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!
Pelgrane Press released a new quickstart for the Gumshoe powered Lovecraftian horror game Trail of Cthulhu. This mystery-focused variant of the cosmic horror genre places you in the role of investigators in the 1930s in a world of pulp adventure and dark threats lurking in the shadows.
- Price: Free
Maude Cort has a Call of Cthulhu one-page one-shot with Millan’s Tomb that sends the investigators to uncover the mysteries of a lost fortune in the titular tomb.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
If you missed the news, Chaosium launched their new creator content program for Pendragon 6e called Companions of Arthur. There’s already several items up, including the Guide to Arthurian Britain as a primer for Pendragon in the years of 508-510 to bring people quickly up to speed on the setting along with a list of hooks, inspirations, events, and local color.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
That’s not the only fun from Chaosium’s community content as Dustin Olson posted Night at the Sunshine Inn, an adventure for RuneQuest. This sequel to the Starter Set adventure is heavily inspired by Night of the Living Dead as the adventurers must survive a night bombarded by creatures of chaos.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.25)
Planning your character out in 5e can be difficult if you’re making your character by hand. That’s why Rye Alboa has 5e Character Development Planner, a character sheet and workbook to help you plan out your character from Level 1 all the way to Level 20.
- Price: Free
Delcuze Dungeoneering released A Sapper’s Training, an optional system for advanced weapon skills. Learn new fighting styles for certain weapons and forms with training and refinement of your technique.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Dark Clouds over Castle Talbot is an OSR adventure for Old School Essentials about the Lord and Lady Talbot, the last of their line, who own a remote but productive silver mine who have become reclusive with packs of wolves howling through the night.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.00)
For more OSR adventure, RPGPapercrafts has Patrons of the Harvest, an eight page adventure for Knave 2e with a hexcrawl adventure centered on the town of Greenhill as you seek to free it from the apparent curse that has struck the town with calamity after tragedy.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Speaking of Knave 2e, Dados Tostados has Knaves of the Mist with two pages of rules and guidelines for playing the OSR game in the setting of Ravenloft or other gothic horror fantasy worlds.
- Price; Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Conall Haughey posted HARK! RPG, a dark fantasy RPG based on folklore using the Basic Roleplaying system. “Will you e haile da sheroes? Or be snuffed out like so many before you?”
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Isle of the Evil Eye is an adventure for Shadowdark complete with VTT tokens, high-quality maps, handouts, and a print-ready PDF for the party to explore a haunted keep and uncover what happened within the walls.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
This is one of the more unusual inspirations I’ve seen for an adventure, but directsun released With the Cult of Crimson Revelers, a Knave 2e adventure based on the classic anti-drug propaganda exploitation film Reefer Madness.
- Price; Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.50)
Shaeomar has Assignment: HRS Iceberg, an adventure for Candela Obscura that places the circle on the stormy docks of The Sidle to find a ship dead in the water of the Glass Sea…with an iceberg attached to it? Odd.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Rayney Day Games wants to answer one of the eternal questions: Who would when between Cats vs Cthulhu? Play solo or gather your friends to band together and convince the humans to save the world from the Great Old Ones.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
Joker & Thief Publishing released Lost Keep of the Savage Horde, a 5th level adventure for Shadowdark. “The long-forgotten temple to the god Ramlaat is said to hold riches beyond a crawler’s wildest dreams. However, Telonrend the Skyfallen and his trog minions, enthralled by the Pillager’s tenets, now hold dominion over the place.”
- Price; Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Joker & Thief isn’t done with Shadowdark this week as they also have Isle of the Serpent Queen, an adventure with a unique card-based exploration system and a touch of sci-fi.
- Price; pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.50)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Tabletop Unhinged has a rather unique product with Bobbleheads: Skeletons, a printable papercraft project of a skeleton bobblehead that can be made with any regular paper printer, scissors or a craft knife, and a bit of paper glue.
