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!
It’s summer vacation time, which makes it a perfect time for educators and others dealing with children to look at TTRPGs as an educational and/or entertainment tool either for summer activities or for preparing for next term. TTRPGkids LLC released The Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit useful for any system to bring games to your classroom, daycare, summer camp, and more. The kit includes checklists, a curriculum focused lesson plan, school approval proposal, age-appropriate safety tools, student reflection activities, and more.
Matthew Ratcliffe released The Fruits of Yggdrasil, an adventure for Tales from the Loop as part of the Free League Workshop. Kids have gone missing only to return with no memory of where they’ve been, livestock turning up dead, and strange creatures lurking in the forests.
Jack Elmy and Geoffrey Chauncer worked together to create The Road to Canterbury, an OSR setting book based on the Canterbury Tales. Yes, that statement is technically accurate. This 32-page sourcebook offers tools and setting information to create your own adventures inspired by the medieval classic of literature.
Micro RPG released Owlbear Academy, an RPG whose rules fit on a single large index card allowing players to take on the roles of children considered outcasts (“including trans, queer, & gay youth”) seeking a second chance and a new family as they learn to use their magical abilities to defeat the anti-witch hate groups and witchblood “purist” organizations.
PetDM has a 3rd level 5e adventure Trumpeth where the party is sent to the desert to retrieve a stolen trumpet complete with new monsters and a new magic item “suited for rich people’s children”.
Ironfox Studios released The Happenings at Duskmorrow, a one-shot adventure for ShadowDark that tasks the 1st level party to solve a series of petty thefts, uncover a dastardly plot, and make friends with a talking bear.
Ever felt it was odd that playing a bard rarely involved being a medieval rock star as you’d expect? Well Ouijames Games has the RPG Wünderbards where the players tour the lands hired by landlords to entertain tavern patrons earning fame and fortune with merrymaking and song.
Your World Has Been Deleted is an apocalyptic horror survival game from The Company that places the survivors in a city in the midst of a kaiju rampage where that’s not the only nightmare awaiting you as you try to make it out alive.
Christian Blair released a pair of one-page one-shot adventures for D&D and OSR systems, starting with Outpost Solensberg about a frontier keep that’s recently suffered severe damage from barbarian attacks.
The second one-page one-shot is Wyvern’s Cave where a great reward has been offered to the party who can free the land from the danger from the winged beast.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Henry Welch offers some tips to alter the recent Dungeons & Dragons adventure for a more unique epic quest with Mr. Welch’s Fixes for Vecna: Eve of Ruin. The 13-page document offers options for DMs who were disappointed with the recent adventure and wanted something with a deeper connection to the classic lore and more styles of adventure.
Created for Waterdeep but useful for any dense urban fantasy city, Duncan Rhodes and Hipsters & Dragons released Waterdeep: Dirty Jobs, a sourcebook of urban adventure. New threats, villains, antagonists, allies, guilds, and more to populate your city plus a campaign structure for episodic play, a list of compatible adventures, alternate rules for running villains, and more.
If you’re one of the many who find martial characters left a bit behind in D&D, Isaac Coolen has Simple 5e Tweaks: Martial Combat with optional rules to add dynamic and fun changes to how combat functions.
Over on Storytellers Vault, there’s a new one-shot introductory adventure from David Gibson, First Night, First Blood. This adventure is meant specifically for new players and inexperienced storytellers to introduce them to the Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition rules along with the concepts of the setting like the Masquerade and the power players in the city.
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.
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.
Dungeonmasters Guild launched the D&D 50th Anniversary Sale featuring discounts on a wide variety of Dungeons & Dragons Roll20 products including official adventures like Curse of Strahd and Tomb of Annihilation and third-party titles like The Ultimate Adventurer’s Handbook and Baldur’s Gate: The Fall of Elturel.
Poul Holmelund collected a pair of Call of Cthulhu scenarios from the Miskatonic Repository for The Danish Collection Bundle. The first scenario is set in 2003 titled Lost in Cremation that places the investigators on the trail of Isabella’s sister who vanished four years ago complete with pre-generated Investigators, a tailored Spotify playlist, and more. The second is The Art of Hygge set in 1999 as four American exchange students are about to find out that something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark.
If that’s not enough European themed Call of Cthulhu for you, there’s another bundle from the Miskatonic Repository with the Sweden Shivers Bundle. The bundle includes three full scenarios with the modern day The Calling of the Blood and The Tunnel People and the 1920s The Flooding of Black Tarn plus the collection Bits and Pieces with ten short scenario hooks to expand into full adventures.
