Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for March 31, 2024

D&D, Pathfinder, OSR, Mothership, Warhammer Fantasy Role Play, Fiasco, and more!

Welcome to the Bundles, Freebies, and Sales News, the weekly column at EN World that helps make sure you don’t miss out on big tabletop RPG bundles, charity fundraisers, and sales from around the internet.

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Freebies and Pay What You Want

Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads are available for free, please support the creators if you are able!

Free League released the quickstart for the updated version of their sci-fi RPG Coriolis: The Great Dark with a setting primer, rules, adventure, pre-generated characters, and handouts.
  • Price: Free

DigiPen Institute of Technology released the Pathfinder adventure In the House of Eternity where the third level party appears in the House of Eternity and they must figure out how they made it to this alternate plane and how to get home.
  • Price: Free

If you’d like to play the Tyrant’s Grasp Adventure Path from Pathfinder but using the modern 2nd edition rules, Trey Bryner is here to help with He Whispers No More: A Tyrant’s Grasp 2e Remaster Conversion that, combined with your copy of the original, lets you play the full adventure path with Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $20.00)

Cloud Empress: Funeral for the Anti-Saint from worlds by watt is an adventure for Mothership inspired by Nausicaa in the Valley of the Wind, Dune, and Full Metal Alchemist.
  • Price: Free

Raging Swan Press wants to help you fill in a night when you’re low on prep with the system-neutral one-page adventure Tower of the Astromancer. Bring your own stat blocks as the adventure has the location descriptions and map (including VTT-ready version) and you’re ready to go.
  • Price: Free

Another contender enters the arena for OSR gamers with Dungeon! from Blakboxx Games which attempts to recreate the old school adventure feel without sacrificing the character or class options.
  • Price: Free

Xipe Totec Press released Performance Peace, a system-agnostic Mythos adventure you can use in Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, or any other Lovecraftian RPG. It’s the 1970s in Edinburgh and artist Miriam Abraham is scheduled to give five performance pieces over five nights as the art world holds its breath to see what Abraham will do next…
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

The USSR’s space program discovered alien artifacts on Mars which led to a resource rush among the stars, and you play small mice Stowaways in the d6 sci-fi RPG from Daina Cleeks.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

One look at Advanced 8-bit RPG from Infinite Black will have chiptune music playing in your head with this retro video game inspired take on an OSR system.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

In 5e, rules are already set up for small party skirmishes and many systems have been made to cover mass combat, but The Copper Compendium wants to bridge the gap with Squad Combat for 5e, a set of alternate combat rules meant to streamline combat that’s larger than normal 5e battles but not the massive battles of war.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Taylor Lane has an alternate campaign compatible “with all D&D editions and most Old-School Renaissance (OSR) games) titled The Evil Undead Campaign featuring six new full classes (Revenant, Vampire, Ghost, Necromagus, Dead Lord, and Necrotic Ooze) plus all the alternate rules you’ll need to run an evil undead campaign.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)

Lazy Cat Cult has Mauspunk, a cyberpunk RPG based on Mausritter of mice living in a techno-corporate cityscape of neon lights and dark shadows.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.00)

Ember Studio has an OSR adventure for you A Dark and Stormy Knight originally designed by Owen K.C. Stephens and updated by Alan Wortman for The Chronicles of Ember and easily adapted to other OSR systems.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Leicester’s Rambles also has an OSR adventure Five Visits to the Temperance Stone, a five-room dungeon crawl usable in Swords & Wizardry, Old-School Essentials, or other OSR games.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)

Your 3rd to 4th level party is tasked with infiltrating a mysterious carnival and retrieving an artifact in the 5e adventure Cirque Du Soulless from Canadiandice.ca.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.00)

We have a pair of supplements with new optional rules, starting with Dragon Drop Games’s Harvesting Trophies with rules for collecting trophies and alchemical ingredients from slain monsters.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)

Hewie Enfield wants to expand your skill options with Thievery! Skill Minigames for 5e with quick minigames not just for lockpicking and picking pockets, but also tracking animals, hunting, sailing, engaging in ship combat, and haggling for prices with merchants.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

While it might be a bit late for the Easter holiday, but Christopher Hamwell released Egg Hunt: An Easter Celebration if you don’t mind celebrating a bit later. This 1st level adventure sends the party after a lost red dragon egg at the behest of a pair of kobolds.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)

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.

