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!
Kobold Press has their annual ADVENTure Calendar where they’ll be giving away a free PDF every day until Christmas. Don’t worry, you can still grab the ones you’ve missed so far, but of course the fun is checking in every day to see what new goodie we get!
While the game may have been delayed, R. Talsorian Games did have one thing for those anticipating their new RPG with Shadow Scar Character Creation. Use with the Shadow Scar Starter Set and you can create your own agents to battle the monstrous yokai and protect the world.
Knight Errant Media has a new quickstart for their Year Zero powered game Titan Effect RPG Zero. This science fiction espionage RPG quickstart comes with an introductory comic, overvew of the setting, introduction to the mechanics, a one-shot adventure, and five pre-genereaged characters.
If you’re looking for a synthwave retro-80s take on cyberpunk Dark All Day is here from Gary Askham. The narrative-focused system uses eight-sided dice with a fast and deadly combat system and a rich setting of a spawling high-tech megacity to explore. There’s also an adventure collection Adventures in the Santa Carla Spwal Vol 1 and the Dark All Day Player Kit with more options.
From the Guild Master Guides, The Creeping Blight is a 5e adventure for 1st to 4th level characters sending the party to solve the mystery of a deadly fungal blight with new magic items and new monsters.
ChubbyBabu released Shadow from the Past, a Call of Cthulhu scenario. The investigators are invited to the reveal of the results of the final expedition of a retired explorer only to get drawn into the mystery of the terrifying figure trapped in amber.
Introduction to the Material Plane from Terra RPG is your look at the setting of Terrae. The 18-page sourcebook includes history, geography, and secrets of the setting.
Old School Roleplaying released the Cepheus Engine adventure Mineral Rights where the crew is hired by a mineral company to remove the native population living on a newly discovered system so the company can come in and start mining.
With the holiday season quickly approaching, we’ve got a pair of adventures themed around Christmas. Starting off, The Curse of Krampus from is a one-shot adventure where the party must travel to the North Pole and save Santa after he was transformed into the anti-Christmas Krampus.
In Gnome for the Holidays from Zrave, Apacolyps, the party is invited by Glimmer Tinkerton to visit his new toy shop and to celebrate the holidays in the village of Kuldahar. New magic items, new maps, a snowball fight, and an ice golem sculpting contest await you here.
Over on Storyteller’s Vault, Jack Le Breton and Ricarda Schauf released We RAGE as ONE, a set of optional rules to allow solo/GMless play of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Includes new rules, alternate character creation, simplified pack generation, and more.
The Lightning Round this week features player and gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, new classes/subclasses, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parenthese
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.
DriveThruRPG has a sale on Kobold Press titles including Tales of the Valiant and Player’s Guide, Book of Hexcrawls bundle, and the Tome of Beasts series.
Fans of the urban fantasy/horror MMORPG The Secret World will want to check out the Secret World 5th Edition bundle with the 5e core rulebook, Bestiary, Monster Cards, Power Cards, plus pregens, map packs, token packs, adventures, and even audio dramas. And if you’re more of a Savage Worlds fan, there’s The Secret World Savage Worlds bundle.
Over on Storyteller’s Vault, the Sorcery Expanded bundle features a trio of books to add to your Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary game: Creations and Recipes, Inside the Chapter House, and Tome of Rituals.
Charity Bundles and Sales
I’m starting off a bit self-serving as this is my GoFundMe for medical bills. For the past month and a half, I’ve been in and out of the hospital between issues with leg wounds and kidney failure. I’m currently going to wound care twice a week and dialysis three times a week. As you can imagine, the bills are piling up quickly and transportation costs to get me to my medical appointments aren’t cheap.
Bundle of Holding has not one but two retro Shadowrun bundles featuring 4th Edition books. The first, the Shadowrun 4e Core Mega Bundle, features all the core books you need with the Shadowrun 3e 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook, Runner’s Companion and Toolkit, Arsenal (gun sourcebook), Augmentation (cyberware sourcebook), Street Magic and Digital Grimoire (magic sourcebooks), Unwired (hacking sourcebook), On the Run, and SR4 GM Screen. If that’s not enough, the Bonus Collection adds on several more gear, setting, NPC, and rules options books including Attitude, Street Legends, Street Legends Supplemental, Runner’s Black Book, Black Book 2074, nine mini-sourcebooks, and the throwback Shadowrun 2050.
