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. Buckle up because this week is epic-sized.
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!
Skies Above is a JRPG-inspired tabletop roleplaying game from LostHavenGames set in a fantasy post-apocalyptic world that eschews the grimdark for “a lively realm brimming with vitality, intrigue, growth, and abundance”. The game uses a custom d8-based system with Job and Class based character creation.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Brian Leakage has a 0-level OSR funnel adventure On Wine Dark Sea where the PCs try to survive the final battle and aftermath of the Fall of Troy.
- Price: Free
Mongoose Publishing released the eight issue of their Twilight:2000 zine, You’re On Your Own. New vehicles, weapons, historical figures, fiction, and more.
- Price: Free
Rat in a Suit Productions has a new horror RPG, Land in the Mist, set between 1750 to 1850, the age of the Napoleonic Wars, the founding of the United States, and the French Revolution. This starter set gives the basics of the narrative-first system and an adventure “Of Pagens and Reindeer” set in 1811 Finland.
- Price: Free
If you’re looking for a Mörk Borg adventure, everweird.world has The Scropulating of the Pious. Ths one-shot monster hunting survival mission places the party in the cursed city of Vulffhornn covered in abomination-spawning necroplasm.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Blood, Money, and Steel is a campaign guide for the fast-playing BattleTech: Alpha Strike wargame. Start a mercenary company and take contracts, salvage defeated enemies, upgrade your ‘Mechs, and navigate complex missions with air support, supplies, reinforcements, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Guild Masters Guides released the 5e adventure The Hidden Grove which sends the level 1-4 party into an ancient spire to defeat the magical constructs protecting its secrets.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, the adventure Snug as a Bug from the_city_of_dunmore tasls the 2nd level party with helping a rug shop with their dangerous new acquisition, a Rug of Smothering.
- Price: Free
Sick of being sent as pest control to take care of abnormal rats? How about the party works for the rats this time. In The Rat and the Halfling from Rodhill Gaming, the 3rd to 5th level PCs are asked by a group of awakened rats to investigate a rat catcher that threatens their smuggling operation.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Over on Storytellers Guild, Pooka G released the fourth issue of the zine Dispatches from the Vault. Reviews, interviews, previews, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00
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 this week features player resources like new classes, races/species, character options, spells, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses
Holiday Products
This year, there were so many free/PWYW holiday-themed products that they deserve their own section. If you want to run a one-shot at your holiday party or take a break from your campaign to save Christmas, these products are for you.
Heroic Maps doesn’t just have holiday themed maps (see their bundle below), but they also have Adventure Resources: Festive Adventure Hooks, a collection of short scenes to set up an adventure.
- Price: Free
From Adventures in Filbar, XM24 – Santos Sleigh is a short adventure where the party is running out of supplies at an outpost on the frontier with a resupply wagon long overdue. There’s a heavy knocking at the door. Is it hostile forces with artillery? No, a large giant with an axe…
- Price: Free
Phil Reed has more for Mörk Borg with a trio of holiday-themed monsters: Krampus, Niklaus, and the Snowman.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Man Alone also has some Mörk Borg holiday fun with Advent Calendar for Nechrubel. And by “fun”, I of course mean this Advent Calendar is full of things terrible and horrifying. What did you expect from Mörk Borg?
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Windmill Sam Games wants to bring some Die Hard inspired action to your fantasy RPG of choice with the system-neutral adventure The Night of the Yule-Ghoul.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, TheTrickster314 and Brendan Barth released Wassail and Wander – A Christmas Themed Magic Item Collection. This collection features four holiday-themed magic items ready for your 5e games.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
I can’t do this better than the product page for Lord of the Reindeer does:
“One reindeer to rule them all, one reindeer to find them. One reindeer to guide them all and in the Yuletide bind them. In the land of Icewind Dale where the Rime did lie, a group of adventurers must bring a cursed reindeer to an ancient volcano and defeat the ambitions of a Hidden Lord.”
This 8th level adventure ties into Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus and a return to Icewind Dale with appearances from Santa Claus, Krampus, and other familiar holiday faces.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
Bejamin Xiaofang Hurley has Quick Quests: 12 Days of Quest-Mas, a collection of short holiday-themed adventures running from level 1-12.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.49)
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.
DriveThruRPG’s Haunted Holiday Sale embraces the long tradition going back to Dickens of adding horror to the holiday season. Pick up discounds on Wraith: The Oblivion and Geist: The Sin Eaters core rulebooks along with over 100 sourcebooks, setting books, rule sexpansions, adventures, and more for the World and Chronicles of Darkness games of the afterlife.
- Price: Up to 50% off
- End Date: December 28, 2024
DriveThruRPG also has the Dungeons & Dragons Holiday Sale featuring discounts on Roll20 VTT-ready adventures including Curse of Strahd, Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, Eberron: Rising from the Last War, and a lot more plus sourcebooks like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft. You can also check out the sale on Dungeonmasters Guild.
- Price: Up to 35% off
- End Date: January 2, 2024
D&D Beyond also has their Winter Sale event offering discounts on both first-party Wizards of the Coast products like Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, Eberron: Rising from the Ashes, Curse of Strahd, and more along with third-party products like Lord of the Rings 5e, The Illrigger class from MCDM, Grim Hollow Player Pack, The Book of Ebon Tides from Kobold Press, and more.
