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!
Monte Cook Games has a new preview of the Cypher System with a 15-page peek at the generic version of the system that powers Numera and The Strange.
- Price: Free
Not only is the animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters dominating Netflix right now, but the single “Golden” has topped the charts. Beliasta wants to bring the vibes of this summer hit to your tables with Kool Pop Stars, a custom system where art is magic and music is loud. If pop isn’t your genre, it can also be adapted to other styles of music as well.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
It’s London, 1885. Soot and smoke are swept away by bound elementals, glittering aether lamaps light the streets, and the city hums with thaumaturgical invention. In Jim’s Pub House’s Secrets of the Season campaign setting for GUMSHOE, you take on the roles of Palriamentarians, aristocrats, and clandestine agents in this magical Victorian world of politics, intrigue, and social maneuvering.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Luke Chandler released The Desert Tempest, a 7th level adventure for Pathfinder that sends the party to the Shanguang desert to stop disruptive magic that is agitating Yorak, the Horned Thunder, and suppressing the music of the native Mutabi-qi.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $6.99}
From drake rupple, Creeping Darkness is a Pathfinder adventure for first level characters. A jovial merchant hires the party for a simple escort job that puts them in the pat of the orc warbands of Belkzen while heading to the frontier town of Ravengro on the edge of Ustalav.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.50)
In the Mothership adventure from S Murphy Games Hit the Ground Running, something went wrong on your last job and now you and your accomplices have a bounty on your head. You’ve got just enough fuel left for one jump, so you make to Daedalus Station where an outlaw like you can buy some time. Unfortunately, a bounty hunter is on your tail…
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
The Lightning Round this week features player and GM/DM resources including maps, character options, magic items, optional rules, 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.
DriveThruRPG has some huge deals as part of their Cosmic Horror Sale. Snag titles from Call of Cthulhu, ALIEN RPG, Chronicles of Darkness, Monster of the Week, Vaesen, Old gods of Appalachia, Across a Thousand Dead Worlds, The Secret World, Eclipse Phase, and over 2700 other titles.
- Price: 25% off
- End Date: August 29, 2025
D&D Beyond wants you to stock up on battlemaps with the D&D Maps Sale. You can get third party maps ready for your favorite VTT for published adventures like Tyranny of Dragons and Candlekeep Mysteries as well as many familiar locations such as Ten Towns and Barovia plus many generic maps for every location type you need.
- Price: 30% off
- End Date: August 29, 2025
Itch.io has a bundle of games from LGBTQ+ creators with the Queer Games Bundle 2025. Over 600 products all for the price of a single AAA video game with titles ranging from TTRPGs, video games, albums, comics, novels, game design assets, art bundles, and more. All proceeds will be divided among the creators.
It’s the 30th anniversary of the classic RPG inspired by Japanese history and folklore, Legend of the Five Rings. To celebrate, DriveThruRPG has a massive sale on over sixty titles from the line including the Legend of the Five Rings Core Rulebook, Adventures in Rokugan 5e rules, and countless (well, almost 60) sourcebooks, rulebooks, adventures, expansions, fiction, and more.
- Price: 30% off
- End Date: August 29, 2025
Bundle of Holding and Green Ronin have The Expanse & Modern Age Bundle with both the generic contemporary AGE system plus the licensed roleplaying game based on The Expanse. The Modern Collection gets you Modern AGE Rulebook, Modern AGE Companion, the three-in-00one setting book Threefold, the sourcebooks Enemies & Allies and Game Master’s Kit, and the adventure book Missions: Warflower. The Expanse Collection adds on The Expanse RPG, Ships of the Expanse, Game Master’s Kit, Abzu’s Bounty, and Salvage Op.
- Price: $17.95 (79% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: August 26, 2025
Raging Swan Press released a trio of dungeon collections perfect to drop into your game with little prep required – add your own monsters and treasure to the level of your PCs. Each bundle contains over a dozen dungeons for the rules system listed, each discounted at 33% off.
If you play Shadowdark and want to streamline your games, Wyrdfall Press has a bundle of printable Shadowdark card decks for reference at the table. Gear, arms, armor, coins, and gems all in the palm of your hand so you don’t have to go thumbing through a rulebook or scrolling through a PDF to find the stats you need.
- Price: $12.00 (20% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Humble Bundle, Chaosium and the VTT Alchemy have collected together the Call of Cthulhu Keeper’s Collection. The base level gets you a taste of the Lovecraftian horror system with the Starter Set and the player rules in the Investigator’s Handbook. The second tier adds on everything you need to run the game including the Keeper Rulebook, Arkham setting book, Keeper Screen Pack for reference, and the campaign No Time to Scream. The top tier gets you the enhanced edition of the starter set and the most recent update of the classic campaign Masks of Nyarlathotep.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 1, 2025
R. Talsorian Games pulled together all their titles from The Witcher into a single bundle. Get the Core Rulebook, A Book of Tales, Tome of Chaos, Lords & Lands, A Witcher’s Journal, and the starter set Easy Mode all for one price letting you tell your own stories in the world of Andrzej Sapkowski’s classic retelling of fairy tales and legends adapted into the award-winning video game series by CD Projekt RED.
- Price: $15 (91% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 30, 2025
The ENNIE Awards celebration of nominees and winners past and present has been extended so you have another chance to grab the Award-Winning & Nominated Tabletop RPGs bundle. The base level gets you Forbidden Lands, Ashen Stars, Death in Freeport, Petersen Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors, The Strange Bestiary, Delta Gree: A Night at the Operate, Epyllion, and the Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure Iron Crypt of the Heratics. The second tier adds on nine mote titles including Pasion de las Pasiones, Timewatch, The One Ring Core Rules, Mutants & Masterminds Heroe’s Handbook, and more. The top tier gets you a total of 27 titles including Pathfinder 2nd Edition Player Core, Vampire: The Masquerade Auld Sanguine, Dragon Age Core Rules, Blade Runner Role Playing Game, The Fall of Delta Green, The Strange Corebook, Bluebeard’s Bride, Cults of Cthulhu, and more!
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (95% off at top tier)
- Charity: Extra Life (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 28, 2025
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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