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!
This week we start on D&D Beyond with the level 16 (yes, level 16) official Dungeons & Dragons adventure Giants of the Star Forge. A tie-in to Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, this rare high-level adventure sends the party after the smith Theldin who has been kidnapped by the fire giant Brimskarda to attempt to create a titanic war machine called a runic colossus.
And with Baldur’s Gate 3 finally out (and most people able to actually download it thanks to server overload), D&D Beyond also has custom dice based on the game and character sheets for the companion characters (though be careful reading the backgrounds on the sheets as there are spoilers for the video game).
Over on DriveThruRPG, Schawlb Entertainment has a quick play for the highly anticipated Shadow of the Weird Wizard, the more family-friendly version of Shadow of the Demon Lord coming to Kickstarter next week.
Evil Genius Games has an adventure from their vast licensed catalogue for the Everyday Heroes RPG with the adventure Prologue: Rambo. Former Green Beret John Rambo has just 24 hours to clear the name of one of his number in a corrupt small town and bring hellfire down on those in his way.
Caeora has three new token packs as part of the Creature Pack collection. Creature Pack 22 features a dozen frog creatures, Creature Pack 23 has eight character tokens, and Creature Pack 24 is a lich. Each token comes in two versions, one with and one without a shadow.
And for more VTT fun, ForgottenAdventures has a collection of clutter for tables in your game, featuring fancy plates and tea service, food packaging, sweet treats, board games, and if you want to get meta, a table full of TTRPG accessories.
Cool Zone Press released the urban fantasy RPG We Hunt By Night: Expanded Edition, a rules-light d6 dice pool system that places an emphasis on the balance between your human and supernatural sides.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Vanessa Stefaniuk has Mildly Magical Trinkets - Set 1: Dorm Days with a d100 table of mildly magical items suitable for any fantasy campaign but especially useful for a Strixhaven campaign.
For even more magic items, Julian O’Connor released Florence’s Fibers, Firearms, and Fantastics featuring a multiversal travelling merchant with a variety of items adjusted to the appropriate time period for the player characters’ universe.
And even more magic items, Ethan Myers posted Kakor’s Creepy Curios, a collection of 500 (no that’s not a typo, 500) undead-inspired monster and artifact ideas, NPC encounters, and spooky locations organized as a random table.
Harkening back to classics like Barrier Peaks, Gabriel Gro has a new adventure Stellar Abductions featuring a flying saucer and aliens including Spelljammer stats for the flying saucer and a stat block for a “Mini Tarrasque”. Which sounds somehow more terrifying than a full-size one.
Sewage Orc has a settlement ready to place in your campaign, Mirthwood Hollow (A Goblin Themed Settlement with a complete guide to the village, shops and businesses, local attractions, NPCs, adventure hooks, side quests, and more.
On Storytellers Vault, we have Loresheet: Gift of Eglė from Lex Noctis with Vampire: The Masquerade rules for playing as a Kindred with a spiritual and mystical connection to a single tree.
We have two lightning rounds this week, the first covering 5e options for new races/species/heritages. As always, each product on the list is either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
And for our second lightning round, this time a collection of classes and subclasses. As before, each one is either 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.
Paizo is running the “Gen Con 23 for 23” sale offering a discount on a selection of 23 titles including Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Advanced Player’s Guide, and others plus Starfinder Core Rulebook and several sourcebooks, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, and several flip maps.
Pathfinder Infinite has the GenCon23 Bundle featuring a collection of 25 sourcebooks, classes, adventures, ancestries, magic items, and more for Pathfinder and Starfinder.
On DriveThruRPG, Hero Forge Games has Hero Kids - To Boldly Go Where No Kid Has Gone Before featuring the sci-fi rules expansion for Hero Kids along with the space premium adventure Jungle Jeopardy.
A whole lot of bundles for Roll20 dropped on DriveThruRPG this week featuring the PDF and Roll20 conversion for a lot of products. Each of these bundles is 20% off the regular price:
Charity Bundles and Sales
Sleepy Sasquatch Games has a fundraiser going on Itch.io for Gizmo, a 12-year-old dog with ongoing medical issues. The bundle includes four solo RPGs, Wandering Dreams for eldritch horror, Courier about a post-apocalyptic delivery person, GLIDE about sci-fi exploration, and the sword and sorcery Wandering Souls.
