Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for August 11, 2024

D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, Cosmere / Stormlight Archive RPG, Doctor Who, Alien RPG, BattleTech, Dragonbane, Shadowdark, Mork Borg, Mothership, and more!

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.

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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!

The Cosmere RPG from Brotherwise Games based on the works of Brandon Sanderson is currently breaking records on Kickstarter. For those curious about the rules before committing to backing it, Brotherwise released Cosmere RPG Beta Rules Preview figuring a 94-page look at the core rules.
  • Price: Free

For more previews of Cosmere, you can also get the Bridge Nine Adventure, a 29-page introductory adventure set in the world of Stormlight Archives.
  • Price: Free

For more playtest fun, Paizo released A Cosmic Birthday, a Roll20 Playset for the Starfinder 2e playtest including maps with dynamic lighting, pre-created tokens for all encounters, an additional token pack bringing the total to over 160 tokens, and more!
  • Price: Free

Modiphius has more adventures in the Wilds of Appalachia with the rules packet The Crater and The Foundation. This packet includes stats, unit cards, equipment, and “AI” for new miniatures for use in the roleplaying supplement for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature wargame (NOT for the 2d20 Fallout Roleplaying Game).
  • Price: Free

If you love Mothership but wish it had a more narrative character creation option, Marr Bruner has you covered with Lifepath Generation. This alternate rules system sends you through several life events fleshing out your character and improving Stats, Saves, and Skills.
  • Price: Free

Are you enough of a Jellicle Cat to attend the Jellicle Ball? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s with Biscuit Wolf Games’s CATS! A Jellicle One Page RPG inspired by the hit musical.
  • Price: Free

Lone Wanderer Entertainment released the August 2024 issue of The Saga, a zine for the SagaBorn D20 System with this issue including rules for West Marches Campaigns, a new monster, a new path, a peek at the Gormanghast novel, and more!
  • Price: Free

Pat_Co Productions has Hidden Dimensions, an adventure for Dragonbane that teleports the party to an ancient mage’s palace where they encounter technomagical minions, a cult worshipping a benevolent god, steampunk renegades who have abandoned their tribe, a mysterious vault trapping something in a magical slumber inside, and more.
  • Price: Free

Fans of Sea of Thieves will recognize the influence on Krakenhund Studio’s Rough Seas, an adventure for Pirate Borg with random encounter tables for land and sea both along with new monsters, new NPCs, random ships on the horizon, a full-color hexcrawl map, and more.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)

If you’d like some tips to create interesting stories and experiences for your players, Andrew Cavanagh has How to Foreshadow Monsters in Shadowdark, though the tips included are useful for any fantasy RPG. Learn tips and tables to give players hints as to what they’ll face further on from sounds, scents, visual markers, and more to create tension and help your more preceptive players prepare.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Hannah Hawkinson has a 4th-level adventure Dusk of the Undead where the party arrives just before sunset at an ancient burial grounds seeking a powerful relic only to find the army buried here isn’t quite done fighting just yet…
  • Price: Free

Tasha’s Tattered Tome of Trickery from DM Xavo is filled with new options for your games including two variant attunement rules, two variant rules for damaged magic items, two spell scroll variants, 12 new magic items, and 8 new spells.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.50)

While Brandon Quinn’s A Character Study 2024 may look like yet another character sheet, this is a whole lot more as it’s a blueprint for the entire background for your character including personal history, economic background, family relationships, childhood friends, and a lot more to flesh out your character in a form-fillable PDF.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)

C Midyette released the tier 1 adventure for level 3 characters The Performance of a Lifetime where the party arrives just in time for the grand festival and the local college is holding a competition to allow newcomers to join the college. Hijinks will, of course, ensue.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.60)

The first Lightning Round this week features gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.

The second Lightning Round features player resources like classes, subclasses, backgrounds, feats, races/species, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.

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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.

