Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for October 15, 2023

D&D, Pathfinder, Vampire: The Masquerade, OSR, Dragonbane, Mork Borg, 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!

Starting off on Itch.io, we have an interesting game titled The World We Left Behind, a card-based game of worldbuilding where players explore a planet and uncover its mysteries by drawing symbols on a standard deck of playing cards. This is also interesting because this is a tie-in game…for a ballet. The Moment is Imminent will be performed in New York City on October 21-November 2 with the final performance live streamed.
  • Price: Free

If you want a piece of the Wasteland from your 3D printer, Modiphius released a sampler pack of STL files for the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare miniature wargame that can also be used in the Fallout tabletop RPG including a refrigerator, mailbox, toolbox, broken brick wall, wheel from a broken vertibird, and generator. Also available from the Modiphius UK store.
  • Price: Free

Myth-forged Games released the Less is More system, an OSR-inspired rules system with a d20 roll-under mechanic using the standard six attributes (Str, Dex, Con, Int, Wis, Chr) along with an alternate take on ancestries and classes, an Advantage mechanic, stress models based on character traits like fears and frustration, and more plus spells and a bestiary. Released under CC-BY 4.0.
  • Price: Free

PJ Coffey, designer on Level Up: Advanced 5e and co-host on Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk podcast, released a collection of pre-gens for Level Up: Human Adept, Half Elf Fighter, Halfling Marshal, Dwarf Ranger, Gnome Herald, and Tiefling Warlock.
  • Price: Free

Remember last week when I had several numbered creature token packs from Caeora but for some reason, number 27 was missing? I found it! This pack features 13 tokens ready for VTTs in variations with and without shadows and with and without a circle border.
  • Price: Free

Pathfinder players may expect some spooky adventures from their GMs and want to be prepared, so Trent Anderson has the Vampire Hunter Archetype with a collection of 18 feats with a variety of different unique vampire hunter abilities.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.99)

Wolfhill Entertailing posted a new magic item perfect for the spooky season, Cowl of the Eternal Fox with a detailed system-neutral description of this item and its effects ready for you to adapt to any fantasy RPG.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)

Fans of the Dark Tower series by Stephen King will want to look at Cassandra A. Castro’s To the Heart of Reality: Search for Hope in a Dying World, a solo RPG where you choose from three archetypes and create your own map to explore a dying world in hopes of finding the Heart of Reality which is the only hope for the future. Also available in Spanish.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Julian’s Games released the action movie RPG The Underground: Over-the-Table Edition with a unique rules system built for high-octane gameplay.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

And an adventure for the new system, The Underground: The Assassin Plan where the heroes have a straightforward mission: Find a guy and kill him.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

As much as many love narrative and character focus in their games, it can sometimes be difficult to summon the creativity from nothing to come up with something interesting. Enter JeansenVaars and Storyteller’s Prompty Question, a collection of random tables with questions to ask yourself to come up with character backstories, plot hooks, story twists, worldbuilding, and more.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)

Speaking of worldbuilding, Stefano S. released Gods, Cults & Religions, a system to create your own cult and see if it survives the course of history or if it will disappear to time. A game system on its own or a tool to expand your own game world, take your pick.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.05)

BR McKay has a one-shot horror adventure Trail of a Frozen Heart for the tension-filled system Dread. While traversing the Blue Mountains of Oregon, your search party encounters an abomination of nature chasing you through the cold for your very souls.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)

And if you can’t get a group together but still want spooky gaming fun, MDO Design has Elegy, a rules-light solo RPG about surviving the big city nights as a vampire, keeping your hunger in check and maintaining the secrecy of vampire society. With optional multiplayer games both GMless and with a GM.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)

If all the horror of the season gets to you and you’d like something more light with some romance, Wrenegade Studios released Charming Mr Darcy, a one-page RPG where you attend a splendid party at the Pemberley House with the charming, mysterious, and prideful Fitzwilliam Darcy, Esq.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)

With the upcoming release of the Dragonbane Bestiary from Free League, players will need a way to fight them. Andreas Ringsparr has you covered with the new school of Animal Magic with six new spells along with nine new spells for General Magic and Mentalism plus five new magical objects.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

If you want a horror one-shot for D&D or a terrifying start to a campaign, Clever Recluse Games LLC released A Shadowed House, a first-level adventure where the party is chased into a creepy house…that locks them inside.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.50)

