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
Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the creators if you are able!
Marvel released a supplement for Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game featuring everyone’s favorite genius billionaire playboy philanthropist with Tony’s Workshop. The four-page supplement features playtest rules from the coming X-Men expansion, optional initiative rules, variants on webcasting and disam actions, a henchman generator, and more.
This year’s Pocket Quest game jam has been announced and the theme is: HEISTS! Join in and create your own 25 page or less stand-alone game. To help you get started, PocketQuest has a Starter Kit with templates and other assets to speed along making your game plus an art pack with textures, assets, location illustrations, NPC portraits, art of objects, and more. Get your entry in by March 25, 2024.
The Order of the Link wants to bring some storytelling to your Call of Cthulhu or other Basic Roleplay crafting. Using these rules, players can craft their own potions and other concoctions using the Medical skill for alchemy and chemistry.
Alligator Alley Entertainment released a new starter adventure Fall of the Eos Keldor designed to introduce people to their 5e science fiction game Esper Genesis. This 4-hour adventure has the players caught in the crossfire of a battle on the flagship of the Lorendi Imperium, forcing them to escape. Includes the adventure and full Roll20 VTT integration.
James Crammaticus and Lydia Scott unleashed their new 3.5e-inspired dungeon-crawl RPG Defy the Legend. The rules system is split across several books, all pay-what-you-want with the suggested price in parentheses.
Dim & Perilish Adventures released an adventure Haunting in Winter for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Zweihander, or any other fantasy d100 roll-under system. The players are in a winter village and must hunt for food only for the forests to have much more dangerous prey than expected.
Come one, come all to Gnarlfang’s Goblin Casino! Even the lowest 5e level characters can enjoying playing the three goblin casino games and mingle with the goblin customers as you try to unlock the secrets behind the casino.
In the Midst of Battle is a system-agnostic option rule system to expand on your favorite fantasy game by letting you roleplay out large battles from the PC’s perspective either with a GM or as solo play to scale up battles from bandit skirmishes all the way to the clash of grand armies.
Speaking of bandits, Raging Swan Press has One-Pager: Bandits with one printer-friendly page of resources to add depth to your games by fleshing out bandits with names, personalities, tactics, distinctive looks and style, and more to drop into your games (just add your own stats).
Why do video game players get to have all the fun with achievements? T-Rex Games released Space Aces Supplemental: Cosmic Connections, a set of accomplishments in-game for a science fiction setting that players can earn by performing certain actions. Use them just for funsies or use them as metacurrency.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Christopher Harnwell has Running of the Stench Kows, a cultural event in the Bronze Citadel of Avernus where the orange stench kows gather at the city’s eastern gates until a herd gathers and causes a stampede, rushing through the streets of the city. Let your players get caught up in the events, or give them a chance to prevent (or encourage) the chaos.
If your players have completed Curse of Strahd but you want to stick around Ravenloft to explore further, Steve Morgan released The Second Tarokka Reading giving you three options for every card in the deck for 120 possible locations for the players to be pointed to among all 39 of the Domains of Dread from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft plus 42 possible fated ally choices and advice on how to customize the reading for your party.
Jefferson Chalmers updated his adventure Haunted Dreams – Hag Nightmares for the Curse of Strahd and decided to leave the original version available as pay what you want. This adventure replaces the set piece at Bonegrinder from the adventure with a new nightmare system featuring 20 nightmare cards, 20 challenges for players to resist, nightmare-based replacements for the Hag’s lair actions, and new rewards for defeating the Hags.
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.
We also have a rare third Lightning Round this week as so many games came out with quickstarts and full rules. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
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.
3D printer owners will want to check out DriveThruRPG’s STL Sale featuring discounts on a wide variety of plans for printing your own miniatures, terrain, props, and more. Discounts include the Dragon Tiles and Dragonlock lines of 3D tiles, licensed sculpts for Star Trek, Pacific Rim, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls, and a whole lot more.