With the announcement of Alien The Roleplaying Game 2nd Edition, it’s a great time to pick up the first edition books which are all on sale on DriveThruRPG. Pick up all of the books available now along with the Roll20 VTT files at deep discounts.
  • Price: 50% off
  • End Date: August 31, 2024

RPGGamer has a pair of bundles this week featuring 5e sourcebooks for non-traditional genres. The first is the Wild West Classes for 5e Bundle featuring classes for the Drifter, Bounty Hunter, Gunslinger, Huckster, Medicine Man/Woman, Mountain Man, Preacher, Prospector, Outlaw, Sheriff, Spirit Walker, and a book of equipment for the genre.
  • Price: $24.00 (33% off)

The second bundle from RPGGamer is all about science fiction with an equipment book and nanotech sourcebook plus class options for Diplomat, Energy Blaster, Engineer, Fleet Officer, Medic Nanite Swarmer, Pilot, Psi Operative, Scientist, Scout, Security Officer, Shifter Assassin, and Space Marine.
  • Price: $32.00 (32% off)

Arcadia’s Creations also has a pair of bundles full of different VTT-read maps starting with the Fantasy All-in-One Bundle with ten different map packs including Bank Heist, Broken Canyon Bridge, Mysterious Abandoned Mine, and more!
  • Price: $14.08 (30% off)

The second bundle from Arcadia’s Creations is the Steampunk Urban/City Bundle featuring two collections each with their own full collection of maps for steampunk cities, airship desks, and more.
  • Price: $8.98 (18% off)

Over on Dungeonmaster’s Guild, the Ultimate 5e Bundle features a wide selection of products including new classes, subclasses, adventures, monsters, spells, tavern games, and more.
  • Price: $12.75 (51% off)

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Charity Bundles and Sales

Actor and author Anjali Bhimani will be the GM for the charity live stream The Puppy Roll coming on August 20. A dramatic trailer is available here which promises that “Paws Will Roll”, while the charity fundraiser page is on Tiltify. The cast includes Matt Mercer (Critical Role), Ashley Johnson (Critical Role), Aabria Iyengar (Dimension 20), Emily Swallow (The Mandalorian, Supernatural), and Maggie Robertson (Baldur’s Gate III, Resident Evil VIIIage). The rules will be “5e-lite’, but highly house ruled as the players will be taking on the roles of their pet dogs – Omar, Sully, Suvi, Norma Jean Meatballs, and Cricket respectively. The stream will go live on Anjiali’s YouTube channel starting at 6 PM Pacific (9 PM Eastern, 2 AM London) and run for about four hours, with the VOD available after the stream.
  • Charity: Petco Love (all donations)
  • End Date: August 20. 2024 (date of the stream)

Over on Bundle of Holding…I’m so sorry, it’s a pair of BattleTech bundles. Meaning you have to put up with me gushing. The first is the BattleTech Readouts Bundle which is the heart and soul of any BattleTech game – more BattleMechs, more AeroSpace fighers, more vehicles, more dropships, and more everything that makes the game so fun. The Starter Collection features the classic era BattleTech Technical Readouts 3025-3081 covering the Succession Wars deep into the technological advancements of the Clan Invasion and the era-ending Jihad into the start of the Dark Ages. The Bonus Collection adds on the BattleTech Technical Readouts 3085-3150 taking us from the Dark Ages all the way to the current war for Terra and the infamous Project Phoenix that brings back the classic Unseen ‘Mechs that were removed due to legal concerns.
  • Price: $19.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: August 13, 2024

And if you don’t have the rules to play the game, the BattleTech Total War Bundle will take care of you with the BattleTech: Total Warfare core rulebook covering all the the ground combat options for the game along with the BattleTech Tech Manual to let you design your own BattleMechs. But the REAL fun comes with the Bonus Collection which adds on the four Operations rulebooks which add on space combat rules, rules for managing a unit, campaign rules (as in actual military campaigns), and everything you need to create an entire ongoing almost roleplay like experience.
  • Price: $7.95 (74% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: August 13, 2024

