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!
Starting on Itch.io, the BattleTech Pride Anthology 2023 features stories from five LGBTQ+ authors about LGBTQ+ characters in the BattleTech universe (“Masquerade” by Robin Briseño, “Small” by Albert Ross, “Test Drive” by Allen Nickloy, “Dragon Slayer” by Milla Koponen, and “Old Wounds, Old Words” by Russell Zimmerman) available in PDF, epub, and mobi format.
Nightfall Games released a quickstart for their cyberpunk RPG The Corporation 2nd Edition. “Life in 2500 is dangerous, and that’s often your fault.” The quickstart includes the adventure “Riot in Commissary B”, four pre-generated characters, and basic rules for gameplay.
The video game company Crystal Dynamics released Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders RPG Rule Book, a d6 dice pool TTRPG officially licensed (but non-canon) to the popular video game series. The link goes directly to download the ZIP file, which contains the 215-page rulebook, the 74-page Mark of the Phoenix campaign, character sheets, handouts, and even assets for live streaming the game on Twitch or other platforms.
“Liminal space” is a term that’s gotten a lot of recent attention as the name for transitory places that aren’t meant to be used, but just somewhere to go from one place to another. It’s a particularly popular concept for horror recently, as with the Ruptured Chains Studio release Backrooms: The RPG. This original system RPG is based on the urban legend of the Backrooms as a dreamlike place of nightmarish creatures lurking in the shadows.
Lucky Dice Games released Manual of Roguish Magic: A Free D20 Magic Item List for Thieves & Rogues. As it says on the tin, this book is a collection of ten magic items meant to help rogues and thieves commit their sneaky endeavors.
The system-agnostic sourcebook Rise of the Shapeshifter Tribes from Cole Burgett gives the backgrounds for four tribes of early humans with the ability to shapeshift, defined by the animal they can transform into.
Fans of Shadowrun, Cyberpunk RED, and other cyberpunk and sci-fi RPGs will want to check out the Vendor Alley map from Lone Wanderer Entertainment, featuring a city street leading to a neon-illuminated alleyway of vendor stalls.
Clement Tyler released the action RPG Dice Hard for cinematic contemporary action/adventure using a streamlined version of Modiphius’s 2d20 System.
If you need a village for your fantasy game quickly, Other Brand Media has Bridgehaven, a system-agnostic setting usable in any fantasy or (with small adjustments) medieval historical setting with details of the village and what you can find there.
And if you need something larger than a village, Claire Oberle has a total of five unique city districts that can be used in your 5e games to expand any location or put together to create a new fantasy city. Each district has maps, locations, plot hooks, and NPCs: Artisan District, Halfling Quarter, Merchant District, University Quarter, and Waterfront District.
nonPariel has another drop of STL files ready to print for those with 3D printers. Each one of these is free.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Thomas Lorenti adds new rules for crafting and herbalism with The World is Your Garden. This supplement has optional rules expanding on herbalism, poison, alchemy, and more allowing PCs to create new poisons, toxins, herbal remedies, elixirs, and more.
Gabriel Gro has a new playable race with Cactoids: Thorny Nomads. These cactusfolk are nomadic desert-dwellers known for their unique abilities and spiritual rituals.
J&D’s Back of Endless Treats released Anime Inspired: Magic Items Volume 1 featuring ten magic items inspired by popular anime series.
On Storytellers Vault, Super Vlad released Skull Regalia, a supplement book for Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition featuring new Lost Regalia with five new Common Contracts and five new Royal Contracts.
This week’s lightning round features a collection of classes and subclasses for 5e. As always, these are 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.
Itch.io has a megabundle for the Queer Games Bundle 2023 featuring works by LGBTQ+ creators. The bundle features over 450 games and game products from almost 300 creators (and I’m pretty sure the number of games went up as I was writing this) all for the price of a single AAA video game title. On top of the video games, novels, short stories, interactive fiction, and game design assets, there are also several tabletop RPGs such as Glitter Hearts, Heart of the Forest, Rodents with Guitars, FIST: Ultra Edition, and a lot more with proceeds split between the creators.
Evil Hat Games is celebrating Pride Month by offering a coupon on select titles, including the Nebula Award winning RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians, its rules expansion Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, accessories for Apocalypse Keys, and more.
The license for the Conan franchise expires at the end of this month, so Modiphius is having a fire sale on the Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of roleplaying game, adventures, setting books, and supplements.
Animancy Press is celebrating their 300th sale on DMs Guild with a discount on their Magic Items and Magewright Backgrounds. Pick up Haddri’s Armor Alternatives Volume I, Magewright Backgrounds Volume I and Volume II, or Magic Item Menagerie: Volume I, Volume II, and Volume III at a huge discount.