For the crossover of TTRPG players and horse girls of all genders, D10 Dimensions released the Horse & Pony Bundle, a system-neutral bundle of new options for horses and ponies. The bundle includes three volumes of 100 Horse Companions, the spinoff 100 Pony Companions, plus the sourcebooks 100 Horse Tricks and 100 Naughty Horse Behaviors.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another of their huge charity bundles, this time organized by Jes the Human, with the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. The bundle features a whoping 643 items like full RPG rules, mini- and micro-RPGs, solo journaling games, adventures, sourcebooks, optional rules, monster collections, maps, art assets, and probably anything you could possibly want in a TTRPG bundle.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Catalyst Game Labs has a pair of bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, this is the previous edition of the game, but it is one that’s still popular with many fans and a lot of Shadowrun content is evergreen or at least useful when playing other editions due to the setting information. The first of these bundles is set to get you ready to go with Shadowrun 5th Edition with the SR5 Essentials Bundle. The base level includes Shadowrun 5e, the player’s guide with additional options Run Faster, and the cyberware sourcebook Chrome Flesh. The Bonus Collection adds on additional “core sourcebooks” with optional rules and equipment that many players consider essential, Run & Gun (guns, armor, and combat), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trials (hacking), and Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones).
The second bundle is the SR5 Missions Bundle with plenty of adventures and full campaigns. The Starter Collection includes the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set with information about the setting city of Seattle plus three standalone scenarios and four Missions convention scenarios. The Bonus Collection adds on the big metaplot events of the edition with five SRD CFD campaign sourcebooks (CFD being Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder, a personality disorder caused by nanite that became an epidemic in the 2070s) and a trilogy covering events in thee free city of Denver.
There’s a pair of Rifts bundles starting with the Rifts Core Mega Bundle featuring Rifts Ultimate Edition, three Rifts Guides and Kits, and Index and Adventures V1-2 in the Corebook Collection. The Sourcebook Collection adds on Rifts Sourcebook One, Rifts Book of Magic, Rifts Bestiary, Black Market, Bionics Sourcebook, three Rifts conversion books, and three more Rifts sourcebooks.
The second bundle is the Rifts Coalition Wars bundle focusing on the Coalition War Campaign including that book plus Coalition Navy, Secrets of the Coalition States, and 4 Rifts mercenary sourcebooks. The Tolkeen Collection adds on Coalition Manhunters and the seven adventures of Siege on Tolkeen.
Over on Humble Bundle, fans of the Warhammer 40K universe who wants to go deeper into the lore will be pleased with the Worlds of Warhammer 40,000 Bundle from the Black Library. The base level includes eight novels including novels from Dan Arnett, Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds, and more with the next level adding another eight novels while the top tier ups the total to 27 total books from The Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar, and more.
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have come together for the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
If you’ve been curious about Delta Green, the Lovecraftian RPG that flips the script by giving the players the power to fight back, the Delta Green RPG Collection by Arc Dream Publishing is a perfect introduction. If you’re already a player, the base tier has the Agent Dossiers and Evidence Kit: God’s Teeth with pre-generated characters and hand-outs respectively. The second tier adds on the sourcebooks The Complex, Static Protocol, The Labyrinth, and ARCHINT. If you’re brand new to the game though, the top tier is how you get started with the player’s book Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, the GM’s book Handler’s Guide, plus a dozen more sourcebooks, adventures, hand-outs, and more making a full library to jump into the world.
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!
