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 newest Star Trek Adventures Briefs is here, this one titled Beneath the Raptor’s Wings. As you might guess from the title, this collection of 10 one-page adventures chronicles the Federation-Romulan War and is set during the Star Trek Enterprise era (though can be adjusted for other time periods).
Modiphius also has a new supplement for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, the miniature skirmish game with its own RPG mode (not to be confused with Fallout The Roleplaying Game which is the 2d20 System RPG based on Fallout). Fallout: Wasteland Warfare v1.5 Vault-Tec Simulator is a 56-page rulebook for the game including everything you need to start playing plus a collection of scenarios to play through and stat blocks for major factions and character types from the wasteland.
R Talsorian Games released a compilation Cyberpunk RED Free DLC 2020 & 2021 collecting over a dozen supplements for Cyberpunk RED from new items, new weapons, conversion guides for previous editions, pre-generated characters and NPCs, worldbuilding essays, optional rules, and a lot more.
If you’re a Cyberpunk fan, you can also grab Mixing Drinks – Changing Lives, a non-canon supplement inspired by the video game VA-11 HALL-A, a dialogue-focused RPG about a cyberpunk bartender mixing drinks. Get stat blocks for the characters, new gear and cyberware, a full Drinktionary, and more.
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition has the new science fiction sourcebook Voidrunner’s Codex coming to Kickstarter very soon, and EN Publishing has a preview of the introductory chapter of the book. Find out more about the new book and what it can do for your games, then sign up for notifications when the Kickstarter goes live.
Tacitus Publishing released Faces of Clay, an 8th-level Pathfinder 1st Edition encounter about a band of brownies who have taken over a farm after the young family there tragically died and are using the farm’s clay golem to help tend the land and milk the cow. Also available for Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
Victor Gordillo González posted Carmine, a d20-based tabletop RPG that strikes a balance between “ordinary people thrust into the adventuring life” and “fantasy superheroes”. The 121-page book includes all the rules you need to play including character creation, bestiary, game rules, support material for gamemasters, an introductory adventure, and more.
With summer coming up, it’s time for day camp programs and planning lessons for the next school year. Making it a perfect time for the release of Daniel Lehto AB’s Playing Roleplaying Games with Kids featuring guidelines for introducing kids used to board games to RPGs, how to play narrator for a game, and other activities that can be combined with RPGs like coloring pictures of their characters and creating paper figures.
Daniel Lehto AB also released an adventure for Dragonbane titled The Vacant Throne designed for young players. Princess Ina’s parents have disappeared from Morning Star Castle, but Ina has no intention of becoming queen. Instead, she sets off to find her parents. But someone has to sit on the throne, right? Also available in Swedish.
Dungeon Age Adventures released Tomb of the Blood Baron for 5e, Old-School Essentials, and Cairn. The low-level party is sent to deal with a tomb full of vampires and their thralls to recover the priceless art, exotic wines, and more.
Primastic Wasteland seems to have something to say with their system-neutral adventure Wonky Willie’s Authentic Interactive Extravaganza. Inspired by recent events, the party is sent on an interactive experience in a Glasgow warehouse inspired by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but designed by algorithmic generation aka “AI”. Hijinks ensue. No “AI” was used in the generation of this adventure except as the target of much ridicule.
From The OG GM Adventures, we have a nightmare of a setting for any fantasy D20 RPG called A Fistful of Goblins. What makes this so terrifying? Goblins. With guns. Yes, this is a weird science and weird west setting for D&D, Pathfinder, OSR, and other similar systems taking place in Fresno, Nevada, detailed over 70 pages along with a starter adventure.
The Wonderful World of Darklords podcast is back with another Disney-inspired Domain of Dread for Ravenloft with Wanda’s Vision inspired by the Marvel show in an idyllic small town with comedic schemes to avoid consequences from misunderstandings and miscommunications with hijinks ensuing always ending on a laugh and a freeze frame…except nobody is in control of their own fate.
Café Arcane has Less Familiar Familiars, a sourcebook with new options for familiars to make them more versatile and provide guidelines for reskinning exiting familiar creatures and expanding the list of available familiars.
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.
There are four big bundles from third-party creators for EN Publishing’s Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. The first comes from Purple Martin Games for A5E Premium Heritages featuring four titles with new heritages including Handbook of Heritages, Secrets of the Selkies, Sinuous Sentinels, and the book to help you make your own heritages, Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting Heritages and Cultures.
