Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for December 3, 2023

D&D, Pathfinder, OSR, Shadowrun, Doctor Who, Torg, Stars Without Numbers, 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!

newyear Studios released T.P.K. – Total Party Kill, a rules-lite RPG where all the players share the same character. “Each player embodies one of the many personalities trapped within their cursed hero. Explore the land of Frust in search of a cure for your illness.”
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

And there’s already an expansion from newyear Studios with T.P.K. – Combat Expanded featuring grid-based combat and optional rules including terrain and movement systems.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

When not releasing their own system, newyear Studios also posted Fedelfugol Pit: Den o the Demon Mallard of Gluttony for MÖRK BORG. This two-page encounter features a map and description of a gruesome room and a sadistic demon.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

And there’s even more from newyear Studios with Hlautbolli: The Blood Cup, a monster collection for MÖRK BORG with a dozen unique creatures themed off of “The 12 Days of Christmas”.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Every Trick Books released the first Every Trick Books Newsletter Bundle with four new magic items for your 5e games including artwork for each item.
  • Price: Free

Scheduling game nights can get difficult during the holidays, so it might be worthwhile to keep a solo RPG on hand to scratch the itch, like Hunt on the Borderlands – A Dragon Warriors Solo Adventure from Red Ruin Publishing. This OSR solo adventure places you in an open world based on the Dragon Warriors setting from Serpent King Games.
  • Price: Free

Justin Boyle released Last Voyage of the Kilmeny, the first published scenario for the Forged in the Dark setting The Age of Blood and Gold putting the players in the streets of the pirate haven of Nassau and get drawn into a hunt for the lost ship Kilmeny.
  • Price: Free

Earlier this year, Spiel Knights hosted the One Page Dungeon Contest for system-agnostic one-page dungeon-based adventures, and now you can get all 112 entries in the Dungeon Contest Compendium 2023 Edition.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)

Tis the season for advent calendars and the biggest is, of course, the D&D Beyond Advent Calendar which, after three entries, seems to be coupon codes for different products and third-party partner products for D&D branded material.
  • Price: Free

However, Wizards of the Coast aren’t the only ones with online RPG advent calendars by a long shot as Jozef Frajkor has The Winter City Advent Calendar with a 24-step process to create your own fantasy city.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

And Atelier Clandestin released Advent Calendar 2023 – Enchanted Forest with 25 tables of six items each for your players to uncover in the Enchanted Forest.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

David Gower continues the series on the various religions of Golarion with Treatise on Divinity: Madgh featuring new class options, spells, and a divine fighting technique along with information about the religion surrounding The Seer and the splinter religions. Compatible with Pathfinder 1st Edition and Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)

If you want a quick one-shot dungeon crawl for MÖRK BORG, Dice & Dish has Chamber of Reflection, an adventure with custom monsters, a custom weapon, and new mechanics for breaking mirrors playable in just 2-3 hours.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

If you’ve been curious about the OSR but confused where to start within the broad label, The Basic Fantasy Project released The Role-Playing Game Primer and Old School Playbook, a 67-page book describing the best-known of the various D&D retroclones along with advice on how to run and play in OSR games.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)

Chef Alton Green presents Hot to Cook Cave Troll for the Dinner and Gaming Table. This is exactly what the title says, a combination 5e sourcebook with rules for cooking the monsters you face along with benefits and side effects of eating it…and a real-life recipe to cook for your gaming group to recreate the dishes using ingredients available in the real world.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Apastron Works released a hefty adventure with Dreams of GlimHallow: A 5e Megadungeon Adventure. This 148-page adventure takes the party from Level 5 to 8 and features 58 rooms across six distinct areas, 23 new monsters with stat blocks and tokens, a mix of combat and environmental challenges, guidelines to adjust the dungeon reacting to the party’s actions, and digital files ready to import to your favorite VTT.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $8.00)

Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Elena Knödler released a unique product with Pantheon of the Anunnaki. The book written by an actual Near Eastern Archeologist, brings the gods of Babylonia to D&D with 21 major and minor deities, descriptions of the temples of the Anunnaki, two new backgrounds and variations on three others, class options, plot hooks, and more.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)

If you’re looking for a holiday-themed adventure for your 3rd level party, Gulliver Flinch has A Very Goblin Holiday: Charitable Heist of the Wizard’s Tower inspired by the Home Alone movies as the party gets sent to break into the wizard’s tower and hijinks ensue.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.49)

Meanwhile, Zrave has another option for you with Gnome for the Holidays – A Christmas Adventure where the 3rd to 6th level party helps a gnome who only wanted to spread holiday joy in Waterdeep by handing out toys but was robbed and their gifts stolen.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.99)