Evil Genius Games released several bundles for their 5e D20 Modern inspired RPG Everyday Heroes. The game line made a huge splash on Kickstarter with the shocking number of licensed titles available at launch, and these bundles are made exactly for that. Each one includes the Everyday Heroes Core Rulebook, official character sheets, and the Everyday Heroes GM Screen Tables plus the sourcebook for the licensed property so you have everything you need to jump right in. Each bundle is available for $39.98, 20% off retail.
Nostromo’s Reliquary has released several supplements for Candela Obscura since the game’s release and now they’re collected in one bundle. Pick up 16 books including adventures, setting books, new rules and items, and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Zipperon Games released Up the Beanstalk, a 5e adventure for 8th level characters where the party must race against time to get to the top of the beanstalk, raid the giant’s castle, and escape the floating island in the sky.
The Solo but Not Alone 4 bundle is available on Itch.io featuring over 100 solo RPGs. From traditional games of fantasy, science fiction, and superheroes to “no trademarks were harmed” versions of Pokemon, Blade Runner, and more to the mundane like orientation at a corporate job and the perils of home ownership to the more esoteric where you watch human events from the POV of a slime and selling books to animals. There’s also a help spreadsheet to keep track of all the games and filter by genre, age-appropriateness, and content.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Storybrewers Roleplaying posted a bundle for Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG. Pick up three titles in this Regency RPG that lets you create your own dramas inspired by Jane Austen’s novels and shows like Downton Abbey, Bridgerton, and more. The bundle includes the core rulebook, Expanded Acquaintance with rules for alternate settings, and the Love & Longing playset collection.
Tin Star Games has the Relics bundle for the angelic modern urban fantasy game. You’re a fallen angel trapped on earth stuck in a cold war between the light and dark which has turned into an arms race with each side searching for the powerful relics scattered across the earth. This bundle features the core rulebook, the setting guide An Angel’s Guidde to Las Vegas, the adventure By Demons Driven, the sourcebook Treasures on Earth, and a print-and-play custom tarot deck for use with the tarot-based Fugue System.
Over on Humble Bundle, R. Talsorian Games collected books from both the classic Cyberpunk 2020 and the new Cyberpunk RED into one bundle. The first tier gets you a pair of 2020 era setting books, Rough Guide to the UK and Tales of the Forlorn Hope while the second tier adds on nine more 2020 era setting and sourcebooks including Night City, all four Chromebooks, the GM advice book Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads, and more while the top tier adds on the classic core rulebook Cyberpunk 2020 if you want to use those sourcebooks for more than just background lore reading but also gets you the core rulebook for the current edition Cyberpunk RED plus the sourcebooks Black Chrome, Danger Gal Dossier, and three issues of the Interface RED magazine, and more for a total of 23 titles.
Extended for a few more days! HarperCollins has a bundle that isn’t directly a roleplaying game bundle but I think will be of interest to many RPG fans: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with 38 books from the master of satirical fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett. The base level features the first three novels published in the Discworld setting adds on six more while the top tier features 38 novels, just three shy of the entire series (just missing the final two novels, Raising Steam and The Shepherd’s Crown plus for some reason The Last Hero). The downside? You can only access the books through the Kobo app which might not be compatible with some devices, and it’s only available in the United States. But if that’s not an issue for you, this is a great chance to pick up some of the best fantasy fiction ever written.
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.
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!
Marvel released a supplement for Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game featuring everyone’s favorite genius billionaire playboy philanthropist with Tony’s Workshop. The four-page supplement features playtest rules from the coming X-Men expansion, optional initiative rules, variants on webcasting and disam actions, a henchman generator, and more.
- Price: Free
This year’s Pocket Quest game jam has been announced and the theme is: HEISTS! Join in and create your own 25 page or less stand-alone game. To help you get started, PocketQuest has a Starter Kit with templates and other assets to speed along making your game plus an art pack with textures, assets, location illustrations, NPC portraits, art of objects, and more. Get your entry in by March 25, 2024.
