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Blog Update and Game Teaser
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Blog Update and Game Teaser

In an attempt to keep a somewhat regular cadence of posts on my blog, I've decided to share some spreads of the Game I've been chipping away at for about 5 years.
It's not ready for any kind of release yet, but I figured I'd show something rather than just work on it isolated in my cave forever.

Let me know if any of this looks interesting to you guys!

https://darkpupil.com/another-update

u/DarkPupilRPG — 3 hours ago
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Recommendations for non-fantasy OSR systems

I'm looking to start a campaign with a small group to play in short bursts and was asked to not use a fantasy/medieval setting.

I'd like something that has a plethora of good published modules because my prep time is very limited. I also don't mind if it's really weird fantasy stuff (kinda like painted wastelands that has high-tech elements).

Please don't recommend Mothership. I don't wanna run that one again.

I've enjoyed CY_borg in the past but don't often see modules for it. I'm also aware of Stars without Number, but I've never seen a single module there. Even something that isn't futuristic could work, if it's well supported.

EDIT: Please include some of your favorite modules for the system~

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u/ChibiNya — 14 hours ago
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If you're looking for a bunch of old school wall art on the cheap, try postcards!

Grabbed a set of those D&D postcards at a local art/framing store yesterday and, in combination with some basic $5 plastic frames, they've really livened up this bare patch of wall.

Not all of the fifty card designs are classic TSR stuff, but a little over half are. Enough that I can rotate them out every couple months and not have any repeats over the course of a year. Good times.

u/Megatapirus — 13 hours ago
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Progress update for my rules-lite system Sepulchre.

Previous post decided to not upload the image so here we are again.

It's been a little over two weeks since I first posted about the retro-hack I've been working on called Sepulchre.

The system is complete, but it still needs some more playtesting, editing, and last minute decisions for content cuts and additions.

The picture posted is of the working version of the first two pages, however these could be subject to minor changes eventually, and there WILL be a printer-friendly version included as well (you should be paying with your blood not your wallet).

  • I took your guys' suggestion and have updated the tagline to: Why waste time reading, when you could be bleeding?

  • It's looking like the rules are going to be around 6-pages long (8 if including the front and back cover).

  • I really tried to aim for the four as initially stated, but while I do want this system to be extremely stripped from complexity, I don't also want it to be stripped of its functionality and overall feeling of "completeness".

  • Still not sure when the system will release, as I also want some sort of supplement or module to release along side it, whether it be an adventure module, setting, or additional rules (got a lot of half written content and ideas just sitting around).

Let me know if you have any questions and I'll try my best to answer them!

u/Notanothercritfail — 5 hours ago
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3d6 Down the Line Amuse-bouche! TMNT & Other Strangeness!

The squidmen employees at the local Kenny Bana Grill schlorp to the occasion when a pair of NYC elites get kidnapped right under their beaks! Break out the ink sacs and the uzis, cuz the tentacular meat is about to hit the street!

Find both the video and audio podcast versions of this episode -- plus a whole lot more --on 3d6 Down the Line!

https://preview.redd.it/if5yzuzi2jwg1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=481143800fdace863eb148852bfd2d5afd87bb0d

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u/Brittonica — 3 hours ago
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Me running session 27 of an improvised Warpland campaign while stoned, drunk and half-deranged.

u/Gavriel_Q — 23 hours ago
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Help identifying podcast

Salutations.

I’m trying to identify a particular episode of an OSR adjacent podcast where the guest discussed running a game of USR (Unbelievably Simple Roleplaying by Trollish Delver) involving a society where everyone wore masks. It was super interesting to me, so much so that 7 or 8 years later, I’m still thinking about it. Unfortunately I can’t remember the specifics, or who the hosts or guest might have been. I’m pretty sure G+ was still a thing when it originally aired. Back then I mostly listened to Spellburn, Gaming and BS, Hobbs & Friends, The Vintage RPG Podcast, and Fear of a Black Dragon, so it’s possible that the podcast episode in question may have been on one of those shows. Unfortunately, I know that I listened to other podcasts that I just don’t recall the names of now.

So, if anyone happens to know the podcast/episode I’m describing, I would love to listen to it again.

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u/ChaoticGord — 19 hours ago
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OSR News Roundup for April 20th, 2026

Welcome to the third news Roundup in April. It's a dry, dry month here, with temperatures way above normal, perfect for hanging out indoors and checking out some new games!