With all the new post-apocalyptic games and campaigns coming out, it’s a good time to stock up on wasteland maps and Alpha Strike Games Limited has collected two sets of eight maps each ready to use on your favorite VTT.
Whether you’re looking to make your own gaming products or just want to add something extra to your handouts for your home game, the Art Assets and Layout Graphics Bundle has over 900 textures, templates, clip art, stock art, and more for use in both personal and commercial products.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, fans of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have a pair of bundles of game books set in Lankhmar based on the works of author Fritz Leiber. The first, the DCC Lankhmar Bundle brings the classic fantasy setting to Goodman Games’s Dungeon Crawl Classics. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Lankhmar Boxed Set and the sourcebook Gang Lords of Lankhmar while the Bonus Collection adds on the location book The Land of the Eight Cities, A Dozen Lankhmar Locations, a trio of 2nd level adventures, and three higher level adventures.
The second bundle adds a collection of eight Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures set in Lankhmar. Not only do you get the 164-page tournament module The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar but also the adventures Cheating Death, Unholy Nights in Lankhmar, Mercy on the Day of the Eel, Treachery in the Beggar City, Masks of Lankhmar, and the Free RPG Day offerings from 2016 and 2020.
On Humble Bundle, Paizo and Humble have extended the Starfinder Solidarity Bundle featuring a full library of Starfinder books. If you’ve never played the space fantasy spinoff of Pathfinder, the base level features the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Player Character Folio, GM Screen, Beginner Box, and the first adventure in the We’re No Heroes adventure path. The top-tier level is a full library of 27 digital products plus two physical products, the hardcover of Alien Archive 2 and the reference cards Critical Hit Deck (shipping extra).
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!
Starting on Itch.io, the BattleTech Pride Anthology 2023 features stories from five LGBTQ+ authors about LGBTQ+ characters in the BattleTech universe (“Masquerade” by Robin Briseño, “Small” by Albert Ross, “Test Drive” by Allen Nickloy, “Dragon Slayer” by Milla Koponen, and “Old Wounds, Old Words” by Russell Zimmerman) available in PDF, epub, and mobi format.
- Price: Free
Nightfall Games released a quickstart for their cyberpunk RPG The Corporation 2nd Edition. “Life in 2500 is dangerous, and that’s often your fault.” The quickstart includes the adventure “Riot in Commissary B”, four pre-generated characters, and basic rules for gameplay.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
The video game company Crystal Dynamics released Lara Croft’s Tomb Raiders RPG Rule Book, a d6 dice pool TTRPG officially licensed (but non-canon) to the popular video game series. The link goes directly to download the ZIP file, which contains the 215-page rulebook, the 74-page Mark of the Phoenix campaign, character sheets, handouts, and even assets for live streaming the game on Twitch or other platforms.
- Price: Free
“Liminal space” is a term that’s gotten a lot of recent attention as the name for transitory places that aren’t meant to be used, but just somewhere to go from one place to another. It’s a particularly popular concept for horror recently, as with the Ruptured Chains Studio release Backrooms: The RPG. This original system RPG is based on the urban legend of the Backrooms as a dreamlike place of nightmarish creatures lurking in the shadows.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
Lucky Dice Games released Manual of Roguish Magic: A Free D20 Magic Item List for Thieves & Rogues. As it says on the tin, this book is a collection of ten magic items meant to help rogues and thieves commit their sneaky endeavors.
- Price: Free
The system-agnostic sourcebook Rise of the Shapeshifter Tribes from Cole Burgett gives the backgrounds for four tribes of early humans with the ability to shapeshift, defined by the animal they can transform into.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $10.00)
Fans of Shadowrun, Cyberpunk RED, and other cyberpunk and sci-fi RPGs will want to check out the Vendor Alley map from Lone Wanderer Entertainment, featuring a city street leading to a neon-illuminated alleyway of vendor stalls.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.99)
Clement Tyler released the action RPG Dice Hard for cinematic contemporary action/adventure using a streamlined version of Modiphius’s 2d20 System.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
If you need a village for your fantasy game quickly, Other Brand Media has Bridgehaven, a system-agnostic setting usable in any fantasy or (with small adjustments) medieval historical setting with details of the village and what you can find there.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
And if you need something larger than a village, Claire Oberle has a total of five unique city districts that can be used in your 5e games to expand any location or put together to create a new fantasy city. Each district has maps, locations, plot hooks, and NPCs: Artisan District, Halfling Quarter, Merchant District, University Quarter, and Waterfront District.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00 each)
nonPariel has another drop of STL files ready to print for those with 3D printers. Each one of these is free.
