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!
Chaosium released several themed designs for X Cards based on their roleplaying game lines. Grab printable cards for use in Call of Cthulhu, Rivers of London, Pendragon, and RuneQuest.
- Price: Free
Fans of the streamlined rules system for the Sixth World, Shadowrun Anarchy, will be glad for Daegann’s resource of Shadow Amps Extended List. This 53-page book collects all the gear and shadow amps in one place plus an expanded list to inspire your characters. Available in English and French. Disclosure: I am a freelance writer currently working on the Shadowrun roleplaying line.
- Price: Free
TheNatOne released the updated core rulebook RedHack2e Complete which collects the core rules and two supplements for the classless skill-based OSR system.
- Price: Free
- Also available in standard color softcover print-on-demand for $3.83
Atelier Clandestin released a fun Advent Calendar where you spend each of the 25 days until Christmas rolling on each of the 25 different d6 tables to fill in the twenty-five rooms of this crystal cave, ending up with a full and unique setting for your favorite game.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: 1.00)
Mechanical Muse released Open Adventure: Fantasy Core Rules, a 228-page core rulebook for a past-paced, cinematic system. From the product description: “Leverage your character’s unique strengths to overcome any obstacle. From powerful warriors who use their strength to pick a lock by giving it a good, swift kick, to an agile thief who strikes the killing blow on a terrifying monster by employing their skill as an acrobat, Open Adventure lets your character shine, no matter the challenge!” This game is also uniquely listed under the Creative Commons Zero License, which is the closest you can get to putting something in the public domain.
- Price: Free
The Lightning Round this week features player and GM/DM resources including adventures, 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.
The DriveThruRPG Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale is in full swing! Get discounts on titles for Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, Cyberpunk, Fabula Ultima, Plan 9 From Outer Space: The Game, Savage Worlds, Paranoia, Mythic, Vampire: The Masquerade, Sly Flourish’s Lazy Dungeon Master series, and over forty thousand titles. And you can also get deals on more than eight thousand titles on Dungeonmasters Guild for official Wizards of the Coast and TSR Dungeons & Dragons books as well as the best third-party offerings out there.
- Price: Up to 75% off
- End Date: December 9, 2025
Amazon has Cyber Monday deals for multiple tabletop roleplaying games. These deals are good until December 3, 2025, and some have limited quantities! Here’s a selection of the TTRPG items on sale:
Oh, and if you need something to wrap all these gifts in, Loke has the Dungeon Gift Wrap, six sheets of 19×27” wrapping paper featuring a full-color dungeon map on sale for $12.49.
Itch.io also has their Black Friday Sale with discounts on tabletop RPGs, game assets, video games, sound tracks, music, fiction, and a lot more with almost three thousand tabletop games on sale and over two thousand video games.
- Price: Up to 100% off (yes, there are freebies scattered throughout the sale)
- End Date: December 3, 2025
Dark Horse Comics collected several bundles combining tabletop roleplaying games with comic books with a selection of tie-in releases from themselves and RPG publishers such as Green Ronin, R. Talsorian Games, Nightfall Games, and more. Each bundle comes with RPG rulebooks plus comic books and graphic novels at a 50% discount.
Kobold Press has their Black Friday sale up on their webstore with discounts on Tome of Beasts 3, Tome of Heroes, Complete Kobold Guide to Game Design, Midguard Heroes Handbook, Trapmaster, and more with even bigger discounts on the Tome of Beasts 3 Lairs, Warlock Lairs, Deep Magic Volume 1 & 2, and Deep Magic Spell Cards: Retailer Box Display.
- Price: Up to 80% off
- End Date: December 1, 2025 Final days!
Chaosium also has a sale on at their webstore with low prices on starter sets, leatherette special editions and collections, and more such as the Call of Cthulhu Classic 1” Box Set, Call of Cthulhu Coloring Book, RuneQuest Old School Resource Pack, and more
- Price: 50% off all Starter Sets, up to 60% off other titles
- End Date: December 5, 2025
Journey Mountain Studios has put their Galaxy Builder Deck titles on sale for black Friday. I’ve previously highlighted the free print-and-play versions of this system because it’s perfect for any hard sci-fi or space opera campaigns you have. Create a star system just by drawing cards complete with stars, planets, moons, and features like asteroids.
- Price: 30% off both print-and-play PDF and physical cards
- End Date: December 1, 2025 Final Days!
Independence Games still has their annual Thanksgiving sale with discounts on almost all of their entire product line of Cepheus Engine adventures and sourcebooks compatible with Traveller. This includes their full line of Clement Sector and Earth Sector books and the majority of the Rider books.
- Price: 40% off
- End Date: December 3, 2025
Bundle of Holding has two bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition, the previous edition of the cyberpunk-meets-urban-fantasy roleplaying game (the title is currently on 6th edition). The Core Collection features the core rulebook, the player expansion Run Faster, and the cyberware expansion ook Chrome Flesh while the bonus collection adds on Run & Gun (weapons), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trails (hacking), Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones), Howling Shadows (critters), Street Lethal (combat options), Kill Code (advanced hacking), and Forbidden Arcana (advanced magic). Disclosure: I am currently a freelancer working on the Shadowrun roleplaying game line.