Next up is the A5E Rules Expansion Bundle with the vehicle rules expansion One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Air, the skill rules book Paradigms of Skill: Expanded Skill Criticals, the magic book Spells from the Forgotten Vault, the exploration book Stranger Sights: Challenges for 5e and Advanced 5e, and the character expansion book Venture Forth: Over 100 Knacks for the Core Classes.
The A5E New Classes Bundle has five collections of new character classes, subclasses, and options including Advanced Artificers, Heroes Old and New, Manual of Adventurous Resources, Mysterious and Marvelous Miscellanea, and Paranormal Power.
And finally from Speaks & Spells Publishing we have the A5E Archetypes and Accessories Bundle with a trio of books with new character options, Extra Credit and Deeper Mysteries, The Arcane Exterminator: An Artificer Archetype and Magic Item Compendium, and Toil and Trouble: The Kitchen Witch Archetype & Hearth Magic for Every Witch.
And if you want more options for your characters, Frughtlupes has for 5e (though still compatible with A5E if you’re using those rules) the Complete 5e Player Options Bundle with a trio of books offering new playable races/species. All together, the bundle has 28 new species plus new rules like mutations, new weapons and items, science fiction options, and more.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another charity bundle up this week with the TTRPGs for Trans Rights – West Virginia bundle. This bundle features a huge collection of over 500 TTRPG products including offerings from every genre you can imagine plus additional products from Paizo and Arc Dream Publishing available as external downloads for purchasing the bundle.
Over on Bundle of Holding, Wyrd Games has the Wyrd Breach Bundle featuring titles from the Lovecraftian/Steampunk game Through the Breach. The Starter Collection includes the core rulebook Through the Breach 2e plus four Penny Dreadful adventures, while the bonus Collection adds on five rules expansions and six more Penny Dreadful one-shots.
The Traveller 4 bundle has all the rulebooks you need for the 4th edition of the classic sci-fi RPG. The starter collection includes Traveller4 core rulebook, the equipment book Central Supply Catalog, the vehicle design book Fire, Fusion, & Steel, the deck plan book Naval Architect’s Manual, and the setting book Milieu 0. The bonus collection adds on another six more sourcebooks with optional rules, more equipment, and even more ships.
Over on Humble Bundle, Monte Cook Games has the Cypher System TTRPG Collection with everything you need to get started. The first tier includes the useful-regardless-of-system books Consent in Gaming and Your Best Game Ever along with the online horror tabletop mega-adventure The Darkest House and the random generator The Weird. The second tier features books from the campaign setting books Ptolus and Planebreaker and the top tier includes a whopping 47 titles total including the Cypher System Rulebook plus a wide variety of expansions from sci-fi to superheroes to real-world heroes with First Responders to fantasy 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!
The newest Star Trek Adventures Briefs is here, this one titled Beneath the Raptor’s Wings. As you might guess from the title, this collection of 10 one-page adventures chronicles the Federation-Romulan War and is set during the Star Trek Enterprise era (though can be adjusted for other time periods).
- Price: Free
Modiphius also has a new supplement for Fallout: Wasteland Warfare, the miniature skirmish game with its own RPG mode (not to be confused with Fallout The Roleplaying Game which is the 2d20 System RPG based on Fallout). Fallout: Wasteland Warfare v1.5 Vault-Tec Simulator is a 56-page rulebook for the game including everything you need to start playing plus a collection of scenarios to play through and stat blocks for major factions and character types from the wasteland.
- Price: Free
R Talsorian Games released a compilation Cyberpunk RED Free DLC 2020 & 2021 collecting over a dozen supplements for Cyberpunk RED from new items, new weapons, conversion guides for previous editions, pre-generated characters and NPCs, worldbuilding essays, optional rules, and a lot more.
- Price: Free
If you’re a Cyberpunk fan, you can also grab Mixing Drinks – Changing Lives, a non-canon supplement inspired by the video game VA-11 HALL-A, a dialogue-focused RPG about a cyberpunk bartender mixing drinks. Get stat blocks for the characters, new gear and cyberware, a full Drinktionary, and more.
- Price: Free
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition has the new science fiction sourcebook Voidrunner’s Codex coming to Kickstarter very soon, and EN Publishing has a preview of the introductory chapter of the book. Find out more about the new book and what it can do for your games, then sign up for notifications when the Kickstarter goes live.
