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!
Babblemark Press released I Am Furious (Pink) in not one, not two, but three different versions. The game starts with one terrible day and then you’re reborn with the power of a goddess to retrace your story so you can unleash vengeance or bestow mercy on those who did you wrong. The default setting is a near-future urban sprawl but the system itself works in westerns, noir, historical, and other settings with alternate rules to help you. The link above goes to the plain text edition, but there’s also an ePub edition for ereaders and a dyslexia-friendly edition with minimalist typography and graphic design. And don’t forget to pick up the Character & Scenes Sheets pack as well.
As great as the officially licensed Fallout game from Modiphius is, sometimes you just want to run a quick adventure in a post-nuclear wasteland without learning a massive rules system. That’s where Philip Miranda’s ATOMPUNK: A Fallout-Inspired Lasers & Feelings Hack comes in. On top of the rules-lite system, the PDF includes tables, maps, NPCs, enemies, plot hooks, and more.
S Murphy Games released Strange Squad, a rules-lite paranormal investigation RPG using a roll-under d100 system. You play as Agents, weird and powerful individuals who investigate and solve issues involving Aberrants and uphold the Veil that keeps the public from learning about the unreality that surrounds them.
And of course you’ll need an adventure for Strange Squad and S Murphy Games provided one with Buried in the Quagmire. The Agents must investigate what’s going on in the tiny town of Fertile, Iowa, where the tap water has turned into a thick, black slime.
Gustavo Coelho has a supplement for the solo dungeon crawling game Caves & Catacombs, Caves & Catacombs: Encounters. Get new Special Enemies, alternate cnounter tables, an updating Turning Undead tables, and more.
Old School Role Playing is back with Origins, another adventure for the Cepheus Engine, the system that powers Traveller. The travelers hear an echoing voice out of nowhere while in the middle of space. It’s not coming through the comms, so where is this voice coming from? And why are there coordinates suddenly on the navigation computer?
And if you want more goodies for the Cepheus Engine, Divergentibus Cerebri Publishing has Xenofari, a collection of 50 creatures to add some alien danger to your games.
Pathfinder fans can find a new community building subsystem with John Arvin Baygan’s Homefinder. This downtime system provides a framework for PCs to engage with their surroundings during downtime and has a flexible Amenity-based system for townbuilding an organization-based campaigns.
Uh oh, your players have decided that the docks they want to talk to a pirate captain. What do you do? Well Galactic Funk Creations has you covered with 100 Pirate Captains and Their Goals. This list of 100 NPCs is designed for Mork Borg and Pirate Borg, but is useful for any fantasy RPG.
Most 3D printing for terrain requires a 3D printer (and if you have one, there’s a bundle coming later), but the Tavern Door from Papersmith Workshop only requires a regular plain paper printer, a craft knife, and some glue to create a full 3D model of a tavern door with sign and lantern.
Goraan’s Goods has a new barbarian subclass, the Unfallen Barbarian capable of standing against all foes without flinching.
Who doesn’t like more dragons? Z-Coin gives us a collection of Crystalline Dragons with six new dragon types. These neutral dragons are Agate, Apatite, Ammolite, Bismuth, Labradorite, and Moissanite with full stats and unique abilities.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Wizard’s Forge released Downtime Charges that expands on downtime activities like crafting and training with a full meta minigame with possible huge rewards.
With the death of the hero Robin Hood, the usurper Prince John thought his rule over Nottingham would be secure at last. However, Robin’s body was never found…and the people have begun to worship him as a kind of forest god, believing that he is healing and waiting to return. Welcome to Nottingham: A Ravenloft Domain of Dread with the Darklord Prince John cursed by the legend he could not destroy.
Bjorn Sundell released Beorn’s Guide to Death’s Door, a new set of alternate rules for death and dying to add more drama to dropping to 0 hit points along with alternate systems for healing and critical hits.