- Price: $14.95 (79% off) with variable-price Level Up option
- End Date: December 29, 2025
The second Shadowrun bundle is the SR5 Universe Mega Bundle with several reference books that are useful regardless of the edition you play such as the media book No Future and the setting lore summary book Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia (perfect for catching up to the 30+ year history of the Shadowrun world) plus the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set, Better Than Bad, Complete Trog, Coyotes, and Ten Terrorists plus the Bonus Collection of Book of the Lost, Court of Shadows, three different City by Shadows guides, and six Shadows in Focus guides. Disclosure: I am currently a freelancer working on the Shadowrun roleplaying game line.
- Price: $19.95 (85% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: December 29, 2025
Charity Bundles and Sales
On DriveThruRPG, the Feeding America Bundle features over fifty titles including the core rules for Capers, Icons, The Secret World, and more plus sourcebooks, adventures, and more for 5e, Call of Cthulhu, Icons, Mutants & Masterminds, Savage Worlds, Year Zero Engine, and a lot more plus VTT assets, zine collections, and other useful system-neutral supplements.
- Price: $25.00
- Charity: Feeding America (all proceeds)
Over on Humble Bundle, the Black Friday Sale is ongoing through well past Cyber Monday where you can get discounts on over a thousand video game titles, including games based on tabletop roleplaying games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, the arcade classic Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara, and a whole lot more.
- Price: Up to 65% off
- Charity: General charity fund, or you can set your own default charity in your account settings
- End Date: December 4, 2025
The Urban Apocalypse Wasteland 2 Bundle for 3D printers is perfect not just for your Fallout or other post-apocalyptic campaigns but for modern day, near-future, and recent historical games as well with several of these sets working for even fantasy games. The base level features five sets including grocery store kiosks, gothic ruins, computer cabinet terminals, street cleaning bots, and casualty bodies. The second tier jumps that up to a total of 57 sets including baracades, roads, vehicles (modern, sci-fi, and wrecked), vats, drones, crates, debris, wreckage, and more. The top tier is a huge libray of over 100 sets, adding on tombstones, industrial equipment, normal and destroyed furniture, mutant creatures, full buildings and structures, sci-fi war vehicles, bunkers, war trenches, and a lot more.
- Price: $$1/$20/$25 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: Make-a-Wish (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 11, 2025
The Audio Apocalypse Bundle is also a bit misnamed as it covers multiple genres of background music and sound effects. This music is themed to the fictional genre it’s meant to be background music for rather than the genre of music, so it’s easier to search for background for your home games or even your live streams, YouTube videos, or podcasts as this includes a commercial license. The base level gets you six track collections, the second tier gets you 16, and the top tier gets you 34 total collections, each containing multiple tracks for fantasy, horror, steampunk, cyberpunk, cozy-casual, superheroes, and more including over 600 voice acting line reads from actor Liam Reeves “100% human voices – no AI used”.
- Price: $1/$15/$20 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospital (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 4, 2025
If you have a pony fan on your holiday shopping list (or you just want a treat for yourself), Renegade Game Studio has a bundle for the My Little Pony: Adventures in Equestria Deck-Building Game. Get the core set plus four game expansions and a meeple pack for just one low price (shipping extra). This bundle is limited to stock on hand so hurry because there’s not enough for everypony!
- Price: $30 (79% off)
- End Date: December 20, 2025, or as supplies last
- Charity: No Kid Hungry
Goodman Games has the Last Call for Lankhmar bundle featuring the 5e and Dungeon Crawl Classics setting content based on the Frtiz Leiber novels starring Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. The base tier gets you the monster book for 5e, DCC books Masks of Lankhmar and Patrons of Lankhmar, and the adventure Gang Lords of Lankhmar. The second tier adds on ten more adventures, the penultimate their adds on the full DCC setting book plus the core rules and nine more titles on top. The final tier is a physical bundle exclusive to this bundle with the DCC Lankhmar Boxed Set with setting book, city map, and adventure collection (Note: While it is not stated, most physical bundles have additional shipping charges depending on your location and may not be available in all regions).
- Price: $1/$8/$12/$40 (89% off at top tier)
- Charity: No Kid Hungry (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 4, 2025
The Map Making Mega Bundle is back for an encore to help you create your own maps for personal or commercial use. The base tier includes four sets of maps ready to use on your favorite VTT or print out for tabletop use, while the second tier gets you the advice book Tome of Ultimate Mapping along with the Campaign Cartographer 3+ to make overland maps along with a set of world maps and a collection of isometric maps and the top tier gets you whopping 39 titles including Dungeon Designer 3, City Designer 3, Cosmographer 3 (for sci-fi maps), Perspectives 3 (for isometric maps), Fractal Terrains 3+, Character Artist 3, and a lot more additions to expand your collection including the designs of the master of RPG map making, Mike Schley.
- Price: $1/$15/$30 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: Save the Children (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 2, 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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