Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the internet.
Freebies and Pay What You Want
Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the creators if you are able!
Atop the Great Turtle A’Tuin stands four elephants, and on the backs of these elephants sits the Discworld. Modiphius released a quickstart for their upcoming game Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Adventures in Ankh-Morpork with pre-generated characters as members of the Watch tasked by Commander Vimes to find out who has stolen dragons from the Lady Cybil Ramkin Sunshine Sanctuary. Get your first look at Modiphius’s new narrative-focused rules system Narrativium where you are not only allowed but encouraged to use a punne, or play on words*.
- Price: Free
- *Yes, there are many footnotes as well
Kobold Press has a preview of their new metaverse setting Labyrinth as a web connecting your favorite Dungeons & Dragons, Tales of the Valiant, and your home campaign. The setting also functions as a toolbox to add new lineages, spells, monsters, subclasses, and more to your games as you can add a cosmic element to your games.
- Price: Free
Storm Bunny Studios has the Mists of Akuma Soburin Primer for their updated version of the eastern fantasy steampunk noir campaign setting by EN World’s own Mike Myler. This 90-page book not only gives you an in-depth look at the setting and its optional rules, but also how it’s been updated for cross-compatibility with the new “5.5e” revised rules.
- Price: Free
Phil Reed Games released the Mork Bork supplement Blacken & Burn, Rumors of a Dying World. This random table of rumors and gossip give you plenty of tools to drop plot points (or misleading lies) from overheard conversations in taverns and alleyways.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
In a unique approach to solo games, Tenebris Games released The Last Day of the Rest of My Life, a solo journaling game based on Powered by the Apocalypse rules. Choose from several archetypes and explore a character’s final moments recalling past events and confronting unresolved issues.
“Sometimes, you are missing a photo. Sometimes, strange photos are in your order. Sometimes, your photos are stained with blood.” A hell of an opening pitch from the liminal horror game One Hour Photo from M. Allen Hall. This OSR adventure is built for Liminal Horror but works for any modern horror RPG with a dark mystery surrounding a town’s busiest (and now only) film shop.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Shadowdark fans can pick up The Devils’ Martyrs from Redd Jack, a one-page gauntlet inspired by Dungeon Crawl Classics funnel adventures that sees hapless villagers fleeing from a neighboring army and the fiends accompanying them.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Relentless Fiction released Albion by Aetherlight #1: The Game is Afoot featuring Victorian fantasy 5e versions of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Professor Moriarty, Irene Adler, and more (including Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Wolfman just for funsies). Perfect for use in the Albion campaign setting or any other 5e Victorian-style world.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
The season for horror one-shots is upon us, and Roberto Fernández-Regueira has Slasher: Don’t Scream, Run. This six-page RPG draws inspiration from slashers and other horror films of being stalked including Texas Chansaw Massacre, Alien, Friday the 13th, Halloween, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Storytellers Vault, Enrique Castro released Old Witchcraft: Secrets of Koldunic Sorcery, a new take on the dark arts of the Tzimisce based on Eastern European folklore and modern urban legends with over 20 new powers, almost 100 new rituals, new archetypes, new merits, new backgrounds, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.76)
The first Lightning Round this week features gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
The second Lightning Round features player resources like classes, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, races/species, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
Bundles and Sales
Note: I have included end dates when listed for the following sales, but please be warned that those without published end dates may end suddenly so be sure to plan purchases accordingly.
EN Publishing has a couple of bundles on Bundle of Holding for Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. These aren’t for charity, they’re just deep discounts on A5e titles starting with the Level Up! Bundle featuring all three core rulebooks – Adventurer’s Guide, Trials & Treasures, and Monstrous Menagerie – plus the introductory adventure Memories of Holdenshire and the Narrator’s Screen.
- Price: $24.95 (74% off)
- End Date: October 1, 2024
The second bundle is the Level Up Adventures Bundle featuring the Level Up Advanced 5th Edition Starter Box and Gate Pass Gazette Annuals 2022-2023 at the base level with the Bonus Collection adding on the Dungeon Delver’s Guide, Adventures in Zeitgeist, and the adventure path To Save a Kingdom.
- Price: $12.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option (heh)
- End Date: October 1, 2024
Closing out DriveThruRPG’s September Setting Sale is Week 4: Zines. Take your pick from over 1300 titles on discount with content for Dungeons & Dragons (including official digital versions of classic modules like Keep on the Borderlands or Temple of Elemental Evil, Old School Essentials, AGE Roleplaying, Call of Cthulhu, Shadowdark, and a lot more including zines covering multiple systems or system-agnostic material.
- Price: 25% off
- End Date: September 30, 2024 ONE MORE DAY!
DriveThruRPG and Roll20 also have the Worlds of Adventure Sale for Dungeons & Dragons. VTT-ready copies of official D&D adventures are on discount including Curse of Strahd, Descent into Avernus, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron, and more
- Price: 40% off
Son of Oak Game Studio has a pair of bundles for their modern fantasy City of Mist roleplaying game. The first bundle is the Core Vigilante Bundle featuring the City of Mist: Player’s Guide, the All Seeing Eye Investigations starter set, the location and NPC book Local Legends, and the GM book Master of Ceremonies’ Toolkit.
