Top of the day: A quiet stretch for the scene. Mothership’s new zine adventure Awaiting the Burning Gods hit store shelves, and Tuesday Knight Games’ Warden’s Club for public-game GMs is now running. Over on crowdfunding, Shadowdark gets a big undead bestiary from Jeff Stevens Games, and Portland’s Blackleaf second edition has blown past its tiny goal, though overall Kickstarter activity is down sharply this week.
News
- Tuesday Knight Games: Awaiting the Burning Gods reaches stores — The new Mothership adventure is a $25 softcover zine that comes bundled with a bonus zine, The Smuggler’s Guide to 1365. (EN World)
- Arc Dream: Delta Green: The Millennium in print — The same roundup lists the $69.99 Delta Green book alongside Under the Shadow of the Noon-Day Witch ($34.99 hardcover) for Sickest Witch. (EN World)
- Tuesday Knight Games: Warden’s Club opens for Mothership Month — Starting November 10, GMs who run public Mothership games can log them for prizes and a members-only adventure, Machines of Loving Grace, with logging open through October 31, 2027. Mothership Select picks follow on November 20, and the Jump-9 Writers Grant names its three $9,000 finalists on November 30. (Tuesday Knight Games)
Crowdfunding
- Jeff Stevens Games: Book of the Dead & Damned for Shadowdark funds — More than 90 undead, lycanthropes, mummies and oozes, plus nine short adventures and magic items, at $12 for the PDF or $20 with a hardcover print code. It runs to December 10, with delivery planned for April 2027. (The Gaming Gang)
- Izegrim Creations: Blackleaf second edition soars past its goal — Rod Waibel’s Portland-made AD&D 2e rebuild, with optional ascending AC, has raised over £12,500 against a £373 goal and unlocked offset-printed hardcovers. It closes November 19, with digital pledges around $25 and physical around $120. (Geek Native)
- Spellbound: The Arathusa Dispatch Adventure Collection for Mothership — A new third-party Mothership collection joins this week’s Kickstarter slate, next to rivethead games’ Rife Assemblage: Farewell to Arms REDUX for Mörk Borg. (Geek Native)
Community & Gossip
- Limithron: Pirate Borg studio branching out (rumor) — An unconfirmed post in EN World’s OSR roundup says Limithron is working on a Shadowdark adventure, with Pirate Borg and Mörk Borg ports for Patreon backers, and has surveyed fans about non-Pirate Borg projects. The same post puts the Dark Caribbean sourcebook in 2028. (EN World)
Ins & Outs
- Out: big Kickstarter weeks — Geek Native’s weekly crowdfunding heat score fell to 95, about 47% below its ten-week average, a notably slow week for tabletop launches. (Geek Native)
- In: creator programs over megacampaigns — Mothership Month skipped the big crowdfunding push this year, after raising over $1M in 2024 and over $850K in 2025, in favor of fulfillment catch-up, grants and GM rewards. (TTRPG Insider)
Sources
- EN World: RPG Print News – Dungeon Crawler Carl RPG, Sickest Witch, Mothership and More
- Tuesday Knight Games: Coming Soon – Warden’s Club
- The Gaming Gang: Book of the Dead & Damned for Shadowdark
- Geek Native: Blackleaf modular second edition
- Geek Native: Routinely Itemised RPG #387
- EN World: OSR News Roundup
- TTRPG Insider: Mothership publisher pivots from crowdfunding to creators
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