And if you’d prefer just alternate critical weapon effects system, Peter Leet and Dave Aspall have Your Axe Does What Now? with 19 new special critical effects for all of the 37 non-magical weapons in the game compatible with any critical hit system you use.
Gavin Edwards released Learning Skills, Proficiencies, & Languages for D&D 5e, an alternate system for learning new abilities in a natural and organic way with a custom character sheet with the learning tracker built in.
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.
Itch.io has a megabundle for the Queer Games Bundle 2023 featuring works by LGBTQ+ creators. The bundle features over 450 games and game products from almost 300 creators (and I’m pretty sure the number of games went up as I was writing this) all for the price of a single AAA video game title. On top of the video games, novels, short stories, interactive fiction, and game design assets, there are also several tabletop RPGs such as Glitter Hearts, Heart of the Forest, Rodents with Guitars, FIST: Ultra Edition, and a lot more with proceeds split between the creators.
Evil Hat Games is celebrating Pride Month by offering a coupon on select titles, including the Nebula Award winning RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians, its rules expansion Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, accessories for Apocalypse Keys, and more.
The license for the Conan franchise expires at the end of this month, so Modiphius is having a fire sale on the Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of roleplaying game, adventures, setting books, and supplements.
Dungeonmasters Guild is running a sale on both official and DMs Guild products for the Eberron setting. The official sourcebook Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron is of course included, but so is the collection written by setting creator Keith Baker including Chronicles of Eberron and Exploring Eberron, plus over 700 other products.
And if Chult is more your thing, Rich Lescouflair and Will Doyle have a bundle for the adventure series Lost City of Mezro. The bundle includes the adventure trilogy, the exploration supplement Ruins of Mezro, and a collection of new monsters, magic items, and character options in both PDF and Roll20 formats.
You can also pick up a collection of noncombat encounter tables for a variety of settings and situations. Whether you’re in a city, the wilderness encountering monsters, in the undercity, crossing dimensions in a spelljammer, or passing through orc territory; there’s a random encounter table here for you where weapons can stay in their sheaths.
DriveThruRPG has a pair of World of Darkness bundles from Onyx Path starting with the Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Bundle. This bundle has a huge library of books for V:TM 20A including the V20 Companion, Lore of the Clans, Lore of the Bloodlines, Anarchs Unbound, Ghouls & Revenants, and more. Just add the core rulebook and you have enough to run almost any Kindred chronicle you can imagine.
And for Chronicles of Darkness (aka “New World of Darkness), we have The Contagion Chronicle bundle bringing together all the denizens of the supernatural world together. Vampires, werewolves, wraiths, changelings, mages, demons, and more will all face the dangers of the Contagion with this full set of books to prepare you to run the events with VTT tokens, quickstarts, player’s and storyteller’s guides, and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, Steamforge has the Epic Encounters bundle featuring a collection of 5e ready-to-run encounters. These encounters are ready to drop into any adventure with the ability to adjust difficulty based on party level. The base bundle features 8 Epic Encounters while the Bonus Collection adds on 10 additional PDFs, plus each purchase gets a discount code for 40% off a physical Epic Encounters set which includes physical minis and maps.
Quality Games and Acheron Games have the Lex Arcana bundle for the 2nd edition of the historical RPG of a magical Roman Empire that never fell. The Starter Collection features the Lex Arcana Core Rulebook, Lex Arcana Encyclopedia, the setting book Italia, and the magic book Arcana. The Bonus Collection adds on the setting expansions Dacia and Thracia, Aegyptus, and Mysteries of the Empire.
Fans of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have a pair of bundles of game books set in Lankhmar based on the works of author Fritz Leiber. The first, the DCC Lankhmar Bundle brings the classic fantasy setting to Goodman Games’s Dungeon Crawl Classics. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Lankhmar Boxed Set and the sourcebook Gang Lords of Lankhmar while the Bonus Collection adds on the location book The Land of the Eight Cities, A Dozen Lankhmar Locations, a trio of 2nd level adventures, and three higher level adventures.
