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!
Modiphuius released Star Trek Adventures BRIEFS PDF 014 Cold War featuring ten detailed mission briefs about the Cold War between the Federation and the Klingon Empire during the late 23rd century (TOS movie era) but adaptable to other settings.
Wyrmworks Publishing posted here on EN World Snowed Inn, an encounter for 5e for level 5-10 characters with including animated map for VTTs.
Pinnacle Entertainment Group released Eye of Leandra, a novice-friendly adventure for Savage Worlds. The party joins the annual Leaf Festival in the town of Karowyn for food and merriment only for events to take a dark turn.
If you’re wanting a nice rules reference for Mork Borg and Pirate Borg, Galactic Funk Creations has ARRG (Additional Rules Reference Guide). This supplement includes an expanded and refined training section, guides to dungeon crawls and hexcrawls, and more.
Pathfinder Infinite has a new entry from Mathfinder called Oversized Weapons for BFS Lovers featuring new feats so that the giant anime-inspired enormous weapons aren’t solely the domain of a single Barbarian subclass anymore.
Xipe Totec Press released Between Heart Beats, a Mythos-inspired modern-day scenario usable with any Lovecraftian horror system such as Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Trail of Cthulhu, or others. A first aid course is available free of charge, but during the CPR segment, things start going horribly wrong.
In the one-page RPG Bitty Folk Adventures, the players take on the roles of what the Big Folk called fairies, elves, brownies, and many other names but to you, you’re just the Bitty Folk as your tiny characters run around the big scary world on adventures with GM and GM-less options.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Darren Ling has Whispering Waves, a 5e one-shot for a 4th-6th level party facing horrors at sea on the ship Proud Companion.
Keltick released The Abandoned Campsite, a 5e quest for 4th level characters where the party investigates an abandoned campsite in hopes they can locate any survivors.
Thomas Kolar is back with another literary-inspired setting book with Londinium: A Ravenloft Domain of Dread. The Great Detective of Baker Street has died and left the Napoleon of Crime with unresolved tension. The Professor can never prove that he is the greater mind and has become obsessed with the idea the Detective faked his own death, and he has begun enacting more and more dangerous schemes to draw him out.
If you’ve played casting classes for a while, you might feel that the available spells are a bit limiting. Mark Burton seeks to expand your spellbook with Spell Design 101 breaking down spell design to its fundamentals and helping DMs and players create balanced and interesting custom spells.
The first lightning round this week has resources for GMs including monsters, maps, random tables, and more. All products are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
And the second lightning round are all player resources including races, classes, subclasses, feats, backgrounds, and more. All products are either 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.
The Teach Your Kids to Game Sale on DriveThruRPG features discounts on a variety of family-friendly RPGs including Kids on Brooms, Labyrinth, Wanderhome, Hero Kids, Pugmire, and over 1000 more titles.
And if you want specifically Dungeons & Dragons products, the Teach Your Kids to Game Sale is also on Dungeonmasters Guild with discounts on over 300 family-friendly D&D titles.
Moon’s Haunted. Metal Ostrich Games has turned the meme into a game with the PocketQuest 2023 entry Moon’s Haunted with a bundle with the core rulebook, character sheet, and the adventure Sea of Hostility.
On Dungeonasters Guild, the Savage Encounters Holiday Special collects nine adventure collections from the Savage Encounters series usable to expand on published D&D adventures or as stand-alone encounters.
Jamie Chan has a Cyber Monday sale on the Spelljammer adventure collection Wayfarer’s Log including both the PDF version and the Roll20 setup for each adventure.
Rob Waller and Spirit of Envy have the Trove of Wanders Bundle featuring eleven books useful for both players and DMs with new character classes, subclasses, magic items, boss fights, optional rules, and more.
Hamwell’s Collection of Monsters is a trio of monster books with dangerous creatures from the deserts, swamps, and underdark.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Sam Robinson collected the Doctors Without Borders Bundle from multiple creators featuring over 20 TTRPGs for charity including products for Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, Monster of the Week, and more.
Critical Role is holding a charity live stream for Red Nose Day with your donations affecting the game. Several polls have been set up decided with your donation dollars deciding things like which class everyone is playing and what events will occur during the game. The live stream takes place on November 28 at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern, 12 midnight GMT).
