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!
The Scion: Pride 2024 collection celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in the Scion game with four new queer Divine Patrons, exploration of queer love through the lens of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 16 new LGBTQ+ themed birthrights, and more!
OSR fans have a good week this week with a ton of adventures for a variety of systems (not to mention the Lightning Round entries later on). Starting with Old-School Essentials, Novis Ludis has A Sample Dungeon which is what it says on the tin, a reimagining of the dungeon map on page 95 of the original AD&D 1e Dungeonmasters Guide turned into a full dungeon to explore.
Next up for Shadowdark, Harebrained Homebrew released Wicked Fleas, a 3rd level adventure inspired by a classic story from the magazine Weird Tales featuring giant fleas.
More Shadowdark fun with Voyage Aboard the Flying Leopard by Brynjar Már Pálsson where the 1st to 3rd level characters are trapped on a ship with strange passengers with their own agendas as a mysterious killer strikes at night.
Kory Brookens released Temple of Emerald Depths also for Shadowdark, a 1st to 3rd level adventure where villagers of a seaside village are being kidnapped during low tide by a water-dwelling civilization seeking to replenish their numbers.
For Twilight 2000 players, Peter Randel Jensen has Ace of Diamonds – The Village of Obobek, an expansion of the encounter from the Referee’s Manual that turns the village into a potential haven for the characters and a community they can join and protect.
With Spooky Season rapidly approaching (or already here depending on your belief that if Christmas gets too months then so should Halloween), it’s important to stock up on horror-themed one-shots and Unformed Worlds has a one-page modern horror RPG Hunted by Night which is a GMless Prepless RPG inspired by horror movies and urban legends.
Over on Storytellers Vault, Michael Videx released Curriculum Vitae: A Guide to Obscure Disciplines for any edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, a collection of multiple Disciplines adapted from different editions and even bringing some in from Vampire: The Requiem.
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.
DriveThruRPG has the September Setting Sale going on right now featuring discounts on hundreds of setting books, each week with its own theme. This week is the Solo Gamebooks Week featuring The One Ring Strider Mode, Station Xeno for Mothership, OSR Solo, and over three hundred titles for solo RPGs.
Danger Vault has two bundles in two options for the Strange New Worlds series of sci-fi battlemaps for VTTs from alien landscapes to crashed ships to outposts to cities and more. The first Strange New Worlds collection (also available made specifically for Roll20) 10 map collections with multiple maps in each including variants with animations, while the Strange New Worlds #2 (also available for Roll20) features five collections with variants and animations.
With the classic Dragonlance setting receiving more attention, many are curious about the original adventures but may not want to learn previous edition rules or do conversion work themselves. Well the Dragonlance Classic Adventure Conversions Bundle on DMs Guild takes all the work out for you by featuring conversions with maps for the entire series from DL1 Dragons of Despair all the way to DL12 Dragons of Faith to 5e rules. Note: You will still need the original module to play.
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.
Over on Humble Bundle, Renegade Game Studio and Humble have created the Transformers More than Meets the Eye Roleplaying Game Bundle which is a rare physical item bundle! The base tier features the introductory adventure A Beacon of Hope and a collection of bonus content, while the second tier adds on From Yesterday to Today, Catch a Falling Starscream, and Winner’s Cup adventures. The third tier is for you digital-only gamers who want to dive in as it has the Transforms RPG Core Rulebook, Field Guide to Action and Adventure sourcebook, and the adventures Deception Directive, Enigma of Combination, and The Time is Now. The top tier is where we get the physical rewards with the Decepticon dice set and dice bag, another official dice set, the Character Journal hardcover, and the Beacon of Hope GM screen. Note that shipping is not included and physical items can only be shipped to US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
The Star Trek Adventures 1st Edition Collection from Modiphius has been extended! This megabundle features 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 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.
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!
The Scion: Pride 2024 collection celebrates the LGBTQ+ community in the Scion game with four new queer Divine Patrons, exploration of queer love through the lens of the Epic of Gilgamesh, 16 new LGBTQ+ themed birthrights, and more!
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $10.00
- Note: “Most of the royalties” will go to the charity Mermaids UK
OSR fans have a good week this week with a ton of adventures for a variety of systems (not to mention the Lightning Round entries later on). Starting with Old-School Essentials, Novis Ludis has A Sample Dungeon which is what it says on the tin, a reimagining of the dungeon map on page 95 of the original AD&D 1e Dungeonmasters Guide turned into a full dungeon to explore.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Next up for Shadowdark, Harebrained Homebrew released Wicked Fleas, a 3rd level adventure inspired by a classic story from the magazine Weird Tales featuring giant fleas.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
More Shadowdark fun with Voyage Aboard the Flying Leopard by Brynjar Már Pálsson where the 1st to 3rd level characters are trapped on a ship with strange passengers with their own agendas as a mysterious killer strikes at night.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Kory Brookens released Temple of Emerald Depths also for Shadowdark, a 1st to 3rd level adventure where villagers of a seaside village are being kidnapped during low tide by a water-dwelling civilization seeking to replenish their numbers.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
For Twilight 2000 players, Peter Randel Jensen has Ace of Diamonds – The Village of Obobek, an expansion of the encounter from the Referee’s Manual that turns the village into a potential haven for the characters and a community they can join and protect.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.50)
With Spooky Season rapidly approaching (or already here depending on your belief that if Christmas gets too months then so should Halloween), it’s important to stock up on horror-themed one-shots and Unformed Worlds has a one-page modern horror RPG Hunted by Night which is a GMless Prepless RPG inspired by horror movies and urban legends.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Storytellers Vault, Michael Videx released Curriculum Vitae: A Guide to Obscure Disciplines for any edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, a collection of multiple Disciplines adapted from different editions and even bringing some in from Vampire: The Requiem.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
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.
