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A lot of great PDF sales going on for GM's day.
My recommendations as someone who plays 3.5:
EN Publishing: All are currently only $1, grab them if anything interests you. War of the Burning Sky, an adventure path of 12 big quality modules to take you from 1-20 with a fantasy world at war theme. EN Critter book series, good terrain themed monster books. Fantastic Science, a great wierd science as new magic source sourcebook for D&D, including a great warlock mechanics style science caster. Elements of Magic, great alt magic flexible magic system, The brood sourcebooks (crimson contracts, arcane strife, Necromancer's Legacy) great dark themed sourcebooks.
Adamant Entertainment: Another amazing everything is $1 sale. Two good Freeport modules. Thrilling Tales for a d20 Modern based RPG set in the Pulp era. Tons of decent short pulp era d20 modern modules, I got a ton of them for use in D&D. Imperial Age line is great, d20 modern based sourcebooks set in Victorian era world with varying levels of fantasy, I particularly like the faeries one. MARS RPG, plus minions of Mars, a d20 Modern based RPG set in Burrows Mars with swords, ape men and wierd critters. The minions book is a fantastic non magic NPC sourcebook for D&D games with stats for various NPC archetypes (pirates, merchants, assassins, courtesans, nobles, nomads, etc.) at various levels.
Inner Circle: Huge discounts on good stuff. Complete Book of Denizens for under $6? Amazing full color over 200 page monster book with very neat vicious and alien monsters. Their Lorebook setting books are good short campaign rule books as well for dirt cheap.
Necromancer: Tome of Horrors Revised 3.5 for $6. If you don't have it, play 3.5 and use pdfs this is probably the best value for gaming dollars, period. They also make good site based old school style modules and a few other sourcebooks.
Expeditious Retreat Press: 40% off their stuff at yourgamesnow.com. Their Ecology series is top notch but what I really like is their Monster Geographica series of terrain themed monster collections. Collections of existing OGC non-srd monsters updated to 3.5 if necessary, and organized by CR for easy reference. A great 3.5 DM resource.
RDP: Order of Eudeus is a decent church/paladin demon corruption book and a steal for $0.75. I also like the Touch of Evil series, the monsters of X books, and their True20 Blood Throne setting. The Cthulhu True20 book looks fun as well as the Bloodthrone supplements, though I have not gotten them yet.
Honorable Mentions:
Wizards of the Coast: Their 4e stuff is on sale for 25% off the normal 30% off the book cover price, making the core books a little more than $18 instead of the normal $25. I almost bought a PH and MM to try out the system, but the other 3.5 deals called out more to me.
Creative Conclave: Take a race or theme and does hundreds of useful basic statblocks with variations for a range of levels. Styles of NPC things are things like raiding party of scouts with a shaman and associated monster/mount/pet at various levels, basic stuff that will fit most campaigns. Great resource for DMing to have stats at hand predone as needed.
Fiery Dragon: Great counter art, with matches to various sets like Arcana Evolved, 3.5 SRD, Monster Geographica, Legions of Hell, 4e MM, etc. Also they now handle Iron Heroes, a number crunchy 3.5 based wuxia fantasy warrior focused RPG where gear and magic are not important for PCs.
AEG: Great 3e stuff at decent prices, but almost all of it is image scanned so copying text does not always do so well (varies from book to book depending on backgrounds) and the file sizes are humongous (94 mbs each for two I got last night). Content wise some great stuff, such as Swashbuckling Adventures, Rokugan, Warlords of the Accordlands, and a ton of their straight D&D d20 line (Mercenaries, Adventure, etc.).
White Wolf: I've heard good things about their new World of Darkness and Exalted games, they put a smattering of sourcebooks for these on sale though strangely none of the core ones. I was tempted by the Werewolf Predators book, but enough great 3.5 stuff was out for me to choose them instead.
Dragonwing games: I'm a fan of most of the old Bastion Press books and mostly of their Lore of the Gods book (though it has stat problems on monsters and heroes).
Dreamscarred Press: If you want 3.5 psionics support look no further, great stuff.
Silver Oak Studios: Argyle Lorebook is IMO a little known but great 3.5 points of light campaign setting set after the catastrophic fall of a great human magic empire.
Tabletop Adventures: Descriptive read aloud text sourcebooks for various terrains (caves, dungeons, forests, swamps, mountains, cities, etc.), very useful, very well done.
Tangent Games: Ados Campaign setting, Jute god sourcebook, Creatures of Ados, a fun 3.5 setting with an in-depth description heavy monster book and god sourcebook.
Bards and Sages: Neiyar is a neat 3.5 campaign setting of a divinely isolated (ravenloft style you can go in but not out) matriarchal jungle island with an unfortunate number of problems on the NPC and monster stats. I wish they had put their mythos line on sale as well as I already own Neiyar and I like the mythos ones I've got.