- Price: Free
Arron Sharp wants to add some new depth to your games with Attack Variations, new options for melee and cantrip attacks that add new tactical options.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
If you’d like a follow-up to the original 5e Starter Set adventure Lost Mines of Phandelver, Aiden Fisk has the 5th to 8th level adventure Dark Druids of the Neverwinter Woods designed to be run after the Wave Echo Cave Mine has reopened and a shipment of valuable mithral has disappeared.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Or you can go with Jordan King’s sequel to the Lost Mines of Phandelver, the one-shot The Starmetal Prince for 5th level characters sending the party into the Underdark to deal with the duergar and a vicious drider.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.50)
And Alice ONeal also has a take on the starter set sequels with The Sword of Gentle Night, for a party of 5th to 6th level characters intended as a follow-up to either Lost Mines of Phandelver or Dragon of Iespire Peak.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.00)
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.
- The Druid (Shadowdark Class) from KW Game Designs ($1.50)
- Natural Traits (Dragonbane player kin options) from Viktor Hammering ($1.00)
- Blood Hunter (5e class) from Jason Mendell ($0.00)
- The Ascetic (5e Sorcerer subclass) from Shawn Burke ($0.50)
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.
Farsight Games placed four of their titles from the High5 series on sale. Fireteam – Rules Light Military Science Fiction and Cyber Streets – Rules Light Future Noir Roleplaying are both included along with the Fireteam missions Horror at Harris Station and Invasion.
- Price: 20-33% off
Jan Jetmar collected the four one-page Savage Worlds adventures Small Cases: City Guard Chronicles in one bundle. Pick your fantasy setting for the Savage Worlds rules and take on the role of the city guard protecting the people from criminal threats and investigating crimes.
- Price: $1.25 (50% off)
With the large bundle on Humble Bundle this month (see below), it’s geat timing for the Miskatonic Playhouse adventure Stage Fight at the Playhouse adventure in a bundle that includes the PDF and the Roll20 VTT module. This sequel to the Starter Set adventure Edge of Darkness sends the investigators to find out why mysterious symbols have appeared seemingly overnight carved into the dilapidated Arkham Theater.
- Price: $7.00 (36% off)
Tellest has a two-volume collection of maps with the Forest Bundle Pack 1 & 2 with VTT-ready battlemaps for a forest entrance, a forest glade with holes in the ground, forest lake, shrine, wishing well, and standing stones.
- Price: S5.94 (67% 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
On Bundle of Holding, the Unknown Armies 3rd Edition Bundle has everything you need to get started with the RPG of postmodern occult intrigue and action. The Starter Collection includes Unknown Armies 3E Book 1: Play, Maria in Three Parts, Upsetting Anomalies, Unnatural Artistry, and Uncanny Acuity while the Complete Collection adds on Book 2: Run, Book 3: Reveal, Book 4: Expose, Book 5: Mine, Bring me the Head, and seven campaign kits.
- Price: $7.95 (77% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: American Red Cross (10%)
- End Date: October 29, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Chaosium has the Call of Cthulhu Encore Bundle with a full library for the classic Lovecraftian horror game. The base level gets you the Call of Cthulhu Starter Set, the monster book Petersen’s Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors, the adventure Doors to Darkness, and just for fun Call of Cthulhu the Coloring Book. The second tier adds on the more adventure and setting books plus the Call of Cthulhu Keeper Rulebook for gamemasters. The top tier features a total of 26 titles including the Call of Cthulhu Investigator Handbook for players plus setting books like Cthulhu Dark Ages and Pulp Cthulhu, and a lot more.
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: World Wildlife Foundation (User-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: November 2, 2024
3D printer owners will want to check out the Futuristic Force Sci-Fi 3D Printable Models Bundle. This bundle features a wide variety of alien monsters, heroic soldiers, sci-fi/fantasy mash-ups, post-apocalypse. space opera terrain, and a lot more with the top tier offering a total of 116 sets of STL files for 3D printers (with some sets having as many as a dozen models included).
- Price: $1/$20/$25
- Charity: Make-A-Wish (User-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: October 31, 2024
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 17, 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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