Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for June 16, 2024

D&D, Pathfinder, OSR, Marvel Multiverse, Star Trek Adventures, Shadowrun, Campaign Cartographer, Metamorphosis Alpha, and more!

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.

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Before we get into the normal round-up of deals, Free RPG Day is coming up this weekend on June 22, 2024! Local game stores across North America will be giving out free physical TTRPG products from a variety of publishers. Make sure to hit up your participating friendly local game store and check out what they have to offer. Check with your store to see what their policies are for how to get your free product. Some of the available products this year include:
  • Mayhem in Okiri Village from 1985 Games
  • Return to Dark Tower and Indie Anthology 2024 from 9th Level Games
  • Dice tray and dice bag from BCW
  • Player Bearer Dark Fantasy Roleplaying from Guillotine Press and CMON
  • Sink! Treasures of Deep Grotto from Crimson Hearld and Samurai Rusk
  • Rococo Red Iconic D20 3-piece dice set from Dispel Dice
  • Lost Tome of Monsters from Foam Brain Games
  • Dragonbane: The Sinking Tower from Free League
  • DCC: Across the Veil of Time from Goodman Games
  • Humblewood: Shock in Stormcrag from Hitpoint Press
  • Shards of the Spellforge from Kobold Press
  • Not a Drop to Drink from Loke Battle Mats
  • Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting from Loot Tavern
  • Paper App Dungeon from Lucky Duck
  • Avatar Legends Rebels & Refugees and custom dice from Magpie Games
  • X-Men Expansion Preview from Marvel
  • Rojo: A Kurosawa Inspired Bloodshed from Need Games
  • RPG Accessory Decks from Nord Games
  • Pathfinder: The Great Toy Heist and Starfinder: Second Contact from Paizo
  • Shadow Scar from R. Talsorian Games
  • Arzium Roleplaying Game from Red Raven Games
  • Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Red Tundra and GI Joe/Transformers/Power Rangers/My Little Pony Unnatural Disaster from Renegade Game Studios
  • One Shot Wonders from Roll & Play Press
  • Roll20 subscription and exclusive playable content from Roll20
  • The Hollows from Rowan, Rook & Decard
  • Legend of Drizzt dice set from Sirius Dice
  • Runescape Kingdoms from Steamforged Games
  • Story Engine Deck from Story Engine Deck
  • Shadows of Esteren and Fateforge from Studio Agate
  • Garbage & Glory: Trashrun from Wet Ink Games
  • D&D icons of the Realm: Topaz, Dragon Wyrmling, Strahd, and Amethyst Dragon Wyrmling miniatures from Wizkids

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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!

Marvel released a free supplement for Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, Tony’s Workshop V2. This sourcebook includes a new powerset, optional initiative rules, a henchmen generator, and more.
  • Price: Free

Magnetic Press Play released a preview for the Planet of the Apes RPG using the West End Games D6 System. The 25-page primer includes information on the setting to get ready for the quickstart and rulebook coming soon.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

The newest Star Trek Adventures Mission Briefs collection is out with ten short one-page adventures. The theme for this set of Next Generation era adventures is “Political Actions” with diplomatic negotiations and adversarial conflict and more.
  • Price: Free

A new edition of Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game is now available with the fourth revision of the OSR rules system. The 206-page core rulebook contains everything you need to get started playing.
  • Price: Free
  • Print-on-demand hardcover and softcover versions are available for purchase

The Basic Fantasy Project also released several new adventure modules for Basic Fantasy Role-Playing ready for new and existing players to jump in. Each of these is available for free with options to purchase print-on-demand softcover versions.

Skavenloft has a new adventure for Monster of the Week looking to capture that 1950s drive-in horror movie vibe with Buzzing. Livestock has been found dead and there’s an ominous buzzing sound in the distance in this tribute to classic “giant monster” thrillers.
  • Price: Free

Mysteries are common plots in RPGs, but coming up with good mysteries can be challenging. A Simple Tale is here to help with the RPG Mystery Generator, a random table and mystery-solving rules for no-prep mysteries ready to challenge your party of detectives (or just curious PCs) in any setting.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.53)

Inventory and encumbrance rules are right up with grappling as the bane of any RPG player and gamemaster. Paperbird Stories has an alternative with Revised Inventory & Carry Capacity that hopes to offer an alternative for 5e’s inventory management rules.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.07)

Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Thomas Kolar is back with another Disney (or Disney adjacent) inspired Ravenloft domain from the Wonderful World of Darklords podcast, this time with Green Lake Prison Camp set in a desert prison on a dried lake bed with a warden forcing the prison to dig for Something.
  • Price: Free

Anthony Castillo wants to help you stay organized in the chaos of combat with the Encounter Tracker File. Seeking to replace the physical encounter trackers, this file for PowerPoint or other presentation software will help you track initiative, hit points, and other essential encounter information.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Zakariah had an interesting challenge after getting a new dachshund family member – the players wanted to add the puppy to the game, but Zakariah didn’t want to put a dog in danger. Thus we get Dolby’s Instant Dachshund, a wonderous magic item that summons a friendly dachshund once per day.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)

It’s pretty common knowledge now that the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set heavily features an adventuring party in the artwork based on the party from the 1980s D&D cartoon. Damien Holder wants to give you the resources to enhance that for your group with printable stand-up pawns and VTT tokens for the eight party members (plus 12 more generic tokens to match the art style).
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.50)

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.

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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.

