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!
Chaosium released the Content Document for Basic Roleplaying’s Universal Game Engine available for use in creating your own content under the Open RPG Creative (ORC) License.
Wyrmworks released an accessible version of the 5e SRD 5.1 in Braille. The book is available in BRF format for dynamic braille readers and embossers as well as BBZ format editable in BrailleBlaster for further customization.
Mysteries can be one of the most difficult things to do well in an RPG, and QuestHappens wants to help make it easier with The Mystery Matrix, a system-agnostic guide for making clue-based adventures.
Barrow of the Raging Storm from WatcherDM is a 1-page dungeon adventure for Shadowdark for characters of 1st or 2nd level with an eight-room dungeon.
Andrew Dowell released Ghost Club RPG – The Coloring Book, a 21-page coloring book of the paranormal full of ghosts and ghost hunters ready to be finished with your addition of color.
Speaking of line art, WatcherDM has WatcherDM Stock Art 2024, a collection of 80 fantasy line art illustrations in transparent PNG format making it incredibly easy to integrate into your projects. Note: The product description doesn’t list any license for re-use so if you want to use this art in your commercial products, make sure to check the text carefully for the rights included.
One Page Adventures has an interesting take on a 5e campaign with Sunless Sky, a collection of 7 regions, 7 towns, 7 point crawl locations, and 28 one-page dungeons covering material from Level 1 to Level 10 that you can mix and match together to create your own adventure path.
If you’d like a bit of expansion on travel downtime, Hewie Enfield released Cooking & Camping, a 5e sourcebook with rules for cooking, crafting, setting camp, and a new cooking skill that can turn materials harvested from your adventuring into delicious meals.
An often forgotten aspect of cyberpunk games is how far advances in space travel have come, but James McLellan hasn’t forgotten with Space Structures: A Guide Beyond Planetside for Cyberpunk 2020. This book has over 200 pieces of equipment for leaving the bounds of the Earth and special new rules for heading into space.
Heinrich-Tüffers-Verlag released the starter book for Mythaloria, a new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG that uses a unique d4-based system. The book includes system rules, a description of the game world, 5 playable species and their powers, character creation rules, 4 pre-generated characters, and a short adventure “The Beast of Dimas”.
From Bleating Deacons Adventure Club, Tragedy at Glimmerlyte Mine is a 3rd level 5e adventure sending the party into a dwarven silver mine that’s been overrun with giant ant-0like monstrosities.
If you’d rather have your mine-based adventure for Candela Obscura, then Gavin Bastiensz has you covered with A Miner Problem which sends your group to investigate strange events at the mine of Beggar’s Back and find what’s driving the miners here insane.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Al Stover released Book Wyrm’s Birthday Gift, a Waterdeep encounter celebrating the birthday of Rishaal the Page-Turner who seems less than enthusiastic. The quest to find the perfect birthday present is designed to be inserted into a Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign or any other adventure set in Waterdeep at any level.
Henry Bardwell has another entry in the Fantastically Boring series of location profiles with Baldur’s Gate Sow’s Foot District describing the area on the eastern edge of the city housing rat catchers, leech collectors, night soil agents, and others who handle the more disgusting jobs of the city.
In Plague Breakers from RJ Currer, the 1st level party is tasked with delivering critical medicine to the village of Mistport in a two-day journey through bandit-ridden territory to hopefully beat the clock and save the hundreds of villagers.
If you’re about to finish the D&D Starter Set adventure Stormwreck Isle and want to continue the adventure, Keith Stonefield has Cultist Cove, a 5th-level adventure specifically designed to pick up where Stormwreck Isle leaves off by sending the party to investigate dragon cultists taking dragon bones for nefarious purposes.
And if you went with the Beginner Box over the Starter Set and picked up Lost Mine of Phandelver, Rhodarin Press wants to help you bridge that starter adventure into the campaign Out of the Abyss with the guide Bridging Lost Mines of Phandelver and Out of the Abyss. Lay the groundwork and establish plot points to guide the characters from their successful quest in Wave Echo Cave into the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
J Keller released The Moonless Market Festival, a single-session stand-alone adventure set during a festival complete with black market, costumes, and various activities taking place on a beach at night. Playable at any level but designed as an introduction for new players to explore how to use their skills.
The Basic Expert looks to go back all the way to the origins of the hobby with their OSR game Wight-Box: Original Medieval Fantasy Adventure Campaigns inspired by the original Chainmail and the “3 Little Brown Books” with the three classes of Cleric, Fighting-man, and Magic-user, classic spells, speed-and-size based weapon class, dungeon and hex generators, and more.
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.
There’s still a tiny bit of time left in the GM’s Day Sale! Get discounts on DriveThruRPG, Dungeonmasters Guild, and Roll20.
