Sale Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace - Canada and Beyond

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The Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace is a Canadian focussed RPG marketplace. We sell both direct to consumers and to Canadian Friendly Local Game Stores. We sell both Print&PDF and PDF only.

We pride ourselves on having beneficial policies for both publishers and local retailers.

From publishers, the Marketplace takes only a 10% cut which occurs after transaction processing fees, and any other discounts. This means that more funds go directly to our publishers.

For retailers we provide a PDF guarantee for any physical books sold in your store to your customers, and we also have a “ship-to-store” option for our direct customers. Ship to store gives the customer a discount on shipping and gives the store a small credit.

At the moment we allow our direct customer to designate any Canadian FLGS to receive a 5% affiliate bonus on any kind of sale on checkout.

In addition to the above, we also provide publishers with assistance in cross-border fulfillment, which is particularly useful for USA based publishers looking to send product to their Canadian backers.

Spoiler: More Info for Publishers

Here are the basics of Selling on the Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace:

• We sell Print & PDF, and PDF Only.
• Any print sales are always bundled with a PDF. We have a PDF guarantee for all our customers.
• Retailers received a 40% discount off MSRP. This applies before any other fees.
• Print material is placed on consignment, and you are responsible for getting your books to us. (We do have a USA shipping address.)
• CDG Marketplace takes only a 10% cut of all sales. This occurs after any other discounts or fees, transaction processing fees are ~3% + 30 cents.
• Payments to our publishers are made quarterly.
• All products are listed for you by our team.
• Prices are set in Canadian funds ($CAD), but customers can checkout with other funds. Currency conversion is automatically calculated.

Sales Examples

• A sale of a $10 PDF, would net a publisher $8.46
• A sale of a $20 book to a customer would net the publisher $17.19
• A sale of a $20 book to a retailer would net the publisher $10.20

Fulfillment Services:

We provide fulfillment services on Print books. This helps publishers with cross-border kickstarter fulfillment and ongoing direct sales within Canada. Reach out for more details.


Interested? Please contact us. Currently, we setup all your products for you!

Spoiler: More Info for Local Game Stores

Here at Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace, we love Friendly Local Game Stores, and we want to see you thrive. We are focussed on Canadian retailers, and primarily carry games from Canadian game designers and publishers.

Benefits of Joining the Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace as a Retailer:

• Retailers get a 40% discount on all our books, with a $10 flat rate shipping (or better).
• Get in hard to get titles without the hassle of cross-border shipping fees.
• Anyone who buys a physical book from you can receive a complimentary PDF from us (or through Bits&Mortar).
• Ship to store: We list you as a shipping option for our direct customers. Customers who order directly from us can choose to have the book(s) delivered directly to your store. When this happens you earn 10% on the sale as credit to get other books from us, and the customer receives discounted shipping.

Create an account and contact us, add we'll add you to the FLGS user group, or simply contact us and we'll set up the account for you. We'll also include you in our growing list of retailers

At the moment we allow our direct customer to designate any Canadian FLGS to receive a 5% affiliate bonus on any kind of sale.

We recently started recording “unboxing videos” that explore the various titles we carry.



My next post in this thread will highlight some of the titles on the marketplace, and I will aim to add to it regularly.

Questions welcome!

 

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A few recent titles of note:

The Halls of Arde n Vul, the largest OSR mega-dungeon ever, from Expeditious Retreat Press.
C$109 PDF 1120 pages + maps

Free Spacer, a sandbox starship RPG about the crew of a commissioned starship performing contracts, from Random Alien Games.
C$25 full colour PDF 354 pages

Palanquin, a one-shot RPG where players play either the Princess or one of the unusual figures who came together to escort her to safety, from Genesis of Legend Publishing.
C$12 print, C$7 PDF, 34 pages.

HeadCrushers is a simple RPG for when you just need to crush a head to show you mean business, from Sword’s Edge Publishing.
$C6.50 PDF 45 pages.

The Quite Year (revised burlap bag edition), a GMless map game about struggles of a post-apocalyptic community, from Buried Without Ceremony.
C$65 includes a bag, 40 page booklet, oversized card deck, six small dice, and 20 Contempt Tokens (shaped like weathered skulls) or C$10 for a PDF version

Choose Your Own FATE adventure books for some entertaining solo adventures from Chris Challice.
Pay what you want PDF.


There are more titles from the above publishers as well as from Lost Cause Games, Samjoko Publishing, Green Hat Designs, Broken Ruler Games, Fool’s Moon Entertainment, and Compose Dream Games.

 

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The Pod-Caverns of the Sinister Shroom, the first of over 43 OSR modules in Expeditious Retreat's Advanced Adventures line. If you love OSR, this adventure had a huge influence on it. I've personally run it multiple times, and love it.
C$6.00, PDF black and white interior, 16 pages

Monsterhearts 2e, a game of teenage monsters in love, using the Powered by the Apocalypse engine. From Buried Without Ceremony.
C$50 hardcover, C$34 softcover, C$13 PDF, black and white interior, 174 pages

After the War, ten years after a galactic war, you are a survivor rebuilding on a frontier planet. Built on a modified Spark engine, it provides some narrative control to all players, and focusses on challenging and changing beliefs. The Spark engine is also in Sig: The City Between, an homage to Planescape. From Genesis of Legend Publishing.
C$50 hardcover, C$20 PDF, black and white interior, 355 pages

The Veil, a cyberpunk game powered by the apocalypse engine. The Veil itself is an part of the setting. It is the internet, and the virtual reality that overlays the "real" world. From Samjoko Publishing.
C$45 softcover, C$19 PDF, full colour, 392 pages.

