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
As I wrote over on the News Digest this week, the Vampire: The Masquerade Nexus is in early access but doesn’t include character creation. However, if you need some help with making a character for Vampire, Bex Archer has the Vampire: The Masquerade Character Creation reference document on DriveThruRPG that gives locations in the core rulebook for the appropriate rules and collects several tables for quick reference.
The Dungeon’s Key released Drifting Offline | A subspace anomaly for DEATH IN SPACE, an adventure with a rather unique space encounter. Your ship has been eaten by a M-Class Harvester, trapping you inside and forcing you to explore the three levels in order to find out where this mechanical terror came from and how to escape.
With the classic children’s tale Winnie the Pooh entering public domain this year, it was only a matter of time before a tabletop RPG popped up. From Identical Games comes Writing Winnie the Pooh, a light storytelling game featuring Pooh and his friends that only requires a standard deck of playing cards.
Over on DM’s Guild, Rui Ribeiro has the adventure The Vampire Cure that places the party in the midst of a vampire attack that may be more complicated than it first seems.
And…okay…I’m going to break my normal format a bit because there were a lot of new classes and subclasses posted this week. A lot. A lot. All of these are Pay What You Want, so I’m just going to list them all out along with the authors and what is listed as the suggested price.
Bundles and Sales
Speaking of new classes and subclasses on the DM’s Guild, the Player Compendium bundle features twenty player expansion sourcebooks mostly focusing on new classes and subclasses but also new magic items, feats, and more.
And even more subclass options with the Subclasses of Ravnica bundle featuring three sourcebooks. Archetypes of Ravnica adds new subclasses for each of the ten Guilds, Artificers of Ravnica has fifteen new archetypes just for artificers, and Clerics of Ravnica that expands the domains from the traditional “white mana” cleric of Magic: The Gathering to include options for blue, red, green, and black.
It’s the time of summer sales from across all aspects of gaming and Itch.io is no different with hundreds of titles on sale from video games to music to comics to game development assets and, of course, tabletop RPGs.
Fantasy Grounds also has a summer sale going with discounts and bundles for RPGs, maps, and asset packs. Titles on sale include products and rules sets from Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, Starfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, Fallout: The Role-Playing Game, Traveller, and a lot more. You can also get a discount on a license to Fantasy Grounds Unity Standard or Ultimate.
And Free League also has a summer sale going on their webstore. Discounted titles include Tales from the Loop, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Mutant: Year Zero, and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
While Pride Month is technically over, the Itch.io Queer Games Bundle 2022 collecting over 500 games from LGBTQ+ creators has been extended for a few days. Included games range from indie TTRPGs to video games to zines to game development assets to soundtracks and a lot more. Note: This technically is not a charity bundle as the proceeds will be split evenly between all creators who opted in to receive funds.
Over on Bundle of Holding, there’s not one, not two, but three bundles for Steve Jackson Games’s GURPS series. The first is GURPS 4e Essentials giving you the core rules to the original generic roleplaying game system. For those who don’t know how GURPS works, it’s the Generic Universal Role Play System and has a base rules system that you can then add whatever options you want to create whatever genre of game you want. The base level includes the GURPS 4e Basic Set, GURPS Template Toolkit 1, Adaptations, the GURPS 4e GM screen, and a guidebook How to Be a GURPS GM. There’s also a level-up option that adds on six GURPS 4e tech supplements and GURPS Mass Combat.
The second bundle is GURPS 4e Space which adds a collection of science fiction options to your GURPS games. The core bundle features GURPS Space 4e, GURPS Spaceships, and GURPS Psionic Powers with a level-up option that adds six spacecraft catalogs, three psionics sourcebooks, and the campaign setting Tales of the Solar Patrol.
And the third bundle is another genre pack for GURPS 4e Fantasy featuring a core bundle with GURPS Fantasy 4e, GURPS Magic 4e, the campaign setting Banestorm, and the magic item collection Alphabet Arcane. The level-up option adds on the sourcebook Thaumatology and six expansion books in the Thaumatology series.
Do you want battlemaps? Well Bundle of Holding is going to give you some battlemaps. How many battlemaps? Nineteen Gigabytes worth of high-quality maps. The maps are available in PDF and JPG format suitable for printing or use on VTTs completely DRM-free.