- Price: $59.96 (29% Off)
The second bundle is the Ultimate Vigilante Bundle with a full library of books including everything above plus the two City of Mist: Character Folio Packs and the expansions Nights of Payne Town and Shadows & Showdowns.
- Price: $95.95 (40% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has a huge bundle with the TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Charity Bundle hosted by jesthehuman. This bundle features over $900 worth of TTRPG products and over 300 titles from 135 creators including Glitter Hearts, Five Year Mission, The Mystery Business, and so many other titles covering pretty much anything you could want in a TTRPG product.
- Price: $10.00 (98% off)
- Charity: DOTS RPG Project (all proceeds)
- End Date: October 20, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Goodman Games has the DnD 5e Adventures and More Bundle featuring a huge collection of their third-party titles. The base level includes a trio of adventures from the Fifth Edition Fantasy series while the second tier adds on 13 more plus the Goodman Games 2021 Yearbook, the third tier ups the library to a total of 38 titles including the Original Adventures Reincarnated version of Jannell Jaquays’s classic Dark Tower, the licensed setting book Monsters & Magic of Lankhmar, and the dungeon crawl Crypt of the Devil Lich (including a bonus DCC conversion). The top tier adds on a physical copy of the softcover for Crypt of the Devil Lich (shipping and handling extra).
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$30 (93% off at top tier)
- Charity: Global FoodBanking Network (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 17, 2024
Renegade Game Studios has a combo digital and physical bundle with the Power Rangers Roleplaying Game Book Bundle. The base tier gets you the introductory adventure A Time of Knight along with bonus material, the second tier adds on more adventures with To the Moon and Back, A Glutton for Punishment, Recipe for Disaster, and Tenga Temple. The third tier is where we get really started with the Power Rangers Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook plus the Jump Through Time and the crossover book Essence 20 System Field Guide to Action and Adventure for adding in elements from Transformers and G.I. Joe. The top tier is where the physical items join in with the Power Rangers Hero Miniatures Set 1 and 2 along with the physical Power Rangers Expanded Character Sheet Journal. Note: Physical items only available in US/CAN/AUS/NZ and shipping is not included.
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$40 (91% off at top tier)
- Charity: Worldbuilders Inc (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 19, 2024
Paizo has the Bundle of the Dead with a collection of Pathfinder 2nd Edition books. The base level includes the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Bestiary, GM Screen, Beginner Box, and the first adventure of the Blood Lords adventure path while the second tier adds on twenty more items including the Gamemastery Guide, the next three entries of the Blood Lords adventure path, the Lost Omens World Guide, and more. The third tier is a full library of 53 titles including all the ones from prior levels plus the Book of the Dead, the last of the Blood Feast adventure path (including VTT files for Foundary for all six adventures), Secrets of Magic, and a lot more. The top tier adds on the physical hardcover of Book of the Dead (shipping extra).
- Price: $5/$15/$35/$50 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Take This (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 10, 2024
Cubicle 7 has a huge bundle of RPGs from the Warhammer 40K universe including Deathwatch and Rogue Trader. The base tier has two introductory adventures for each RPG – Final Sanction and Know No Fear for Deathwatch and Dark Frontier and Forsaken Bounty for Rogue Trader. The second tier adds on more adventures and sourcebooks for each system including The Nemesis Incident, Shedding Light, The Emperor Protects, Hostile Acquisitions, and the Game Mastery Kit for each plus more. The top tier is a full 41 title library including the core rulebooks for Rogue Trader and Deathwatch plus a lot more sourcebooks and adventures to expand your games in the Imperium.
- Price: $1/$15/$25 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Health Ireland (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 12, 2024
The Black Library is back with more Warhammer 40,000 novels just in time for the highly anticipated release of the video game Space Marines 2. This bundle features three levels up to a total of 24 titles with tales from all across the Imperium including Deathwatch by Steve Parker, Blood of Asaheim by Chris Wraight, the compilation Ultramarines, and many others.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: EveryLibrary Institute (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 5, 2024
The Lost Worlds of Gygax Bundle features a bunch of products from Troll Lord Games, Frog God Games, Necromancer Games, and more featuring the works of Gary Gygax, original co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons for a wide variety of systems including Castles & Crusades, D&D 3.5, 5e, and more. Some of these are by Gary himself, while others draw on his worlds, creators, and characters in one tribute to one of RPG’s biggest icons.
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: Navy Marine Corps Relief Society (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 3, 2024
While technically not RPG bundles, if you want to get caught up before the recently-announced Kickstarter for the RPG comes, we have a bundle from the master of satirical fantasy himself, Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld. The bundle features 39 of the 41 books of the series giving you the only major issue of deciding where to start. Note: This bundles require redeeming the books via a Kobo account, which some have reported issues with the DRM on some ereaders. Also, the Discworld bundle is only available in the United States. No other country. No, VPNs won’t work. Trust me, people have tried.
- $1/$10/$18
- Charity: Room to Read (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 30, 2024 ONE MORE DAY
That’s all for this week! If you know of any bundles or sales starting soon, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Mastodon, or send me a message here on EN World. Discount percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number and are based on the standard retail price provided by the site. Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
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