  • I don't know how I missed this, but Johan Nohr, the driving force behind Mork Borg, is raising funds for Fomoria, their game of folk horror. The campaign is well and funded, and is almost over at the time this goes live, but I wanted to make sure to get a mention of it in.
  • Simon Taylor is raising funds for The Cohort, an adventure for Mothership where the PCs are tasked with tracking down missing corporate employees.
  • Another Mothership adventure currently funding is Red Shift, an adventure where the earth's first colony ship has just been found, drifting through empty space, three centuries after it left the solar system.
  • The Mimic's Vault has just released Tarotweaver, a tarot-powered game inspired by Cairn, His Majesty the Worm, Over the Garden Wall, and more.
  • Mac, of Mac's Makes Games, has just released Under an Atomic Sky, a campaign hexcrawl for their NUKED! post-apocalyptic setting.
  • When the Shimmer Fades is a free adventure for Shadowdark. Themed around corruption and loss of faith, it's an adventure for character levels 2-4, set in a town where greed led to sacrilege.
  • Agamemnon Press has released their long-awaited (by me, at least!) Empire of Bones supplement in pdf on Drivethru. It's written for their fantastic Painted Wastelands setting, and looks at a city ruled by necromancers. The art is stunning.
  • Tales from the Locker, Issue 1, is the inaugural volume of what is planned to be a regular fanzine for Pirate Borg.
  • The prolific and talented Games Omnivorous has released The Flying Lootsman, an adventure for FLAIL!, in which a pirate with a flying ship is terrorizing the land, and it is up to the PCs to stop them and possibly claim the ship as their own.
  • Barrel Rider Games has released White Box: Dungeon Adventures, a sort of starter set for their line of White Box retroclones.
  • Mean Gits & Flashy Bitz is a supplement for Orc Borg that includes more classes, random tables, and guns. It does pretty much what you think it does.
  • Another in the ever-growing list of Borg hacks is Shark Borg: Bloodwater Preview, a PWYW introduction to the game. I'm not exactly clear what the game does, just that it has a lot of sharks in it, which is never a bad thing.
  • It's been awhile since I've seen anything by False Machine, but they've just released Gackling Moon, a gazetteer of sorts, written for the Gackling Moon setting.
  • David Okum has released Star Borg: Dreadfire Sector, a look at a region in space written for Star Borg, with a setting introduction, new classes, races, and a mini-adventure.
  • Depthwalker, an Enemy for Mork Borg, does pretty much what is says on the tin, presents a one-page, PWYW enemy (an animate old-timey diving suit) for Mork Borg encounters.
  • Written for Ad Astra and CY_BORG, EUPNEUS is a setting/adventure/campaign set in the depths of space, and includes a tone of material.
  • Almost exactly three years after I funded the original print run of the Into the Wild Omnibus I've started up a new Kickstarter to fund a reprint, as I'm now down to my last dozen or so copies. The Omnibus combines A Guide to Thieves' Guilds, Filling in the Blanks, and Into the Wild into a single book, and is all ready to be sent to the printers as soon as the campaign ends.
  • I'm pleased to announce the Sabre is now fulfilling the US orders for Forbidden Psalms, the minis game based off of Mork Borg. You can purchase directly from the Forbidden Psalms US webstore, or through Sabre Games and Cards.

Please note that the Drivethru links are Affiliate links.

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u/thirdkingdom1 — 1 day ago
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Opening page of the journal im using for making adventures. Grabbed stome stencils and borrowed my wife’s thermal printer.

u/Notanothercritfail — 1 day ago
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Toad Ripper for Neon Bastardz, my Mork Borg hack!

Just wanted to post my Toadripper creep here in the OSR!!! Who doesn't love a frog addicted to dog food? Hope you enjoy 'em as much as I did making it!!

u/NeonLordRPG — 17 hours ago
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My FLGS bought a DTF printer and will do custom mugs, hats, shirts. etc. I had them crank out a shirt for me I hacked togethjer

I spent some time last year hacking together as digital recreation of the Basic and Expert Set rules. Yesterday, the store made my basic set cover reproduction into a t-shirt.

And, yes, I am going to get an expert set shirt made too. Need to load the images I made and remove the background.

u/plazman30 — 2 days ago
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What is the difference between S&W Complete, S&W Whitebox and the Whitebox Cyclopedia?

I own S&W complete but I want to start a campaign with "Whitebox: Dungeon Adventures" at it's core wich mentions the Whitebox Cyclopedia wich as far as I get it replaced an version of S&W called S&W Whitebox. I'm just a little confused

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Fürestveil University - A magical university setting for OSR

The first dungeon level is ready to run at your table, and has been released in html format here.

I've been working on Fürestveil University for the last year. It's a hexcrawl and mini-megadungeon hybrid that takes place in a magical university. The setting has been 90% written, and I've been gradually playtesting and editing for release in my free web zine.

So far, this is the first update I've announced. I'm working hard to get more uploaded soon as I get the rest of the campus, hexcrawl, and remaining dungeon levels cleaned up for human consumption :)

Let me know what ya think!

Fürestveil University: https://furestveil.com/

u/tonymichaelhead — 2 days ago