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!
Secure. Contain. Protect. 26 Letter Publishing released SCP: The Tabletop RPG Second Edition giving you the chance to play as SCP Foundation agents tasks with locating, obtaining, and securing dangerous supernatural items.
Chris Powell has a new Shadowdark Gauntlet for you with Goblin Games, placing you in control of 0-level four goblinoids as you face the obstacle course undergoing a rite of passage.
D’Arcangel Productions has more Shadowdark goodness for you with The Secrets of Fey Swamp, an adventure with four new monsters and three new magic items presented as part of the Shadowdark Weird Tales Game Jam.
With the popularity of Fallout, there are many attempts to recreate it in tabletop form, but Stranded Publishing has a unique take with Rad Divers as rather than focusing just on survival, their post-nuclear RPG focuses on exploration and settlement management as you look to rebuild from the apocalypse.
If you’re a player of Basic Fantasy Roleplay instead for your OSR enjoyment, The Basic Fantasy Project released Fortress, Tomb, and Tower: The Glain Campaign. This multi-module sends the adventurers into the Fortress of the Iron Duke, the Tomb of Karsma Megalos, and the Crooked Rock Tower in a string of adventures taking them from low to mid level.
A lot of adventures are high concept, but The Fall of the Titans from GrimmWoolf is one of the most high concept I’ve seen: The Titanic Disaster for Dungeons & Dragons in a 10th level adventure.
The Haunted Tombs – A Supplement for Dragonbane from Le Paysagiste de l'Imaginaire is a one-page dungeon including map and description allowing the party to explore the haunted tombs for treasure and glory.
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.
Steve Jackson Games has the GURPS Anniversary SALE-ebration (their pun not mine) in honor of the 20th anniversary of GURPS Fourth Edition. Pick up discounts on not only GURPS but also Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game and issues of Pyramid Magazine.
With the announcement of Alien The Roleplaying Game 2nd Edition, it’s a great time to pick up the first edition books which are all on sale on DriveThruRPG. Pick up all of the books available now along with the Roll20 VTT files at deep discounts.
Is Alien technically cosmic horror? Because it’s in space and it’s horror, but it’s not quite what we think of when we think of that. Anyway, there’s another sale going on with the Cosmic Horror and Cthulhu Mythos Sale. Grab discounts on Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Pulp Cthulhu, Scion, Chronicles of Darkness, Achtung! Cthulhu, and over 3000 more titles
There are also a few bundles with even bigger discounts for specific game lines.
If you’re playing in the Wild West (or the Weird West), then HoloGrounds wants to enhance your VTT games with animated battlemaps. The Wild West Train Static & Animated Battlemaps and the Wild West Town Static & Animated Battlemaps each contain multiple maps (five and seven, respectively) with both static and animated versions along with variations for grid and gridless and options with sound effects.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Game designer Meguey Baker is facing down a cancer diagnosis and Lumpley Games has put together the Meguey Games vs Cancer Game Bundle featuring eighteen total titles including not just Baker’s own Apocalypse World 2nd Edition but also 13th Age Core Rulebook, Alice is Missing, Scion 2nd Edition Book One: Origin, The Great Clans of Rokugan, Designers & Dragons: The 00s, and a lot more.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Dungeon Crawl Classics wants to bring you to one of the most influential fantasy worlds in all of tabletop roleplaying, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Dying Earth Core Set and Modules 0-2 while the Bonus Collection adds on DCC Dying Earth Arcane Apocrypha and DCC Dying Earth Modules 3-8.
The World’s Largest Bundle from Alderac Entertainment may not quite be literal, but it does feature the Ultimate Toolbox with more than 1000 random tables, the campaign sourcebooks Empire, War, Mercenaries, Gods, Magic, and Relics, and the anthology books Adventure I-II. The bundle’s name, however, refers to what’s in the Bonus Collection with the legendary World’s Largest Dungeon featuring over 900 pages and 1600 encounters, World’s Largest City with over 700 pages and 16 poster maps of a massive fantasy urban sprawl, and the sourcebooks Dragons and Dungeons.
The Mongoose 2300AD 2E Bundle features the core rulebooks and setting information for Traveller 2300AD as humanity spreads among the stars in a gritty and sometimes brutal adventure to the frontiers. The Starter Collection includes the Traveller Core Rules (2022), 2300AD 2e, and 2300AD Tools for Frontier Living with everything you need to get started, while the Bonus Collection adds on the sourcebooks 2300AD Project Bayern, Ships of the Frontier, Vehicles of the Frontier, and Aerospace Engineers’ Handbook.