And with the holidays coming up, a lot of people are going to be getting the D&D Starter Set under their trees and might want something to expand the adventure a bit more. Keith Stonefield has two expansions this week with Stormwreck Isle: Expanded Hot Springs Havok and Stormwreck Isle: Expanded Observatory that either expands on the quests or replaces encounters with larger and more fleshed-out options.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00 each)

Our lightning round starts off this week with new character options for players. As always, all products are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
  • Lithosians (Heritage/Race for 5e and Level Up Advanced 5e) from The Rogue’s Collection ($1.00)
  • Moon Drow (Class/Race for Old-School Essentials) from Land of Mist (Free)
  • Psypher (Class for Shadowdark) from Pedro Ave ($1.00)
  • Githyanki and Githzerai Dual Origin (Race/Species for 5e) from Chronicles of Lost Tomes ($0.00)
  • Homesteader (Background for 5e) from Quest Weaver Media (Free)
  • Laser Specialist (Artificer Subclass for 5e) from Maxwell Landolphi ($1.00)
  • Fletcher (Ranger Subclass for 5e) from Denton Collins ($0.50)
  • The Morpher (Class for 5e) from Thomas Halliwell ($2.54)
  • The Saboteur (Artificer Subclass for 5e) from Benjamin Dickinson ($1.00)
  • Tome of Shadows (Spells for 5e) from GMspiration ($2.00)

Our second lightning round features gamemaster resources like maps, monsters, 3D printable miniatures, and more. Again, all products are either 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.

Rising Phoenix Games is joining in on the advent calendar fun for the holidays with the RPG Advent Calendar featuring 24 RPG titles including the Hero Kids core rulebook, several 5e supplements, the murder mystery party planner How to Plan a Murder, several satirical RPGs, and a lot more!
  • Price: $24.00 (85% off)

I’m not sure of the Everything But the Kitchen Sink Bundle quite lives up to the name, but it does include Acid Wizards to expand your spellcasting options, three spider-themed monsters with Spider Hunters, Spiderbound Mummies, and Spiderbound Queen, and three more supplements.
  • Price: $3.50 (38% off)

While it’s a few weeks early to talk about New Year's resolutions, if you think yours will include making your own RPG product, then the Black Friday Art, Spells, Background, & Items Bundle will help with eight collections of art assets with over 170 assets including a commercial license for 100% hand-made no-AI art.
  • Price: $8.16 (77% off)

As will the Black Friday Creator Resource Bundle which has three more art bundles with over 50 pieces of hand-made no-AI art with a commercial use license included.
  • Price: $7.50 (50% off)

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Charity Bundles and Sales

Sam Robinson collected the Doctors Without Borders Bundle from multiple creators featuring over 20 TTRPGs for charity including products for Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, Monster of the Week, and more.
  • Price: $9.99 (94% off)
  • Charity: Doctors Without Borders (all proceeds)

And we’ve picked up another bundle this week with Assignment: Danger! Charity Bundle for DWB. This bundle from Hounds and Jackals Games and Magic includes the core rules for the spy RPG ASSIGNMENT: DANGER! along with additional supplements and adventures.
  • Price: $15.00 (59% off)
  • Charity: Doctors Without Borders (95%)

Over on Bundle of Holding, Mike Shea aka Sly Flourish has a bundle of his Lazy Dungeon Master series of advice books. The Lazy Collection includes Sly Flourish’s DM Tips, The Lazy Dungeon Master, Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master, and a workbook to help you cut down on prep time. You can also see these techniques in action with the add-on Fantastic Collection with the adventure Ruins of the Grendleroot and the trio of Fantastic Adventures books with Fantastic Adventures, Fantastic Locations, and Fantastic Lairs with 23 boss battles.
  • Price: $5.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: December 19, 2023

Magpie Games has a collection of their gothic horror RPG Bluebeard’s Bride. This bundle includes the core rulebook for the Powered by the Apocalypse game along with five supplements – Book of Love, Book of Mirrors, Book of Rooms, Booklet of Keepsakes, and Tarot of Servants Companion.
  • Price: $14.95 (76% off)
  • Charity: Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program (10%)
  • End Date: December 7, 2023

