systems.

• I haven't seen much from Barrel Rider Games recently, and was pleasantly surprised to see White Box Quarterly #1, a planned quarterly zine for White Box.

• This posted too late last week for me to include it, but Parliament of Owls is a Dolmenwood adventure designed to be dropped into any hex with a river.

• I only just saw this now, and there's only a few days left, but Mudbones is a cool-looking Shadowdark adventure zine and dungeon delve.

• Also on Kickstarter is the Dying Hard on Hardlight Station Anthology, a revision and collection of setting and adventures for Mothership 1e.

• Guns, Mages, Corpses, by the talented Kobayashi, is a swords and sorcery meets cyberpunk mashup done. There's only a couple of days left here, so be sure to jump on this.

• There's about a week left on my current Kickstarter, raising funds for a late ZiMo project, a re-imagining of the classic adventure B1 -- In Search of the Unknown, as the first step in a multi-level Adventure Path.