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Welcome to the third OSR News Roundup for September 2025. There were a ton of entries last week; one reader commented that it was like everyone got home from summer break and pressed publish at the same time. Let's see if this week continues at the same pace. A warning, though, that itch was...

I loved it. I started playing again last year, and I was able to jump in straight having last played in . . . 1994?

Yeah, no kidding! I was really surprised at the number of releases this week.

I try to catch as many new releases as I can, but sometimes I miss one, and I'll try to plug stuff that I missed that seems really interesting. Back in March Thunder Toad Games released their first adventure Titan's Throne: Infested Archives, a sandbox-style adventure for characters of level...

The Bree-YARC Quickstart Kickstarter is now live. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thirdkingdom/bree-yarc-rpg-quickstart

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...

Welcome to the last News Roundup for August. First, I'd like to apologize to Will, of Inverted Castle Press. I had fully planned on mentioning their release Manic at the Monastery, but it slipped through the cracks. It's an adventure for characters of levels 1-3, and is statted for both OSE and...

And the Quickstart is now live on Drivethru.

Welcome to the third News Roundup for August. For new readers, this is a compilation of last week's new releases that I found in the OSR and indie RPG fields. I don't promote anything that contains AI assets, and I also make my best effort to promote the works of marginalized creators. If you've...

The Into the Wild Omnibus that I wrote has pretty extensive, fairly granular rules for domain play inspired by the Rules Cyclopedia.

Welcome to the second News Roundup in August. If you're in the States you're probably looking at the start of school and the winding down of summer. Let's jump right in and check out last week's releases, shall we? Perplexing Ruins has published Saint Witold's Bell, an adventure for Shadowdark...

I just got the final in for the Quickstart cover, done by the amazing Juan Ochoa.

I might be mistaken here, and this is probably not the thread for it, but my understanding is there is plenty of LGBTQ+ material currently available and indexable on itch, and that it is the creator's responsibility to tag their products NSFW. Additionally, there's been a movement amongst...

I don't know if it is apparent, but one of my goals with the Roundup is to promote indie games whenever possible, so I always include links to itch products first, to try and drive more people there, and if a product is listed on both itch and Drivethru I'll try and promote the itch version. For...