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!
Monte Cook Games has a preview of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game based on the anthology fiction podcast of the same name. This 18-page look at the game gives you a taste of what to expect from the full rules for the supernatural investigation game due out in October.
Hyacinth released Ectoplasmorphia for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition set in the US in 1926 where the investigators are chased through the forest and must seek refuge in one of two houses, neither of which take kindly to intruders.
The adventure Tomb of the Fey Fellmonger from Dungeon Age Adventures is for low level characters in Cairn, Old School Essentials, or 5e where the party faces off against guild goblins, pixies, and a living skin suit that have clawed their way into this disturbing leathery vault.
For fans of Gumshoe, Peter Medrano has A Tangled Web set in Mutant City Blues with six pregenerated characters designed for the adventure, eight scenes in a 2-4 hour adventure, and an enthralling scenario detailing the crimes of a salesman literally bugging people to sign up for his service.
Old School Role Playing released The Old Mines by Joseph Mohr, an adventure for 5th to 8th level characters for OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and other OSR systems. Explore the abandoned mines and find out why the Red Foot Clan of Dwarves left this profitable mind and discover what treasures remain to be discovered.
If you’ve ever thought of creating your own adventure, Thiago Gomes has How to Create Your Own RPG Adventure, a 34-page book with tips and tricks to make your own pre-made adventures.
Land and realm management can make for a fun side project for any adventuring team, and Utku Tönel wants to help you add that to your games with Death Tax: The Domain-Level Fantasy Roleplaying Game. Build your stronghold, develop your lands, manage your military, and shape your domain’s destiny in a system that fits well alongside Dungeons & Dragons or OSR systems.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Michael LaBossier released R14: Garmesh’s Swamp, an adventure for 9th-14th level characters complete with VTT files featuring new backgrounds, monsters, NPC stats, magic items, maps, and more.
Kirill Asanov’s Lost Lovers of Sharn is a beefy 6-12 hour adventure for 3rd-4th level characters who are tasked with scouting and infiltrating the noble mansion during the Silvertide Ball, escaping with their target to a safe house.
Over on Storytellers Vault, David Gibson has the Landscape Storyteller’s Screen, a four-panel printable screen for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition with all the tables you might need during a session.
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.
Paizo is running the Labor Day 2024 Sale on their webstore with discounts on over 1000 products including Pathfinder 1st Edition digital and physical products plus the limited edition sketch covers for Pathfinder 2nd Edition core books.
I’ve noticed that somehow we have collectively as a society decided that if Christmas is going to occupy two months on the calendar, then so will Spooky Season. There’s been no discussion or arguments or Discourse™, just everybody assuming that the Halloween holiday season starts on September 1st. Meaning this is the perfect time to pick up the Curse of Strahd Horror Bundle off the DMs Guild. This collection of four adventures expands on the original 5e adventure at various places in the story from 1st to 6th level.
And if you want your gothic horror 5e to be a little more intimate, There’s also the Curse of Strahd Duet Bundle with four adventures designed for a DM and single player (or modified for a small party) either to create a more personal story in Ravenloft or as side stories for individual characters in the larger adventure.
The New Campaign Bundle isn’t exactly a new campaign setting or an adventure path, but a collection of new options that, when put together, adds new uniqueness to your gaming world. New species, classes, subclasses, weapons, encounters, locations, and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
The Hot Mutant Summer Bundle from the TTRPG Collective features 25 different RPG products including new D&D classes, full indie RPGs, adventures, and more all themed around radiation and mutations.
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 Lost Worlds of Gygax Bundle features a bunch of products from Troll Lord Games, Frog God Games, Necromancer Games, and more featuring the works of Gary Gygax, original co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons for a wide variety of systems including Castles & Crusades, D&D 3.5, 5e, and more. Some of these are by Gary himself, while others draw on his worlds, creators, and characters in one tribute to one of RPG’s biggest icons.
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.
While technically not RPG bundles, there’s a trio of fantasy novel bundles that may be of interest to fans of fantasy roleplay. The first is the Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicles with the novels The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear and novellas The Slow Regard for Silent Things and The Narrow Road Between Desires. The Shannara series from Terry Brooks is highly reguarded as a classic of fantasy literature and this bundle features the entire series plus the spinoff Legends of Shannara and the guidebook The World of Shannara. Finally, we have a bundle from the master of satirical fantasy himself, Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld. The bundle features 39 of the 41 books of the series giving you the only major issue of deciding where to start.
Note: All of these bundles require redeeming the books via a Kobo account, which some have reported issues with the DRM on some ereaders. Also, the Discworld bundle is only available in the United States. No other country. No, VPNs won’t work. Trust me, people have tried.
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!
Monte Cook Games has a preview of The Magnus Archives Roleplaying Game based on the anthology fiction podcast of the same name. This 18-page look at the game gives you a taste of what to expect from the full rules for the supernatural investigation game due out in October.
- Price: Free
Hyacinth released Ectoplasmorphia for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition set in the US in 1926 where the investigators are chased through the forest and must seek refuge in one of two houses, neither of which take kindly to intruders.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.21)
The adventure Tomb of the Fey Fellmonger from Dungeon Age Adventures is for low level characters in Cairn, Old School Essentials, or 5e where the party faces off against guild goblins, pixies, and a living skin suit that have clawed their way into this disturbing leathery vault.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
For fans of Gumshoe, Peter Medrano has A Tangled Web set in Mutant City Blues with six pregenerated characters designed for the adventure, eight scenes in a 2-4 hour adventure, and an enthralling scenario detailing the crimes of a salesman literally bugging people to sign up for his service.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.00)
Old School Role Playing released The Old Mines by Joseph Mohr, an adventure for 5th to 8th level characters for OSRIC, Labyrinth Lord, and other OSR systems. Explore the abandoned mines and find out why the Red Foot Clan of Dwarves left this profitable mind and discover what treasures remain to be discovered.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.00)
If you’ve ever thought of creating your own adventure, Thiago Gomes has How to Create Your Own RPG Adventure, a 34-page book with tips and tricks to make your own pre-made adventures.
