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!
Ivan Djordjevic has a new fantasy setting and system with Ruins of Kharion, blending the narrative focus of Blades in the Dark with the familiarity and simplicity of 5e. Inspired by the Viking arrival in North America and resulting culture clash, the game takes place in a land called Kharion, torn apart by magic where spirits roam free.
Highline Hijack: A Rave-Train Heist is an adventure for CY_BORG from Xeno & Kraft. Infiltrate the private maglev train Highline, known for its exclusive drug-fueled raves and liberate the top secret weapon being smuggled on board.
A Secret Lair released The Mother’s Embrace: A Candela Obscura Assignment as a short, easy-to-run adventure ready to be picked up and played with prompts to help improvisation. “A high-class middle-aged man mysteriously jumped off the balcony of his luxurious apartment in the Eves. Witnesses claim that something crawled out of the dead man's skull, prompting fanatics from the Ascendancy to gather at the building's entrance.”
Still hung up on the Fallout TV show and want to bring the wasteland to your tabletop? Misfit Studios released the fifth issue of their zine Terrors & Wastelanders Dispatch. For your Savage Worlds (or more specifically Darwin’s World) games, you’ll get a collection of new terrors and/or wastelanders to use in your games as playable pre-gens or NPCs/foes.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Ada Hatton released The Curse of Ravenwood, an adventure for 3rd level characters. The village of Ravenwood has been marked by a string of mysterious deaths as the players must navigate the treacherous terrain, confront malevolent forces, and unravel the sinister truth behind the curse.
Speaking of curse breaking, Cake has Goblin’s Idol, an adventure for 3rd to 5th level characters where they must clean up the mess after a tribe of goblins unwittingly unleashed a terrible curse by misusing the Golden Idol.
Nicolae Holley wants to help expand your game with the combat-free social challenge one shot Asmodeus Attorney. Good for any level party, the characters must stop the fiendish forces from corrupting the hearts and minds of the village. Inspired by the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games.
Over on Storytellers Vault, Marinos L. has a new take on a classic yet underappreciated World of Darkness franchise with Primordials: The Beast ReDreamed. This new take on the classic Beast: The Primordial features a new narrative, alternate mechanics, optional rules, new approaches to existing game tools, and more to create a brand new experience that still fits within the World of Darkness.
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 launched the Dungeons & Dragons Summer Sale this week with discounts on official D&D content for Roll20 and even more available for sale on Dungeonmasters Guild.
Heroic Maps is celebrating their anniversary with a big sale on maps. Not only can you get discounts on a wide variety of their VTT maps, but you can also pick up a couple of bundles at incredibly low prices – the Unique Locations bundle for $14.82 and the Classic Locations bundle for $17.59.
Legendary Games also has a pair of bundles this week, the first being the Lucky 15 Pathfinder 2e Mega-Bundle. As you’d expect, this bundle includes 15 titles including adventures, new classes, player options, new items, and more.
The second Legendary Games bundle is for Dungeons & Dragons and is the 1001 Legendary Nights 5e Bundle. No, it’s not 1001 titles but instead 15 books, zines, and card decks to expand your 5e games with new monsters, new loot, new character options, new classes, the Hypercorp 2099 sci-fi setting, and more!
Over on the Dungeonmasters Guild, the Big Bundle of Everything doesn’t quite live up to the name by having “everything”, but it does include a bit of everything across 16 products for Roll20 including new tables, modules, adventures, classes, options, expansions, and a lot more.
On Storytellers Vault, Zsuzsanna Molnar has a bundle for your 20A games of Vampire: The Masquerade, Mage: The Ascension, and Hunter: The Reckoning with reference card decks for each. One deck of Tradition Cards, Clan Cards, and Creed Cards all bundled together ready to print and use at your table as a shortcut.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, there are two bundles for the sci-fi system Fading Suns from Ulisses Spiele. The Fading Suns 4e Bundle includes all three core rulebooks – Universe Book, Character Book, and Gamemaster Book – plus the Fading Suns 4 Play Kit with characters, charts, maps, tokens, and play aids. The Bonus Collection adds on Intrigues & Escapades, Faction Book, and 3 Fading Suns Imperial Dossiers.
The second bundle is the Fading Sunds Lost Worlds Bundle featuring Fading Suns: Lost Worlds, St. Paulus’ Field Guide to Spacecraft, Voldrok Space, Hard Times on Hargard, and two more Imperial Dossiers.
The sci-fi 5e system Esper Genesis has a bundle from Alligator Alley Entertainment. The Starter Collection includes the Esper Genesis 5E Core Manual, Esper Genesis Master Technician’s Guide with equipment and vehicle rules expansions, and two Esper Genesis Initiate adventures. The Adventure Collection adds on the Esper Genesis Threats Database and ten adventures in the Shadow of the Zephyr series.
Over on Humble Bundle, Chaosium has the RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha Bundle with everything you need to get started with RuneQuest. The base level will give you a taste with the RuneQuest Starter Set and the quickstart “Broken Tower Scenario” plus The Glorantha Sourcebook and The RuneQuest Coloring Book. If you want to jump into the game properly, the second tier adds on RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Core Rules, Glorantha Bestiary, Weapons & Equipment, The Red Book of Magic, and Argar Argar Atlas. The top tier gives you a full library of 18 books adding on nine more including the Cults of RuneQuest series, the gamemaster screen, and more setting and rules books.