Game designer and artist Jennell Jaquays was recently hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome and has a long road of recovery with 2-4 weeks of hospitalization and 6-12 months of rehab ahead. Her wife has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for medical expenses and other costs related to her recovery. Jennell has been a part of roleplaying games since almost the beginning publishing the fan zine The Dungeoneer and The Dragon in 1976 and has a career with TSR, Chaosium, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, Flying Buffalo, and more and if that wasn’t enough worked in video games with Coleco, Epyx, Interplay, Electronic Arts, id Software, CCP Games, and more with multiple awards to her name.
Over on Bundle of Holding, there are two bundles for the classic sci-fi RPG Torg. The first, Torg Essentials, features a collection with everything you need to get started including Torg Eternity Core Rules, Delphi Missions: Rising Storm, Torg Character Journals, Torg Eternity Day One, and Torg Eternity GM Screen & Archetypes.
The second bundle of Torg Cosms 2 expands your game with the Cyberpapacy Sourcebook and Orrorsh Sourcebook plus the adventures Unhallowed Data and A Trifling Matter. The Bonus Collection adds on six more Cyberpapacy supplements, 6 more Orrorsh supplements, and Orrorsh: Torg or Treat.
Bundle of Holding has two bundles for the City of Mist comic book noir roleplaying game. The first is a returning bundle, City of Mist Essentials, featuring the All-Seeing Eye Starter Set, Player’s Guide, Location Maps, and eight playbooks.
The second bundle is the all-new City of Mist Unveiled bundle with the City of Mist: Shadows & Showdowns sourcebook along with 6 City of Mist Districts and the Adventure Collection adds on the adventure Nights of Payne Town and two small-time villains.
The DCC Funnels Bundle is a collection of funnel adventures for Dungeon Crawl Classics. These adventures for 0-level characters start off a DCC campaign as you play multiple characters and start your campaign with the one that survives. The Starter Collection includes Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, Attack of the Frawgs, The Curse of Cragbridge, Fire in the Mountain, The Peasants' Fell Bargain, and Sword in the Jungle Deep while the bonus collection adds on an additional five more.
Over on Humble, The Cartographer’s Vault Bundle is back with the full-featured software designed specifically for creating maps for TTRPGs. The base level includes five maps as examples of what you can make, the second tier adds on 13 more map collections, and the top-tier adds on eight more map collections plus a lifetime license to the Campaign Cartographer 3+ software complete with a random dungeon generator.
Kobold Press and other publishers have collected together the 5th Edition Mega Bundle featuring over 70 titles at the highest tier. This bundle features setting books, monster books, adventures, character options, zines, resources, and a lot more all ready to be added to your 5e games.
The Doctor Who Megabundle has been extended, giving you more time to pick up the comic books, novels, audio dramas, and yes, roleplaying game books from Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space. The base level includes the core rulebook and multiple adventures, while the next two tiers add on more adventures, sourcebooks for the first twelve Doctors and for the Doctor's enemies and companions, and a lot 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!
Modiphuius released Star Trek Adventures BRIEFS PDF 014 Cold War featuring ten detailed mission briefs about the Cold War between the Federation and the Klingon Empire during the late 23rd century (TOS movie era) but adaptable to other settings.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Wyrmworks Publishing posted here on EN World Snowed Inn, an encounter for 5e for level 5-10 characters with including animated map for VTTs.
- Price: Free
- End Date: November 21, 2023
Pinnacle Entertainment Group released Eye of Leandra, a novice-friendly adventure for Savage Worlds. The party joins the annual Leaf Festival in the town of Karowyn for food and merriment only for events to take a dark turn.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
If you’re wanting a nice rules reference for Mork Borg and Pirate Borg, Galactic Funk Creations has ARRG (Additional Rules Reference Guide). This supplement includes an expanded and refined training section, guides to dungeon crawls and hexcrawls, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Pathfinder Infinite has a new entry from Mathfinder called Oversized Weapons for BFS Lovers featuring new feats so that the giant anime-inspired enormous weapons aren’t solely the domain of a single Barbarian subclass anymore.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.50)
Xipe Totec Press released Between Heart Beats, a Mythos-inspired modern-day scenario usable with any Lovecraftian horror system such as Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, Trail of Cthulhu, or others. A first aid course is available free of charge, but during the CPR segment, things start going horribly wrong.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
In the one-page RPG Bitty Folk Adventures, the players take on the roles of what the Big Folk called fairies, elves, brownies, and many other names but to you, you’re just the Bitty Folk as your tiny characters run around the big scary world on adventures with GM and GM-less options.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Darren Ling has Whispering Waves, a 5e one-shot for a 4th-6th level party facing horrors at sea on the ship Proud Companion.