The second bundle adds a collection of eight Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures set in Lankhmar. Not only do you get the 164-page tournament module The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar but also the adventures Cheating Death, Unholy Nights in Lankhmar, Mercy on the Day of the Eel, Treachery in the Beggar City, Masks of Lankhmar, and the Free RPG Day offerings from 2016 and 2020.
On Humble Bundle, the 3D Fantasy Miniatures Bundle features STL files for 3D printers for a wide collection of minis. The bundle features PCs, NPCs, monsters, terrain, siege equipment, buildings, furniture, set dressing, and more. There are even some meant for decorations for you home such as character busts and statues.
The Ultimate RPG Guides Bundle features several useful reference and background books for roleplaying games. The base level features two books on mythology, Wizards and Women of Myth, while the second level adds on myth books Dragons and Vampires along with the reference book A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages and the guide book The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming: Rules Every Gamer Must Live By, while the top level features a total of 22 books including the entire Ultimate RPG Guide series by James D’Amato with The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide, Gameplay Guide, and Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide, the RPG joke book A Dragon Walks into a Bar, books on Viking, Celtic, and Greek mythology, both a cookbook and a mixology book, and a lot more.
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!
Babblemark Press released I Am Furious (Pink) in not one, not two, but three different versions. The game starts with one terrible day and then you’re reborn with the power of a goddess to retrace your story so you can unleash vengeance or bestow mercy on those who did you wrong. The default setting is a near-future urban sprawl but the system itself works in westerns, noir, historical, and other settings with alternate rules to help you. The link above goes to the plain text edition, but there’s also an ePub edition for ereaders and a dyslexia-friendly edition with minimalist typography and graphic design. And don’t forget to pick up the Character & Scenes Sheets pack as well.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00) or Free
As great as the officially licensed Fallout game from Modiphius is, sometimes you just want to run a quick adventure in a post-nuclear wasteland without learning a massive rules system. That’s where Philip Miranda’s ATOMPUNK: A Fallout-Inspired Lasers & Feelings Hack comes in. On top of the rules-lite system, the PDF includes tables, maps, NPCs, enemies, plot hooks, and more.
- Price: Free
S Murphy Games released Strange Squad, a rules-lite paranormal investigation RPG using a roll-under d100 system. You play as Agents, weird and powerful individuals who investigate and solve issues involving Aberrants and uphold the Veil that keeps the public from learning about the unreality that surrounds them.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
And of course you’ll need an adventure for Strange Squad and S Murphy Games provided one with Buried in the Quagmire. The Agents must investigate what’s going on in the tiny town of Fertile, Iowa, where the tap water has turned into a thick, black slime.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
Gustavo Coelho has a supplement for the solo dungeon crawling game Caves & Catacombs, Caves & Catacombs: Encounters. Get new Special Enemies, alternate cnounter tables, an updating Turning Undead tables, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested $1.99)
Old School Role Playing is back with Origins, another adventure for the Cepheus Engine, the system that powers Traveller. The travelers hear an echoing voice out of nowhere while in the middle of space. It’s not coming through the comms, so where is this voice coming from? And why are there coordinates suddenly on the navigation computer?