So those are my recommendations this GM's Day sale season.
My recommendations as someone who plays 3.5:
EN Publishing: All are currently only $1, grab them if anything interests you. War of the Burning Sky, an adventure path of 12 big quality modules to take you from 1-20 with a fantasy world at war theme. EN Critter book series, good terrain themed monster books. Fantastic Science, a great wierd science as new magic source sourcebook for D&D, including a great warlock mechanics style science caster. Elements of Magic, great alt magic flexible magic system, The brood sourcebooks (crimson contracts, arcane strife, Necromancer's Legacy) great dark themed sourcebooks.
Adamant Entertainment: Another amazing everything is $1 sale. Two good Freeport modules. Thrilling Tales for a d20 Modern based RPG set in the Pulp era. Tons of decent short pulp era d20 modern modules, I got a ton of them for use in D&D. Imperial Age line is great, d20 modern based sourcebooks set in Victorian era world with varying levels of fantasy, I particularly like the faeries one. MARS RPG, plus minions of Mars, a d20 Modern based RPG set in Burrows Mars with swords, ape men and wierd critters. The minions book is a fantastic non magic NPC sourcebook for D&D games with stats for various NPC archetypes (pirates, merchants, assassins, courtesans, nobles, nomads, etc.) at various levels.
Inner Circle: Huge discounts on good stuff. Complete Book of Denizens for under $6? Amazing full color over 200 page monster book with very neat vicious and alien monsters. Their Lorebook setting books are good short campaign rule books as well for dirt cheap.
Necromancer: Tome of Horrors Revised 3.5 for $6. If you don't have it, play 3.5 and use pdfs this is probably the best value for gaming dollars, period. They also make good site based old school style modules and a few other sourcebooks.
Expeditious Retreat Press: 40% off their stuff at yourgamesnow.com. Their Ecology series is top notch but what I really like is their Monster Geographica series of terrain themed monster collections. Collections of existing OGC non-srd monsters updated to 3.5 if necessary, and organized by CR for easy reference. A great 3.5 DM resource.
RDP: Order of Eudeus is a decent church/paladin demon corruption book and a steal for $0.75. I also like the Touch of Evil series, the monsters of X books, and their True20 Blood Throne setting. The Cthulhu True20 book looks fun as well as the Bloodthrone supplements, though I have not gotten them yet.
Honorable Mentions:
Wizards of the Coast: Their 4e stuff is on sale for 25% off the normal 30% off the book cover price, making the core books a little more than $18 instead of the normal $25. I almost bought a PH and MM to try out the system, but the other 3.5 deals called out more to me.
Creative Conclave: Take a race or theme and does hundreds of useful basic statblocks with variations for a range of levels. Styles of NPC things are things like raiding party of scouts with a shaman and associated monster/mount/pet at various levels, basic stuff that will fit most campaigns. Great resource for DMing to have stats at hand predone as needed.
Fiery Dragon: Great counter art, with matches to various sets like Arcana Evolved, 3.5 SRD, Monster Geographica, Legions of Hell, 4e MM, etc. Also they now handle Iron Heroes, a number crunchy 3.5 based wuxia fantasy warrior focused RPG where gear and magic are not important for PCs.
AEG: Great 3e stuff at decent prices, but almost all of it is image scanned so copying text does not always do so well (varies from book to book depending on backgrounds) and the file sizes are humongous (94 mbs each for two I got last night). Content wise some great stuff, such as Swashbuckling Adventures, Rokugan, Warlords of the Accordlands, and a ton of their straight D&D d20 line (Mercenaries, Adventure, etc.).
White Wolf: I've heard good things about their new World of Darkness and Exalted games, they put a smattering of sourcebooks for these on sale though strangely none of the core ones. I was tempted by the Werewolf Predators book, but enough great 3.5 stuff was out for me to choose them instead.
Dragonwing games: I'm a fan of most of the old Bastion Press books and mostly of their Lore of the Gods book (though it has stat problems on monsters and heroes).
Dreamscarred Press: If you want 3.5 psionics support look no further, great stuff.
Silver Oak Studios: Argyle Lorebook is IMO a little known but great 3.5 points of light campaign setting set after the catastrophic fall of a great human magic empire.
Tabletop Adventures: Descriptive read aloud text sourcebooks for various terrains (caves, dungeons, forests, swamps, mountains, cities, etc.), very useful, very well done.
Tangent Games: Ados Campaign setting, Jute god sourcebook, Creatures of Ados, a fun 3.5 setting with an in-depth description heavy monster book and god sourcebook.
Bards and Sages: Neiyar is a neat 3.5 campaign setting of a divinely isolated (ravenloft style you can go in but not out) matriarchal jungle island with an unfortunate number of problems on the NPC and monster stats. I wish they had put their mythos line on sale as well as I already own Neiyar and I like the mythos ones I've got.
So those are my recommendations this GM's Day sale season.