It’s summer vacation time, which makes it a perfect time for educators and others dealing with children to look at TTRPGs as an educational and/or entertainment tool either for summer activities or for preparing for next term. TTRPGkids LLC released The Classroom Ready TTRPG Toolkit useful for any system to bring games to your classroom, daycare, summer camp, and more. The kit includes checklists, a curriculum focused lesson plan, school approval proposal, age-appropriate safety tools, student reflection activities, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
- Note: Also available in 5.5”x8.5” printed copy for $12.0
Matthew Ratcliffe released The Fruits of Yggdrasil, an adventure for Tales from the Loop as part of the Free League Workshop. Kids have gone missing only to return with no memory of where they’ve been, livestock turning up dead, and strange creatures lurking in the forests.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.30)
Jack Elmy and Geoffrey Chauncer worked together to create The Road to Canterbury, an OSR setting book based on the Canterbury Tales. Yes, that statement is technically accurate. This 32-page sourcebook offers tools and setting information to create your own adventures inspired by the medieval classic of literature.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Micro RPG released Owlbear Academy, an RPG whose rules fit on a single large index card allowing players to take on the roles of children considered outcasts (“including trans, queer, & gay youth”) seeking a second chance and a new family as they learn to use their magical abilities to defeat the anti-witch hate groups and witchblood “purist” organizations.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
PetDM has a 3rd level 5e adventure Trumpeth where the party is sent to the desert to retrieve a stolen trumpet complete with new monsters and a new magic item “suited for rich people’s children”.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Ironfox Studios released The Happenings at Duskmorrow, a one-shot adventure for ShadowDark that tasks the 1st level party to solve a series of petty thefts, uncover a dastardly plot, and make friends with a talking bear.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Ever felt it was odd that playing a bard rarely involved being a medieval rock star as you’d expect? Well Ouijames Games has the RPG Wünderbards where the players tour the lands hired by landlords to entertain tavern patrons earning fame and fortune with merrymaking and song.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Your World Has Been Deleted is an apocalyptic horror survival game from The Company that places the survivors in a city in the midst of a kaiju rampage where that’s not the only nightmare awaiting you as you try to make it out alive.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
Christian Blair released a pair of one-page one-shot adventures for D&D and OSR systems, starting with Outpost Solensberg about a frontier keep that’s recently suffered severe damage from barbarian attacks.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
The second one-page one-shot is Wyvern’s Cave where a great reward has been offered to the party who can free the land from the danger from the winged beast.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Henry Welch offers some tips to alter the recent Dungeons & Dragons adventure for a more unique epic quest with Mr. Welch’s Fixes for Vecna: Eve of Ruin. The 13-page document offers options for DMs who were disappointed with the recent adventure and wanted something with a deeper connection to the classic lore and more styles of adventure.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Created for Waterdeep but useful for any dense urban fantasy city, Duncan Rhodes and Hipsters & Dragons released Waterdeep: Dirty Jobs, a sourcebook of urban adventure. New threats, villains, antagonists, allies, guilds, and more to populate your city plus a campaign structure for episodic play, a list of compatible adventures, alternate rules for running villains, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
If you’re one of the many who find martial characters left a bit behind in D&D, Isaac Coolen has Simple 5e Tweaks: Martial Combat with optional rules to add dynamic and fun changes to how combat functions.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
Over on Storytellers Vault, there’s a new one-shot introductory adventure from David Gibson, First Night, First Blood. This adventure is meant specifically for new players and inexperienced storytellers to introduce them to the Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition rules along with the concepts of the setting like the Masquerade and the power players in the city.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
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.
- Wooden Cart (3D Printer STL file) from nonPariel (Free)
- Grave Golem (3D Printer STL file) from nonPariel (Free)
- Carnivorous Slime 02 (3D Printer STL file) from nonPariel (Free)
- Print & Paste Textures: Dwarven Doorways (Printable 2D paper textures for 3D terrain) from Crooked Staff Publishing ($1.27)
- Dungeon Décor Pack 35 (VTT clothing tokens) from Forgotten Adventures ($4.99)
- Dungeon Décor Pack 36 (VTT clutter and item tokens) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Maustrapper: D20 More Traps (OSR trap collection for mice characters) from Sam Mckay ($1.00)
- Aleister & Artemis Wolf (NPCs for Pirate Borg) from D’Arcangel Productions ($5.00)
- Wasteland Encounters (d6 random encounter table) from Golshan’s Labyrinth ($1.00)
- Caves #2 (VTT battlemap) from ndvmaps ($1.00)
- Cursecut Dagger (5e magic item) from Nikox Konstans ($1.00)
- Little Bas (5e NPC/monster/mascot) from Al Stover ($0.00)
- Contract Devil (5e CR4 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Here & There Tavern: Lost and Found Part 1 (5e magic items) from Madame Aloura (Free)
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.
- Privateer & Powder Monkey (2 classes for Pirate Borg) from Bite-Size Gaming ($1.99)
- The Saint of Calamity (Class for Mörk Borg) from Blasted Tower Games ($2.00)
- Privateer (Class for Pirate Borg) from D’Arcangel Productions ($5.00)
- The Urchin (Class for Pirate Borg) from D’Arcangel Productions ($5.00)
- Oath of Condemnation (5e Paladin subclass) from r0zzin ($1.75)
- Tree Tribe (5e playable race/species) from Hanoi Crit Roll ($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.
Dungeonmasters Guild launched the D&D 50th Anniversary Sale featuring discounts on a wide variety of Dungeons & Dragons Roll20 products including official adventures like Curse of Strahd and Tomb of Annihilation and third-party titles like The Ultimate Adventurer’s Handbook and Baldur’s Gate: The Fall of Elturel.