- Price: Up to 45% off
- End Date: January 2, 2024
Fantasy Grounds has their own winter sale going. Not only can you get a Core License allowing you to join any game or host your own game for license-holders for half off, but rulebooks and VTT-ready adventures are also discounted.
- Price: Up to 50% off
- End Date: January 2, 2024
Online retailer Miniature Marketplace has a sale on the Dark Souls RPG with discounts on the sourcebooks Tome of Strange Beings and Tome of Journeys along with the GM screen and a large selection of miniatures.
- Price: Up to 60% off
Chris Spivey is offering up physical copies of his historical fantasy-horror wild west RPG Haunted West at a deep discount for the holidays. Use the code HOLIDAY24 to get half off plus a free PDF copy of this massive and thoroughly researched core rulebook.
- Price: 50% off plus free PDF with code HOLIDAY24
- End Date: December 31, 2024
We have a collection of holiday themed bundles on DriveThruRPG and DMs Guild.
Charity Bundles and Sales
I’m starting off a bit self-serving as this is my GoFundMe for medical bills. From late October to mid November, I was hospitalized with kidney failure and infected wounds in my lower legs. The hospital discharged me before I was ready as I got next to no physical therapy and am still unable to stand or walk. This lead to a slew of hurried expenses including a wheelchair, restocking of the kitchen with food that met my new heavily restricted diet, and building a ramp so I could get in and out of the house. I still have dialysis three times a week and wound care twice a week with expensive transportation costs to get me to my appointments in my wheelchair. All of this I’m paying for out of pocket as I have no insurance. Please consider donating as every dollar helps.
- Charity: Darryl Mott’s medical bills (all proceeds)
On Itch.io, Kelly Whyte has the Outline Fundraising Bundle featuring 20 RPGs supporting Outline, a mental health charity for the LGBTQ+ community in New Zealand. This bundle includes 5e class options, solo journaling games, and full RPGs of several genres including sci-fi, 1950s pulp horror, urban fantasy, romance, and more.
- Price: $10.00 (76% off)
- Charity: Outline (all proceeds)
- End Date: December 24, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Free League has The One Ring 2E Bundle featuring the core rulebook for The One Ring Second Edition, The One Ring Loremaster Screen, and the solo play alternate rules Strider Mode. The Bonus Collection adds on the location book Ruins of the Lost Realm and the adventure book Tales from the Lone-lands.
- Price: $7.95 (83% off) with variable-cost Level-Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: January 8, 2025
Mongoose has not one but two Traveller bundles for the second edition of the classic space exploration roleplaying game. The Traveller 2024 Updates Bundle includes the Traveller Core Rulebook 2022, MGT Companion Update 2024, the ship books MGT Adventure Class Ships and MGT Small Craft Catalogue, and the MGT Robot Handbook.
- Price: $17.95 (88% off)
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: January 13, 2025
Now that you have your Traveller core rulebooks, you’ll want more options and locations, won’t you? The Traveller Sectors Bundle core collection has MGT Sector Construction Guide to build your own ships, MGT World Builder’s Handbook to create your own planets, The Third Imperion setting book, and three core adventures. The Frontier Collection adds on MGT Spinward Extents, MGT Behind the Crew, MGT Deep and the Dark, MGT Trailing Frontier, MGT Rim Expeditions, and Aliens of Charted Space V3 & V4.
- Price: $17.85 (86% off) with variable-cost Level-Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: January 13, 2025
Bundle of Holding has not one but two retro Shadowrun bundles featuring 4th Edition books. The first, the Shadowrun 4e Core Mega Bundle, features all the core books you need with the Shadowrun 3e 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook, Runner’s Companion and Toolkit, Arsenal (gun sourcebook), Augmentation (cyberware sourcebook), Street Magic and Digital Grimoire (magic sourcebooks), Unwired (hacking sourcebook), On the Run, and SR4 GM Screen. If that’s not enough, the Bonus Collection adds on several more gear, setting, NPC, and rules options books including Attitude, Street Legends, Street Legends Supplemental, Runner’s Black Book, Black Book 2074, nine mini-sourcebooks, and the throwback Shadowrun 2050.
- Price: $17.95 (85% off) with variable cost level-up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 30, 2024
The second bundle is another Shadowrun 4e bundle but is useful for players of any edition because it’s all lore and setting information. The Shadowrun 4e Sprawl Mega Bundle includes the Sixth World Almanac, Shadowrun: Runner Havens, Seattle 2072, two Sprawl Sites guides, and Corporate Guide. The Mega Bonus adds on Clutch of Dragons, five campaign books, four setting guides, and four Sixth World mini-sourcebooks.
- Price: $17.95 (82% off) with variable-cost level-up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 30, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Free League has the RPG Mega Bundle featuring a wide selection of titles from the publister. The base tier has Coriolis – Atlas Compendium and Symbaroum Advanced Player’s Guide, while the second tier gets you three Tales from the Loop adventures along with adventures for Mutant: Year Zero and Coriolis. The top tier is where it’s at, though, with the core rules for Mutant: Year Zero, Tales from the Loop, Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane, and Twilight: 2000 plus more adventures.
- Price: $1/$10$18 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 18, 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 Bluesky , 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, Miniature Marketplace, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
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