Dungeonmasters Guild has the Eberron Anniversary Sale featuring discounts on over 800 titles including official D&D 3.5 books from Wizards of the Coast, the DMs Guild books written by Eberron creator Keith Baker, and many other third-party books.
  • Price: 20% off or more
  • End date: June 21, 2024

Skirmisher Publishing wants you to be stocked up on ready-to-use digital battlemaps with their Maps Bundle. The bundle features seven map bundles with multiple maps each covering both original fantasy locations and real-world maps for the Mediterranean and more.
  • Price: $4.99 (71% off)

If you’re looking for more maps for your VTT, Gabirel Pickard has the Jungle Jamboree Bundle featuring over a dozen collections of jungle-themed map tiles that can be combined with one another to create your own custom maps.
  • Price: $43.91 (20% off)

And for even more maps, Tellest has the Holy Temple Bundle with a trio of map collections for first and second floors as well as the basement of a holy temple with variations for each one.
  • Price: $4.47 (50% off)

Tuesday Knight Games has a discount on the full library of books for the sci-fi/horror RPG Mothership. This bundle includes the Player’s Survival Guide, Warden’s Operations Manual, Shipbreaker’s Toolkit, Unconfirmed Contacts Report, and the adventure Another Bug Hunt.
  • Price: $59.00 (38% off)

Thiago Gomes collected together the Biblical RPG Complete Rules Bundle for the English language version of the Brazilian religious RPG. The bundle features the core rulebook, Player’s Guide, Narrator’s Guide, Biblical Wars, Angels & Demons, and Enemies & Creatures sourcebooks.
  • Price: $12.95 (31% off)

The Sysop Bundle for Shadowrun from the Holostreets third-party storefront packs together The Matrix Defragged – an alternate rules set for hacking/decking for Shadowrun 3rd Edition – and the Matrix-centered adventure Mindbender.
  • Price: $15.00 (21% off)

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Charity Bundles and Sales

Itch.io has another of their huge charity bundles, this time organized by Jes the Human, with the TTRPGs for Palestine bundle. The bundle features a whoping 643 items like full RPG rules, mini- and micro-RPGs, solo journaling games, adventures, sourcebooks, optional rules, monster collections, maps, art assets, and probably anything you could possibly want in a TTRPG bundle.
  • Price: $10
  • Charity: Medical Aid for Palestine (all proceeds)
  • End Date: June 30, 2024

Over on Bundle of Holding, Goodman Games has a collection of the classic sci-fi RPG Metamorphosis Alpha. The Starter collection includes Metamorphosis Alpha 1e, three sourcebooks, and the adventures Death Ziggurat in Zero-G and Warden Adventures. The Bonus Collection adds up four more Warden Adventures, the campaign setting Epsilon City, and the adventure Doom on the Warden.
  • Price: $9.95 (76% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: San Francisco-Martin Food Bank (10%)
  • End Date: June 26, 2024

Catalyst Game Labs has a pair of bundles up for Shadowrun 5th Edition. Yes, this is the previous edition of the game, but it is one that’s still popular with many fans and a lot of Shadowrun content is evergreen or at least useful when playing other editions due to the setting information. The first of these bundles is set to get you ready to go with Shadowrun 5th Edition with the SR5 Essentials Bundle. The base level includes Shadowrun 5e, the player’s guide with additional options Run Faster, and the cyberware sourcebook Chrome Flesh. The Bonus Collection adds on additional “core sourcebooks” with optional rules and equipment that many players consider essential, Run & Gun (guns, armor, and combat), Street Grimoire (magic), Data Trials (hacking), and Rigger 5.0 (vehicles and drones).
  • Price: $19.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
  • End Date: June 24, 2024

The second bundle is the SR5 Missions Bundle with plenty of adventures and full campaigns. The Starter Collection includes the Seattle Sprawl Digital Box Set with information about the setting city of Seattle plus three standalone scenarios and four Missions convention scenarios. The Bonus Collection adds on the big metaplot events of the edition with five SRD CFD campaign sourcebooks (CFD being Cognitive Fragmentation Disorder, a personality disorder caused by nanite that became an epidemic in the 2070s) and a trilogy covering events in thee free city of Denver.
  • Price: $19.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Diana Jones Emerging Designer Program (10%)
  • End Date: June 24, 2024

Over on Humble Bundle, the Maps Extravaganza Bundle is back 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 1, 2024

Fans of the Warhammer 40K universe who wants to go deeper into the lore will be pleased with the Worlds of Warhammer 40,000 Bundle from the Black Library. The base level includes eight novels including novels from Dan Arnett, Steve Lyons, Josh Reynolds, and more with the next level adding another eight novels while the top tier ups the total to 27 total books from The Horus Heresy, Age of Sigmar, and more.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
  • Charity: EveryLibrary Institute (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: June 27, 2024

Paizo, Humble, and Fantasy Grounds have come together for the Pathfinder’s Finest 2e Fantasy Ground Experience Bundle. 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: June 17, 2024 FINAL DAY!

If you’ve been curious about Delta Green, the Lovecraftian RPG that flips the script by giving the players the power to fight back, the Delta Green RPG Collection by Arc Dream Publishing is a perfect introduction. If you’re already a player, the base tier has the Agent Dossiers and Evidence Kit: God’s Teeth with pre-generated characters and hand-outs respectively. The second tier adds on the sourcebooks The Complex, Static Protocol, The Labyrinth, and ARCHINT. If you’re brand new to the game though, the top tier is how you get started with the player’s book Delta Green: Agent’s Handbook, the GM’s book Handler’s Guide, plus a dozen more sourcebooks, adventures, hand-outs, and more making a full library to jump into the world.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18 (95% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Covenant House (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: June 22, 2024

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.
 

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Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott


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Just a heads up, those Basic Fantasy RPG adventures aren't new, they've been around for some time, they are just now updated for BFRPG 4e it seems. Also, if you go to the BFRPG website they have A LOT MORE stuff for free in PDF format.
 

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