- Price: Free
Keltick released The Abandoned Campsite, a 5e quest for 4th level characters where the party investigates an abandoned campsite in hopes they can locate any survivors.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
Thomas Kolar is back with another literary-inspired setting book with Londinium: A Ravenloft Domain of Dread. The Great Detective of Baker Street has died and left the Napoleon of Crime with unresolved tension. The Professor can never prove that he is the greater mind and has become obsessed with the idea the Detective faked his own death, and he has begun enacting more and more dangerous schemes to draw him out.
- Price: Free
If you’ve played casting classes for a while, you might feel that the available spells are a bit limiting. Mark Burton seeks to expand your spellbook with Spell Design 101 breaking down spell design to its fundamentals and helping DMs and players create balanced and interesting custom spells.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
The first lightning round this week has resources for GMs including monsters, maps, random tables, and more. All products are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Peri (CR ½ monster for 5e) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- To Hell and Back Arena (Map) from Uno Critico ($1.09)
- To Hell and Back Labyrinth (Map) from Uno Critico ($1.09)
- The White Eye Kobold Clan (5e monster collection) from Stick Gun Gaming ($4.99)
- Sample Figures and Generic Figures A to Z (Printable stand-up pawns) from RPG Cosmic (Free)
- SCP – Anomaly Random Tables (System-neutral cursed items) from MeLlamanKaskas ($1.00)
- 100 NPC Personality Profile Cards (System-neutral fantasy NPC generator) from Goblin’s Henchman ($2.00)
- 1000 Items of Salvage (System-neutral sci-fi random loot table) from Old School Role Playing ($4.00)
And the second lightning round are all player resources including races, classes, subclasses, feats, backgrounds, and more. All products are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price in parentheses.
- Aquatic Elf (OSE Class and Race) from Land of Mist (Free)
- Fae Fire (Mork Borg Class) from Void10 ($1.00)
- Cobbler (5e Background) from Quest Weaver Media (Free)
- Bugbear and Goblin Dual Origin (5e race/species) from Chronicles of Lost Tomes ($0.00)
- Path of Evolution (5e Barbarian subclass) from Mackenzie Roberts ($0.00)
- Pact of the Umbral Minded (5e Warlock subclass) from Kenny and Chris ($0.50)
- Arcanist (5e full class) from Globlins Incorporated ($1.00)
- Giant Soul (5e Sorcerer subclass) from Enkidu ($0.73)
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.
The Teach Your Kids to Game Sale on DriveThruRPG features discounts on a variety of family-friendly RPGs including Kids on Brooms, Labyrinth, Wanderhome, Hero Kids, Pugmire, and over 1000 more titles.
- Price: Up to 95% off
- End Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 TOMORROW!
And if you want specifically Dungeons & Dragons products, the Teach Your Kids to Game Sale is also on Dungeonmasters Guild with discounts on over 300 family-friendly D&D titles.
- Price: Up to 95% off
- End Date: Monday, November 20, 2023 TOMORROW!
Moon’s Haunted. Metal Ostrich Games has turned the meme into a game with the PocketQuest 2023 entry Moon’s Haunted with a bundle with the core rulebook, character sheet, and the adventure Sea of Hostility.
- Price: $2.09 (70% off)
On Dungeonasters Guild, the Savage Encounters Holiday Special collects nine adventure collections from the Savage Encounters series usable to expand on published D&D adventures or as stand-alone encounters.
- Price: $38.89 (75% off)
Jamie Chan has a Cyber Monday sale on the Spelljammer adventure collection Wayfarer’s Log including both the PDF version and the Roll20 setup for each adventure.
- Price: $12.50 (69% off)
- End Date: November 27, 2023
Rob Waller and Spirit of Envy have the Trove of Wanders Bundle featuring eleven books useful for both players and DMs with new character classes, subclasses, magic items, boss fights, optional rules, and more.
- Price: $14.99 (72% off)
Hamwell’s Collection of Monsters is a trio of monster books with dangerous creatures from the deserts, swamps, and underdark.
