The core rules are in OSRIC, and that’s usually free, available here to be handy and with $70 worth of downloads.
Free to Download: Denizen! The Magonian Edition
The RPG is a 282-page full-featured core set. It’s about dungeon crawls and heroics with the usual set of six stats but different rules for character generation and skill testing.
Free to Download: Isle of Dragons – Player’s Guide
The OSR RPG Isle of Dragons by C.K. Ipson has a free to download Player’s Guide.
Download for Free: Christmas giveaway of Lost in Dungeon’s “Journeys into the Unknown”
The game, inspired by Ben Milton, Brandish Gilhelm, Chris McDowall, and Gavin Norman, has 10 lineages but no classes and uses diegetic advancement (rewards for actions, not just kills) and an item slot approach.
Embrace the dungeon crawl: Flying Monster Games kickstarts Adventurers of Combat & Quest! Intro Edition
Treasure tables that provide randomized loot, a storyline that is about smashing that evil scourge that has infested the world, and gives players the ability to create randomized encounters quickly to continue players’ questing.
The (Old-School) People v. Modern D&D
Woah! So here’s the deal: OSR players and DMs cling to the Gygaxian glory of yore, while the hashtag generation is all about novelty on demand. No…. Shocker!
Beyond Corny Groń: Polish folk tales as a system-neutral Adventurer’s Guide
The Nerd Sirens are an indie game store and publisher from Poznan in Poland who are on Kickstarter with Beyond Corny Groń.
Outcast Silver Raiders RPG: Bloody occult medieval OSR
Isaac VanDuyn first Kickstarter launch asked for more than $17,000 to fund an RPG.
Fancy 6,000 pages of OSR RPG? You must confront the Castle Oldskull bundle
The Bundle of Holding has a deal on the OSR Castle Oldskull RPG from author Kent David Kelly.
Reign of Discordia pitches Kickstarter with 5e and White Star editions and free zines for backers are expected
Rogue Genius Games, the publishing company from Owen Stephens, has teamed up with RPG vet Darrin Drader for Reign of Discordia.