# Forgotten Gems of the OSR - Oubliette Magazine

Oubliette was a zine edited and published by Peter Regan from 2010-
2012 (with a stray issue published in 2015). Nine issues were
published in total, all available in print or PDF from DTRPG [1] or
the editor's blog [2] (a PDF bundle of the first eight issues [3] is
also available). Oubliette is dedicated to Labyrinth Lord, but of
course will be useful to any B/X-type games. There were two
compendiums published, each with four issues - my own hard copies
are the compendiums.

It had a huge array of content, from adventures and new monsters to
fiction and reviews. The art by The Marg is unique and has a great
amateur feel. As a whole, it is wonderfully creative. Just skimming
the issues will give the game master lots of ideas they can use in
their games, for example the Newland campaign setting in issue 6, or
the wandering monster tables in issues 6-8.

There are quite a few articles on house rules, including firearms,
variations on the vampire, new classes and Magic-User familiar
rules. At $2 a copy, you could do worse than to spend $18 on the lot
of nine issues.

I'd say that time period from 2009 until about 2013 was the height
of the OSR forum/blog and there were many ideas and homebrew
projects being published and discussed. It's not a stretch to say
that Oubliette fed off of that creative energy of the time. In the
editorial to issue #8, Regan says he has planned four more issues -
I guess only one crystallized, but I'd love to see more. In that
same editorial, he says:

>Most importantly, I want to continue publishing a magazine that,
>when I pick it up and look at it in 20 years, gives me the same
>rush of nostalgia that I get now from my old gaming books and
>magazines from the 1980's.

Maybe it's only 10 years, but I'd say he succeeded.

[1]: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3192/Gold-Piece-Publications
[2]: https://oubliettemagazine.blogspot.com/
[3]: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/147339/Oubliette-Issues-18-BUNDLE