Aconyte, the fiction publishing arm of Asmodee, partnered with Humble Bundle for the Fantasy Gaming Fiction Book Bundle. This bundle has three tiers featuring novels from a variety of roleplaying game, board game, and video game franchises including Legend of the Five Rings, Arkham Horror, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, Assassin’s Creed, Watchdogs, and more.
Humble Bundle and Frog God Games brings us a 5e OGL collection Treasures and Tehuatl with a diverse collection of products. The top tier features a total of 35 digital products with adventures, sourcebooks, virtual token packs, setting books, and maps plus a physical copy of the Tome of Treasures hardcover (shipping not included).
A bit more on the board games side, but Talisman is a classic fantasy adventure board game that many roleplayers know very well and this bundle collects all the DLC for the digital adaptation. This bundle features the base game at the $1 tier, adds on 29 expansion DLCs at the $10 tier, and the top tier beat-the average (currently $10.86) gets you the base game and all 53 released DLCs and expansions.
That’s all for this week! If you know of any bundles or sales starting soon, please contact me on the EN World Discord 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, and/or DriveThru may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
Freebies and Pay What You Want
As I wrote over on the News Digest this week, the Vampire: The Masquerade Nexus is in early access but doesn’t include character creation. However, if you need some help with making a character for Vampire, Bex Archer has the Vampire: The Masquerade Character Creation reference document on DriveThruRPG that gives locations in the core rulebook for the appropriate rules and collects several tables for quick reference.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
The Dungeon’s Key released Drifting Offline | A subspace anomaly for DEATH IN SPACE, an adventure with a rather unique space encounter. Your ship has been eaten by a M-Class Harvester, trapping you inside and forcing you to explore the three levels in order to find out where this mechanical terror came from and how to escape.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
With the classic children’s tale Winnie the Pooh entering public domain this year, it was only a matter of time before a tabletop RPG popped up. From Identical Games comes Writing Winnie the Pooh, a light storytelling game featuring Pooh and his friends that only requires a standard deck of playing cards.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on DM’s Guild, Rui Ribeiro has the adventure The Vampire Cure that places the party in the midst of a vampire attack that may be more complicated than it first seems.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
And…okay…I’m going to break my normal format a bit because there were a lot of new classes and subclasses posted this week. A lot. A lot. All of these are Pay What You Want, so I’m just going to list them all out along with the authors and what is listed as the suggested price.
- Lich Class by alexbass99 $0.00
- Spiritist Class by Petru Leon $4.95
- Barbarian: Path of Infernal Wrath by Allen Childers $3.00
- The Manifest Class by Lawerence Hawkins $5.95
- Ranger Archetypes: Pathfinder & Arcane Archer by John Francis de los Reyes $0.50
- Detective – A Roguish Archetype from Ahmet Sinan Aydin $0.50
- The Gladiator by Malachi Bell $3.00
- Subversions: Oath of Objectivity Paladin $1.95
- Tome of Subclasses from Grey Wolf Gaming (Rogue Bruiser, Ranger Bounty Hunter, Sorcerer Bladecaster, Fighter Blade) $2.00
- Sorcerer Rework by Dylan Baxter-King $0.50
- Revised Inquisitive by Michael Rehe $1.99
- Arcane Gambler from Cursed Mountain (Sorcerer subclass) $0.00
Bundles and Sales
Speaking of new classes and subclasses on the DM’s Guild, the Player Compendium bundle features twenty player expansion sourcebooks mostly focusing on new classes and subclasses but also new magic items, feats, and more.
- Price: $24.99 (57% off)
And even more subclass options with the Subclasses of Ravnica bundle featuring three sourcebooks. Archetypes of Ravnica adds new subclasses for each of the ten Guilds, Artificers of Ravnica has fifteen new archetypes just for artificers, and Clerics of Ravnica that expands the domains from the traditional “white mana” cleric of Magic: The Gathering to include options for blue, red, green, and black.
- Price: $7.75 (44% off)
It’s the time of summer sales from across all aspects of gaming and Itch.io is no different with hundreds of titles on sale from video games to music to comics to game development assets and, of course, tabletop RPGs.