Cave Dweller Music has a charity sampler on Bandcamp featuring almost 50 “dungeon synth” music tracks from a variety of artists perfect for your RPG soundscape or as background music while doing prep. The purchase price includes unlimited streaming via the Bandcamp app plus DRM-free downloads in mp3 and FLAC formats.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Green Ronin has a pair of bundles for the romantic fantasy RPG Blue Rose. First, the return of the Blue Rose bundle featuring the core rulebook plus two adventure books with the Bonus Collection adding on the setting book Aldis: City of the Blue Rose, the Blue Rose Narrator’s Kit, and three more adventure books.
The other bundle for Blue Rose is the Aldean Adventures bundle with four adventure books, three one-shot adventures with Six of Cups, Nightmare Rider, and Flight of the Snow Pearl plus the full-length campaign Envoys to the Mount.
The Index Card RPG Bundle is back from Runehammer Games. This modular toolset lets you construct your own campaign in almost any genre using simple, fast-playing rules (including the unique Banana Movement system where your character can move the length of a banana and perform an action or move banana-length-plus by taking their entire turn). The basic bundle includes the Index Card RPG Master Edition, ICRPG Worlds, and the pre-gen character collection Heroes of the Hammer while the Bonus Collection adds on the World Map Poster Pack, 4 Index Card settings, 2 Thaumavore adventures, and the cyberpunk setting book Altered State.
On Humble, Hero Lab has the Essential Character Management Tools for Pathfinder giving you access to Lone Wolf Development’s character and campaign management system. The base tier gets you the core rules, access to Hero Lab Online, and 3 months of service time while the mid tier adds on the Gamemaster Guide, Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide, and an additional three months of service and the final top tier adds the Advanced Player’s Guide, Bestiary 1, and multiple adventures for a total of 25 packages.
If you’ve ever been curious about the newest edition of one of the original science fiction RPGs, the Traveller Bundle from Mongoose Publishing features a full library for the system. The base level includes the condensed Traveller: Explorer’s Edition core rules and the adventure Reach: Marooned on Marduk while the second tier adds on the full Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022, the novel The King is Dead, and three more adventures in the Reach campaign and the top tier adds on more novels and four sourcebooks making an almost complete library for the Traveller system.
If you’re excited for Baldur’s Gate 3 but can’t jump in right away, Humble has a video game collection that might help ease your wait with the Baldur’s Gate & Beyond Bundle. The base level includes Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition while the full bundle adds in Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Draognspear, and the Faces of Good and Evil portrait expansion plus Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
Modiphius has a bundle of their licensed properties based on Bethesda video games including 3D printer files. The base tier includes the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set along with a STL file for Battle and Cappy, the mascots of NukaWorld, while the other two tiers add on Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Dishonored Roleplaying Game, two Astoundingly Awesome Tales expansions for Fallout, and ten more collections of Fallout and Elder Scrolls terrain and figures for 3D printers.
If that’s not enough post-apocalyptic 3D printable terrain for you, there’s the Sci-Fi, Modern, & Wasteland Raiders & Ghouls Bundle. Even the lowest tier includes 15 sets (not individual plans, sets of plans) while the top tier includes 140 sets of plans for miniatures and terrain for science fiction, military, and post-apocalyptic with soldiers, store shelves, vehicles (both normal and destroyed), appliances, furniture, plants, fungus, generators, power armor suits, and more great for games like Fallout, Aliens, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun, and many other games.
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.
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!
This week we start on D&D Beyond with the level 16 (yes, level 16) official Dungeons & Dragons adventure Giants of the Star Forge. A tie-in to Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants, this rare high-level adventure sends the party after the smith Theldin who has been kidnapped by the fire giant Brimskarda to attempt to create a titanic war machine called a runic colossus.
- Price: Free
And with Baldur’s Gate 3 finally out (and most people able to actually download it thanks to server overload), D&D Beyond also has custom dice based on the game and character sheets for the companion characters (though be careful reading the backgrounds on the sheets as there are spoilers for the video game).
- Price: Free
Over on DriveThruRPG, Schawlb Entertainment has a quick play for the highly anticipated Shadow of the Weird Wizard, the more family-friendly version of Shadow of the Demon Lord coming to Kickstarter next week.
- Price: Free
Evil Genius Games has an adventure from their vast licensed catalogue for the Everyday Heroes RPG with the adventure Prologue: Rambo. Former Green Beret John Rambo has just 24 hours to clear the name of one of his number in a corrupt small town and bring hellfire down on those in his way.
- Price: Free
Caeora has three new token packs as part of the Creature Pack collection. Creature Pack 22 features a dozen frog creatures, Creature Pack 23 has eight character tokens, and Creature Pack 24 is a lich. Each token comes in two versions, one with and one without a shadow.