- Price: Up to 30% off
- End Date: June 10, 2024
Poul Holmelund collected a pair of Call of Cthulhu scenarios from the Miskatonic Repository for The Danish Collection Bundle. The first scenario is set in 2003 titled Lost in Cremation that places the investigators on the trail of Isabella’s sister who vanished four years ago complete with pre-generated Investigators, a tailored Spotify playlist, and more. The second is The Art of Hygge set in 1999 as four American exchange students are about to find out that something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark.
- Price: $2.00 (75% off)
If that’s not enough European themed Call of Cthulhu for you, there’s another bundle from the Miskatonic Repository with the Sweden Shivers Bundle. The bundle includes three full scenarios with the modern day The Calling of the Blood and The Tunnel People and the 1920s The Flooding of Black Tarn plus the collection Bits and Pieces with ten short scenario hooks to expand into full adventures.
- Price: $6.00 (52% off)
For the crossover of TTRPG players and horse girls of all genders, D10 Dimensions released the Horse & Pony Bundle, a system-neutral bundle of new options for horses and ponies. The bundle includes three volumes of 100 Horse Companions, the spinoff 100 Pony Companions, plus the sourcebooks 100 Horse Tricks and 100 Naughty Horse Behaviors.
- Price: $4.46 (25% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another of their huge charity bundles, this time organized by Jes the Human, with the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. The bundle features a whoping 643 items like full RPG rules, mini- and micro-RPGs, solo journaling games, adventures, sourcebooks, optional rules, monster collections, maps, art assets, and probably anything you could possibly want in a TTRPG bundle.
- Price: $10
- Charity: Medical Aid for Palestine (all proceeds)
- End Date: June 30, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Catalyst Game Labs has a pair of bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, this is the previous edition of the game, but it is one that’s still popular with many fans and a lot of Shadowrun content is evergreen or at least useful when playing other editions due to the setting information. The first of these bundles is set to get you ready to go with Shadowrun 5th Edition with the SR5 Essentials Bundle. The base level includes Shadowrun 5e, the player’s guide with additional options Run Faster, and the cyberware sourcebook Chrome Flesh. The Bonus Collection adds on additional “core sourcebooks” with optional rules and equipment that many players consider essential, Run & Gun (guns, armor, and combat), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trials (hacking), and Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones).
- Price: $19.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 24, 2024
The second bundle is the SR5 Missions Bundle with plenty of adventures and full campaigns. The Starter Collection includes the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set with information about the setting city of Seattle plus three standalone scenarios and four Missions convention scenarios. The Bonus Collection adds on the big metaplot events of the edition with five SRD CFD campaign sourcebooks (CFD being Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder, a personality disorder caused by nanite that became an epidemic in the 2070s) and a trilogy covering events in thee free city of Denver.
- Price: $19.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 24, 2024
There’s a pair of Rifts bundles starting with the Rifts Core Mega Bundle featuring Rifts Ultimate Edition, three Rifts Guides and Kits, and Index and Adventures V1-2 in the Corebook Collection. The Sourcebook Collection adds on Rifts Sourcebook One, Rifts Book of Magic, Rifts Bestiary, Black Market, Bionics Sourcebook, three Rifts conversion books, and three more Rifts sourcebooks.
- Price: $19.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 11, 2024
The second bundle is the Rifts Coalition Wars bundle focusing on the Coalition War Campaign including that book plus Coalition Navy, Secrets of the Coalition States, and 4 Rifts mercenary sourcebooks. The Tolkeen Collection adds on Coalition Manhunters and the seven adventures of Siege on Tolkeen.
- Price: $17.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: June 11, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, fans of the Warhammer 40K universe who wants to go deeper into the lore will be pleased with the Worlds of Warhammer 40,000 Bundle from the Black Library. The base level includes eight novels including novels from Dan Arnett, Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds, and more with the next level adding another eight novels while the top tier ups the total to 27 total books from The Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar, and more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
- Charity: EveryLibrary Institute (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 27, 2024
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have come together for the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
- Price: $10/$20/$30 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 17, 2024
If you’ve been curious about Delta Green, the Lovecraftian RPG that flips the script by giving the players the power to fight back, the Delta Green RPG Collection by Arc Dream Publishing is a perfect introduction. If you’re already a player, the base tier has the Agent Dossiers and Evidence Kit: God’s Teeth with pre-generated characters and hand-outs respectively. The second tier adds on the sourcebooks The Complex, Static Protocol, The Labyrinth, and ARCHINT. If you’re brand new to the game though, the top tier is how you get started with the player’s book Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, the GM’s book Handler’s Guide, plus a dozen more sourcebooks, adventures, hand-outs, and more making a full library to jump into the world.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (95% off at top tier)
- Charity: Covenant House (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 22, 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.