The Maps Extravaganza Bundle has been extended with software tools to help you create your own maps. The first level gives you two map collections and a token collection worth grabbing even if you don’t want to make your own maps. The fun starts with the second tier with a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the book Tome of Ultimate Mapping so you can create your own fantasy maps for personal use or in your published commercial products along with Perspectives 3 software which offers map creation with an isometric perspective. The third tier adds on additional resources like Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans, Source Maps: Castles, and Source Maps: Temples, Tombs, and Catacombs. The top tier upgrades your Campaign Cartographer 3+ license to lifetime license and also gets you the City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3 software so you have all the tools you need to make any sort of RPG map you can think of.
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have extended the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle once again. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
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!
Ivan Djordjevic has a new fantasy setting and system with Ruins of Kharion, blending the narrative focus of Blades in the Dark with the familiarity and simplicity of 5e. Inspired by the Viking arrival in North America and resulting culture clash, the game takes place in a land called Kharion, torn apart by magic where spirits roam free.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $12.99)
Highline Hijack: A Rave-Train Heist is an adventure for CY_BORG from Xeno & Kraft. Infiltrate the private maglev train Highline, known for its exclusive drug-fueled raves and liberate the top secret weapon being smuggled on board.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
A Secret Lair released The Mother’s Embrace: A Candela Obscura Assignment as a short, easy-to-run adventure ready to be picked up and played with prompts to help improvisation. “A high-class middle-aged man mysteriously jumped off the balcony of his luxurious apartment in the Eves. Witnesses claim that something crawled out of the dead man's skull, prompting fanatics from the Ascendancy to gather at the building's entrance.”
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.99)
Still hung up on the Fallout TV show and want to bring the wasteland to your tabletop? Misfit Studios released the fifth issue of their zine Terrors & Wastelanders Dispatch. For your Savage Worlds (or more specifically Darwin’s World) games, you’ll get a collection of new terrors and/or wastelanders to use in your games as playable pre-gens or NPCs/foes.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Ada Hatton released The Curse of Ravenwood, an adventure for 3rd level characters. The village of Ravenwood has been marked by a string of mysterious deaths as the players must navigate the treacherous terrain, confront malevolent forces, and unravel the sinister truth behind the curse.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.72)
Speaking of curse breaking, Cake has Goblin’s Idol, an adventure for 3rd to 5th level characters where they must clean up the mess after a tribe of goblins unwittingly unleashed a terrible curse by misusing the Golden Idol.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
Nicolae Holley wants to help expand your game with the combat-free social challenge one shot Asmodeus Attorney. Good for any level party, the characters must stop the fiendish forces from corrupting the hearts and minds of the village. Inspired by the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney games.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Over on Storytellers Vault, Marinos L. has a new take on a classic yet underappreciated World of Darkness franchise with Primordials: The Beast ReDreamed. This new take on the classic Beast: The Primordial features a new narrative, alternate mechanics, optional rules, new approaches to existing game tools, and more to create a brand new experience that still fits within the World of Darkness.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $9.76)
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.
- Dreamland Transport Pipe (3D printable terrain) from Aether Studios (Free)
- The Miraculous Oasis (VTT map) from PlanarInk Editions (Free)
- The Cathedral (VTT map) from PlanarInk Editions (Free)
- Farmer’s Town (VTT map) from PlanarInk Editions (Free)
- Tavern #1 (VTT map) from Zacariah Morningstar ($1.00)
- Coastal Camp and Cave (VTT map) from Zacariah Morningstar ($3.00)
- Dungeon Décor Pack 37 (VTT terrain/accessories) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- Here & There Tavern: Lost and Found Part 2 (Legendary artefacts) from Madame Aloura (Free)
- Shadow Armorer (5e CR 1/4 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Artifacts of Antiquity 7 (5e magic items) from Azzy Homebrew ($1.99)
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.
- Arcane Warrior (5e Prestige Class) from BiscuitTinRPG ($1.00)
- Domain of Fitness (5e Cleric subclass) from lewinston ($1.00)
- Circle of the Parasite (5e Druid subclass) from lewinston ($1.00)
- Blacksmith (5e Background) from Neil Merryweather (Free)
- The Battlemage (5e full class) from Justin Street ($0.00)
- Pact of the Reaper (5e Warlock subclass) from Marty Schmidt ($0.50)
- Ranger Reborn (5e Ranger alternative) from Isaac Coolen ($3.00)
- Way of the Esoteric Order (5e Monk subclass) from Derek Barnett ($2.00)
- Weapon Mastery Feats (5e weapon mastery feats) from Mathieu Kroning ($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 launched the Dungeons & Dragons Summer Sale this week with discounts on official D&D content for Roll20 and even more available for sale on Dungeonmasters Guild.
