OSR News Roundup for November 10th, 2025

Welcome to the second News Roundup of November, 2025. The big news is that Mausritter Month is upon us, on Backerkit, and there are some really neat projects being funded right now. All of the projects look fantastic, and you should check them out. One of the ones I'm really excited about is the only one (at the time of this writing, at least) that hasn't fully funded: Mechritter is pretty much what it says on the tin, but instead of minis it comes with a selection of mix and match stickers to build your mouse 'mechs. But honestly, they all look amazing.

We had a pretty packed week last week, but this week is a bit slower, it seems. Still, there's some really cool stuff for you to check out!

• I've been a big fan of David Blandy for awhile now -- he was one of the first publishers I carried when I first opened the webstore -- and last week he reached out to let me know about a project that I, ironically, was already following and really excited about. ECO Mofos was released . . . jeez, has it really been two years? . . . well, awhile back. It's billed as a weirdhope game of post-apocalyptic survival, and the game is pretty fantastic. David and co are currently crowdfunding Islands of Weirdhope, an official supplement for ECO Mofos. It's being described as "Windwalker meets Waterworld."

• Oudfort, by jcd, is a short adventure set in their "Grassbraids" setting, itself an offspring of the Gygax75 challenge. Oudfort, however, can be easily dropped into any system or setting. It features an old fortress from a more prosperous time, but the cliff upon which it is perched has partially collapsed, providing a hook for investigation. What secrets have been revealed?

• I'd mentioned Fortnightly Adventures a few Roundups back; vol. 2 is now available. It's statted for OSE. This adventure takes place on a remote island and features a mini-hexcrawl and environmental challenges.

• Into the Deep Country is a hexcrawl written for Into the Odd. It's one part hexcrawl, one part hexcrawl toolkit generator, and includes rules for hexcrawling in Into the Odd.

• Merry Manticore has published The Secret Life of Monsters, a supplement for OSR-style games designed to make encounters more interesting.

• Ever & Anon, the spiritual successor to Alarums and Excursions, has just released their fifth issue of entirely free content for all different kinds of games. It's 183 page of gaming goodness, and is definitely worth checking out.

• Choir of Flesh is a complete ttrpg, set in the year 1000 AD, in a medieval Europe in the middle of the Rapture, but not the one expected by the faithful of the church and cathedral.

• I'd also mentioned Ruination Pilgrimage awhile back when it was crowdfunding; Chain Censer #1 is now out, the official zine for that system, and if features art by a ton of Roundup favorites.

• It Comes from the Deep is funding on Kickstarter. It's a two-fer adventure for Pirate Borg. I'm glad to see Pirate Borg getting more support these days.

• Another game funding on Kickstarter is Notorious: Tales of Hardscrabble Bounty Hunting. It's a solo, sci-fi ttrpg that uses cards to drive the narrative forward. The art is really nice, reminiscent of the Painted Wastelands.

• There's only a couple of days left to back Populated Hexes Monthly, Year Four. It compiles Issues 37-48 into a single volume, and will be replacing all of the stock art I used in the original issues with commissioned art.