The Merry Mushmen

20/12/2023

New game of Dungeon, Inc. tomorrow with Ben himself as the referee. My character is ready. Should work totally fine...

16/12/2023

Get it?
Li-An at work, for Knock! #5 (yes, we're already working on issue 5...)

11/12/2023

For our French-speaking readers: Nicolas Dessaux, aka Snorri, genius designer of Searchers Of The Unknow, among other wonderful OSR stuff, is launching his own publishing house. A priori unrelated to RPGs for the moment. His first book is up for pre-order on Ulule: a historical study of the life of a spy in the 16th century.
Should be super useful for any late medieval or renaissance setting

Une espionne à la cour de Catherine de Médicis

04/12/2023

If you're in 5E, you shouldn't miss this supplement by our friend (and author for Knock!) Islayre. A detailed examination of the Ogre-Mages – powerful, dangerous, cruel, sinister and surprising creatures! Beautifully illustrated by John Grumph. On Lulu:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-gr%C3%BCmph-and-islayre-dargolh/ogre-mages/ebook/product-w44rvjk.html?page=1&pageSize=4

01/12/2023

Meet Eric and Ben at Dragonmeet tomorrow and get a free print copy of our Dungeon, Inc. Quickstart!

29/11/2023

Knock! #4 is live on Kickstarter. Pledge early, pledge often! (Merci)

An Adventure Gaming Bric-a-Brac. Being A Compendium of Miscellanea for Old-School RPGs. For us OSR weirdos and curious D&D heads alike.

28/11/2023

Tuesday will finally be wednesday.... KS is late on validation. Hold on tight!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/knock-issue-four

25/11/2023

Knock! #4 dust cover.... The lost city sandbox. By Eric Nieudan. Map: Rob Matthews

23/11/2023

No link to the KS page yet, but a teaser video for the next Knock! We launch on Tuesday 28, so get ready!

Coming soon! Stay tuned!

20/11/2023

Almost there!

14/11/2023

New stuff by Evlyn! On Kickstarter:

A third party zine for Troika!

13/11/2023

Dungeon, Inc. is the next game to be published by The Mushmen! The translation and mushmenisation of award-winning Donjon & Cie by Ben Felten.
Fully illustrated by Peter Mullen, it will be ready by early 2024. Now download our QUICKSTART SET: https://themerrymushmen.com/shop-tmm/. (And if you attend to Dragonmeet, London, this December, you should be able to find some print copies!)

10/11/2023

Working on something new. Stay tuned!

02/11/2023

Coming super soon!
(cover by the magic Bruno Prosaiko)

26/10/2023

Wow... Great review of Ragged Hollow.
Thanks guys!

Yochai & Brad review Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow by Joseph R. Lewis, and answer a mailbag question.Mailbag Question: What is the divide between Story Games and the OSR?

19/10/2023

Must have. By Stu Horvath. Incredible amount of work. Very fine descriptions of the games, as well as anecdotes, insights, memories... It's not just an encyclopaedia, it's much better than that and very smartly done. Stu just entered my Hall of Heroes with a bang.

19/09/2023

Ragged Hollow arrives at home! And it's cool.
Shipping will start tomorrow and will last all week. I can't wait for you to have it in your hands and at your tables!

11/09/2023

Ben Milton about the Folklore Bestiary

Get the OSR Folklore Bestiarty in PDF: https://bit.ly/FolkloreBestiaryOSE5e version in PDF: https://bit.ly/FolkloreBestiary5eGet them in print: https://bit.l...

25/08/2023

Spent 4 days in the mountains with the boy, looking for basajaunak, laminak and Tartaro... They're all gone!
(that's why you had no answers to your mails or messages if you sent some. I'll catch up tomorrow!)

17/08/2023

François Maumont is in Knock! #4, and that's a super good news.

11/08/2023

Li-An finished the illos. Last one: the Goblin Market. Let's go to the printer!

09/08/2023

I'm really super happy of the tremendous success for Dolmenwood KS. OSE became a "big thing", then we maybe tend to forget that this is true indy stuff (remember Wormskin!). Dolmenwood is a true super original and inspiring creation, far from the usual commercial D&D stuff. Well done Gavin!

And... I think what does Gavin since the beginning is very good for D&D in general. And, of course, I don't talk about the brand, but about that part of the hobby that we've all made our own and that we share.

A lavishly detailed fantasy world inspired by the fairy tales and eerie folklore of the British Isles.

04/08/2023

Pierre, aka Rackham Le Roux, is drawing for Knock! Here is the Iron Witch

01/08/2023

Łukasz Piwiński is drawing for Knock! and tat's super cool.

01/08/2023

Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow, last 24 hours!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/896102915/nightmare-over-ragged-hollow

28/07/2023

I promise I never meant this to be so long but brave your way through it & then discover a cool old school adventure some deeply strange miniatures, a great writer's newsletter & much much more...

25/07/2023

At work, Knock! #4

24/07/2023

In the mailbox this morning. I'M IN SHOCK. Skerples made the best bestiary ever. Seriously. As if I'd been waiting for it for 40 years. If you must keep only one, this is this one. This book should be mandatory. What a monster manual should always have been. Instant classic.

24/07/2023

Words!

20/07/2023

First third party creation for Black Sword Hack. And by Phil Reed!

The game's original 41 spells, plus 28 new spells that were created for this collection. Offered as PDF and print-on-demand.

19/07/2023

Knock knock! (working)

18/07/2023

Letty Wilson is drawing for Knock again! The Mushmen are super merry!

17/07/2023

Now live on Kickstarter! An adventure!
When vanilla fantasy meets folk tales. With a healthy dash of horror. A good cocktail!

A bloody good start in adventurous life! For OSE and all B/X look alikes

14/07/2023

An Adventure!
Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow by
and TMushmen.
On Kickstarter next monday à 12 PM, Zugarramurdi time. Be ready!

A bloody good start in adventurous life! For OSE and all B/X look alikes

10/07/2023

Kobayashi on Dieku Games channel! (one of the best TTRPG channel on YT)

I welcomed Kobayashi, the creator of the Black Sword Hack, which has recently been updated to a new Ultimate Chaos Edition through The Merry Mushmen publishi...

10/07/2023

Busy summer... working on Knock! #4... Part of the Magic & Sorcery section...

09/07/2023

Li-An is working and that's pretty cool

08/07/2023

Ragged Hollow Character Sheet

03/07/2023

It's the fourth time I read Emphyrio and I'm still in love with this book