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.

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Bundles and Sales

Note: I have included end dates when listed for the following sales, but please be warned that those without published end dates may end suddenly so be sure to plan purchases accordingly.

Mundos Infinitos on Itch.io has a bundle of mini-RPGs from a variety of genres including the mecha Real Robot Techa-Mech: Professional Level, the fantasy explorationEndless Lands, the Nordic Sci-fi Chains of Fenrir, the shonen fighting anime Ginga no Senshi, and more.
  • Price: $6.00 (73% off)
  • End Date: May 31, 2024

Dungeonmasters Guild is running a sale for the zine Uncaged with deep discounts on each volume and collection of the anthology of monsters, NPCs, adventures, and more inspired by folklore, fairytales, myths, and legends.
  • Price: 60% off for both print and PDF options

We’ve also got a bundle on DMs Guild from Keith Hiscos featuring a collection of new subclasses including the Charity Domain for the Cleric, the Spell Herd for the Ranger, the Oath of Revelation for the Paladin, and the Circle of Lifeshaping for the Druid.
  • Price: $3.95 (49% off)

The Mage’s Hand has a bundle of Baelorn’s Bargain Bin, a trio of books collecting items for thrifty heroes available at a dirt cheap price…though they may have some drawbacks.
  • Price: $2.97 (34% off)

On DriveThruRPG, November Rush wants to show you a new perspective on VTT maps with the Get Started with Isometric Bundle. I’m sorry about that pun, I really didn’t want to but I couldn’t stop myself. The bundle includes seven collections of Roll20 ready isometric maps and tokens for both monsters and heroes to get you started with isometric gameplay.
  • Price: $30.34 (20% off)

Tellest also has a map collection with a trio of forest maze maps that can be combined together to create different mazes to explore or escape.
  • Price: $4.47 (50% off)

Epic Mecanix has a bundle for Call of Dungeons, a dungeon crawler RPG/board game using dungeon tiles and a deck of cards to create randomly generated dungeons to explore. Functions as a stand-alone game with its own combat and exploration rules, or you can use the components to randomly generated dungeons for any fantasy RPG.
  • Price: $32.80 (21% off)

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Charity Bundles and Sales

Goodman Games released Dungeon Crawl Classics #105: By Mitra’s Bones, Meet Thy Doom! This 2nd level adventure by Stephen Newton is a tribute to designer Jennell Jaquays and inspired by her Dark Tower adventure, playable either as a stand-alone adventure or as a prelude to more explorations of the Dark Tower.
  • Price: $19.99
  • Charity: Jennell Jaquays medical expenses (50%)

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)

For another way to help Owen, Echelon Game Design collected so, so many titles for the Owen KC Stephens is RAD! Bundle. This bundle includes titles for Pathfinder (both editions), Starfinder, Savage Worlds, Icons, Call of Cthulhu, Song of Ice and Fire, Thieves World, Wheel of Time, D20 Modern, Dragon Age, Gamma World, and a lot, lot, lot more.
  • Price: $29.99 (97% off, total value of the bundle is over $1000)
  • Charity: Owen K.C. Stephens Medical Expenses (90% of sale price)

Over on Bundle of Holding, the Fiasco bundle is back with a giant collection for the GMless storytelling game of schemes gone awry. The Starter Collection has the Fiasco Classic core rules along with the scenario collections Carolina Death Crawl, Radioactive Bison, The Climb, Out of Dodge, and Jason’s Favorite Fiascos. The Bonus Collection adds on the optional rulebook Fiasco Companion and the scenario books American Disasters, Run Fools Run, Space Post, Winterhorn, and The Skeletons.
  • Price: $9.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Mines Advisory Group (10%)
  • End Date: April 15, 2024

Free League collected together a bundle for their Ruins of Sybaroum 5e campaign setting. The Player Collection has the Ruins of Symbaroum Player’s Guide, The Art of Symbaroum, and Hidden Treasures of Davokar while the Gamemaster Collection adds on Ruins of Symbaroum GM Guide, Ruins of Symbaroum Bestiary, Ruins Adventure Compendium, Call of the Dark, and the official GM screen.
  • Price: $9.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: April 14, 2024