The second bundle is another Shadowrun 4e bundle but is useful for players of any edition because it’s all lore and setting information. The Shadowrun 4e Sprawl Mega Bundle includes the Sixth World Almanac, Shadowrun: Runner Havens, Seattle 2072, two Sprawl Sites guides, and Corporate Guide. The Mega Bonus adds on Clutch of Dragons, five campaign books, four setting guides, and four Sixth World mini-sourcebooks.
Rowan Rook and Decard released the Spire: The City Must Fall Bundle on Bundle of Holding. The bundle includes the core book Spire: The City Must Fall along with the sourcebook Strata and three campaign frames. The Bonus collection adds on Shadow Operations, Spire – Black Magic, Codex of the Deep Space, Book of Masks, Secrets Kept from the Sun, and seven Spire audio tracks.
There’s another bundle set in the world of Spire, the Heart: The City Beneath Bundle. This bundle includes Heart: The City Beneath core rules, Burned and Broken, Vernissian Black Ops, Sanctum, and Doors to Elsewhere.
Over on Humble Bundle, there’s not much time left in the Cyberpunk RED megabundle. This is one single tier and one price to get 23 titles including Cyberpunk RED Core Rulebook, Tales of the Streets: Street Stories, Danger Gal Dossier, Black Chrome, Data Pack, Netrunning Deck, Interface RED, and a lot more. And if you want to go retro, Cyberpunk 2020 and classic sourcebooks including the Chromebooks and Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads plus many others are also included.
Paizo has the Pathfinder Happy Birthday Remaster Bundle with the base tier featuring the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box Remastered Edition, the GM screen, character sheet pack, the Iconics pregens, and the player’s guides for the Stolen Fate and Frozen Flame adventure paths. The second tier jumps up to a total of 37 titles including flip maps, the Frozen Flame adventure path, severan Pathfinder Society and Pathfinder Quest adventures, and more. The top tier is a full library of 72 titles with all the core books including Player Core, GM Core, Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Bestiary 3, and many more adventures, sourcebooks, setting books, maps, and more.
Free League has the RPG Mega Bundle featuring a wide selection of titles from the publister. The base tier has Coriolis – Atlas Compendium and Symbaroum Advanced Player’s Guide, while the second tier gets you three Tales from the Loop adventures along with adventures for Mutant: Year Zero and Coriolis. The top tier is where it’s at, though, with the core rules for Mutant: Year Zero, Tales from the Loop, Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane, and Twilight: 2000 plus more adventures.
The Map Extravaganza Bundle is back! This bundle has four tiers of map-making software starting with the first tier which includes two map collections and one token pack. The second tier gets you a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the Tome of Ultimate Mapping and Perspectives 3 software. The third tier adds on the Sources Maps: Castles and Temples, Tombs, and Catacombes plus the Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans. The top tier upgrades your licese for Campaign Cartographer 3+ to a lifetime license and adds on City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3.
Monument Studios has the TTRPG Audio Compendium Software Bundle, The base level starts with a one month subscription to Fantasy+ along with a bundle of magic sound effects and the Fantasy Locations Vole 1 sound design files. The second tier adds on four more collections while the top tier has 17 bundles of sound effects, audio tracks, music scores, and more.
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!
Kobold Press has their annual ADVENTure Calendar where they’ll be giving away a free PDF every day until Christmas. Don’t worry, you can still grab the ones you’ve missed so far, but of course the fun is checking in every day to see what new goodie we get!
- Price: Free
- End Date: December 25, 2024
- Price: Free
- End Date: December 25, 2024
While the game may have been delayed, R. Talsorian Games did have one thing for those anticipating their new RPG with Shadow Scar Character Creation. Use with the Shadow Scar Starter Set and you can create your own agents to battle the monstrous yokai and protect the world.
- Price: Free
Knight Errant Media has a new quickstart for their Year Zero powered game Titan Effect RPG Zero. This science fiction espionage RPG quickstart comes with an introductory comic, overvew of the setting, introduction to the mechanics, a one-shot adventure, and five pre-genereaged characters.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
If you’re looking for a synthwave retro-80s take on cyberpunk Dark All Day is here from Gary Askham. The narrative-focused system uses eight-sided dice with a fast and deadly combat system and a rich setting of a spawling high-tech megacity to explore. There’s also an adventure collection Adventures in the Santa Carla Spwal Vol 1 and the Dark All Day Player Kit with more options.
