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!
Green Ronin released a new Quickstart for The Expanse Transport Union Edition. This updated edition of the Expanse RPG takes place in the space between Book 6 and Book 7 of the novels in the 30 year gap of the Transport Union Era mostly unexplored in the novels.
- Price: Free
Chaosium published a handout pack for the Call of Cthulhu campaign The Order of the Stone. Get maps, character sheets, player handouts, and more all ready to use digitally along with printer friendly options.
- Price: Free
The Knave 2e Adventure Game Jam is in its judging phase on Itch.io with over 100 entries available to check out and vote on. Titles will only be available on sale as part of the game jam promotion during the voting period.
- Price: Pay What You Want (all titles)
- End Date: October 8, 2024
It’s officially October and you know that means it’s time to drag out the themed one-shots and special horror adventures. Joker & Thief Publishing released All Hallows’ Eve: Halloween Carousing for Shadowdark with new optional rules, locations, and more all ready to add some spooky fun to your game.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Tasha Patterson has a one-page horror RPG ZombHell that calls itself a “Zombie-Punk RPG” where the gates of Hell have opened and the damned infecting the bodies of both the dead and the living.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
The zine gothHbolin’s Grimoire Issue 3: Folk Horror is also getting in on the spooky season fun. As the title suggest, this zine features system-neutral ideas for magic items, spells, adventures, monsters, and more all inspired by classic folk horror.
- Price: Free
Moon Gate Explorations Co. released The Curse of Blightwood Hollow, a 5e adventure for 5th, 8th, or 10th level characters who are drawn by whispers of an ancient artifact located at Blightwood Hollow, a deadwood forest standing in the marsh pits of a desert shoreline.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Continuing with the spooky vibes, The Wandering DM has Immortality Manor, a 5e adventure for 1st to 3rd level characters with a gothic horror feel and a sandbox experience as you explore the manor and uncover its secrets with multiple possible endings.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
The Drowning Village is an OSRIC adventure for 3rd to 4th level characters investigating the reason the coastal village of Houra, which has withstood raids from goblins and orcs, is slowly succumbing to mysteriously rising seas.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
A bit more on the whimsical side for OSRIC, TheAlchemicPress released A Miraculous Mousy Metamorphosis! which turns your party of D&D heroes into mouse-sized and sends them on mousy adventures in a miniature world full of giant threats.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Az Copey has The Shrine of Infinite Branches, which sends the 5th level party to the titular Shrine to stop an ancient evil from returning.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
In the adventure Shadows Within from J. Shancey, the party has to clean up the mess of half elf adventurer Bertron Odami who unwittingly unleased an ancient evil from a crypt.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $6.00)
BirdEnuf Books & Games has a new setting for Old School Essentials, the Land of Mist. This art-free edition includes all the game stats including 9 character classes, 7 character races, new player options, new optional combat rules, domain management, mass combat, and more.
- Price: Free
- Note: A version will art and full layout is also available for $4.99 in PDF with softcover and hardcover options as well
Cirsova also has a new OSR setting, Brozer: Island of War and Winter featuring a brutal frozen wasteland where factions from throughout the multiverse have been brought to fight one another for domination of the land.
- Price: Free
If you’re looking for a new OSR system, Retro Rockerz released Kryptus, a tight 10-page OSR classless and agile system with conversion options to import monsters from other systems easily.
- Price: Free
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.
A rare third lightning round comes with a list of the copious number of optional rules systems released this week. 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.
Cubicle 7 placed multiple titles on sale under the Warhammer Day Sale. The webstore has discounts on all their licensed Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer 40K titles including the deluxe editions and boxed sets for Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Soulbound, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Warhammer 40,000: Wrath & Glory, and a lot more both physical and digital.
- Price: 25% off
- End Date: October 8, 2024
Chaosium collected several entries from the Call of Cthulhu creator program for the Miskatonic Repository Convention 2024 Bundle. The bundle features 23 titles for multiple settings including modern day, 1920s, Regency, and more.
- Price: $44.84 (60% off)
Everypony out there should be aware of Ponyfinder by this point, the “no trademarks were harmed” unofficial adaptation of My Little Pony using the Pathfinder rules. Well now Silver Games released the Foundry Unicorn Crown Bundle for the Ponyfinder adventure of the same name with a PDF version along with a copy ready to import for the Foundry VTT.
- Price: $22.98 (28% off)
It’s officially Spoopy Season, so time to pick up all the horror themed supplements! The Halloween Fun Bundle on Dungeonmasters Guild includes nine adventures and sourcebook for Ravenloft and other Dungeons & Dragons settings.
- Price: $19.46 (75% off)
And the Spooktober 2024 Bundle also has nine adventures and sourcebooks with a horror theme but staying within the Forgotten Realms including a collection of feywild inspired maps.
- Price: $7.26 (75% 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
Itch.io also has The Collective Heart Bundle hosted by Mean Green Press for the founder of the TTRPG Collective, Erin, who has had financial difficulty with housing security. The bundle has 54 indie titles including offerings from the genres of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, mystery, historical, atomic age, post-apocalyptic, and more.
- Price: $15 (91% off)
- Charity: erinmylaundry Housing Fund (100% of proceeds)
- End Date: October 21, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, the World of Darkness library is back with a full collection of Vampire: The Masquerade, Hunter: The Reckoning, and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The base level gets you a trio of adventures for Vampire, the fiction story Love Bites, and extra content for all three games. The second tier adds on two adventures for Hunter, one for Werewolf, six for Vampire, and another story The Primogen’s Gambit. The third tier is your buy-in if you’re new to the 5th edition of World of Darkness (which is the 5th Edition of the Storyteller System rules, not an adaptation to the d20 5e system) as it includes the core rulebooks Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition, Hunter: The Reckoning 5th Edition, and Werewolf: The Apocalypse 5th Edition plus the sourcebooks Camarilla, Anarch, Sabbat, Second Inquisition, Cults of the Blood Gods, Chicago by Night, Fall of London, and more. The top tier adds on the card game Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals plus the two expansions Heart of Europe and Shadows & Shrouds (shipping and handling extra).
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$40 (93% off at top tier)
- Charity: Your default choice (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: November 1, 2024
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
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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