Modphius has the John Carter of Mars bundle for the pulp sci-fi/adventure 2d20 System game. The Starter Collection includes the core rules, narrator screen and kit, and maps of both Barsoom and Korad, while the Bonus Collection adds on the Phantoms of Mars campaign, three sourcebooks, and two card decks.
  • Price: $7.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: RollVsEvil (10%)
  • End Date: April 1, 2024

Goodman Games is here in the charity section for the second time this week (and won’t be the last either) with the Goodman D20 Monster Guides bundle. This bundle of D20 system/3.x sourcebooks have rules for expanding several monstrous races and rules on how to play them as player characters as well. The Minor Threats collection includes the books for Doppelgangers, Dragonkin, T-Rex, Treants, Velociraptors, and Wererats while the Major Threats collection adds on Beholders, Drow, Fey, Liches, Rakshasas, Vampires, and Werewolves.

  • Price: $9.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
  • End Date: April 7, 2024

Over on Humble Bundle, 3D printer owners will want to look into the massive collection of the 3D Beastmasters Compendium. This colletion of STL files for 3D printers starts at the lowest level with a pack of zombies with the second tier adding on demons, mushrooms, skeletons of all types, giant insects, elementals, and more with the top tier having a total of 28 themed monster collections with undead pirates, worms, spiders, orcs, lava monsters, and more.
  • Price: $1/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Cancer Research UK (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: April 17, 2024

The Pathfinder 2nd Edition Guns of Alkenstar bundle looks to throw you into the Outlaws of Alkenstar Adventure Path and other gunslinging adventures in Golarion. The base level includes the digital version of the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the Outlaws of Alkenstar Player’s Guide, the first adventure in the adventure path Punks in a Powder Keg, and the one-shot Head Shot the Rat. The second tier adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook and Bestiary (the original OGL versions and not the new updated versions), the Lost Omens World Guide and Character Guide, plus the second adventure path adventure Cradles of Quarts. The third tier adds the third and final adventure The Smoking Gun, the sourcebook Guns & Gears, the setting book Impossible Lands, and the rulebooks Advanced Players Guide and GameMastery Guide plus all three adventure path adventures in VTT format for Foundry. The top tier adds on top of all that a physical copy of the Pathfinder Guns & Gears equipment book (shipping & handling additional).
  • Price: $5/$15/$30/$40 (90% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Worldbuilders Inc. (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: April 11, 2024

Magpie Games has an impressive bundle this week with the Best of Magpie Games Bundle. The base tier includes six games from Magpie Games plus the trio of Fate Codex Anthology titles, the second tier adds on four books for the superhero RPG Masks: A New Generation, the telenovela RPG Pasion de las Pasiones, and three other titles, while the top tier has the big ones: the dark fairy tale series Bluebeard’s Bride, the licensed RPG based on the board game of woodland critters at war Root, and the powerhouse licensed title Avatar Legends with the core rulebook, Wan Shi Tong’s Adventure Guide sourcebook, the adventure An Urgent Request set during the Roku Era, and the Avatar Legends Starter Set not just in digital format but also the physical boxed set (shipping not included)
  • Price: $5/$15/$25 (94% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Child’s Play (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: April 13, 2024

Cubicle 7 has the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Bundle. The base level includes the Warhammer Fantasy Role Play Starter Set plus two adventures and a 20% off coupon to the Cubicle 7 store. The second tier adds on the core rulebook and six more adventures, while the top tier gets you eight more adventures with the full bundle having the entire Enemy Within campaign.
  • Price: $1/$15/$25 (91% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Children’s Health Ireland
  • End Date: April 4, 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.
 

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Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott


Whizbang Dustyboots

Gnometown Hero
Huh. Not sure how I feel about "Dungeon!" as a name for an OSR game, given that "Dungeon!" is also an old school board game published by TSR that, to me at least, is tied up with my memories of the OSR/1E/BD&D era pretty inextricably. (And it still holds up: I play one of the more recent versions with my kids.)
 


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Bruce Baugh, Writer of Fortune
If you like ancient gloomy forests, the Symbaroum bundle is probably worth it for the art book alone. The art is just amazing, with some of the best environments and strange mysterious entities I’ve ever seen in gaming art.
 

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