OSR News Roundup for September 28th, 2025

Welcome to the last OSR News Roundup in September. This month has just flown by, at least for me, and we're staring down the barrel of the gun that is the end of the year. The past couple weeks have been pretty busy, and next month is the Backerkit sponsored Mothership Month, so we'll likely be seeing a ton of new Mothership related projects funding in the next few months. I'll be posting active links when they pop up, but to see what all the fuss is about here's the general launch page.

This week seems pretty slow, no doubt with folks gearing up for the usual slew of spooky and Halloween-themed releases. One other thing I've noticed, and this is purely anecdotal, is that crowdfunding projects don't seem to be generating as much support as they did up till fairly recently. If you're currently running a project, or have finished one recently, I'd be curious to find out if this is the case or if it is just my imagination.

• Matt Kelly has released Connections, a short, system agnostic system for downtime and domain play that helps to define relationships between PCs and NPCs.

• We just got Welcome to Night Vale in stock, and Absurdia, currently funding on Backerkit, looks like it might do as good a job, if not better, of recreating the absurd and surreal humor in that podcast.

• I missed this last week, but it seems like we need to see more stuff like this in the world: Fast Food Fascists has the players take the role of resistance fighters in a world dominated by fast food corporations.

• New (to me) publisher Radmad RPGs has released Wages for the Dead, a sweet little supplement for Electric Bastionland that has eight failed careers that revolve around death and undeath. It makes great use of public domain art from the British Museum.

• Mark Hunt is one of the unsung workhorses of the OSR community, probably best known for Gangbusters BX, their clone of the classic Gangbusters game. They've just released Siege at Perdition Jail, an adventure for the Tall Tales BX system.

• Wytchin Hour has released Worldbuilding: Creating Grasslands, a short little system-neutral supplement to help Referees make grasslands more exciting environments for play.

• I've mentioned Berserkr before, the Mork Borg clone of norse adventure, and the author has just released Blood & Ice, a supplement for Berserkr that provides solo rules for that game.

• Journeymen, Expert, Master (or JEM) is an OSR-clone, and Advanced Fantasy: Race as Class is a supplement for OSR games that provides race as class options.

• Powder, Blood & Brine is a Pirate Borg supplement aimed at abstracting naval combat to allow it to be played via theater of the mind.

• James Floyd Kelly is raising funds for a fantasy zine double feature: Delver 19 (for OSE) and Runes 8 (for Shadowdark). They're a consistent publisher, and you can't go wrong by backing this campaign.

• I've uploaded The Sorcerer for Bree-YARC, the first four levels of the Sorcerer class, usable with the Bree-YARC ruleset.