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested $3.00)
And if you want more goodies for the Cepheus Engine, Divergentibus Cerebri Publishing has Xenofari, a collection of 50 creatures to add some alien danger to your games.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.00)
Pathfinder fans can find a new community building subsystem with John Arvin Baygan’s Homefinder. This downtime system provides a framework for PCs to engage with their surroundings during downtime and has a flexible Amenity-based system for townbuilding an organization-based campaigns.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Uh oh, your players have decided that the docks they want to talk to a pirate captain. What do you do? Well Galactic Funk Creations has you covered with 100 Pirate Captains and Their Goals. This list of 100 NPCs is designed for Mork Borg and Pirate Borg, but is useful for any fantasy RPG.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Most 3D printing for terrain requires a 3D printer (and if you have one, there’s a bundle coming later), but the Tavern Door from Papersmith Workshop only requires a regular plain paper printer, a craft knife, and some glue to create a full 3D model of a tavern door with sign and lantern.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Goraan’s Goods has a new barbarian subclass, the Unfallen Barbarian capable of standing against all foes without flinching.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Who doesn’t like more dragons? Z-Coin gives us a collection of Crystalline Dragons with six new dragon types. These neutral dragons are Agate, Apatite, Ammolite, Bismuth, Labradorite, and Moissanite with full stats and unique abilities.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Wizard’s Forge released Downtime Charges that expands on downtime activities like crafting and training with a full meta minigame with possible huge rewards.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
With the death of the hero Robin Hood, the usurper Prince John thought his rule over Nottingham would be secure at last. However, Robin’s body was never found…and the people have begun to worship him as a kind of forest god, believing that he is healing and waiting to return. Welcome to Nottingham: A Ravenloft Domain of Dread with the Darklord Prince John cursed by the legend he could not destroy.
- Price: Free
Bjorn Sundell released Beorn’s Guide to Death’s Door, a new set of alternate rules for death and dying to add more drama to dropping to 0 hit points along with alternate systems for healing and critical hits.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.95)
And if you’d prefer just alternate critical weapon effects system, Peter Leet and Dave Aspall have Your Axe Does What Now? with 19 new special critical effects for all of the 37 non-magical weapons in the game compatible with any critical hit system you use.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.99)
Gavin Edwards released Learning Skills, Proficiencies, & Languages for D&D 5e, an alternate system for learning new abilities in a natural and organic way with a custom character sheet with the learning tracker built in.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
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.
Itch.io has a megabundle for the Queer Games Bundle 2023 featuring works by LGBTQ+ creators. The bundle features over 450 games and game products from almost 300 creators (and I’m pretty sure the number of games went up as I was writing this) all for the price of a single AAA video game title. On top of the video games, novels, short stories, interactive fiction, and game design assets, there are also several tabletop RPGs such as Glitter Hearts, Heart of the Forest, Rodents with Guitars, FIST: Ultra Edition, and a lot more with proceeds split between the creators.
- Price: $60.00 (over 99% off)
- End Date: July 7, 2023
Evil Hat Games is celebrating Pride Month by offering a coupon on select titles, including the Nebula Award winning RPG Thirsty Sword Lesbians, its rules expansion Advanced Lovers & Lesbians, accessories for Apocalypse Keys, and more.
- Price: 15% off with the coupon code PRIDE23
- End Date: June 30, 2023
The license for the Conan franchise expires at the end of this month, so Modiphius is having a fire sale on the Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of roleplaying game, adventures, setting books, and supplements.
- Price: 50% off all titles
- End Date: June 30, 2023
Dungeonmasters Guild is running a sale on both official and DMs Guild products for the Eberron setting. The official sourcebook Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron is of course included, but so is the collection written by setting creator Keith Baker including Chronicles of Eberron and Exploring Eberron, plus over 700 other products.
- Price: 25% off
- End Date: June 23, 2023
And if Chult is more your thing, Rich Lescouflair and Will Doyle have a bundle for the adventure series Lost City of Mezro. The bundle includes the adventure trilogy, the exploration supplement Ruins of Mezro, and a collection of new monsters, magic items, and character options in both PDF and Roll20 formats.
- Price: $29.95 (25% off)
You can also pick up a collection of noncombat encounter tables for a variety of settings and situations. Whether you’re in a city, the wilderness encountering monsters, in the undercity, crossing dimensions in a spelljammer, or passing through orc territory; there’s a random encounter table here for you where weapons can stay in their sheaths.
