OSR News Roundup for September 1st, 2025

Welcome to the first news roundup for September. Here in the States it is Labor Day. The first thing I wanted to plug isn't a release, but an event; on September 28th, Pure Panic and Games in Silver Springs is hosting a mini-convention, in conjunction with the indie rpg group Designed in the DMV. If you're in the area you should try and swing by and show them some support. You can check out the Designed in the DMV website, and they've got information there about the event.

• Manor of the Swine Duke is a new adventure for Rovers and Riches 2e. It's published by goblinpitgames, (they're the authors of Miasma and Monsters). This current adventure is part of the Filthy Rich OSR Adventure Jam.

• As I'm sure many long-time readers are getting tired of hearing, nothing gives me greater pleasure than promoting the work of first time publishers. I saw a thread on reddit by one such individual asking how to promote their work; please, if you're one of these people, reach out to me and I'll do what I can to include you in this publication (I don't promote work with AI assets, though!). Anyway, be sure to check out Family of Night: The Sunless Cæthedrull, by Melotron9. It's a free module for Mork Borg.

• Onslaught Six has launched a Kickstarter for Monster Condo, the follow-up to their Ruins of Castle Gygar adventure. Monster Condo is a mega-dungeon, with 17 areas and 114 rooms. Similar to Castle Gygar, this project was written as a "room-a-day", and then integrated into a whole.

• Weird Heroes of Public Access is available on etsy as a hardcover. We've carried a bunch of Joey's zine titles, and I'm really excited to see that Fairhaven is now available as it's own thing. If you're looking for something that would be perfect to emulate Welcome to Night Vale or UHF with equal ease, you should check this out.

• I missed this a few weeks ago, but Sivad's Sanctum has released In the Light of the Setting Sun Tombstone edition, a neat little game for role-playing in the Weird West.

• Goblin Archives has released Case Files 01: Anomaly, an anthology-style releases of content for the excellent Liminal Horror rpg.

• The Bones of Elenore Greymarsh is an adventure for Pirate Borg, an adventure of revenge served cold and justice delivered.

• Epoch: A Game of Stone and Spell is a stone-age rpg, and the newly released Red Ochre and Ruins is a supplement for it, that brings a number of optional rules to the table, including ideas and guidelines for converting it to a far-future, post-apocalyptic setting.

• Dyson Logos has released a new crop of his Cartography Collections, these from 2024. The god-father of OSR cartography, these maps are invaluable resources for small publishers (like me!) looking for some inexpensive yet awesome maps, or GMs looking for some inspiration for their own dungeons.

• JV West has released the Black Pudding Playbook, an expansion of the material from Issues 4 and 7, expanding the setting and character options. Of course, there's also the terrific art by JV, as well.

• So many collections of tables I see on Drivethru are AI-driven drek, so I was pleased to see that Tables & Lore: Vol. 1, is not one of these. It's a collection of 13 random tables and 6 pieces of lore designed to spark imagination; I'm looking forward to checking out future installments in this series.

• Ancestral Peninsula #1 is a periodic hexcrawl campaign (much like the Nod series), written for generic OSR systems, in an Iron Age setting.

• Loot the Body has released Candle, a reverse dungeon crawl written for Mork Borg, in which the adventurers find themselves summoned to the lowest level of a dungeon and must make their way to the surface.

• I'd mentioned Island of Fury a few weeks ago; its a solo-style gamebook in the vein of the old Fighting Fantasy releases, and has been released for GNAT and Dragon Warriors, and last week the authors published a version for OSE.