- Price: Free
Tacitus Publishing released Faces of Clay, an 8th-level Pathfinder 1st Edition encounter about a band of brownies who have taken over a farm after the young family there tragically died and are using the farm’s clay golem to help tend the land and milk the cow. Also available for Pathfinder 2nd Edition.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Victor Gordillo González posted Carmine, a d20-based tabletop RPG that strikes a balance between “ordinary people thrust into the adventuring life” and “fantasy superheroes”. The 121-page book includes all the rules you need to play including character creation, bestiary, game rules, support material for gamemasters, an introductory adventure, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)
With summer coming up, it’s time for day camp programs and planning lessons for the next school year. Making it a perfect time for the release of Daniel Lehto AB’s Playing Roleplaying Games with Kids featuring guidelines for introducing kids used to board games to RPGs, how to play narrator for a game, and other activities that can be combined with RPGs like coloring pictures of their characters and creating paper figures.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Daniel Lehto AB also released an adventure for Dragonbane titled The Vacant Throne designed for young players. Princess Ina’s parents have disappeared from Morning Star Castle, but Ina has no intention of becoming queen. Instead, she sets off to find her parents. But someone has to sit on the throne, right? Also available in Swedish.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.99)
Dungeon Age Adventures released Tomb of the Blood Baron for 5e, Old-School Essentials, and Cairn. The low-level party is sent to deal with a tomb full of vampires and their thralls to recover the priceless art, exotic wines, and more.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Primastic Wasteland seems to have something to say with their system-neutral adventure Wonky Willie’s Authentic Interactive Extravaganza. Inspired by recent events, the party is sent on an interactive experience in a Glasgow warehouse inspired by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but designed by algorithmic generation aka “AI”. Hijinks ensue. No “AI” was used in the generation of this adventure except as the target of much ridicule.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
From The OG GM Adventures, we have a nightmare of a setting for any fantasy D20 RPG called A Fistful of Goblins. What makes this so terrifying? Goblins. With guns. Yes, this is a weird science and weird west setting for D&D, Pathfinder, OSR, and other similar systems taking place in Fresno, Nevada, detailed over 70 pages along with a starter adventure.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
The Wonderful World of Darklords podcast is back with another Disney-inspired Domain of Dread for Ravenloft with Wanda’s Vision inspired by the Marvel show in an idyllic small town with comedic schemes to avoid consequences from misunderstandings and miscommunications with hijinks ensuing always ending on a laugh and a freeze frame…except nobody is in control of their own fate.
- Price: Free
Café Arcane has Less Familiar Familiars, a sourcebook with new options for familiars to make them more versatile and provide guidelines for reskinning exiting familiar creatures and expanding the list of available familiars.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
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.
- 100 Bar Patrons (Random NPC generator) from Ed Button ($0.50)
- 100 Dungeon Dressings (Random room description generator) from Ed Button ($0.50)
- D100: Albert Meek’s Potion Problems (Random potion/effects generator) from Ed Button ($0.50)
- Invoke Elementals & Dragon’s Priest Treasures (5e spells, monsters, and magic items) from Caio Mouriz ($5.00)
- Dungeonism 3d01 Dungeon Furnitures Sample (3d printer STL files) from dungeonismlab (Free)
- Dungeon Décor Pack 34 (VTT terrain tokens) from ForgottenAdventures ($4.99)
- The Aetherial Loom (Pathfinder artifact) from Wim De Hert ($2.18)
- Print n Play Battlemaps 11 (Tabletop battle map) from Piranha Squirrel Productions ($1.00)
- Star Spawn Mockery (5e CR8 monster) from Gryphon Games (Free)
- Divine Blessings – Sharess (5e Magic items) from Zrave, Apacolyps ($2.99)
- Miscellaneous Maps I (VTT battlemap) from Jackson Dean ($0.99)
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.
