Coming Soon for OSE & Dolmenwood! Plus Playtests, Foundry Upgrades, and Third-Party Highlights

Development Diary: New OSE and Dolmenwood Releases in the Works

The Necrotic Gnome workshop resounds with ringing hammers and bubbling brews as our artificers draft and craft new treasures for you. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming your way:

Almost ready...

We’ve just sent Carcass Crawler 6—the next instalment of our official OSE zine—off to the printers, alongside Quick Delve #2: The Grotesques’ Grotto, Amelia Luke’s sinister temple crawl. Both will be ready to hit storefronts soon.

Shaping up...

Quick Delve #3: Against the Horselord by Brad Kerr has finished playtesting and is now entering layout and illustration, with publication planned for early 2026.

Several new OSE adventures are also being developed under the codenames: Red Veins, Golden Lies, Shadows and Flesh, and The Heart of Proteus. Expect more news as these grow into full-fledged terrors and treasures.

On the horizon...

Whispers of two brand-new Dolmenwood projects are drifting through the fairy fog. They’re still under wraps, but keep your lanterns lit and your eyes on this newsletter for announcements in the coming months!

Playtesters, Assemble!

Since our last newsletter on September 10th, we’ve sent the second draft of the Demons & Devils tome for Old-School Essentials to testers. If you signed up for some diabolical secrets but didn’t receive any, please let us know so we can dispatch more imps.

Test versions of the OSE Starter Set will be sent to selected beginner groups in the next couple of weeks, so if you’re on that list, keep an eye on your inbox.

And don’t forget: if you’d like to get involved in future playtests, join our dedicated signup pages for Old-School Essentials or Dolmenwood on our site. Join in and be among the first to explore what’s next from Necrotic Gnome!

Carcass Crawler 2 Foundry Module

Carcass Crawler Issue 2 is now available in the Foundry Marketplace, bringing a trove of new rules and content straight to your virtual table.

New Foundry Monster Art Tokens

The OSE Premium Game module has been enhanced with 50 new monster art tokens, illustrated by Frank Scacalossi (more tokens are in development for future updates).

Wildendrem Vol. 2: The Saintly Hollows

The Saintly Hollows, a follow-up to the award-winning The Valley of Flowers, is launching its Kickstarter soon. The initial page teases three new regions along Wildendrem’s wild coast, filled with dungeons, strange beasts, saint cults, warring factions, and other weird wonders.

Highlights include:

• The Asterial Sanctum, a vast dungeon where imprisoned sorcerer-saints scheme in secret.
• Sir Goliath, Ambulating Terror of the Moors, a colossal mechanical knight that is itself a dungeon.
• Over a dozen additional adventure sites, shifting battlefronts, cursed relics, and reality-bending pilgrimage roads.

Alongside it comes The Wildendrem Codex, with 20 character backgrounds, a starting adventure (The Moaning Midden of Cudwick), optional rules for Oaths & Quests, and a trove of lore to fuel sandbox-style campaigns.

With all that and more, The Saintly Hollows promises to be a worthy sequel to one of the most impressive third-party OSE settings to date. Hit the button below to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live!

New adventures, supplements, and other content from the OSE and Dolmenwood community:

• 3D6 Down the Line Return to Dolmenwood Episode 1 is available for free on YouTube!
• Gamer’s Dungeon gives a detailed review of the complete Dolmenwood Kickstarter set. Spoiler: “extraordinary, a design triumph, a storytelling feast”.
• Dungeon Style Character Sheets to keep your mind on mazes while adventuring.
• Manic at the Monastery, a low-level adventure among a holy order and a psychedelic plague.
• Journey Under the Rock, an underground delve for beginner characters inspired by a classic module.
• Ancestral Peninsula #1, a campaign setting inspired by Iron Age myths.
• James Maliszewski’s (Grognardia) Lovecraft-inspired OSE classes, including the Dream-Ship Captain, Dreamer, and Moon-Prowler.

Looking to publish your own OSE or Dolmenwood material? Send it to 3pp@necroticgnome.com for a chance to be highlighted here!

Note: DriveThruRPG now has a category tag for Dolmenwood! Make sure to tag your Dolmenwood third-party products with it.