Over on Humble Bundle, the Star Trek Adventures 1st Edition Collection from Modiphius is a megabundle of almost every published book for the first edition of the Star Trek RPG, all cross-compatible with the recently released Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition. The first tier is a tease of the Starter Set and the introductory Lower Decks adventure Lurkers, but the second tier adds on both the standard and the Klingon Empire Core Rulebook, all three Division Supplements (Command, Sciences, and Operation), the Player’s Guide, both the Alpha Quadrant and Beta Quadrant sourcebooks and more. The top tier, however, includes every single book published for Star Trek Adventures so far including the Federation-Klingon War Tactical Campaign, Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook, crew packs and campaign guides for The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, The Animated Series, Enterprise, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks, map tile sets, the Gamma Quadrant and Delta Quadrant sourcebooks, and the TTRPG exclusive campaign setting Shackleton Expanse.
The video game bundle Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters is of interest to TTRPG players as it includes licensed titles from some of the biggest TTRPGs out there. The base tier includes the Enhanced Editions of the D&D classics Planescape Torment and Icewind Dale, the next tier adds on the original first two Baldur’s Gate games plus Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the third tier adds on Neverwinter Nights and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the fourth tier includes the season passes for both Pathfinder video games, while the top tier adds on the recently released Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader.
The Starfinder 2nd Edition Playtest Primer Bundle has a bit of a confusing name since there’s just the one Starfinder 2nd Edition playtest document. The rest of this bundle, however, is a great chance to fill out your Starfinder 1st Edition library with any books you may have missed out on and files for the Hero Lab character management software. The first tier includes all the playtest PDFs plus Hero Lab files for the playtest document and two Starfinder flip-mat sets. The second tier adds on Hero Lab files for the Starfinder 1e Core Rulebook, Alien Archive 1-4, and Pact Worlds plus the PDFs for all of the above and a vast collection of more flip mats. The third tier features PDFs and Hero Lab files for Near Space, Ports of Call, and Drift Crisis plus the Drift Hackers and Drift Crashers Adventure Paths. The top tier adds on the Starfinder First Edition: Drift Crisis hardcover book as a physical reward (shipping not included).
Free League is a lot more than just their licensed titles, and the Immersive RPG Bundle for Alchemy VTT wants to highlight that. Important update: Alchemy has notified buyers of this bundle and of the products independently that Free League is discontinuing the license for a download of the PDF. You have until August 21 to download any PDFs purchased through this bundle. You will still receive the full VTT files for use on the Alchemy virtual tabletop, but will not have access to PDFs for the books after that date.
Now back to our regularly scheduled bundle description: The base tier features core rules for Tales from the Loop, Mork Borg, Mutant Year Zero, Ruins of Symbaroum, and Coriolis for the Alchemy VTT, while the second tier adds on the core rules for Vaesen, Dragonbane, Twilight: 2000, Pirate Borg, and Forbidden Lands along with eleven sourcebooks and adventures, and the top tier features 24 more rules expansions, bestiaries, adventures, and more for the various included games.
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!
Secure. Contain. Protect. 26 Letter Publishing released SCP: The Tabletop RPG Second Edition giving you the chance to play as SCP Foundation agents tasks with locating, obtaining, and securing dangerous supernatural items.
- Price: Free
- Also available in Print on Demand Hardcover for $39.99
Chris Powell has a new Shadowdark Gauntlet for you with Goblin Games, placing you in control of 0-level four goblinoids as you face the obstacle course undergoing a rite of passage.
- Price: Free
D’Arcangel Productions has more Shadowdark goodness for you with The Secrets of Fey Swamp, an adventure with four new monsters and three new magic items presented as part of the Shadowdark Weird Tales Game Jam.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $10.00)
With the popularity of Fallout, there are many attempts to recreate it in tabletop form, but Stranded Publishing has a unique take with Rad Divers as rather than focusing just on survival, their post-nuclear RPG focuses on exploration and settlement management as you look to rebuild from the apocalypse.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
If you’re a player of Basic Fantasy Roleplay instead for your OSR enjoyment, The Basic Fantasy Project released Fortress, Tomb, and Tower: The Glain Campaign. This multi-module sends the adventurers into the Fortress of the Iron Duke, the Tomb of Karsma Megalos, and the Crooked Rock Tower in a string of adventures taking them from low to mid level.