Kobold Press has a month-long sale celebrating their 18th anniversary. Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a new staff pick will go on sale for the rest of the month.
Dungeonismlab has four collections of monster tokens ready for use in your favorite virtual tabletop. The bundle includes tokens of Undead, Goblins, Orcs, and Bandits.
Dungeonismlab also has a collection of character tokens with five bundles of VTT tokens for Warriors, Wizards, Clerics, Elves, and Dwarves.
Alpha Strike Games Limited has a map bundle for sci-fi fans with the Lunar Hex Map Pack including two Lunar Outpost maps, a Lunar Base, a Lunar Fortification, and Lunar Sci-Domes.
S0lu7i0n is back with another animated cyberpunk map collection perfect for your Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, or other near-future sci-fi games. The map bundle is available in 1080p resolution and in gorgeous 4K with a dozen maps covering a variety of buildings, landmarks, and other locations.
The Solo Adventures in the Underdark Bundle features five 5e adventures for duet play (one DM, one player) or solo play ranging from 1st to 4th level all taking place in the Underdark.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Veteran game designer Owen K.C. Stephens has posted a GoFundMe to cover the costs of his medical treatment as he fights cancer. Owen’s list of credits is more of a list of popular RPGs as he has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Starfinder, d20 Modern, Star Wars, d20 Modern, Dragon Age, and that’s just the start.
Mean Green Press is hosting the Hope Jam! Bundle on itch.io featuring 34 indie tabletop RPGs. Running for a month from mid-December to mid-January, the game jam featured 31 creators working on the theme of hope, community, sustainability, and human kindness. Titles range from solarpunk, hopepunk, fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and more all with a focus on improving the world.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Brittannia Games has the Chivalry and Rising Sun bundle featuring the Chivalry and Sorcery RPG and the campaign setting Land of the Rising Sun. The bundle features the core rules, the Goblins, Orcs, and Trolls and European Folklore Bestiary monster books, three adventures, the sourcebook Castles of Britain, and a GM screen. The Rising Sun Collection adds on three more books in the Rising Sun campaign setting set in a world inspired by fantasy medieval Japan including Land of the Rising Sun, Rising Sun Folklore Bestiary, and Rising Sun Adventure Book.
Over on Humble Bundle, Goodman Games has the Dungeon Crawl Classics & Mutant Crawl Classics Megabundle 2. This bundle has four tiers with the first tier featuring the core rules for Dungeon Crawl Classics, two adventures, and a 20% off coupon for the Goodman Games store. The second tier adds on the core rules for Mutant Crawl Classics along with the DCC Reference booklet, two zines, and four more adventures. The third tier adds on so much more with a total of 79 products including sourcebooks, adventures, zines, genre expansions, and a whole lot more. The highest tier ads on a physical softcover of the Mutant Crawl Classics Core Rulebook (shipping and handling extra).
Modiphius has a bundle for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium ready to send you on adventures on Arrakis and beyond. The base level includes the Quickstart and Agents of Dune Deluxe Starter Set along with character sheets and a 50% off coupon for select physical Dune products. The second tier adds on the standard edition core rulebook, the Gamemaster’s Toolkit, the campaign book Masters of Dune, and the introductory adventure Desertfall Adventure. The top tier adds on enough for a full library of books for 18 total including setting books, campaigns, adventures, NPC collections, rules expansions, and 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!
Chaosium released the Content Document for Basic Roleplaying’s Universal Game Engine available for use in creating your own content under the Open RPG Creative (ORC) License.
- Price: Free
Wyrmworks released an accessible version of the 5e SRD 5.1 in Braille. The book is available in BRF format for dynamic braille readers and embossers as well as BBZ format editable in BrailleBlaster for further customization.
- Price: Free
Mysteries can be one of the most difficult things to do well in an RPG, and QuestHappens wants to help make it easier with The Mystery Matrix, a system-agnostic guide for making clue-based adventures.
- Price: Free
Barrow of the Raging Storm from WatcherDM is a 1-page dungeon adventure for Shadowdark for characters of 1st or 2nd level with an eight-room dungeon.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Andrew Dowell released Ghost Club RPG – The Coloring Book, a 21-page coloring book of the paranormal full of ghosts and ghost hunters ready to be finished with your addition of color.