- Price for Core Rules: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $6.37)
- Adventure pack: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.27)
- Player Kit: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.27)
From the Guild Master Guides, The Creeping Blight is a 5e adventure for 1st to 4th level characters sending the party to solve the mystery of a deadly fungal blight with new magic items and new monsters.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
ChubbyBabu released Shadow from the Past, a Call of Cthulhu scenario. The investigators are invited to the reveal of the results of the final expedition of a retired explorer only to get drawn into the mystery of the terrifying figure trapped in amber.
Introduction to the Material Plane from Terra RPG is your look at the setting of Terrae. The 18-page sourcebook includes history, geography, and secrets of the setting.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Old School Roleplaying released the Cepheus Engine adventure Mineral Rights where the crew is hired by a mineral company to remove the native population living on a newly discovered system so the company can come in and start mining.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
With the holiday season quickly approaching, we’ve got a pair of adventures themed around Christmas. Starting off, The Curse of Krampus from is a one-shot adventure where the party must travel to the North Pole and save Santa after he was transformed into the anti-Christmas Krampus.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
In Gnome for the Holidays from Zrave, Apacolyps, the party is invited by Glimmer Tinkerton to visit his new toy shop and to celebrate the holidays in the village of Kuldahar. New magic items, new maps, a snowball fight, and an ice golem sculpting contest await you here.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Over on Storyteller’s Vault, Jack Le Breton and Ricarda Schauf released We RAGE as ONE, a set of optional rules to allow solo/GMless play of Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Includes new rules, alternate character creation, simplified pack generation, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
The Lightning Round this week features player and gamemaster/DM resources like monsters, maps, random generators, one-page adventures, drop-in encounters, new classes/subclasses, and more. All products are Free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parenthese
- Here & There Tavern: Lost and Found Part 7 (5e magic items) from Madame Alura (Free)
- Fantasy Sign Post (3d printer STL file) from nonPareil (Free)
- Dinosaur Costum Monster (3d printer STL file) from nonpareil (Free)
- The Wolf Forest (map) from PlanarInk Editions (Free)
- Expasnded Rules for Armor (Dragonbane optional rules) from Kerbango ($2.00)
- Tavern Tokens (d100 random trinket table) from WereRabbit Press ($2.00)
- The Archery Contest (System-neutral rules) from Triangle Towers ($1.00)
- Dragon’s Den Tavern Map Set (map) from Dungeon Masters Guild (Free)
- Revised Arcane Archer (5e class) from Malduit Lodos ($0.00)
- Draconic Domain (5e Cleric subclass) from Mafizzo, ThelronBladder ($0.50)
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.
DriveThruRPG has a sale on Kobold Press titles including Tales of the Valiant and Player’s Guide, Book of Hexcrawls bundle, and the Tome of Beasts series.
- Price: 20% off
Fans of the urban fantasy/horror MMORPG The Secret World will want to check out the Secret World 5th Edition bundle with the 5e core rulebook, Bestiary, Monster Cards, Power Cards, plus pregens, map packs, token packs, adventures, and even audio dramas. And if you’re more of a Savage Worlds fan, there’s The Secret World Savage Worlds bundle.
- Price: $60.00 (50% off) eacg
Over on Storyteller’s Vault, the Sorcery Expanded bundle features a trio of books to add to your Mage: The Ascension 20th Anniversary game: Creations and Recipes, Inside the Chapter House, and Tome of Rituals.
- Price: $3.95 (55% 0ff)
Charity Bundles and Sales
I’m starting off a bit self-serving as this is my GoFundMe for medical bills. For the past month and a half, I’ve been in and out of the hospital between issues with leg wounds and kidney failure. I’m currently going to wound care twice a week and dialysis three times a week. As you can imagine, the bills are piling up quickly and transportation costs to get me to my medical appointments aren’t cheap.
- Charity: Darryl Mott’s medical bills (all proceeds)
Bundle of Holding has not one but two retro Shadowrun bundles featuring 4th Edition books. The first, the Shadowrun 4e Core Mega Bundle, features all the core books you need with the Shadowrun 3e 20th Anniversary Core Rulebook, Runner’s Companion and Toolkit, Arsenal (gun sourcebook), Augmentation (cyberware sourcebook), Street Magic and Digital Grimoire (magic sourcebooks), Unwired (hacking sourcebook), On the Run, and SR4 GM Screen. If that’s not enough, the Bonus Collection adds on several more gear, setting, NPC, and rules options books including Attitude, Street Legends, Street Legends Supplemental, Runner’s Black Book, Black Book 2074, nine mini-sourcebooks, and the throwback Shadowrun 2050.