Nefertiti Overdrive mashes together ancient Egypt and over the top kung-fu action and you get Nefertiti Overdrive. The system here takes some cues from Marvel Heroic Roleplaying and lets you roll higher dice for describing cool action. From Sword's Edge Publishing.
C$30 softcover, C$16 PDF, print interior bw, pdf interior limited colour, 151 pages

Fox Magic, if you are intrigued by Japanese Folklore? Check out Fox Magic, from Fool’s Moon Entertainment, where you get to play a kitsune of Japanese Legend.
C$17.50, black and white interior, 93 pages

 

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New Canadian Publishers to the Marketplace in 2021:
Here’s a run down of new publishers and designers who joined the marketplace in 2021. With comments on some of their products.

A Smouldering Lighthouse
Has released their first 2 games this year. Both are GMless story-games.
This Spells Trouble is a game about isolationist wizards making a mess of things when they go into the world, with a card for each of the spirits they can summon.
Faewater is a one-page dark fantasy game about underwater fairies and the mortals they prey on. Both are free with a tip the creator option.
A Smouldering Lighthouse

Alicia Furness Publishing
Joined with 2 titles.
Camp Flying Moose, a powered by the Apocalypse game about a summer camp for teenage girls which probably has some monsters too.
While in Identity you are a clone trying desperately to escape the corporation that created you. Identity uses the Wretched engine -- you use a jenga tower, and a deck of cards and 10 tokens, and it is geared for solo play (but rules for more players are included.)
Alicia Furness

Chris Challice Books
Chris has two free Choose Your Own Fate books, and a Troika based game born out of nostalgic love for old-school console adventure games Oroboros.
He’s also one of the designers of Pendelhaven’s Vanagard and their adventure Seith and Sword.
https://composedreamgames.com/marketplace/chris-challice

Random Alien Games
Creator of Free Spacer, a sandbox starship RPG, using their own “salvo” game engine. And yes, you can generate completely random aliens with this game. As well as random solar systems, planets and more.
Random Alien Games

Pendelhaven
Creators of an array of Runic Game System games where you resolve actions by drawing rune stones from a bag. Including Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok, Vanagard, and the newly released Children of Eiru (we’ll be getting that soon!).
All games are deeply mythologically based. Those looking to get there hands directly on the mythology are encourage to get their Illuminated Edda, and Celtic Cyclopedia, or even one of their Creatures of Fairy-Tale and Myth for mythlogically grounded takes on monsters.
Pendelhaven

Broken Things
Broken Things joined with their game Inspire, a GMless story-game where you play a spirit hoping to become a god. "The kind of spirit that may one day become a god. Those other people around the table with you? Maybe they’re going to end up being on the same pantheon as you. Someone needs to be at the top of this pecking order though. That’s what you’re going to find out as you shape the first generations of this community, each spirit trying to be the one who saves the day, and ultimately become the head of your pantheon."
Broken Things Games

 

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This year is the 10th Anniversary of Centurion: Legionaries of Rome, and we've just put together a bundle of all 4 Centurion Adventures in PDF. They are on sale for just $9.50, saving you 60%. This is 179 pages of Centurion adventures set in 3 of the eras of Rome.

Hispania Ulterior Motive — Late Republic 156 BCE
Questions of Loyalty — Civil Wars 49 BCE
Red Danube — Crisis of the 3rd Century 271 CE
Dark Roads — Crisis of the 3rd Century 272 CE​

You can also pick up the the core book until the end of the year for 10% off with coupon code Decurion
This applies to both the print and PDF version. Coupons are added on the shopping cart page.

 

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It's the annual 1 week Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace sitewide sale! Everything in 20% off.

Print+PDF Titles | PDF Titles | Game Aids

Compose Dream Games carries 38 (and counting) publishers games! Our publisher list.

Sale ends on October 1st — Dave Arneson Game Day!

This is the only site-wide sale we run. Happy gaming!

Here's some new titles, mostly from new publishers joining us after Tabletop Scotland (which I wrote about here.)

MINION​ Be the monster in this quick, easy to play RPG system where you play any mook, monster or minion you can imagine. Inspirisles​ Learn British and American sign language as you cast spells, solve puzzles and battle monsters!

Be Like a Crow​ A solo RPG that allows you to become a crow and do crowy things whilst journalling your experiences.

A Set of Scrubs​ A hospital game written by a real doctor. In this solo RPG, you witness the wonder, sadness drudgery of an underfunded hospital through the viewpoint of a set of scrubs. Aegean (pre-order)​ Copies of Aegean are on their way to us now! Aegean is a d10 dice pool system game, where you play as mortal greek heroes and children of the gods. It's two major expansions Book of Empires and Book of Heroes are already here! Learn more at https://www.aegeanrpg.com/

 

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Rowan, Rook and Decard have joined the marketplace with their award winning Spire: This City Must Fall and Heart: The City Beneath, as well as Rhapsody of Blood and Goblin Quest!
I had come across "Sean Bean Quest" somewhere online a few years ago. You all play a series of Sean Beans who naturally, die. It's a variant of Goblin Quest, and you can get it and 7 other variants all in Goblin Quest.
Want to be one of the first to grab it from our fresh stock? Find them at: Find them all at https://composedreamgames.com/marketplace/rowan-rook-n-decard-publisher

Shadows of the Past
By Nova Scotia based Anti Hero Games, released this year and they joined us at HalCon.
Shadows of the Past is for historical gaming of all kinds and has some interesting rules relating to morale (including the fact that murdering someone tends to damage it).
5 different eras, with 15 unique settings. Eras are: Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, Industrial and Atomic. Each has 3 settings.
Ancient - Egypt, Greece, Europe.
Medieval - Britain, Jerusalem, China.
Renaissance - Caribbean, Japan, India.
Industrial - Australia, Africa, Mexico.
Atomic - Europe, Vietnam, Afghanistan.