- Price: Free
Speaking of line art, WatcherDM has WatcherDM Stock Art 2024, a collection of 80 fantasy line art illustrations in transparent PNG format making it incredibly easy to integrate into your projects. Note: The product description doesn’t list any license for re-use so if you want to use this art in your commercial products, make sure to check the text carefully for the rights included.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $8.00)
One Page Adventures has an interesting take on a 5e campaign with Sunless Sky, a collection of 7 regions, 7 towns, 7 point crawl locations, and 28 one-page dungeons covering material from Level 1 to Level 10 that you can mix and match together to create your own adventure path.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $9.99)
If you’d like a bit of expansion on travel downtime, Hewie Enfield released Cooking & Camping, a 5e sourcebook with rules for cooking, crafting, setting camp, and a new cooking skill that can turn materials harvested from your adventuring into delicious meals.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
An often forgotten aspect of cyberpunk games is how far advances in space travel have come, but James McLellan hasn’t forgotten with Space Structures: A Guide Beyond Planetside for Cyberpunk 2020. This book has over 200 pieces of equipment for leaving the bounds of the Earth and special new rules for heading into space.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $10.00)
Heinrich-Tüffers-Verlag released the starter book for Mythaloria, a new post-apocalyptic fantasy RPG that uses a unique d4-based system. The book includes system rules, a description of the game world, 5 playable species and their powers, character creation rules, 4 pre-generated characters, and a short adventure “The Beast of Dimas”.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $9.00)
From Bleating Deacons Adventure Club, Tragedy at Glimmerlyte Mine is a 3rd level 5e adventure sending the party into a dwarven silver mine that’s been overrun with giant ant-0like monstrosities.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
If you’d rather have your mine-based adventure for Candela Obscura, then Gavin Bastiensz has you covered with A Miner Problem which sends your group to investigate strange events at the mine of Beggar’s Back and find what’s driving the miners here insane.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Al Stover released Book Wyrm’s Birthday Gift, a Waterdeep encounter celebrating the birthday of Rishaal the Page-Turner who seems less than enthusiastic. The quest to find the perfect birthday present is designed to be inserted into a Waterdeep: Dragon Heist campaign or any other adventure set in Waterdeep at any level.
- Price: Free
Henry Bardwell has another entry in the Fantastically Boring series of location profiles with Baldur’s Gate Sow’s Foot District describing the area on the eastern edge of the city housing rat catchers, leech collectors, night soil agents, and others who handle the more disgusting jobs of the city.
- Price: Free
In Plague Breakers from RJ Currer, the 1st level party is tasked with delivering critical medicine to the village of Mistport in a two-day journey through bandit-ridden territory to hopefully beat the clock and save the hundreds of villagers.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
If you’re about to finish the D&D Starter Set adventure Stormwreck Isle and want to continue the adventure, Keith Stonefield has Cultist Cove, a 5th-level adventure specifically designed to pick up where Stormwreck Isle leaves off by sending the party to investigate dragon cultists taking dragon bones for nefarious purposes.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
And if you went with the Beginner Box over the Starter Set and picked up Lost Mine of Phandelver, Rhodarin Press wants to help you bridge that starter adventure into the campaign Out of the Abyss with the guide Bridging Lost Mines of Phandelver and Out of the Abyss. Lay the groundwork and establish plot points to guide the characters from their successful quest in Wave Echo Cave into the drow city of Menzoberranzan.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.95)
J Keller released The Moonless Market Festival, a single-session stand-alone adventure set during a festival complete with black market, costumes, and various activities taking place on a beach at night. Playable at any level but designed as an introduction for new players to explore how to use their skills.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
The Basic Expert looks to go back all the way to the origins of the hobby with their OSR game Wight-Box: Original Medieval Fantasy Adventure Campaigns inspired by the original Chainmail and the “3 Little Brown Books” with the three classes of Cleric, Fighting-man, and Magic-user, classic spells, speed-and-size based weapon class, dungeon and hex generators, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
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.
- Ratmen Full Army Bundle (2d printable and VTT tokens) from onepagerules (Free)
- The Flooded Crypt (Battlemap) from Gamer’s Rites LLC (Free)
- Arden Vul Zones of Control Maps (Dungeon location map) from Expeditious Retreat Press ($1.00)
- The Necromancer’s Puzzle Box (5e Magic items) from Stick Gun Gaming ($2.99)
- Dark Dwellings (3d printable STL file) from Aether Studios ($1.00)
- Random Battle Maps (Random battle maps) from Norbert Ruzits ($1.00)
- Lava River (Animated battle map) from HoloGrounds ($1.00)
- Borda (5e monster CR 13) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Yokai Lore Ledger #5 – Daichiuchi (5e monster) from TheTrickster314 and Triana Dubois ($0.50)
- Karygharos the Earthshaker (5e monster) from Nightshiv ($2.00)
- Ring of Fortitude (5e magic item) from Nikos Konstans ($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.