- Price: Free
Land and realm management can make for a fun side project for any adventuring team, and Utku Tönel wants to help you add that to your games with Death Tax: The Domain-Level Fantasy Roleplaying Game. Build your stronghold, develop your lands, manage your military, and shape your domain’s destiny in a system that fits well alongside Dungeons & Dragons or OSR systems.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Michael LaBossier released R14: Garmesh’s Swamp, an adventure for 9th-14th level characters complete with VTT files featuring new backgrounds, monsters, NPC stats, magic items, maps, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Kirill Asanov’s Lost Lovers of Sharn is a beefy 6-12 hour adventure for 3rd-4th level characters who are tasked with scouting and infiltrating the noble mansion during the Silvertide Ball, escaping with their target to a safe house.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Over on Storytellers Vault, David Gibson has the Landscape Storyteller’s Screen, a four-panel printable screen for Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition with all the tables you might need during a session.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
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.
- Print & Paste Handouts & Props: Ring Puzzle (Cardstock/paper printout for 2d printers to make 3d models) from Crooked Staff Publishing ($1.31)
- Marlowe House Map Test (Battlemap) from Marlowe House Games ($1.00)
- Annomicon (Pathfinder magic item) from Annomicon ($1.99)
- 25 Free One-Page Battle Maps (Battlemaps) from Excalibur Penn (Free)
- Neeriz Horson’s Peculiar Creatures (5e monsters) from Alexander te Beek and others
- Guardian Angel (5e CR4 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Crimson Orb of Divination (5e magic item) from James Thomas ($1.00)
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.
- Waldspion Ranger Class (Old-School Essentials class) from Christopher Wilson ($1.50)
- Merchant Class (Shadowdark class) from Rocket Punch Press ($1.00)
- Invocations and Incantations Vol 1 (5e magic spells) from DwarfDownUnder ($2.50)
- Way of Stinger (5e Monk subclass) from Andrea Teruzzi, Alessia Teruzzi ($1.99)
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.
Paizo is running the Labor Day 2024 Sale on their webstore with discounts on over 1000 products including Pathfinder 1st Edition digital and physical products plus the limited edition sketch covers for Pathfinder 2nd Edition core books.
- Price: Up to 50% off
- End Date: Not listed but Labor Day in the US is this Monday, so likely not much longer than that
I’ve noticed that somehow we have collectively as a society decided that if Christmas is going to occupy two months on the calendar, then so will Spooky Season. There’s been no discussion or arguments or Discourse™, just everybody assuming that the Halloween holiday season starts on September 1st. Meaning this is the perfect time to pick up the Curse of Strahd Horror Bundle off the DMs Guild. This collection of four adventures expands on the original 5e adventure at various places in the story from 1st to 6th level.
- Price: $3.95 (49% off)
And if you want your gothic horror 5e to be a little more intimate, There’s also the Curse of Strahd Duet Bundle with four adventures designed for a DM and single player (or modified for a small party) either to create a more personal story in Ravenloft or as side stories for individual characters in the larger adventure.
- Price: $3.95 (49% off)
The New Campaign Bundle isn’t exactly a new campaign setting or an adventure path, but a collection of new options that, when put together, adds new uniqueness to your gaming world. New species, classes, subclasses, weapons, encounters, locations, and more.
- Price: $4.00 (68% off)
Charity Bundles and Sales
The Hot Mutant Summer Bundle from the TTRPG Collective features 25 different RPG products including new D&D classes, full indie RPGs, adventures, and more all themed around radiation and mutations.
- Price: $5 minimum
- Charity: Rainbow Violence Prevention Network (83%)
- End Date: September 21, 2024
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 Lost Worlds of Gygax Bundle features a bunch of products from Troll Lord Games, Frog God Games, Necromancer Games, and more featuring the works of Gary Gygax, original co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons for a wide variety of systems including Castles & Crusades, D&D 3.5, 5e, and more. Some of these are by Gary himself, while others draw on his worlds, creators, and characters in one tribute to one of RPG’s biggest icons.
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (98% off at top tier)
- Charity: Navy Marine Corps Relief Society (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 18, 2024
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
While technically not RPG bundles, there’s a trio of fantasy novel bundles that may be of interest to fans of fantasy roleplay. The first is the Patrick Rothfuss Kingkiller Chronicles with the novels The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear and novellas The Slow Regard for Silent Things and The Narrow Road Between Desires. The Shannara series from Terry Brooks is highly reguarded as a classic of fantasy literature and this bundle features the entire series plus the spinoff Legends of Shannara and the guidebook The World of Shannara. Finally, we have a bundle from the master of satirical fantasy himself, Sir Terry Pratchett and Discworld. The bundle features 39 of the 41 books of the series giving you the only major issue of deciding where to start.
Note: All of these bundles require redeeming the books via a Kobo account, which some have reported issues with the DRM on some ereaders. Also, the Discworld bundle is only available in the United States. No other country. No, VPNs won’t work. Trust me, people have tried.
- Price: $1/$12 (Kingkiller) or $1/$10/$18 (Shannara and Discworld each)
- Charity (Kingkiller): National Coalition Against Censorship (user-defined, default 5%)
- Charity (Shannara): First Book (user-defined, default 5%)
- Charity (Discworld): Room to Read (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 14, 2024 (Kingkiller), September 7, 2024 (Shannara), September 20, 2024 (Discworld)
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.
