The Coming of Osric the Third (Updated)

Tome of Adventure Design, an absolute fucking unit Mark your calendars for the 6th of May; that is the day when the Backerkit campaign for the new edition of OSRIC starts. In case you’ve been living under a rock, OSRIC is a damn fine retroclone of AD&D1e and also one of the founding fathers of the whole OSR movement. Given that it will turn 20 next year, I can’t imagine a better way to celebrate than releasing a newer, prettier, revised, more accessible edition.

One of the best things that happened to the OSR scene in recent years was Matt Finch’s breakup with Frog God Games1 and the glorious revival of Mythmere Games. All the classics they’ve revamped and all the new products they’ve released so far that I’ve seen have been top-notch2, and I have no doubt they will deliver again.

There is a neat summary on the Mythmere Games website about what to expect from the new edition. I don’t have anything to add other than that I’ve already read the first version of Whispers of the Death God, and it alone would be worth a crowdfunding campaign. So stay tuned, stay hyped, and I’ll see you on the 6th!

2025.05.06. Update: It has begun!

  1. Who struggled so much with finding a new old-school platform that, in the end, they decided to release their own retroclone with blackjack and hookers. ↩

  2. I did not read some of the modules, though, and I firmly believe they dropped the ball when they halved the number of skeletons in Tomb of the Iron God’s skeleton barracks. ↩

Written on May 6, 2025
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