- Brawler (Shadowdark class) from Skavenloft (Free)
- The General Store (Items and weapons for Tiny Gunslingers) from The Mighty Bjorn ($1.00)
- The Ouroboros Man (Mörk Borg class) from Blasted Tower Games ($2.00)
- Pickpocket (5e background) from Quest Weaver Media (Free)
- Combat Medic (5e Fighter subclass) from GM Cuttlefish RPSea ($0.00)
- Fence (5e background) from Quest Weaver Media (Free)
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.
There’s still a tiny bit of time left in the GM’s Day Sale! Get discounts on DriveThruRPG, Dungeonmasters Guild, and Roll20.
- Price: Up to 40% off
- End Date: March 11, 2024 Final Day!
Kobold Press has a month-long sale celebrating their 18th anniversary. Each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a new staff pick will go on sale for the rest of the month.
- Price: 18% off
- End Date: March 31, 2024
Dungeonismlab has four collections of monster tokens ready for use in your favorite virtual tabletop. The bundle includes tokens of Undead, Goblins, Orcs, and Bandits.
- Price: $2.39 (40% off)
Dungeonismlab also has a collection of character tokens with five bundles of VTT tokens for Warriors, Wizards, Clerics, Elves, and Dwarves.
- Price: $2.99 (40% off)
Alpha Strike Games Limited has a map bundle for sci-fi fans with the Lunar Hex Map Pack including two Lunar Outpost maps, a Lunar Base, a Lunar Fortification, and Lunar Sci-Domes.
- Price: $2.99 (50% off)
S0lu7i0n is back with another animated cyberpunk map collection perfect for your Cyberpunk, Shadowrun, or other near-future sci-fi games. The map bundle is available in 1080p resolution and in gorgeous 4K with a dozen maps covering a variety of buildings, landmarks, and other locations.
- Price: $29.99 (37% off) for 1080p, $59.99 (37% off) for 4K
The Solo Adventures in the Underdark Bundle features five 5e adventures for duet play (one DM, one player) or solo play ranging from 1st to 4th level all taking place in the Underdark.
- Price: $4.99 (49% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Veteran game designer Owen K.C. Stephens has posted a GoFundMe to cover the costs of his medical treatment as he fights cancer. Owen’s list of credits is more of a list of popular RPGs as he has worked on Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder, Starfinder, d20 Modern, Star Wars, d20 Modern, Dragon Age, and that’s just the start.
- Charity: Owen K.C. Stephens Medical Expenses (all proceeds)
Mean Green Press is hosting the Hope Jam! Bundle on itch.io featuring 34 indie tabletop RPGs. Running for a month from mid-December to mid-January, the game jam featured 31 creators working on the theme of hope, community, sustainability, and human kindness. Titles range from solarpunk, hopepunk, fantasy, horror, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and more all with a focus on improving the world.
- Price: $15
- Charity: Honor the Earth (70%, remaining funds go to the creators)
- End Date: March 16, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Brittannia Games has the Chivalry and Rising Sun bundle featuring the Chivalry and Sorcery RPG and the campaign setting Land of the Rising Sun. The bundle features the core rules, the Goblins, Orcs, and Trolls and European Folklore Bestiary monster books, three adventures, the sourcebook Castles of Britain, and a GM screen. The Rising Sun Collection adds on three more books in the Rising Sun campaign setting set in a world inspired by fantasy medieval Japan including Land of the Rising Sun, Rising Sun Folklore Bestiary, and Rising Sun Adventure Book.
- Price: $14.95 (81% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: The Honeypot Children’s Charity (10%)
- End Date: March 19, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Goodman Games has the Dungeon Crawl Classics & Mutant Crawl Classics Megabundle 2. This bundle has four tiers with the first tier featuring the core rules for Dungeon Crawl Classics, two adventures, and a 20% off coupon for the Goodman Games store. The second tier adds on the core rules for Mutant Crawl Classics along with the DCC Reference booklet, two zines, and four more adventures. The third tier adds on so much more with a total of 79 products including sourcebooks, adventures, zines, genre expansions, and a whole lot more. The highest tier ads on a physical softcover of the Mutant Crawl Classics Core Rulebook (shipping and handling extra).
- Price: $1/$15/$25/$40 (95% off at top tier)
- Charity: No Kid Hungry (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: March 28, 2024
Modiphius has a bundle for Dune: Adventures in the Imperium ready to send you on adventures on Arrakis and beyond. The base level includes the Quickstart and Agents of Dune Deluxe Starter Set along with character sheets and a 50% off coupon for select physical Dune products. The second tier adds on the standard edition core rulebook, the Gamemaster’s Toolkit, the campaign book Masters of Dune, and the introductory adventure Desertfall Adventure. The top tier adds on enough for a full library of books for 18 total including setting books, campaigns, adventures, NPC collections, rules expansions, and more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (91% off at top tier)
- Charity: charity:water (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: March 21, 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.