I’m so sorry for the length, but there’s another Shadowrun bundle so you know I’ve got a lot to say. The Shadowrun Third Edition MegaBundle lives up to its name featuring the Shadowrun Third Edition Core Rulebook along with the “core sourcebooks” (technically rules expansions but considered by most players essential) of the Shadowrun Companion, Man & Machine (cyberware), Cannon Companion (guns and combat), Magic in the Shadows (magic), Matrix (decking), and Rigger 3 (vehicles and drones) plus the world update State of the Art: 2063 and 2064, the GM screen and Critters supplement, and the introductory adventure collection First Run. And that’s just the core collection as the setting collection adds on fifteen more supplements including the setting introduction book Sprawl Survival Guide (sure there’s rules in it but its strength is bringing the Sixth World to life), the setting books Shadows of North America, Shadows of Asia, and New Seattle, the adventure hook filled event books Renraku Arcology Shutdown, Year of the Comet, and System Failure, the NPC collection Mr. Johnson’s Little Black Book, the adventures Brainscan and Corporate Punishment, and because somebody’s mistake is your gain, the 2nd Edition books Aztlan, Corporate Shadowfiles (which is an incredible guide on the sort of shenanigans megacorporations can get up to), and the just fun to read Paranormal Animals of Europe. Oh and if you want to play Shadowrun Sixth World Edition, a lot of these books are still useful as background lore and worldbuilding.
  • Price: $24.95 (73% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Electronic Frontier Foundation (10%)
  • End Date: December 27, 2023

If you’re looking for a new TPG to try, the Cornucopia 2023 Bundle has four core rulebooks with the dimension-hopping Agents of Concordia, the occult Gumshoe game Casting the Runes, and the superhero RPG Spectaculars, and the game exploring the mundanity of space travel Apollo 47 Technical Handbook. The Bonus Collection adds on Outgunned, Into the Odd Remastered, Unbound, and World Wide Wrestling.
  • Price: $14.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program (10%)
  • End Date: December 13, 2023

The Sine Nomine Corebooks Bundle features Stars Without Number and Cities Without Number plus the campaign setting books Other Dust and Spears of the Dawn. The Bonus Collection adds on Worlds Without Number Deluxe Edition plus the setting book Wolves of God: Adventures in Dark Ages England, and horror RPG Silent Legions, and the duet play guidebook Scarlet Heroes.
  • Price: $12.95 (74% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Benzie Food Partners Food Pantry (10%)
  • End Date: December 11, 2023

There are two bundles for the classic sci-fi RPG Torg. The first, Torg Essentials, features a collection with everything you need to get started including Torg Eternity Core Rules, Delphi Missions: Rising Storm, Torg Character Journals, Torg Eternity Day One, and Torg Eternity GM Screen & Archetypes.
  • Price: $9.95 (73% off)
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: December 4, 2023 LAST DAY!

The second bundle of Torg Cosms 2 expands your game with the Cyberpapacy Sourcebook and Orrorsh Sourcebook plus the adventures Unhallowed Data and A Trifling Matter. The Bonus Collection adds on six more Cyberpapacy supplements, 6 more Orrorsh supplements, and Orrorsh: Torg or Treat.
  • Price: $17.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: December 4, 2023 LAST DAY!

Over on Humble…this is a new one as I don’t think I’ve seen solo RPGs hit this mainstream, but here we are with The Solo RPG Library by Parts Per Million. The base tier includes five games including Light Fantasy Solo and D20 Solo. The mid-tier adds on Mech Rider (powered by Lancer), Solitude (powered by Chivalry and Sorcery), Adventuring Alone (powered by Hero Kids), and six more titles. And the top tier offers a total of 42 items adding on Alone in the Dark (solo Forged in the Dark), Old School Solo (solo Old-School Essentials), Solo Adventures (solo Stars Without Numbers), Solo FATE, SURP: Solo Universal Role Play (solo GURPS), and a whole lot more.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18 (91% off at top tier)
  • Charity: buildOn (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: December 16, 2023

The Cartographer’s Vault Bundle is back with the full-featured software designed specifically for creating maps for TTRPGs. The base level includes five maps as examples of what you can make, the second tier adds on 13 more map collections, and the top-tier adds on eight more map collections plus a lifetime license to the Campaign Cartographer 3+ software complete with a random dungeon generator.
  • Price: $1/$25/$30 (92% off at top tier)
  • Charity: charity:water (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: December 3, 2023 Final Day!!

Kobold Press and other publishers have collected together the 5th Edition Mega Bundle featuring over 70 titles at the highest tier which has been extended for another week! This bundle features setting books, monster books, adventures, character options, zines, resources, and a lot more all ready to be added to your 5e games.
  • Price: $1/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
  • Charity: International Medical Corps (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: December 9, 2023

The Doctor Who Megabundle has been extended, giving you more time to pick up the comic books, novels, audio dramas, and yes, roleplaying game books from Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space. The base level includes the core rulebook and multiple adventures, while the next two tiers add on more adventures, sourcebooks for the first twelve Doctors and for the Doctor's enemies and companions, and a lot more.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18 (98% off at top tier)
  • Charity: BBC Children in Need (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: December 7, 2023

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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