- Price: Free
And for more VTT fun, ForgottenAdventures has a collection of clutter for tables in your game, featuring fancy plates and tea service, food packaging, sweet treats, board games, and if you want to get meta, a table full of TTRPG accessories.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Cool Zone Press released the urban fantasy RPG We Hunt By Night: Expanded Edition, a rules-light d6 dice pool system that places an emphasis on the balance between your human and supernatural sides.
- Price: Free
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Vanessa Stefaniuk has Mildly Magical Trinkets - Set 1: Dorm Days with a d100 table of mildly magical items suitable for any fantasy campaign but especially useful for a Strixhaven campaign.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
For even more magic items, Julian O’Connor released Florence’s Fibers, Firearms, and Fantastics featuring a multiversal travelling merchant with a variety of items adjusted to the appropriate time period for the player characters’ universe.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
And even more magic items, Ethan Myers posted Kakor’s Creepy Curios, a collection of 500 (no that’s not a typo, 500) undead-inspired monster and artifact ideas, NPC encounters, and spooky locations organized as a random table.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Harkening back to classics like Barrier Peaks, Gabriel Gro has a new adventure Stellar Abductions featuring a flying saucer and aliens including Spelljammer stats for the flying saucer and a stat block for a “Mini Tarrasque”. Which sounds somehow more terrifying than a full-size one.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Sewage Orc has a settlement ready to place in your campaign, Mirthwood Hollow (A Goblin Themed Settlement with a complete guide to the village, shops and businesses, local attractions, NPCs, adventure hooks, side quests, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.99)
On Storytellers Vault, we have Loresheet: Gift of Eglė from Lex Noctis with Vampire: The Masquerade rules for playing as a Kindred with a spiritual and mystical connection to a single tree.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.09)
We have two lightning rounds this week, the first covering 5e options for new races/species/heritages. As always, each product on the list is either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Firbolg and Goliath from Chronicles of Lost Tomes ($0.00)
- Glittergaze Halflings from Tyler Hayes ($0.50)
- Shadow Dragon (Dragonborn ancestry) from DMoDooM ($1.50)
And for our second lightning round, this time a collection of classes and subclasses. As before, each one is either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Tinkerer Class (full class) from Chris Purcell ($0.64)
- Four new subclasses from moon Cox ($0.50)
- The Cursed (Barbarian) from Matthew Cumbo ($1.50)
- High Roller (Rogue) from T. Jones ($6.36)
- The Lack (Warlock) from T. Jones ($6.36)
- Jack of All Trades (full class) from Tai Andrews ($2.00)
- Way of Greed (Monk) from Idan Kramarge ($0.50)
- Mindshriek (Barbarian) from Goraan’s Goods ($1.00)
- Mycellium (Warlock) from Goraan’s Goods ($1.00)
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.
Paizo is running the “Gen Con 23 for 23” sale offering a discount on a selection of 23 titles including Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Advanced Player’s Guide, and others plus Starfinder Core Rulebook and several sourcebooks, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game: Curse of the Crimson Throne Adventure Path, and several flip maps.
- Price: 23% off
- End Date: August 6, 2023 Final Day!
Pathfinder Infinite has the GenCon23 Bundle featuring a collection of 25 sourcebooks, classes, adventures, ancestries, magic items, and more for Pathfinder and Starfinder.
- Price $19.99 (82% off)
On DriveThruRPG, Hero Forge Games has Hero Kids - To Boldly Go Where No Kid Has Gone Before featuring the sci-fi rules expansion for Hero Kids along with the space premium adventure Jungle Jeopardy.
- Price: $4.99 (44% off)
A whole lot of bundles for Roll20 dropped on DriveThruRPG this week featuring the PDF and Roll20 conversion for a lot of products. Each of these bundles is 20% off the regular price:
- Coyote & Crow $39.99
- Shadowrun Sixth World Edition $39.99
- Shadowrun Gun Rack $11.18
- Cyberpunk RED Core Rulebook $55.99
- Cyberpunk RED Black Chrome $38.39
- Cyberpunk RED Tales of the RED $38.39
- Cyberpunk RED Data Pack $14.39
- 13th Age Shadows of Eldolan $14.99
- Scion 2e Jumpstart A Light Extinguished $3.99
- Scion Second Edition Core Rules Bundle $59.91
- THEY CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA! $39.98
- Kids on Bikes $19.18
- Tales from the Loop $10.38
- Alien - The Roleplaying Game $43.98
- Blade Runner - The Roleplaying Game $43.98
- Fiasco Starter Bundle (core rules plus four expansion packs) $46.95
Charity Bundles and Sales
Sleepy Sasquatch Games has a fundraiser going on Itch.io for Gizmo, a 12-year-old dog with ongoing medical issues. The bundle includes four solo RPGs, Wandering Dreams for eldritch horror, Courier about a post-apocalyptic delivery person, GLIDE about sci-fi exploration, and the sword and sorcery Wandering Souls.