- Price: Up to 40% off
- End date: July 9, 2024
Heroic Maps is celebrating their anniversary with a big sale on maps. Not only can you get discounts on a wide variety of their VTT maps, but you can also pick up a couple of bundles at incredibly low prices – the Unique Locations bundle for $14.82 and the Classic Locations bundle for $17.59.
- Price: Up to 60% off individual items, 90% off bundles
- End Date: July 15, 2024
Legendary Games also has a pair of bundles this week, the first being the Lucky 15 Pathfinder 2e Mega-Bundle. As you’d expect, this bundle includes 15 titles including adventures, new classes, player options, new items, and more.
- Price: $20.00 (76% off)
The second Legendary Games bundle is for Dungeons & Dragons and is the 1001 Legendary Nights 5e Bundle. No, it’s not 1001 titles but instead 15 books, zines, and card decks to expand your 5e games with new monsters, new loot, new character options, new classes, the Hypercorp 2099 sci-fi setting, and more!
- Price: $30.00 (79% off)
Over on the Dungeonmasters Guild, the Big Bundle of Everything doesn’t quite live up to the name by having “everything”, but it does include a bit of everything across 16 products for Roll20 including new tables, modules, adventures, classes, options, expansions, and a lot more.
- Price: $58.66 (50% off)
On Storytellers Vault, Zsuzsanna Molnar has a bundle for your 20A games of Vampire: The Masquerade, Mage: The Ascension, and Hunter: The Reckoning with reference card decks for each. One deck of Tradition Cards, Clan Cards, and Creed Cards all bundled together ready to print and use at your table as a shortcut.
- Price: $6.99
Charity Bundles and Sales
Over on Bundle of Holding, there are two bundles for the sci-fi system Fading Suns from Ulisses Spiele. The Fading Suns 4e Bundle includes all three core rulebooks – Universe Book, Character Book, and Gamemaster Book – plus the Fading Suns 4 Play Kit with characters, charts, maps, tokens, and play aids. The Bonus Collection adds on Intrigues & Escapades, Faction Book, and 3 Fading Suns Imperial Dossiers.
- Price: $17.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: July 23, 2024
The second bundle is the Fading Sunds Lost Worlds Bundle featuring Fading Suns: Lost Worlds, St. Paulus’ Field Guide to Spacecraft, Voldrok Space, Hard Times on Hargard, and two more Imperial Dossiers.
- Price: $24.95 (78% off)
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: July 23, 2024
The sci-fi 5e system Esper Genesis has a bundle from Alligator Alley Entertainment. The Starter Collection includes the Esper Genesis 5E Core Manual, Esper Genesis Master Technician’s Guide with equipment and vehicle rules expansions, and two Esper Genesis Initiate adventures. The Adventure Collection adds on the Esper Genesis Threats Database and ten adventures in the Shadow of the Zephyr series.
- Price: $14.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program (10%)
- End Date: July 8, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Chaosium has the RuneQuest Roleplaying in Glorantha Bundle with everything you need to get started with RuneQuest. The base level will give you a taste with the RuneQuest Starter Set and the quickstart “Broken Tower Scenario” plus The Glorantha Sourcebook and The RuneQuest Coloring Book. If you want to jump into the game properly, the second tier adds on RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha Core Rules, Glorantha Bestiary, Weapons & Equipment, The Red Book of Magic, and Argar Argar Atlas. The top tier gives you a full library of 18 books adding on nine more including the Cults of RuneQuest series, the gamemaster screen, and more setting and rules books.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at top tier)
- Charity: Code.org (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: July 27, 2024
The Maps Extravaganza Bundle has been extended with software tools to help you create your own maps. The first level gives you two map collections and a token collection worth grabbing even if you don’t want to make your own maps. The fun starts with the second tier with a one year license to Campaign Cartographer 3+ along with the book Tome of Ultimate Mapping so you can create your own fantasy maps for personal use or in your published commercial products along with Perspectives 3 software which offers map creation with an isometric perspective. The third tier adds on additional resources like Symbol Set 2: Fantasy Floorplans, Source Maps: Castles, and Source Maps: Temples, Tombs, and Catacombs. The top tier upgrades your Campaign Cartographer 3+ license to lifetime license and also gets you the City Designer 3 and Dungeon Designer 3 software so you have all the tools you need to make any sort of RPG map you can think of.
- Price: $1/$25/variable/$30 (90% off at top tier)
- Charity: Save the Children (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: July 8, 2024 ONLY ONE MORE DAY!!
Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have extended the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle once again. The base level of this bundle includes 3 months of Ultimate level access to the Fantasy Grounds along with the VTT packages the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Beginner Box, the adventures Little Trouble in Big Absalom and The Second Confirmation, and three map packs. The second level adds on the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Core Rulebook, Gamemastery Guide, Secrets of Magic, Lost Omens World Guide, and the Lost Omens Ancestry Guide, plus four more map/tile packs and two more adventures. The highest level includes an unlimited, permanent standard license to Fantasy Grounds Unity plus the Pathfinder 2nd Edition Bestiary, Bestiary 2, Lost Omens Character Guide, five more map packs, and the full campaign for Abomination Vaults.
- Price: $10/$20/$30 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: July 8, 2024 ONLY ONE MORE 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.
