It's the last Monday in October, and that means there are just two months left in 2024. What this also means is the ZineMonth is just around to corner. I will be doing the interview series I have done for the past (three now, I think?) years, highlighting zine creators and their projects, and it's never too early to start promoting your work. If you're such a creator, and you'd like to answer (in written form) a handful of questions about your project, please hit me up and I'll get them to you.
The first project I'd like to mention is written for 5e, but being an encounter location for a hexcrawl-style game I figure it is right up my alley. The Conductor, by Kontent Punch, is an encounter location with a strange being, and is especially suited for a fey-themed encounter.
Johnny Rook Games is Kickstarting Of Hunger and Lies, a city-based murder mystery written for OSE and OSRIC. It looks like there's a ton of stuff in here to make the city come alive, which is something I see people constantly looking for.
Double Proficiency, the folks behind the wildly popular Geologists' and Herbalists' Primers, is Kickstarting the Mycologists' Primer, which does for fungi what their previous two books did for herbs and rocks.
Gourdin Konbo Club has released The Illustrated Bestiary in English and Japanese, a collection of 145 monsters for Cairn (written by the author of Cairn, Yochai Gal themselves!).
Bound for the Bogwood is a spooky-themed adventure written for Cairn. It's about 90% done, and folks who purchase it now (at a discount) will be getting the updated files at no added cost when it's done.
Caverns of the Sacred Flame is an adventure for Knave 2e that was submitted to the recent Knave jam. It boasts a super cool isometric dungeon map.
Sneaking under the wire in time for Halloween is the Cairn adventure It Was Night in the Lonesome October, a spooky race-against-the-clock hexcrawl.
Saving Saxham is a short, open-ended sandbox-style adventure written for Cairn, 5e, and standard OSR games. It looks like it, too, would be a good one shot to run around Halloween.
Another Knave 2 jam entry is the Toymaker's Folly, a (free) adventure on Drivethru with horror-themes designed for a low-level party.
The Sunken Temple is a mid-level adventure for OSE, centering around a submerged temple and the hunt for the wizard who went missing while exploring it.
Shadow & Fae is a cool little OSRish game that I mention from time to time: A Walk in the Harwood is a new adventure for S&F (alhough it can also be run with OSE) where everything is not what it seems.
Crumbling Keep has released A Strange House, a 42-page adventure in a weird, decrepit dwelling contained within a pocket dimension. It's written for OSE and features art by Roundup favorite Evlyn Moreau.
Castle Grief is on my list of new favorite publishers that I've discovered this year, and they've just released Kal-Arath, an OSR system designed for procedural play; whether solo or co-op. They've also released at the same time two expansions: Valley of the Black Ziggurat and Lords of the Pit.
After founding Mythmere Games and going out on his own Matt Finch has been releasing new products at a torrid pace, both old and new. Tomb of the Iron God is a re-release of the classic adventure he wrote in the late aughts, updated for S&W Revised.
The Wizard's Zine was released in 2016, and now, eight years later, we've gotten Vol. 2 after much fan urging. It's largely a community driven project, and contains a whopping 105 pages of material written for Swords and Wizardry and White Box. Believe it or not, it's also Pay What You Want!
Written for Knave 2e, Eurydice's Needle is a jazz and crime inspired adventure that features, in my opinion, one of the best designed covers I've seen in awhile. The interior art is pretty great, as well.
MT Black has released World War Weird, a Black Hack hack set in on an alternate Earth during World War Two. Black is a well-known author, and a number of their releases are extremely well-regarded.
Sabre has gotten some new OSR titles in, including His Majesty the Worm, Outcast Silver Raiders, and a restock of the OSE Advanced Player's Book.
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