- Price: $19.00 (50% off)
- Charity: Medical care for Gizmo
- End Date: September 30, 2023
Cave Dweller Music has a charity sampler on Bandcamp featuring almost 50 “dungeon synth” music tracks from a variety of artists perfect for your RPG soundscape or as background music while doing prep. The purchase price includes unlimited streaming via the Bandcamp app plus DRM-free downloads in mp3 and FLAC formats.
- Price: $7.00
- Charity: National Center of Trandgender Equality (All proceeds)
- End Date: August 31, 2023
Over on Bundle of Holding, Green Ronin has a pair of bundles for the romantic fantasy RPG Blue Rose. First, the return of the Blue Rose bundle featuring the core rulebook plus two adventure books with the Bonus Collection adding on the setting book Aldis: City of the Blue Rose, the Blue Rose Narrator’s Kit, and three more adventure books.
- Price: $7.95 (79% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Pride Foundation (10%)
- End Date: August 21, 2023
The other bundle for Blue Rose is the Aldean Adventures bundle with four adventure books, three one-shot adventures with Six of Cups, Nightmare Rider, and Flight of the Snow Pearl plus the full-length campaign Envoys to the Mount.
- Price: $9.95 (79% off)
- Charity: Pride Foundation (10%)
- End Date: August 21, 2023
The Index Card RPG Bundle is back from Runehammer Games. This modular toolset lets you construct your own campaign in almost any genre using simple, fast-playing rules (including the unique Banana Movement system where your character can move the length of a banana and perform an action or move banana-length-plus by taking their entire turn). The basic bundle includes the Index Card RPG Master Edition, ICRPG Worlds, and the pre-gen character collection Heroes of the Hammer while the Bonus Collection adds on the World Map Poster Pack, 4 Index Card settings, 2 Thaumavore adventures, and the cyberpunk setting book Altered State.
- Price: $9.95 (74% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: August 14, 2023
On Humble, Hero Lab has the Essential Character Management Tools for Pathfinder giving you access to Lone Wolf Development’s character and campaign management system. The base tier gets you the core rules, access to Hero Lab Online, and 3 months of service time while the mid tier adds on the Gamemaster Guide, Lost Omens: Ancestry Guide, and an additional three months of service and the final top tier adds the Advanced Player’s Guide, Bestiary 1, and multiple adventures for a total of 25 packages.
- Price: $5/$15/$24 (92% off at top tier)
- Charity: The Trevor Project (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 24, 2023
If you’ve ever been curious about the newest edition of one of the original science fiction RPGs, the Traveller Bundle from Mongoose Publishing features a full library for the system. The base level includes the condensed Traveller: Explorer’s Edition core rules and the adventure Reach: Marooned on Marduk while the second tier adds on the full Traveller Core Rulebook Update 2022, the novel The King is Dead, and three more adventures in the Reach campaign and the top tier adds on more novels and four sourcebooks making an almost complete library for the Traveller system.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Cancer Research UK (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 23, 2023
If you’re excited for Baldur’s Gate 3 but can’t jump in right away, Humble has a video game collection that might help ease your wait with the Baldur’s Gate & Beyond Bundle. The base level includes Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition and Planescape: Torment Enhanced Edition while the full bundle adds in Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Draognspear, and the Faces of Good and Evil portrait expansion plus Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous.
- Price: $6/$12 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Active Minds (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 9, 2023
Modiphius has a bundle of their licensed properties based on Bethesda video games including 3D printer files. The base tier includes the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Starter Set along with a STL file for Battle and Cappy, the mascots of NukaWorld, while the other two tiers add on Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Dishonored Roleplaying Game, two Astoundingly Awesome Tales expansions for Fallout, and ten more collections of Fallout and Elder Scrolls terrain and figures for 3D printers.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: International Rescue Committee (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 17, 2023
If that’s not enough post-apocalyptic 3D printable terrain for you, there’s the Sci-Fi, Modern, & Wasteland Raiders & Ghouls Bundle. Even the lowest tier includes 15 sets (not individual plans, sets of plans) while the top tier includes 140 sets of plans for miniatures and terrain for science fiction, military, and post-apocalyptic with soldiers, store shelves, vehicles (both normal and destroyed), appliances, furniture, plants, fungus, generators, power armor suits, and more great for games like Fallout, Aliens, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk RED, Shadowrun, and many other games.
- Price: $1/$15/$25 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 7, 2023
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.