What’s better than a haunted house adventure? 100 Haunted Locations from Totem featuring system-neutral descriptions of 100 unique haunted locations plus tables for different types of hauntings and potential causes of the paranormal activity.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Grim Goat Games has a new class for MÖRK BORG with the Plague Bringer. “Your body is steeped in plague. You are a walking vector and the powers you bear can harm OR help…though your assistance almost always comes with the blessings of the plague upon them.”
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Thomas Kolar has Santa Cecilia: A Ravenloft Domain of Dread a city made of the dead where the residents only survive their afterlife so long as they are remembered ruled over by the musician Jorge de la Cruz, who did whatever it took to gain fame and ensure he was remembered.
  • Price: Free

The third-level adventure Curious Case of Danvers Carew from Doug Strain is inspired by the classic horror novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And if you’re worried that’s a spoiler, this adventure is inspired by the actual novel, not the later adaptation that turned Mr. Hyde into The Incredible Hulk. This is far more mystery and mad science than you might be expecting…
  • Price: Free

A. B. Funing released Gradual Gritty Realism Resting Rules with optional rules to add a bit of realism to long and short rests along with new conditions that affect resting, complication tables for resting in poor conditions, and magic items to help get a night’s rest.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)

The party has learned that the local noble is hoarding supplies the townfolk desperately need and decides to play Robin Hood when you didn’t have a heist planned. What do you do? Of course, you consult Black Cat Nerd’s d100 Heist Complications ready to help you make the spontaneous heists interesting.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Juan DnDink.com released Familiars – More Than Just a Pet with optional rules and tactical options for using familiars.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)

On Storytellers Vault, Awkward GM Corbin has 50 God-Machine Infrastructure Examples for use in Demon: The Descent or any other Chronicles of Darkness game including Concealment, Defense, Logistical, Elimination, and Command and Control Infrastructure.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Our first Lightning Round this week is a collection of monsters for your 5e games. All products are either Free or Pay What You Want with the suggested price in parentheses.

And our final Lightning Round features character options for 5e. All products are either Free or Pay What You Want with the suggested price in parentheses.
  • Wanderer (Full class) from Arthur Action (Giant Moth Productions) ($5.00)
  • Earth Genasi (Playable race) from Chronicles of Lost Tomes ($0.00)
  • Tanner (Background) from Quest Weaver Media (Free)

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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.

Itch.io has the Queer Halloween Stories 2023 Bundle featuring a total of over 100 products from more than 80 creators with 83 digital games, 22 physical games (including RPGs), 7 books/zines, 3 comics, and 3 audio dramas ranging from the spoopy fun to the downright brutally horrific.
  • Price: $60 (81% off) or $10 for the “Treat Edition” for those with financial hardship or lower incomes
  • End Date: October 31, 2023

Dungeonmaster’s Guild is also getting in on the holiday spirit with the Ravenloft Halloween Sale including discounts on Ravenloft and other horror adventures for Dungeons & Dragons including official products going back to the original I6 Ravenloft for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition all the way to Adventurer’s League products for 5e and a load of third-party content.
  • Price: Up to 40% off
  • End Date: October 31, 2023

RPGGamer has a pair of bundles featuring system-neutral side quests for your games, the first is Sidequests for the Post-Apocalypse with a dozen books full of mini-adventures and plot hooks for your games in the aftermath of a contemporary world-ending disaster.
  • Price: $24.00 (33% off)

And if you like your future dystopia with more neon and chrome, the Sidequests for Cyberpunk bundle features twenty books full of quick ideas for your games either as a fill-in adventure or seeds to expand into a full story.
  • Price: $48.00 (33% off)

Matt Colville’s MCDM Productions has a Roll20 bundle for Flee, Mortals! the 5e monster book with 339 stat blocks bundled together as both PDF and Roll20 format ready to drop into your game.
  • Price: $59.99 (25% off)

The Liar’s Night Adventures Bundle features seven 5e Adventure League missions across Tier 1, 2, and 3 that last two to four hours each.
  • Price: $8.40 (70% off)

If you want to run Curse of Strahd for this October but are worried about it being too well-trodden ground for your group, the Curse of Strahd Halloween Bundle has ten books to add variety to the game with alternate encounters, sidequests, new classes, and more.
  • Price: $19.95 (52% off)

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Charity Bundles and Sales

Michael LeBossiere and his dog Remy were bitten during a random dog attack, so he’s collected together a huge bundle including the full R-Series of adventures to help raise money for vet and ER bills. Get well over 20 full adventures and collections of drop-in encounters for 5e and help cover some of the medical expenses.
  • Price: $11.14 (66% off)
  • Charity: Vet and ER bills for Michael and Remy