- Price: $5.95 (54% off)
DriveThruRPG has a pair of World of Darkness bundles from Onyx Path starting with the Vampire: The Masquerade 20th Anniversary Edition Bundle. This bundle has a huge library of books for V:TM 20A including the V20 Companion, Lore of the Clans, Lore of the Bloodlines, Anarchs Unbound, Ghouls & Revenants, and more. Just add the core rulebook and you have enough to run almost any Kindred chronicle you can imagine.
- Price: $44.99 (76% off)
And for Chronicles of Darkness (aka “New World of Darkness), we have The Contagion Chronicle bundle bringing together all the denizens of the supernatural world together. Vampires, werewolves, wraiths, changelings, mages, demons, and more will all face the dangers of the Contagion with this full set of books to prepare you to run the events with VTT tokens, quickstarts, player’s and storyteller’s guides, and more.
- Price: $9.99 (73% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, Steamforge has the Epic Encounters bundle featuring a collection of 5e ready-to-run encounters. These encounters are ready to drop into any adventure with the ability to adjust difficulty based on party level. The base bundle features 8 Epic Encounters while the Bonus Collection adds on 10 additional PDFs, plus each purchase gets a discount code for 40% off a physical Epic Encounters set which includes physical minis and maps.
- Price: $7.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: July 3, 2023
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Quality Games and Acheron Games have the Lex Arcana bundle for the 2nd edition of the historical RPG of a magical Roman Empire that never fell. The Starter Collection features the Lex Arcana Core Rulebook, Lex Arcana Encyclopedia, the setting book Italia, and the magic book Arcana. The Bonus Collection adds on the setting expansions Dacia and Thracia, Aegyptus, and Mysteries of the Empire.
- Price: $17.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: June 27, 2023
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Fans of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser have a pair of bundles of game books set in Lankhmar based on the works of author Fritz Leiber. The first, the DCC Lankhmar Bundle brings the classic fantasy setting to Goodman Games’s Dungeon Crawl Classics. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Lankhmar Boxed Set and the sourcebook Gang Lords of Lankhmar while the Bonus Collection adds on the location book The Land of the Eight Cities, A Dozen Lankhmar Locations, a trio of 2nd level adventures, and three higher level adventures.
- Price: $14.95 (68% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: June 19, 2023
- Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
The second bundle adds a collection of eight Dungeon Crawl Classics adventures set in Lankhmar. Not only do you get the 164-page tournament module The Greatest Thieves in Lankhmar but also the adventures Cheating Death, Unholy Nights in Lankhmar, Mercy on the Day of the Eel, Treachery in the Beggar City, Masks of Lankhmar, and the Free RPG Day offerings from 2016 and 2020.
- Price: 17.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- End Date: June 19, 2023
- Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
On Humble Bundle, the 3D Fantasy Miniatures Bundle features STL files for 3D printers for a wide collection of minis. The bundle features PCs, NPCs, monsters, terrain, siege equipment, buildings, furniture, set dressing, and more. There are even some meant for decorations for you home such as character busts and statues.
- Price: $1/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
- End Date: July 6, 2023
- Charity: Make-a-Wish (user-defined, default 5%)
The Ultimate RPG Guides Bundle features several useful reference and background books for roleplaying games. The base level features two books on mythology, Wizards and Women of Myth, while the second level adds on myth books Dragons and Vampires along with the reference book A Dictionary of Made-Up Languages and the guide book The Civilized Guide to Tabletop Gaming: Rules Every Gamer Must Live By, while the top level features a total of 22 books including the entire Ultimate RPG Guide series by James D’Amato with The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide, Gameplay Guide, and Game Master’s Worldbuilding Guide, the RPG joke book A Dragon Walks into a Bar, books on Viking, Celtic, and Greek mythology, both a cookbook and a mixology book, and a lot more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (93% off at the top tier)
- End Date: June 30, 2023
- Charity: Worldreader (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, 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.
