OSR News Roundup for May 18th, 2026

We're steaming through the year, and are into the third week of May. There's a really great bundle up on itch right now, raising funds for Typhoon Sinlaku, with a host of great titles, including a number of OSR products.

• I'd mentioned Dungeon Cookbook Delves a few weeks ago, and the publisher has just released Vol. 2 in the series, written for Cairn, as a drop-in location in a dungeon that can, potentially, be used as the party as a safe haven . . . provided they can remain on the kobold inhabitants' good side. It is written in both English and Italian.

• I'm a big fan of Castle Grief, and was excited to see they're currently running a Kickstarter to fund their Dungeon and Wilderness Stamp set. It's a collection of really neat stamps that can be used to create maps of all sorts, all handmade.

• Corrupt Natures is a collection of five new backgrounds for use with Cairn.

• Patrick Stuart is Kickstarting Doom of the Dark, an adventure for Tunnels and Trolls, with art by the amazing Amanda Lee Franck

• girls@computers has released Book of the Isles, a free introduction to their campaign setting written for Cairn 2e.

• I'm expecting to see Mythic Bastionland getting a lot more hype as the 3d6DTL guys gear up for their new campaign, and bartosso over on itch has just released Isle of the Skygazer, a realm for MB that features a charming collage-style hexmap.

• Matt Finch and Mythmere Games has released a free 6-page, comic-book style introduction to the world of Jordoba, what looks to be Mythmere Games' in-house setting.

• Philip Reed has released Strange Skeletons, a collection of twenty-two undead skeleton-themed encounters for OSR games.

• I posted the first 3rd party Vagabond supplement a few weeks back, and now there's a new one: Lyle's Lovely 'Lixirs is a collection of salves, unguents, and potions, available from the traveling merchant Lyle.

• Gnydron Supplement 2, by Patagames, is a science-fantasy collection of rules, options, and gear for science-fantasy BX-style games.

• I realize I don't promote that many Shadowdark products, and I was thinking about this over the weekend. I think a big part is that there are a lot of releases, and a fair number of these have AI assets, and it's just a lot to go through to weed those out. The Ground Shakes Beneath Poxblood Parish seems like a neat adventure for Shadowdark, though. It's a small dungeon, written for 3rd level characters.

• The Heart of St. Althus is an adventure for lower mid-level characters using OSRIC.

• Atelier Clandestin is back with the 2nd volume of their Medieval Musings series, this one called Hastiludes, dealing with all manner of knights and courtly, martial contests.

• Beyond the Sky & Other Stories is a low-rules, low-prep sci-fi game of exploration that is designed to pick up and play quickly.

• Chubby Funster has released the ShadowSun Revised Quickstart, a Dark Sun setting seen through the lens of Shadowdark. It comes in at over 130 pages, quite hefty for a Quickstart.

• I had mentioned Firelance awhile ago, when it was rasing funds on Kickstarter, and it has just been released on Drivethru. It's a high-tech, OSR fantasy game that, quite frankly reminds me a bit of Synnibar, at least conceptually.

• I've added a free 75-page preview of Volume 3 of the BX Advanced Bestiary up on Drivethru. The pdfs have gone out to backers, and I'm going to be sending the print files out in the next week or so.