- Price: Free
The Order of the Link wants to bring some storytelling to your Call of Cthulhu or other Basic Roleplay crafting. Using these rules, players can craft their own potions and other concoctions using the Medical skill for alchemy and chemistry.
- Price: Free
Alligator Alley Entertainment released a new starter adventure Fall of the Eos Keldor designed to introduce people to their 5e science fiction game Esper Genesis. This 4-hour adventure has the players caught in the crossfire of a battle on the flagship of the Lorendi Imperium, forcing them to escape. Includes the adventure and full Roll20 VTT integration.
- Price: Free
James Crammaticus and Lydia Scott unleashed their new 3.5e-inspired dungeon-crawl RPG Defy the Legend. The rules system is split across several books, all pay-what-you-want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Defy the Legends Player’s Tome ($7.99)
- Defy the Legends Legend Master’s Guide ($7.99)
- Defy the Legends Monster Tome ($7.99)
- Defy the Legends Spell Compendium ($7.99)
- Defy the Legends Monster Tome II ($7.99)
- The Dreaded Ruins of Mabala (Adventure) ($3.99)
Dim & Perilish Adventures released an adventure Haunting in Winter for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, Zweihander, or any other fantasy d100 roll-under system. The players are in a winter village and must hunt for food only for the forests to have much more dangerous prey than expected.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
Come one, come all to Gnarlfang’s Goblin Casino! Even the lowest 5e level characters can enjoying playing the three goblin casino games and mingle with the goblin customers as you try to unlock the secrets behind the casino.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
In the Midst of Battle is a system-agnostic option rule system to expand on your favorite fantasy game by letting you roleplay out large battles from the PC’s perspective either with a GM or as solo play to scale up battles from bandit skirmishes all the way to the clash of grand armies.
- Price: Pay What you Want (Suggested: $3.00)
Speaking of bandits, Raging Swan Press has One-Pager: Bandits with one printer-friendly page of resources to add depth to your games by fleshing out bandits with names, personalities, tactics, distinctive looks and style, and more to drop into your games (just add your own stats).
- Price: Free
Why do video game players get to have all the fun with achievements? T-Rex Games released Space Aces Supplemental: Cosmic Connections, a set of accomplishments in-game for a science fiction setting that players can earn by performing certain actions. Use them just for funsies or use them as metacurrency.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Christopher Harnwell has Running of the Stench Kows, a cultural event in the Bronze Citadel of Avernus where the orange stench kows gather at the city’s eastern gates until a herd gathers and causes a stampede, rushing through the streets of the city. Let your players get caught up in the events, or give them a chance to prevent (or encourage) the chaos.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
If your players have completed Curse of Strahd but you want to stick around Ravenloft to explore further, Steve Morgan released The Second Tarokka Reading giving you three options for every card in the deck for 120 possible locations for the players to be pointed to among all 39 of the Domains of Dread from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft plus 42 possible fated ally choices and advice on how to customize the reading for your party.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $10.00)
Jefferson Chalmers updated his adventure Haunted Dreams – Hag Nightmares for the Curse of Strahd and decided to leave the original version available as pay what you want. This adventure replaces the set piece at Bonegrinder from the adventure with a new nightmare system featuring 20 nightmare cards, 20 challenges for players to resist, nightmare-based replacements for the Hag’s lair actions, and new rewards for defeating the Hags.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
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.