- Gem Ancestry (5e race/species) from Gbloodworth (Free)
- Legacy of the Storm Serpent (Pathfinder Monk fighting style) from Max Forrest ($1.00)
- Numerologist (Pathfinder 2e class) from gameipedia ($1.00)
- World Renditions (Pathfinder Bard Muses) from Iris Gormless, Joshua T ($1.00)
- The Caring Necromancer (Pathfinder spells) from Jared Thaler ($1.00)
- Way of the Spiritbond (5e Monk subclass) from Jacob Tohey ($0.50)
- Apotheosis Scion (5e Sorcerer subclass) from EO Clair ($1.00)
- Constructor Class (5e full class) from Calius Shontor ($0.50)
- The Saboteur (5e Rogue subclass) from Lorenzo Cortesi ($0.90)
- Pirate (5e Rogue subclass) from Shawn Burke ($0.99)
- The Occultist (5e Full class) from Hanoi Crit Roll ($2.00)
- Path of the Stormborn (5e Barbarian subclass) from Rock Conway ($0.50)
- Arachne (5e Race/Species) from Devon Taylor-Chart ($0.50)
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.
There are four big bundles from third-party creators for EN Publishing’s Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. The first comes from Purple Martin Games for A5E Premium Heritages featuring four titles with new heritages including Handbook of Heritages, Secrets of the Selkies, Sinuous Sentinels, and the book to help you make your own heritages, Homebrew and Hacking: Crafting Heritages and Cultures.
- Price: $35.60 (17% off)
Next up is the A5E Rules Expansion Bundle with the vehicle rules expansion One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Air, the skill rules book Paradigms of Skill: Expanded Skill Criticals, the magic book Spells from the Forgotten Vault, the exploration book Stranger Sights: Challenges for 5e and Advanced 5e, and the character expansion book Venture Forth: Over 100 Knacks for the Core Classes.
- Price: $53.99 (17% off)
The A5E New Classes Bundle has five collections of new character classes, subclasses, and options including Advanced Artificers, Heroes Old and New, Manual of Adventurous Resources, Mysterious and Marvelous Miscellanea, and Paranormal Power.
- Price: $72.00 (20% off)
And finally from Speaks & Spells Publishing we have the A5E Archetypes and Accessories Bundle with a trio of books with new character options, Extra Credit and Deeper Mysteries, The Arcane Exterminator: An Artificer Archetype and Magic Item Compendium, and Toil and Trouble: The Kitchen Witch Archetype & Hearth Magic for Every Witch.
- Price: $15.99 (20% off)
And if you want more options for your characters, Frughtlupes has for 5e (though still compatible with A5E if you’re using those rules) the Complete 5e Player Options Bundle with a trio of books offering new playable races/species. All together, the bundle has 28 new species plus new rules like mutations, new weapons and items, science fiction options, and more.
- Price: $8.97 (25%)
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has another charity bundle up this week with the TTRPGs for Trans Rights – West Virginia bundle. This bundle features a huge collection of over 500 TTRPG products including offerings from every genre you can imagine plus additional products from Paizo and Arc Dream Publishing available as external downloads for purchasing the bundle.
- Price: $5.00 (over 99% off)
- Charity: Project Rainbow LGBTQ+ Shelter (all proceeds)
- End Date: June 1, 2024
Over on Bundle of Holding, Wyrd Games has the Wyrd Breach Bundle featuring titles from the Lovecraftian/Steampunk game Through the Breach. The Starter Collection includes the core rulebook Through the Breach 2e plus four Penny Dreadful adventures, while the bonus Collection adds on five rules expansions and six more Penny Dreadful one-shots.
- Price: $17.95 (82% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Cancer Research Institute (10%)
- End Date: June 4, 2024
The Traveller 4 bundle has all the rulebooks you need for the 4th edition of the classic sci-fi RPG. The starter collection includes Traveller4 core rulebook, the equipment book Central Supply Catalog, the vehicle design book Fire, Fusion, & Steel, the deck plan book Naval Architect’s Manual, and the setting book Milieu 0. The bonus collection adds on another six more sourcebooks with optional rules, more equipment, and even more ships.
- Price: $14.95 (79% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
- End Date: May 21, 2024
Over on Humble Bundle, Monte Cook Games has the Cypher System TTRPG Collection with everything you need to get started. The first tier includes the useful-regardless-of-system books Consent in Gaming and Your Best Game Ever along with the online horror tabletop mega-adventure The Darkest House and the random generator The Weird. The second tier features books from the campaign setting books Ptolus and Planebreaker and the top tier includes a whopping 47 titles total including the Cypher System Rulebook plus a wide variety of expansions from sci-fi to superheroes to real-world heroes with First Responders to fantasy and a lot more.
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (96% off at top tier)
- Charity: ACLU (user-defined, default 5%)
- End Date: June 1, 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.