- Price: Free
- Also available in Print on Demand softcover for $4.15
A lot of adventures are high concept, but The Fall of the Titans from GrimmWoolf is one of the most high concept I’ve seen: The Titanic Disaster for Dungeons & Dragons in a 10th level adventure.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
The Haunted Tombs – A Supplement for Dragonbane from Le Paysagiste de l'Imaginaire is a one-page dungeon including map and description allowing the party to explore the haunted tombs for treasure and glory.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
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.
- Giant Porcupine (5e CR3 Monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Dungeon Décor 40 (VTT terrain and accessories) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Dungeon Décor 41 (VTT terrain and accessories) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Print & Paste Miniatures: Ghosts (3D minis for a standard paper 2D printer) from Crooked Staff Publishing ($1.32)
- The Bluebloods (Mörk Borg faction) from Jade Becker (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.
- Martial Weapons (5e weapons and alternate rules) from Albenis ($5.00)
- Monk Remodeled (5e Monk class variant) from Isaac Coolen ($3.00)
- Path of Chromatic Wrath (5e Barbarian subclass) from Ian Burkey ($1.00)
- Folklore and Legends (Four 5e subclasses) from Joseph Kreindler ($2.00)
- Oath of Exploration (5e Paladin subclass) from Guillermo Garrido ($0.99)
- Order of the Revenant (5e Blood Hunter subclass) from 9th Layer Productions ($1.00)
- Dimensionarian (5e Wizard subclass) from Lewinston ($1.00)
- Deepdelve Prospector Conclave (5e Ranger subclass) from Lewinston ($1.00)
- College of Roadies (5e Bard subclass) from Lewinston ($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.
Steve Jackson Games has the GURPS Anniversary SALE-ebration (their pun not mine) in honor of the 20th anniversary of GURPS Fourth Edition. Pick up discounts on not only GURPS but also Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game and issues of Pyramid Magazine.
- Price: 20% off
- End Date: August 29, 2024
With the announcement of Alien The Roleplaying Game 2nd Edition, it’s a great time to pick up the first edition books which are all on sale on DriveThruRPG. Pick up all of the books available now along with the Roll20 VTT files at deep discounts.
- Price: 50% off
- End Date: August 31, 2024
Is Alien technically cosmic horror? Because it’s in space and it’s horror, but it’s not quite what we think of when we think of that. Anyway, there’s another sale going on with the Cosmic Horror and Cthulhu Mythos Sale. Grab discounts on Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Pulp Cthulhu, Scion, Chronicles of Darkness, Achtung! Cthulhu, and over 3000 more titles
- Price: Up to 50% off
- End Date: September 1, 2024
There are also a few bundles with even bigger discounts for specific game lines.
- Tiny Cthulhu $25.96 (50% off)
- Hellboy $21.50 (50% off)
- Achtung! Cthulhu $28.99 (50% off)
- Regency Cthulhu $34.44 (50% off)
- Scion: Masks of Cthulhu $20.95 (50% off)
- Never Going Home $20.00 (50% off)
If you’re playing in the Wild West (or the Weird West), then HoloGrounds wants to enhance your VTT games with animated battlemaps. The Wild West Train Static & Animated Battlemaps and the Wild West Town Static & Animated Battlemaps each contain multiple maps (five and seven, respectively) with both static and animated versions along with variations for grid and gridless and options with sound effects.
- Price: $19.96 for Train, $27.94 for Town (20% off each)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Game designer Meguey Baker is facing down a cancer diagnosis and Lumpley Games has put together the Meguey Games vs Cancer Game Bundle featuring eighteen total titles including not just Baker’s own Apocalypse World 2nd Edition but also 13th Age Core Rulebook, Alice is Missing, Scion 2nd Edition Book One: Origin, The Great Clans of Rokugan, Designers & Dragons: The 00s, and a lot more.
- Price: $25.00 (89% off)
- Charity: Meguey Baker cancer treatment fund (all proceeds)
Over on Bundle of Holding, Dungeon Crawl Classics wants to bring you to one of the most influential fantasy worlds in all of tabletop roleplaying, Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. The Starter Collection includes the DCC Dying Earth Core Set and Modules 0-2 while the Bonus Collection adds on DCC Dying Earth Arcane Apocrypha and DCC Dying Earth Modules 3-8.
