OSR News Roundup for October 27th, 2025

Welcome to the final News Roundup for October. Mothership Month, the Backerkit sponsored Mothership extravaganza, is in full swing. I'm really looking forward to November, when Mausritter Month launches, also through Backerkit. I've seen some really neat projects being promoted for this event.

It looks like last week was relatively slow on releases, but I found some that I think are worth taking a look at.

• Marta's Vineyard of Despair is up on itch. It's a really interesting one-page adventure submitted to a couple of game jams. One of the things that makes it interesting is the exploration of deaf history prior to the invention of ASL.

• Speaking of Mausritter Month, Whiskers and Wastelands is a blend of Mausritter and Eco Mofos; a post-apocalyptic setting in which you play as mice and other small-folk, trying to reinvent a world that eschews what brought about the apocalypse in the first place.

• Jeffrey Jones is Kickstarting Dark Devilry for Shadowdark, two volumes that bring the lower planes to Shadowdark. He's assembled quite a cast of contributors for this project.

• It seems like its been awhile since I mentioned anything by Philip Reed: he's currently raising funds for The Deck of Old-School Wilderness Encounters, a system-agnostic deck of cards designed to randomly generate wilderness encounters.

• I somehow managed to miss that Inkwell Ideas is funding something similar to Mr. Reed: an expansion to their Hexploration Deck series. I use II's Worldographer for all of my mapping needs, and Joe has been producing a ton of great content for overland mapping and adventuring. There's only three days left in this campaign, so be sure to jump on it if it strikes your fancy.

• Space Dragon Games has released Basic Gishes and Goblins, an OSR-style game of dungeon crawling that seeks to emulate JRPGs.

• Dyson Logos has released The Ossuary Masquerade, a Halloween-themed adventure for Mork Borg.

• I've mentioned Midnight of the Century, the serial killer investigative rpg by Colin le Sueur, a few times, and he's just released a primer for the game.

• Elln the Witch has released My Little Places: Forest of the Eternal Rain. I think it's supposed to be the first in a series of system-agnostic fantasy locations, but I can't quite tell. The author has been releasing a bunch of neat little OSR supplements for awhile, though, and this is one to add to the list.

• gongoozler is an adventure written for Liminal Horror, a short-two pager that's in ashcan form, in the process of being expanded and edited.

• I'm raising funds for Populated Hexes Monthly, Year Four, a compilation of Issues 37-48 of Populated Hexes Monthly. It's going to fund newly commissioned art and an offset print version.