- Little Book of Kobolds (5e monsters CR 1/4 to CR 2) from Sewage Orc ($0.99)
- Irontooth Cat (5e monther CR 1/2) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Mother’s Cabin (Monster lair for Mörk Borg) from JKW ($1.00)
- Hexcrawl Horrors (OSR random encounters) from Lone Horizons ($3.00)
- Modern Marvels – Impact Crater (3D printer STL file) from nonPareil (Free)
- Fantasy Adventurer – Scared Wizard (3D printer STL file) from nonPareil (Free)
- Wilderness – Pack 13 + 14 (Fantasy battle maps) from ForgottenAdventures ($6.99)
- Meddih Island (Overland map) from Atelier Clandestin ($1.00)
- Bones of the Forgotten (5e one page 3rd level encounter) from Shenanigans Media LLC ($1.00)
- The Dungeon that Never Ends Level 39 (Dungeon map) from Le Paysagiste de l'Imaginaire
- Print n Play Battlemaps 6 (Dungeon maps) from Piranha Squirrel Productions ($1.00)
- 3:10 to Borghold (CY_BORG one page heist) from JKW ($1.00)
- The Contested Factory (OSR/Troika! short adventure) from Ivanhoe Unbound ($1.00)
- Cyberpunk Desert Bar (Cyberpunk/near-future battle map) from RoleCraft ($1.08)
- Under Underground (OSR/Fantasy RPG one-page one-shot) from Christian Blair ($1.99)
- Frans Cave (OSR/Fantasy RPG one-page one-shot) from Christian Blair ($1.99)
- Random Primal Forest Events (Fantasy random encounters) from Ancient Sage Games ($1.00)
- Big Chaotic Banners (2d printable banners for miniatures) from eat Gothica ($1.00)
- Parlour Tricks (OSR adventure for 1st-3rd level) from Stromberg Press ($1.00)
- Horror Adventure #1 (Fantasy/horror battle map) from ndvmaps ($1.00)
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.
- Chromatic Dragon Patron (5e Warlock subclass) from Garrett May ($0.99)
- Path of the Doomed Slayer (5e Barbarian subclass) from Michael Williams ($1.00)
- College of Jinn (5e Bard subclass) from al- Ṣayyād ($1.00)
- Draconist (5e full class) from Jeremy Wear ($1.48)
- Untold Lineages – Mimic (5e playable race/species) from Keith Hiscox ($0.50)
- College of Fraternity (5e Bard subclass) from Garrett May ($0.99)
- Arsenal Fighter (5e Fighter subclass) from Zachary Tounzen ($1.00)
- Heredity Legacy (5e Sorcerer subclass) from Garrett May ($0.99)
- Lumberjack (5e Ranger subclass) from Garrett May ($0.99)
- Messenger (5e background) from Emily AW (Free)
- White Dragon Dual Origin (5e playable race/species) from Chronicles of Lost Tomes ($0.00)
- Slayer (Dragonbane Profession) from B.J. Keeton (Free)
- Modular Armors (5e armor) from Farwood Publishing ($1.00)
We also have a rare third Lightning Round this week as so many games came out with quickstarts and full rules. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Druid’s Oracle (Survival RPG, full rules) from Survival Scouts RPG (Free)
- Dark Age of Man (Fantasy quickstart) from Dark Age of Games (Free)
- ZIP Compact RPG System (Generic system, basic rules) from Paulo Micchi (Free)
- Ghostlight Roleplaying Game (Generic system, player’s guide) from roamitygames ($1.00)
- Soulless Children (Liminal horror, full rules) from Ivanhoe Unbound ($1.00)
- Old School Heroes (Fantasy micro-RPG) from Arlo Crow ($1.00)
- Atomic Priesthood (Worldbuilding post-apocalypse full rules) from ttkttkt ($2.00)
- Detective Time (Mystery, rules-lite) from Rat in a Suit Productions ($1.25)
- Shadows of the North (OSR “Perilous Dark Age Fantasy” full rules) from Tim Santy ($2.50)
- Dungeoneering (OSR quick start) from Grinning Rat Publications ($2.00)
- White Dog Whiskey (Weird West quickstart) from the Fruit Basket Press ($2.50)
- The Ravens Call (OSR pulp fantasy) from xal sylath ($1.00)
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.
3D printer owners will want to check out DriveThruRPG’s STL Sale featuring discounts on a wide variety of plans for printing your own miniatures, terrain, props, and more. Discounts include the Dragon Tiles and Dragonlock lines of 3D tiles, licensed sculpts for Star Trek, Pacific Rim, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls, and a whole lot more.
