OSR News Roundup for May 4th, 2026

Welcome to the first News Roundup for May, 2026. To forestall questions, yes, I am aware that OSE Month, but I try not to plug stuff until they go live, so I'll be looking at those projects next week, since the official launch date is the 6th. Last week was pretty heavy on the releases, compared to the previous few weeks, and it really seems like back to normal.

• The Lone Legend has released Gloam, a stand-alone system using tarot that is inspired by His Majesty the Worm, Burning Wheel, Forbidden Lands, Dolmenwood, and the excellent Neverland by Andrew Kolb.

• swanandravenstudio has released Tradlife, a short, psychological horror rpg based on the current trend of tradwifery.

• The excellent Machine Gods of the Noxian Expanse is getting the Mork Borg treatment, and is currently funding on Kickstarter. It's set in a post-apocalyptic, feudal society, ruled over by god-like AIs that once served man before the world fell.

• Shrine of the Cabbage God is an interesting, BX-style dungeon written for a party of 4th-6th level. It involves the shrine of a petty god, which always piques my interest!

• Published by Hellwinter Forge of Wonders, The Seventh Star is a pretty neat adventure written for Dolmenwood.

• I'm not familiar with Experimental Playground, but they've just released Kosmos, a rules-lite science fantasy game that looks pretty intriguing.

• Kaiser is a heroic fantasy hack of Mork Borg, and Heroes of Yore is a newly released player supplement for that system that adds tons of new options.

• The Lone Adventurer: Failed Harvest is an adventure written for OSE designed specifically for two person play -- one Referee and one player -- which between solo and traditionally party assumptions is not something we see that much of.

• The illustrious Rob Conley has released Into the Majestic Fantasy Realms: The Northern Reaches, a massive, much-anticipated release that expands their setting.

• Pickpocket Press has released the Argosa NPC Deck, a seventy card deck used to generate NPCs for fantasy games (it's technically system neutral).

• Swyvers is an excellent, urban rpg that centers around thieves, heists, and cons, and I was excited to see Rare Birds, a heist written just for Swyvers.

• Written for Shadowdark, The Strangled Wood is a forest-crawl adventure that features art by one of my favorites: Carlos Castilho.

• The Fantasy Trip is a classic, innovative (for its time) game that has seen more love over the past few years, and just learned there's a free fanzine dedicated to it! The Heresy zine is on it's 4th issue.

• The Last Broadcast is a fascinating hack of Mork Borg, a game of doomed pilgrims and decaying transmissions.

• Rod Waibel is crowdfunding Shadow Fables, a bestiary for Shadowdark based off of real-world mythology, fairy tales, and legends.

• Mythworks is winding down a Kickstarter for Breathless, Frighmare edition, a game of survival zombie horror.

• The reprint crowdfunding of the Into the Wild Omnibus is still ongoing, with a little more than a week to go. I'm almost out of the original print run of this book, and decided to order another run, but it's a large up front outlay, so I decided to run a quick Kickstarter for it.