- Price: Varies (discounts up to 90% off)
- End Date: July 7, 2022
Fantasy Grounds also has a summer sale going with discounts and bundles for RPGs, maps, and asset packs. Titles on sale include products and rules sets from Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, Starfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, Fallout: The Role-Playing Game, Traveller, and a lot more. You can also get a discount on a license to Fantasy Grounds Unity Standard or Ultimate.
- Price: Varies (discounts up to 50% off)
- End Date: July 7, 2022
And Free League also has a summer sale going on their webstore. Discounted titles include Tales from the Loop, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Mutant: Year Zero, and more.
- Price: Varies (discounts up to 50% off)
- End Date: July 5, 2022
Charity Bundles and Sales
While Pride Month is technically over, the Itch.io Queer Games Bundle 2022 collecting over 500 games from LGBTQ+ creators has been extended for a few days. Included games range from indie TTRPGs to video games to zines to game development assets to soundtracks and a lot more. Note: This technically is not a charity bundle as the proceeds will be split evenly between all creators who opted in to receive funds.
- Price: $10.00 (over 99% off)
- End Date: July 7, 2022
Over on Bundle of Holding, there’s not one, not two, but three bundles for Steve Jackson Games’s GURPS series. The first is GURPS 4e Essentials giving you the core rules to the original generic roleplaying game system. For those who don’t know how GURPS works, it’s the Generic Universal Role Play System and has a base rules system that you can then add whatever options you want to create whatever genre of game you want. The base level includes the GURPS 4e Basic Set, GURPS Template Toolkit 1, Adaptations, the GURPS 4e GM screen, and a guidebook How to Be a GURPS GM. There’s also a level-up option that adds on six GURPS 4e tech supplements and GURPS Mass Combat.
- Price: $19.95 (78% off) with variable cost Level-Up option
- End Date: July 19, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
The second bundle is GURPS 4e Space which adds a collection of science fiction options to your GURPS games. The core bundle features GURPS Space 4e, GURPS Spaceships, and GURPS Psionic Powers with a level-up option that adds six spacecraft catalogs, three psionics sourcebooks, and the campaign setting Tales of the Solar Patrol.
- Price: $12.95 (74% off) with variable cost Level-Up option
- End Date: July 19, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
And the third bundle is another genre pack for GURPS 4e Fantasy featuring a core bundle with GURPS Fantasy 4e, GURPS Magic 4e, the campaign setting Banestorm, and the magic item collection Alphabet Arcane. The level-up option adds on the sourcebook Thaumatology and six expansion books in the Thaumatology series.
- Price: $19.95 (77% off) with variable cost Level-Up option
- End Date: July 19, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Do you want battlemaps? Well Bundle of Holding is going to give you some battlemaps. How many battlemaps? Nineteen Gigabytes worth of high-quality maps. The maps are available in PDF and JPG format suitable for printing or use on VTTs completely DRM-free.
- Price: $9.95 (74% off) with variable cost Level-Up option
- End Date: July 11, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Aconyte, the fiction publishing arm of Asmodee, partnered with Humble Bundle for the Fantasy Gaming Fiction Book Bundle. This bundle has three tiers featuring novels from a variety of roleplaying game, board game, and video game franchises including Legend of the Five Rings, Arkham Horror, Descent: Journeys in the Dark, Assassin’s Creed, Watchdogs, and more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
- End Date: July 21, 2022
- Charity: Worldreader (user-defined, default 5%)
Humble Bundle and Frog God Games brings us a 5e OGL collection Treasures and Tehuatl with a diverse collection of products. The top tier features a total of 35 digital products with adventures, sourcebooks, virtual token packs, setting books, and maps plus a physical copy of the Tome of Treasures hardcover (shipping not included).
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$43 (90% off at top tier)
- End Date: July 14, 2022
- Charity: Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society (user-defined, default 5%)
A bit more on the board games side, but Talisman is a classic fantasy adventure board game that many roleplayers know very well and this bundle collects all the DLC for the digital adaptation. This bundle features the base game at the $1 tier, adds on 29 expansion DLCs at the $10 tier, and the top tier beat-the average (currently $10.86) gets you the base game and all 53 released DLCs and expansions.
- Price: $1/$10/Variable (up to 94% off at top tier)
- End Date: July 6, 2022
- Charity: You choose which charity to support (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 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, and/or DriveThru may contain affiliate links with the proceeds going to the author of this column.