- Price: Up to 25% off
- End Date: February 10, 2024
Evil Genius Games released several bundles for their 5e D20 Modern inspired RPG Everyday Heroes. The game line made a huge splash on Kickstarter with the shocking number of licensed titles available at launch, and these bundles are made exactly for that. Each one includes the Everyday Heroes Core Rulebook, official character sheets, and the Everyday Heroes GM Screen Tables plus the sourcebook for the licensed property so you have everything you need to jump right in. Each bundle is available for $39.98, 20% off retail.
- Universal Soldier
- Total Recall
- The Crow
- Rambo
- Pacific Rim
- Kong: Skull Island
- Highlander
- Escape from New York
Nostromo’s Reliquary has released several supplements for Candela Obscura since the game’s release and now they’re collected in one bundle. Pick up 16 books including adventures, setting books, new rules and items, and more.
- Price: $12.87 (82% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Zipperon Games released Up the Beanstalk, a 5e adventure for 8th level characters where the party must race against time to get to the top of the beanstalk, raid the giant’s castle, and escape the floating island in the sky.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $8.99)
- Charity: Cancer Research Institute (all proceeds)
The Solo but Not Alone 4 bundle is available on Itch.io featuring over 100 solo RPGs. From traditional games of fantasy, science fiction, and superheroes to “no trademarks were harmed” versions of Pokemon, Blade Runner, and more to the mundane like orientation at a corporate job and the perils of home ownership to the more esoteric where you watch human events from the POV of a slime and selling books to animals. There’s also a help spreadsheet to keep track of all the games and filter by genre, age-appropriateness, and content.
- Price: $10.00 (97% off)
- Charity: Take This mental health resources (All proceeds)
- End Date: March 9, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Storybrewers Roleplaying posted a bundle for Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG. Pick up three titles in this Regency RPG that lets you create your own dramas inspired by Jane Austen’s novels and shows like Downton Abbey, Bridgerton, and more. The bundle includes the core rulebook, Expanded Acquaintance with rules for alternate settings, and the Love & Longing playset collection.
- Price: $17.95 (74% off)
- Charity: Rainforest Trust
- End Date: February 15, 2024
Tin Star Games has the Relics bundle for the angelic modern urban fantasy game. You’re a fallen angel trapped on earth stuck in a cold war between the light and dark which has turned into an arms race with each side searching for the powerful relics scattered across the earth. This bundle features the core rulebook, the setting guide An Angel’s Guidde to Las Vegas, the adventure By Demons Driven, the sourcebook Treasures on Earth, and a print-and-play custom tarot deck for use with the tarot-based Fugue System.
- Price: $14.95 (75% off)
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: February 13, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, R. Talsorian Games collected books from both the classic Cyberpunk 2020 and the new Cyberpunk RED into one bundle. The first tier gets you a pair of 2020 era setting books, Rough Guide to the UK and Tales of the Forlorn Hope while the second tier adds on nine more 2020 era setting and sourcebooks including Night City, all four Chromebooks, the GM advice book Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads, and more while the top tier adds on the classic core rulebook Cyberpunk 2020 if you want to use those sourcebooks for more than just background lore reading but also gets you the core rulebook for the current edition Cyberpunk RED plus the sourcebooks Black Chrome, Danger Gal Dossier, and three issues of the Interface RED magazine, and more for a total of 23 titles.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (93% off at top tier)
- Charity: Extra Life (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: February 24, 2024
Extended for a few more days! HarperCollins has a bundle that isn’t directly a roleplaying game bundle but I think will be of interest to many RPG fans: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld with 38 books from the master of satirical fantasy, Sir Terry Pratchett. The base level features the first three novels published in the Discworld setting adds on six more while the top tier features 38 novels, just three shy of the entire series (just missing the final two novels, Raising Steam and The Shepherd’s Crown plus for some reason The Last Hero). The downside? You can only access the books through the Kobo app which might not be compatible with some devices, and it’s only available in the United States. But if that’s not an issue for you, this is a great chance to pick up some of the best fantasy fiction ever written.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: Room to Read (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: February 8, 2024
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.