Monkeyfun Studios has a bundle from the age of muscle cars, afros, disco, daredevils, and badass detectives who don’t play by the rules with the Powered by the Apocalypse game Spirit of ’77. The Funky Collection includes the core Spirit of ’77 rulebook, the setting book Wide World of ’77, and the adventure anthologies Spirit of ’77 Greatest Hits 1-2. The Even Funkier Collection adds on three Very Special Episode and two Pilot adventures.
  • Price: $9.95 (83% Off) with variable cost level-up option
  • Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
  • End Date: July 30, 2024

Over on Humble Bundle, the Starfinder 2nd Edition Playtest Primer Bundle has a bit of a confusing name since there’s just the one Starfinder 2nd Edition playtest document. The rest of this bundle, however, is a great chance to fill out your Starfinder 1st Edition library with any books you may have missed out on and files for the Hero Lab character management software. The first tier includes all the playtest PDFs plus Hero Lab files for the playtest document and two Starfinder flip-mat sets. The second tier adds on Hero Lab files for the Starfinder 1e Core Rulebook, Alien Archive 1-4, and Pact Worlds plus the PDFs for all of the above and a vast collection of more flip mats. The third tier features PDFs and Hero Lab files for Near Space, Ports of Call, and Drift Crisis plus the Drift Hackers and Drift Crashers Adventure Paths. The top tier adds on the Starfinder First Edition: Drift Crsis hardcover book as a physical reward (shipping not included).
  • Price: $5/$15/$30/$40 (94% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Girls Who Code (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: August 22, 2024

Free League is a lot more than just their licensed titles, and the Immersive RPG Bundle for Alchemy VTT wants to highlight that. The base tier features core rules for Tales from the Loop, Mork Borg, Mutant Year Zero, Ruins of Symbaroum, and Coriolis for the Alchemy VTT, while the second tier adds on the core rules for Vaesen, Dragonbane, Twilight: 2000, Pirate Borg, and Forbidden Lands along with eleven sourcebooks and adventures, and the top tier features 24 more rules expansions, bestiaries, adventures, and more for the various included games.
  • Price: $10/$25/$30 (97% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: August 19, 2024

The Doctor Who Ultimate RPG Collection is precisely what it says on the tin, the ultimate collection of Doctor Who TTRPGs. If you’ve already got the Doctor Who RPG and just want to support the bundle, the base level features four new adventures and a 20% off coupon for the Cubicle 7 store. New players will want to start with the second tier which includes the Adventures in Time and Space core rulebook (11th Doctor edition) plus the sourcebook for the First, Second, and Third Doctors and the Eleventh Doctor Adventure Book and Aliens and Creatures books. The third tier expands it even futhre with the updated core rulebook, sourcebooks for the Fourth through Thirteenth Doctors, The UNIT Sourcebook, Time Traveller’s Companion, and more. And if the idea of learning a custom system designed specifically for Doctor Who feels a bit much to jump into right away and you’d like to ease in with something more familiar rules-wise, the top tier adds on the core rulebooks for Doctors & Daleks, the 5e adaptation of the Doctor Who RPG plus sourcebooks. The top tier also has the two-part Sixty Years of Adventure book covering every single Doctor’s era in one massive adventure.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18/$25 (97% off at tip tier)
  • Charity: BBC Children in Need (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: August 17, 2024

Extended! Owners of 3D printers or those who have access through a local library, university, or maker space will have their project schedules filled by the Dungeons & Monsters 3 Bundle of STL files for 3D printed miniatures. The base level includes a centaur mage, two bear riders, and a collection of terrain fences, mimic variants, and more plus a dice display log. The second tier ups the number of STL file collections to ninety-three (yes, 93) with monsters, PCs/NPCs, terrain, decorations, walls, buildings, fences, tents, furniture, and a whole lot more. And that’s not even the final level, which adds on even more STL collections for a total of 117 – note, that’s not 117 STL files but 117 collections of files under a theme so the “Fantasy Market Stall” pack itself includes six different STL files, enough to keep you busy making worlds and displays for ages.
  • Price: $1/$20/Variable ($21.26 at time of writing, 97% off)
  • Charity: Make-a-Wish (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: August 11, 2024 FINAL DAY

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.
 

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