The Open Gaming Store has a bundle of games collected by Rogue Genius Games in support of veteran game designer Owen K.C. Stephens and his struggle with cancer. This bundle features over 350 products from multiple companies for multiple systems with a retail value over $1000 including supplements for 5th Edition, Mutants & Masterminds, Pathfinder 1st Edition, Pathfinder 2nd Edition, Starfinder, Starjammer, and many others from publishers including Everybody Games, Rogue Genius Games, Legendary Games, Rite Publishing, Evil Robot Games, Battlefiend Press International, Savage Mogo, d20pfsrd.com Publishing, and more.
  • Price: $39.95 (over 96% off)
  • Charity: Owen K.C. Stephens medical recovery and expenses (all proceeds)
  • End Date: November 3, 2023

On Bundle of Holding, SoulMuppet Publishing has a bundle for the rules-light fantasy horror RPG Best Left Buried. The Starter Collection includes the player’s guide Cryptdigger’s Guide to Survival, the GM guide Doomsayer’s Guide to Horror, the monster book Hunter’s Guide to Monsters, and three zines of expanded character options. The Bonus Collection adds on a collection of adventures Throne of Avarice, Beneath the Missing Sea, Darkling Seas of Islesmere, Spoils of the Gorgon Coast, and Spy in the House of Eth.
  • Price: $7.95 (89% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
  • End Date: October 31, 2023

Onyx Path Publishing has the updated Scarred Lands setting for 5e. This dark post-apocalyptic fantasy setting takes place in the aftermath of a devastating war and was one of the first OGL published settings released (with the original Creature Collection for the setting making it into game stores before the Monster Manual 3rd Edition from Wizards of the Coast did due to a staggered release of the core books). The Starter Collection includes the Scarred Lands 5e Player’s Guide and Creature Collection plus two sourcebooks and an adventure path, while the Bonus Collection adds on 11 location books, four sets of VTT assets, the full-length campaign Dead Man’s Rust, and the six-part location book Vigil Watch.
  • Price: $17.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: The Bodhana Group (10%)
  • End Date: October 23, 2023

If you want some inspiration for your October’s horror games or just some scary stories to read, the Ellen Datlow Presents Tales of Terror Bundle features short story anthologies including authors like Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, and other big names in horror fiction available in DRM-free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle formats. The Terror Sampler includes two anthologies plus the novel We Are All Completely Fine and Mary Shelley’s Beyond Frankenstein short fiction collection while the Complete Collection adds on five more anthologies plus collections from Joe R. Landsdale, Caitlin R. Keirnan, and Lauren Beukes plus the novel The Stress of Her Regard.
  • Price: $7.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Horror Writers Association (10%)
  • End Date: October 25, 2023

Bundle of Holding wants you to be ready for next month’s National Novel Writing Month with the Novel Writing Game Tools 2023 Bundle. These journaling games, prompt guides, and creativity aids will help you develop your story. The Starter Collection includes Alone on a Journey, Seven Wonders, Apothecaria, Apothecaria: Shimmersnow Valley, and Recipe on Kmiydish Paper while the Bonus Collection adds on The Slow Knife, Curse of the House of Rookwood, Not a Demon, and Bleak Spirit.
  • Price: $9.95 (81% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: NaNoWriMo (10%)
  • End Date: November 1, 2023

Humble Bundle wants to prepare you for the Spooky Season with a bundle of the original gothic-punk RPG of personal horror, Vampire: The Masquerade. The base level includes a trio of stories for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition and the second tier adds on five more for existing players looking to expand their libraries, while new players will want to jump in at the third tier which includes the core rulebooks for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition and sourcebooks Camarilla, Anarch, and Sabbat along with multiple setting and adventure books plus the core rulebook for Hunter: The Reckoning 5th Edition. The top tier adds on the physical card game Vampire: The Masquerade Rivals plus special promo packs and the expansion The Wolf & The Rat with shipping extra (only available in US/CAN/AUS/NZ).
  • Price: $1/$10/$18/$40 (90% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Worldbuilders
  • End Date: November 4, 2023

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

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Bruce Baugh, Writer of Fortune
I enthusiastically recommend Elegy for solo vampire play. It’s a spinoff customization of Ironsworn, retaining the overall style of play while thoroughly adjusting all the details for vampires. It’s got an entirely modular approach to powers and vulnerabilities, so you can recreate Vampire the Masquerade or Requiem, or go off in many other directions. And it has the same kind of clarity and utility that Shawn Tomkin brings to Ironsworn and Starforged.

I’ve used to it play through ideas I had left over from my time writing for VTM, then for some random other ideas, and am deeply satisfied with the results.
 

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