- Subway Entrance for Modern Wargames
- Modular Spaceship for Tabletop Wargames
- Rocky Soil Bases
- Modern Marvels - Briefcase/Suitcase
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Thomas Lorenti adds new rules for crafting and herbalism with The World is Your Garden. This supplement has optional rules expanding on herbalism, poison, alchemy, and more allowing PCs to create new poisons, toxins, herbal remedies, elixirs, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Gabriel Gro has a new playable race with Cactoids: Thorny Nomads. These cactusfolk are nomadic desert-dwellers known for their unique abilities and spiritual rituals.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
J&D’s Back of Endless Treats released Anime Inspired: Magic Items Volume 1 featuring ten magic items inspired by popular anime series.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
On Storytellers Vault, Super Vlad released Skull Regalia, a supplement book for Changeling: The Lost 2nd Edition featuring new Lost Regalia with five new Common Contracts and five new Royal Contracts.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
This week’s lightning round features a collection of classes and subclasses for 5e. As always, these are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Path of the Wrestler (Barbarian) from Gabriel Gro ($0.99)
- Pact of the Empty (Warlock) from RJ Lackie, Portalier Press ($1.29)
- Radiant Blade (Rogue) from Gabriel Gro ($0.99)
- Way of the Distant Hand (Monk) from JT Hoyle ($1.00)
- Mod Fighter (updated class with seven subclasses) from Poorly Drawn Pentagon ($0.00)
- Path of the Jungle (Barbarian) from Andrew Fields ($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.
Itch.io has a megabundle for the Queer Games Bundle 2023 featuring works by LGBTQ+ creators. The bundle features over 450 games and game products from almost 300 creators (and I’m pretty sure the number of games went up as I was writing this) all for the price of a single AAA video game title. On top of the video games, novels, short stories, interactive fiction, and game design assets, there are also several tabletop RPGs such as Glitter Hearts, Heart of the Forest, Rodents with Guitars, FIST: Ultra Edition, and a lot more with proceeds split between the creators.
- Price: $60.00 (over 99% off)
- End Date: July 7, 2023
Evil Hat Games is celebrating Pride Month by offering a coupon on select titles, including the Nebula Award winning RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians, its rules expansion Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, accessories for Apocalypse Keys, and more.
- Price: 15% off with the coupon code PRIDE23
- End Date: June 30, 2023
The license for the Conan franchise expires at the end of this month, so Modiphius is having a fire sale on the Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of roleplaying game, adventures, setting books, and supplements.
- Price: 50% off all titles
- End Date: June 30, 2023
Animancy Press is celebrating their 300th sale on DMs Guild with a discount on their Magic Items and Magewright Backgrounds. Pick up Haddri’s Armor Alternatives Volume I, Magewright Backgrounds Volume I and Volume II, or Magic Item Menagerie: Volume I, Volume II, and Volume III at a huge discount.
- Price: $0.50 each or $3.00 for the bundle (90% off)
- Note: Click on the images in the link for the discount code
With all the new post-apocalyptic games and campaigns coming out, it’s a good time to stock up on wasteland maps and Alpha Strike Games Limited has collected two sets of eight maps each ready to use on your favorite VTT.
- Price: $2.69 (55% off)
Whether you’re looking to make your own gaming products or just want to add something extra to your handouts for your home game, the Art Assets and Layout Graphics Bundle has over 900 textures, templates, clip art, stock art, and more for use in both personal and commercial products.
- Price: $25.00 (38% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, fans of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have a pair of bundles of game books set in Lankhmar based on the works of author Fritz Leiber. The first, the DCC Lankhmar Bundle brings the classic fantasy setting to Goodman Games’s Dungeon Crawl Classics. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Lankhmar Boxed Set and the sourcebook Gang Lords of Lankhmar while the Bonus Collection adds on the location book The Land of the Eight Cities, A Dozen Lankhmar Locations, a trio of 2nd level adventures, and three higher level adventures.
- Price: $14.95 (68% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: June 19, 2023
- Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
The second bundle adds a collection of eight Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures set in Lankhmar. Not only do you get the 164-page tournament module The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar but also the adventures Cheating Death, Unholy Nights in Lankhmar, Mercy on the Day of the Eel, Treachery in the Beggar City, Masks of Lankhmar, and the Free RPG Day offerings from 2016 and 2020.
- Price: 17.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: June 19, 2023
- Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
On Humble Bundle, Paizo and Humble have extended the Starfinder Solidarity Bundle featuring a full library of Starfinder books. If you’ve never played the space fantasy spinoff of Pathfinder, the base level features the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Player Character Folio, GM Screen, Beginner Box, and the first adventure in the We’re No Heroes adventure path. The top-tier level is a full library of 27 digital products plus two physical products, the hardcover of Alien Archive 2 and the reference cards Critical Hit Deck (shipping extra).
- Price: $5/$15/$25/$45 (89% off at top tier)
- End Date: June 8, 2023
- Charity: The Trevor Project (user-defined, default 5%)
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.
