Welcome to the OSR News Roundup for December 23rd, 2024. We're getting within spitting distance of the new year, and for those who celebrate Christmas is just days away.
I had seen Undelved, the author of Cave of Cowardice, post works in progress pics of the project over the past few months, and I'm super excited to see that it is finally released. It's a system neutral adventure with amazing art and, perhaps more importantly, is generously hyperlinked, which makes it super easy to use in pdf form.
Chrypt is a pretty cool looking dungeon-crawling game built partially using Cairn. The pdf is designed to be easily printed in a charming A6 format, and it includes rules for procedural generation of dungeons.
I don't see that many adventures for Dungeon Age, but the previously released Desert Angel Fiasco is now available in print format. It's written for Cairn, 5e, and standard OSR versions, and looks like it does some interesting world-building.
Eco Mofos, by Dave Blandy, is one of the cooler releases I saw come out in 2024, and there's been a ton of supplements released supporting it. One recent one I saw is by Roundup regular Jimmy Shelter, and is entitled Vehicle Rules for Eco Mofos. Sweet, simple, and to the point.
Nemesis Retribution is a slick little game that looks ideal for one shots or a session when the whole group can't make it. It's a game of enemies, dark counterparts, and all-consuming rivalries.
I'm not familiar with Eidolon, but I just saw there is a 2nd edition of the game that was just released. It's got some neat artwork and interesting concepts that evoke Jojo's Bizarre Adventures and Persona.
One of my personal favorite indie game designers is Tanya Floaker, and they've just released The Thunder Perfect Mind, in which you play a revenant attempting to form a mystery cult with the goal of discovering what caused your untimely end and rectifying it. It's a work in progress available on itch.
The Sin Eater is a new solo, rules-lite game in which you play the captain of a space vessel who failed in their mission to stop a galaxy destroying terror and have one last hope at saving humanity; constructing a parallel universe free from the creature.
Richard Kelly has released Seven Strangers III, a class supplement for Cthork Borg. Richard always publishes some great material.
I don't know how I missed this when it came out last week; the Welsh Piper is one of my favorite publishers, and their BX Options: Class Builder book is a classic. They've just released BX Options: Alternate Magicks, a weighty, 150 page book that introduces new spells, new spell-casting classes, a magical research system, rules for spell components, and more.
There's only a few days left in the Kickstarter for Issue 41 of Populated Hexes Monthly. This issue takes a dive into the Shadowlands, the place where souls journey after death, and explores the natives of this plane with a look at penumbrals. In BX-style D&D, shadows occupy a weird, non-undead place, and I decided they were the perfect starting place for the native inhabitants of the Shadowlands. Joining shadows are bodaks, barghests, ghouls, and vampires.
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