- Price: $17.95 (71% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank (10%)
- End Date: September 10, 2024
The World’s Largest Bundle from Alderac Entertainment may not quite be literal, but it does feature the Ultimate Toolbox with more than 1000 random tables, the campaign sourcebooks Empire, War, Mercenaries, Gods, Magic, and Relics, and the anthology books Adventure I-II. The bundle’s name, however, refers to what’s in the Bonus Collection with the legendary World’s Largest Dungeon featuring over 900 pages and 1600 encounters, World’s Largest City with over 700 pages and 16 poster maps of a massive fantasy urban sprawl, and the sourcebooks Dragons and Dungeons.
- Price: $12.95 (91% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: September 4, 2024
The Mongoose 2300AD 2E Bundle features the core rulebooks and setting information for Traveller 2300AD as humanity spreads among the stars in a gritty and sometimes brutal adventure to the frontiers. The Starter Collection includes the Traveller Core Rules (2022), 2300AD 2e, and 2300AD Tools for Frontier Living with everything you need to get started, while the Bonus Collection adds on the sourcebooks 2300AD Project Bayern, Ships of the Frontier, Vehicles of the Frontier, and Aerospace Engineers’ Handbook.
- Price: $14.95 (88% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: September 2, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, the Star Trek Adventures 1st Edition Collection from Modiphius is a megabundle of almost every published book for the first edition of the Star Trek RPG, all cross-compatible with the recently released Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition. The first tier is a tease of the Starter Set and the introductory Lower Decks adventure Lurkers, but the second tier adds on both the standard and the Klingon Empire Core Rulebook, all three Division Supplements (Command, Sciences, and Operation), the Player’s Guide, both the Alpha Quadrant and Beta Quadrant sourcebooks and more. The top tier, however, includes every single book published for Star Trek Adventures so far including the Federation-Klingon War Tactical Campaign, Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook, crew packs and campaign guides for The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, The Animated Series, Enterprise, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, and Lower Decks, map tile sets, the Gamma Quadrant and Delta Quadrant sourcebooks, and the TTRPG exclusive campaign setting Shackleton Expanse.
- Price: $1/$15/$25 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Girls Who Code (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 7, 2024
The video game bundle Beamdog & Owlcat RPG Masters is of interest to TTRPG players as it includes licensed titles from some of the biggest TTRPGs out there. The base tier includes the Enhanced Editions of the D&D classics Planescape Torment and Icewind Dale, the next tier adds on the original first two Baldur’s Gate games plus Pathfinder: Kingmaker, the third tier adds on Neverwinter Nights and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the fourth tier includes the season passes for both Pathfinder video games, while the top tier adds on the recently released Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader.
- Price: $4/$7/$10/$15/$35 (90% off at top tier)
- Charity: Girls Make Games Scholarship Fund (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 4, 2024
The Starfinder 2nd Edition Playtest Primer Bundle has a bit of a confusing name since there’s just the one Starfinder 2nd Edition playtest document. The rest of this bundle, however, is a great chance to fill out your Starfinder 1st Edition library with any books you may have missed out on and files for the Hero Lab character management software. The first tier includes all the playtest PDFs plus Hero Lab files for the playtest document and two Starfinder flip-mat sets. The second tier adds on Hero Lab files for the Starfinder 1e Core Rulebook, Alien Archive 1-4, and Pact Worlds plus the PDFs for all of the above and a vast collection of more flip mats. The third tier features PDFs and Hero Lab files for Near Space, Ports of Call, and Drift Crisis plus the Drift Hackers and Drift Crashers Adventure Paths. The top tier adds on the Starfinder First Edition: Drift Crisis hardcover book as a physical reward (shipping not included).
- Price: $5/$15/$30/$40 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Girls Who Code (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 31, 2024
Free League is a lot more than just their licensed titles, and the Immersive RPG Bundle for Alchemy VTT wants to highlight that. Important update: Alchemy has notified buyers of this bundle and of the products independently that Free League is discontinuing the license for a download of the PDF. You have until August 21 to download any PDFs purchased through this bundle. You will still receive the full VTT files for use on the Alchemy virtual tabletop, but will not have access to PDFs for the books after that date.
Now back to our regularly scheduled bundle description: The base tier features core rules for Tales from the Loop, Mork Borg, Mutant Year Zero, Ruins of Symbaroum, and Coriolis for the Alchemy VTT, while the second tier adds on the core rules for Vaesen, Dragonbane, Twilight: 2000, Pirate Borg, and Forbidden Lands along with eleven sourcebooks and adventures, and the top tier features 24 more rules expansions, bestiaries, adventures, and more for the various included games.
- Price: $10/$25/$30 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: August 26, 2024 LAST DAY!!
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.
