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OSR News Roundup for November 11th, 2024

Welcome to the second Roundup of November. Let's jump right in, shall we. This week seems a bit lighter than recent weeks.

  • DURF is a fun little system, and DURF Me to the Moon is a recent entry into the DURF adventure game. It's meant to be a quick one-shot playable in a couple of hours, and is influenced by both The Little Prince and Dr. Who.

  • Simon Templar has just released The Call of Cairnthulhu, a mashup of Cairn and the works of HP Lovecraft. Cairn is a sweet game (I know I've talked about it before), and I think it dovetails very nicely into the Call of Cthulhu-style games.

  • Written for the excellent Wretched and Alone system, A Witch, A Gallows Bird is a late release for Halloween. You take the role of the one real witch in Salem Village, trying to survive in an atmosphere of accusations and fear.

  • The prolific James Floyd Kelly has launched a short Kickstarter for Delver 16/Runes 5, a collection of game aids and material for OSE and Shadowdark.

  • Christian Eichhorn is funding Tribute, a zine for Mork Borg, CY_Borg, and A Death in Space. Christian has released a staggering amount of 3rd party material for these systems, and their projects are always worth checking out.

  • One thing that the various Borgs do really well is project hopelessness into the game, and Mork Org leans into that, embracing perhaps the most horrifying, hopeless existence of all: that of the mindless office drone.

  • The Ghosts of Zoazanna Mountain is an adventure for OSE currently funding on Backerkit. It's a massive, 80+ page adventure, with some really great illustrations.

  • I meant to mention this a few weeks ago, but I dropped the ball. Elln the Witch has released a compilation of their "little zine" books. Each release is a little amuse bouche, a delightful aid to play, and they're definitely worth checking out.

  • Peculiar Taverns Along the Way is a collection of twenty taverns, broadly sketched, ready for the Referee to add details and throw them into their game as needed.

  • I've mentioned Corp Borg a couple of times, and Gates of Byll is a random room generator for that system.

  • Speaking of an amuse bouche, Random I Am is a collection of two tables of grog and grub, written with Pirate Borg in mind but obviously adaptable to any other system.

  • I'm a big fan of Hugh Lashbrooke's Mausritter releases, and Whiskers in the Wind introduces the new setting of Whiskerwind Hollow.

  • River of Lies is a DCC adventure set on the Purple Planet. It's written for 3rd level characters, and is by James A Pozenel, with art by a host of DCC luminaries.

  • MacGuffin and Co (publishers of some fantastic indie games, include Upriver, Downriver), have just released A Day at Barracuda Beach, a . . . relaxing, beach-based hexcrawl that allows the PCs to doff their plate armor and don their Speedos.

  • Populated Hexes Monthly Issue 39 is live on Drivethru, featuing an introduction to Tyeld, the City of Shadows, and the duskblade class, a martial playable class that draws power from the Shadowlands at the risk of corruption of the soul.

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