- Price: $14.97 (50% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Sam Robinson collected the Doctors Without Borders Bundle from multiple creators featuring over 20 TTRPGs for charity including products for Dungeons & Dragons, FATE, Monster of the Week, and more.
- Price: $9.99 (94% off)
- Charity: Doctors Without Borders (all proceeds)
Critical Role is holding a charity live stream for Red Nose Day with your donations affecting the game. Several polls have been set up decided with your donation dollars deciding things like which class everyone is playing and what events will occur during the game. The live stream takes place on November 28 at 5 PM Pacific (8 PM Eastern, 12 midnight GMT).
- Charity: Comic Relief US (All proceeds)
Game designer and artist Jennell Jaquays was recently hospitalized with Guillain-Barré syndrome and has a long road of recovery with 2-4 weeks of hospitalization and 6-12 months of rehab ahead. Her wife has set up a GoFundMe to help pay for medical expenses and other costs related to her recovery. Jennell has been a part of roleplaying games since almost the beginning publishing the fan zine The Dungeoneer and The Dragon in 1976 and has a career with TSR, Chaosium, Steve Jackson Games, West End Games, Flying Buffalo, and more and if that wasn’t enough worked in video games with Coleco, Epyx, Interplay, Electronic Arts, id Software, CCP Games, and more with multiple awards to her name.
- Charity: Medical bills and recovery expenses for Jennell Jaquays
Over on Bundle of Holding, there are two bundles for the classic sci-fi RPG Torg. The first, Torg Essentials, features a collection with everything you need to get started including Torg Eternity Core Rules, Delphi Missions: Rising Storm, Torg Character Journals, Torg Eternity Day One, and Torg Eternity GM Screen & Archetypes.
- Price: $9.95 (73% off)
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: December 4, 2023
The second bundle of Torg Cosms 2 expands your game with the Cyberpapacy Sourcebook and Orrorsh Sourcebook plus the adventures Unhallowed Data and A Trifling Matter. The Bonus Collection adds on six more Cyberpapacy supplements, 6 more Orrorsh supplements, and Orrorsh: Torg or Treat.
- Price: $17.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: December 4, 2023
Bundle of Holding has two bundles for the City of Mist comic book noir roleplaying game. The first is a returning bundle, City of Mist Essentials, featuring the All-Seeing Eye Starter Set, Player’s Guide, Location Maps, and eight playbooks.
- Price: $24.95 (75% off)
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: November 28, 2023
The second bundle is the all-new City of Mist Unveiled bundle with the City of Mist: Shadows & Showdowns sourcebook along with 6 City of Mist Districts and the Adventure Collection adds on the adventure Nights of Payne Town and two small-time villains.
- Price: $17.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: November 28, 2023
The DCC Funnels Bundle is a collection of funnel adventures for Dungeon Crawl Classics. These adventures for 0-level characters start off a DCC campaign as you play multiple characters and start your campaign with the one that survives. The Starter Collection includes Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen, Attack of the Frawgs, The Curse of Cragbridge, Fire in the Mountain, The Peasants' Fell Bargain, and Sword in the Jungle Deep while the bonus collection adds on an additional five more.
- Price: $9.95 (75%) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: November 22, 2023
Over on Humble, The Cartographer’s Vault Bundle is back with the full-featured software designed specifically for creating maps for TTRPGs. The base level includes five maps as examples of what you can make, the second tier adds on 13 more map collections, and the top-tier adds on eight more map collections plus a lifetime license to the Campaign Cartographer 3+ software complete with a random dungeon generator.
- Price: $1/$25/$30 (92% off at top tier)
- Charity: charity:water (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 3, 2023
Kobold Press and other publishers have collected together the 5th Edition Mega Bundle featuring over 70 titles at the highest tier. This bundle features setting books, monster books, adventures, character options, zines, resources, and a lot more all ready to be added to your 5e games.
- Price: $1/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: International Medical Corps (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 2, 2023
The Doctor Who Megabundle has been extended, giving you more time to pick up the comic books, novels, audio dramas, and yes, roleplaying game books from Cubicle 7's Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space. The base level includes the core rulebook and multiple adventures, while the next two tiers add on more adventures, sourcebooks for the first twelve Doctors and for the Doctor's enemies and companions, and a lot more.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: BBC Children in Need (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: December 6, 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.