- Mini Sea Monsters Pack 2 (3d printer STL files) from nonPareil (free)
- Sci-Fi Block Men Pack 1 (3d printer STL files) from nonPareil (free)
- Necro-Tech Bio Vat (3d printer STL files) from nonPareil (free)
- Dragonlock Lost Dungeons Wall Risers (3d printer STL files) from Fat Dragon Games (free)
- Printable Real Wooden Tiles (2d printer texture) from Baringames ($1.00)
- Dungeon That Never Ends Level 46 (VTT battlemap) from Le Paysagiste de l'Imaginaire ($1.00)
- The Book of Doors (System-agnostic fantasy magic item) from Triangle Towers ($1.00)
- Dungeon Décor Pack 42 (VTT terrain/props) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Soffin (5e CR1 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Neeriz Horson’s Peculiar Creatures (5e monsters/companions/familiars) from Alexander te Beek et al (Free)
- Malicious Weapon (5e magic item) from James Thomas ($0.50)
- Tiara of the Night Stalker (5e magic item) from Vimes ($1.00)
- Gifted Fate (5e magic item) from Mythic is Loading ($0.50)
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.
- The Pledge (Blades in the Dark Playbook) from Not Writing Games ($5.00)
- The Operative (Scum & Villainy Playbook) from Not Writing ($5.00)
- Found Things (System-agnostic fantasy weapons and magic items) from Traingle Towers ($1.00)
- The Martial Bard (5e Bard alternative) from Hewie Enfield ($5.00)
- Trollkin (Shadowdark ancestry) from Nashcraft ($1.00)
- The Pugilist (Old-School Revival class) from Rhymes with Menace ($2.00)
- Puppetmaster (5e class) from Nena Games ($2.50)
- Voidmage (Dragonbane/Drakar och Demoner Profession) from B.J. Keeton ($2.99)
- Way of the Greased Palm (5e Monk subclass) from Picostrix Press ($1.11)
- Another Revised Ranger Class (5e Ranger alternative) from Enkidu ($7.36)
- Running Memorable Games (5e backgrounds) from Zrave, Apacolyps ($4.99)
- Martial Healers (5e Fighter and Rogue subclasses) from Maikel van Ulden ($1.11)
- Circle of the Moon Revised (5e Druid subclass) from Enkidu ($2.21)
- Juggernaut (5e class) from Nathan Allred ($9.99)
- Wild Caster (5e Sorcerer subclass) from Mythic Is Loading ($1.00)
- Kriptorian Bloodline (5e Superman-inspired species) from 9th Layer Productions ($1.00)
- Poor Lich’s Spellbook (5e spells) from Irmaan Intertainment ($0.99)
- Auroran Bloodline (5e species) from 9th Layer Productions ($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.
DriveThruRPG has the September Setting Sale going on right now featuring discounts on hundreds of setting books, each week with its own theme. This week is the Solo Gamebooks Week featuring The One Ring Strider Mode, Station Xeno for Mothership, OSR Solo, and over three hundred titles for solo RPGs.
- Price: 25% off
- End Date: “This week only”
Danger Vault has two bundles in two options for the Strange New Worlds series of sci-fi battlemaps for VTTs from alien landscapes to crashed ships to outposts to cities and more. The first Strange New Worlds collection (also available made specifically for Roll20) 10 map collections with multiple maps in each including variants with animations, while the Strange New Worlds #2 (also available for Roll20) features five collections with variants and animations.
- Price: Strange New Worlds $8.50 each (34% off
- Price: Strange New Worlds #2 $4.99 each (23% off)
With the classic Dragonlance setting receiving more attention, many are curious about the original adventures but may not want to learn previous edition rules or do conversion work themselves. Well the Dragonlance Classic Adventure Conversions Bundle on DMs Guild takes all the work out for you by featuring conversions with maps for the entire series from DL1 Dragons of Despair all the way to DL12 Dragons of Faith to 5e rules. Note: You will still need the original module to play.
- Price: $29.95 (26% 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
Over on Humble Bundle, Renegade Game Studio and Humble have created the Transformers More than Meets the Eye Roleplaying Game Bundle which is a rare physical item bundle! The base tier features the introductory adventure A Beacon of Hope and a collection of bonus content, while the second tier adds on From Yesterday to Today, Catch a Falling Starscream, and Winner’s Cup adventures. The third tier is for you digital-only gamers who want to dive in as it has the Transforms RPG Core Rulebook, Field Guide to Action and Adventure sourcebook, and the adventures Deception Directive, Enigma of Combination, and The Time is Now. The top tier is where we get the physical rewards with the Decepticon dice set and dice bag, another official dice set, the Character Journal hardcover, and the Beacon of Hope GM screen. Note that shipping is not included and physical items can only be shipped to US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$40
- Charity: Woldbuilders Inc (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: September 28, 2024
The Star Trek Adventures 1st Edition Collection from Modiphius has been extended! This megabundle features 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 21, 2024
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
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 19, 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.