- Price: $17.95 (85% off) with variable cost level-up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 30, 2024
The second bundle is another Shadowrun 4e bundle but is useful for players of any edition because it’s all lore and setting information. The Shadowrun 4e Sprawl Mega Bundle includes the Sixth World Almanac, Shadowrun: Runner Havens, Seattle 2072, two Sprawl Sites guides, and Corporate Guide. The Mega Bonus adds on Clutch of Dragons, five campaign books, four setting guides, and four Sixth World mini-sourcebooks.
- Price: $17.95 (82% off) with variable-cost level-up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 30, 2024
Rowan Rook and Decard released the Spire: The City Must Fall Bundle on Bundle of Holding. The bundle includes the core book Spire: The City Must Fall along with the sourcebook Strata and three campaign frames. The Bonus collection adds on Shadow Operations, Spire – Black Magic, Codex of the Deep Space, Book of Masks, Secrets Kept from the Sun, and seven Spire audio tracks.
- Price: S12.95 (71% off) with variable-cost level-up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 17, 2024
There’s another bundle set in the world of Spire, the Heart: The City Beneath Bundle. This bundle includes Heart: The City Beneath core rules, Burned and Broken, Vernissian Black Ops, Sanctum, and Doors to Elsewhere.
- Price: $17.95 (71% pff)
- Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: December 17, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, there’s not much time left in the Cyberpunk RED megabundle. This is one single tier and one price to get 23 titles including Cyberpunk RED Core Rulebook, Tales of the Streets: Street Stories, Danger Gal Dossier, Black Chrome, Data Pack, Netrunning Deck, Interface RED, and a lot more. And if you want to go retro, Cyberpunk 2020 and classic sourcebooks including the Chromebooks and Listen Up You Primitive Screwheads plus many others are also included.
- Price: $18 (92% off)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 10, 2024
Paizo has the Pathfinder Happy Birthday Remaster Bundle with the base tier featuring the Pathfinder Second Edition Beginner Box Remastered Edition, the GM screen, character sheet pack, the Iconics pregens, and the player’s guides for the Stolen Fate and Frozen Flame adventure paths. The second tier jumps up to a total of 37 titles including flip maps, the Frozen Flame adventure path, severan Pathfinder Society and Pathfinder Quest adventures, and more. The top tier is a full library of 72 titles with all the core books including Player Core, GM Core, Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Bestiary 3, and many more adventures, sourcebooks, setting books, maps, and more.
- Price: $5/$15/$30 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: ComicBooks for Kids! (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 13, 2024
Free League has the RPG Mega Bundle featuring a wide selection of titles from the publister. The base tier has Coriolis – Atlas Compendium and Symbaroum Advanced Player’s Guide, while the second tier gets you three Tales from the Loop adventures along with adventures for Mutant: Year Zero and Coriolis. The top tier is where it’s at, though, with the core rules for Mutant: Year Zero, Tales from the Loop, Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane, and Twilight: 2000 plus more adventures.
- Price: $1/$10$18 (97% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 18, 2024
The Map Extravaganza Bundle is back! This bundle has four tiers of map-making software starting with the first tier which includes two map collections and one token pack. The second tier gets you a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the Tome of Ultimate Mapping and Perspectives 3 software. The third tier adds on the Sources Maps: Castles and Temples, Tombs, and Catacombes plus the Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans. The top tier upgrades your licese for Campaign Cartographer 3+ to a lifetime license and adds on City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3.
- Price: $1/$25/variable/$30 (90% off at top tier)
- Charity: Save the Children (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 11, 2024
Monument Studios has the TTRPG Audio Compendium Software Bundle, The base level starts with a one month subscription to Fantasy+ along with a bundle of magic sound effects and the Fantasy Locations Vole 1 sound design files. The second tier adds on four more collections while the top tier has 17 bundles of sound effects, audio tracks, music scores, and more.
- Price: $1/variable/$25 (07% off at top tier)
- Charity: Direct Relief (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 10, 2024
