Welcome to the second OSR News Roundup for the new year. For the next month or so I will be annoying probably about half of y'all with ZineMonth updates, and I've got a couple quick ones to go over right now.
Luke, of AetherCorp Games, has taken over the mantle of maintaining a community ZineMonth site, which you can find here. If you're planning on participating in ZineMonth this is a great resource for you, both to share news about your project and to connect with others.
I wrote a blog post a few years back on how to price your zine project with an eye towards retail sales. You can check it out here. If you're interested in trying to get your zine into retail stores I'd be happy to talk to you about stocking it at Sabre.
Finally, if you'll be participating and want some free publicity please reach out to me and I'll send you some short and sweet questions to answer about your project.
Okay, with that out of the way for this week let's jump into new releases.
I've been tinkering with an alchemy system for OSE for years now, never really having the time to tackle it, but Valluch has just released a generic alchemical pamphlet for use at the table, one that produces random results from monster parts the adventurers manage to drag back to civilization. It's in a nice, tri-fold format.
New to me, Infinite Fractal has released Embark, a hackable OSR system, that uses d12s for resolutions.
The Caves of Emerald Cove is a Goonies-inspired dungeon crawl written for Gloom & Doom but easily converted for use with other systems.
I've mentioned before that I've bounced hard off the various Borgs (except for Pirate Borg, for some reason!), but the newly released Fe Borg seems to be right up my alley. It's set in a dying Fairyworld desparate to stay alive by feasting on mortals.
Inspired by the various Odd hacks and derivatives, The Outer Dark is a post-war game that is written to be played solo, cooperatively, or with a referee, and is a neat little classless, Lovecraftian horror system.
The Divorced Mage is written for DURF but can be easily adapted to other systems. It's a charming adventure for low-level characters, exploring the lair of a mage beset by the regrets of their life-choices.
SunEater is a short adventure for a variety of Borgs that centers around the adventurers being press-ganged into solving a mystery that threatens a city. It mostly jumped out at me for the cover art, which is very evocative.
Jesse Lee released Better off Undead last Monday, too late for inclusion in last week's Roundup, so I wanted to be sure to include it today. It's written for BX/OSE and has some pretty great, old-school-style hexmaps.
I'm running a Kickstarter for Issue 42 of Populated Hexes Monthly. This is the demon issue, and includes a handful of demons converted to OSE/BX-style monsters, as well as rules and random tables for generating your own demonic creations.
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