Freebies, Sales, and Charity Bundles for May 5, 2024

D&D, Pathfinder, 13th Age, Fallout, Call of Cthulhu, OSR, Shadowdark, Dragonbane, Savage Worlds, BattleTech, 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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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!

Pelgrane Press released a preview of the highly anticipated 13th Age Second Edition with a look at backgrounds, combat, classes, kin (their replacement for race/specie/heritage/etc.) ahead of the crowdfunding campaign coming very soon.
  • Price: Free

Coyote & Crow LLC has a new RPG from designer Connor Alexander, the semi-cooperative game of community survival Wolves. The players win if everyone in the community survives and losing even one person means a loss. However, you’re also competing against one another for status awards to be elected chief of all the communities.
  • Price: Free

Tavernmaster Games has a new issue of their Tunnels & Trolls zine with TrollsZine 15. This issue includes an interview with Patriced Geille, a preview of Kit-Ra’s Pyramid of Imprisonment, and more.
  • Price: Free

Candela Obscura fans will be interested in the new adventure Moonlight Sonata from Gavin Bastiensz where the Circle members must investigate multiple murders in The Eaves.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

There’s a new first level adventure for Pathfinder 2nd Edition from Ashley Hemerick titled Trouble in Iskes Village. After defeating a giant toad and getting paid, the party discovers difficulty spending their well-earned bounty as all the cash registers in town have been stolen!
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.15)

Mundos Infinitos released Profanatum, a pamphlet style OSR dungeon crawl game with solo, GMless, or standard modes. The game has a generator for 12 randomized Chambers and six classes designed to be easy to hack. Also available in Spanish.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

Who wants Cthulhu in space? Geoff Bridges has you covered with Starport Helios, an adventure set in 2370 for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition. “On a lonely station on the edge of human space, a sole technician tries to balance duty with a growing feeling of isolation.”
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)

The Unearned Halls from Cthonic Studios LLC is a first level adventure for Shadowdark as the party is sent into a dungeon to help Erwin Selwin solve a problem (or possibly create more for him).
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

And if you want more Shadowdark fun, Lost Heretic Press has Cairn of Chaos pitting the 1st to 3rd level party against a tribe of mutated goblins who have kidnapped the blacksmith’s daughter.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

And even more Shadowdark, Cthonic Studios LLC released the 3rd level adventure Cursed Library of Gro’Thell where the party explodes a library filled to the brim with forbidden knowledge.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

Phillip Reed Games is re-releasing the classic 1997 action RPG Extreme Vengeance along with the expansions Maximum Damage and Die and Die Again. If you want a time capsule of the 1990s action genre, this is a great example both for good and for the very dated ill.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.00)

The 5th edition adventure Rivers of Pollin from Erts Treehouse sends the 3rd level party to the industrial dwarven city of Pollin as the local river that serves as the power source of the city has run dry.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)

With Vecna: Eve of Ruin coming soon and starting at 11th level, and with Phandelver and Below released recently and ending at 12th level, it’s not too farfetched to link the two together into one long campaign. Firbolg Factory wants to help if this is your plan with Tying Vecna to Phandalin bringing the prequel adventure Vecna: Next of the Eldritch Eye to Phandelver and Below and setting you up to move into the multiverse-hopping adventure after.
  • Price: Free

Ting Yuen Tjiong released FR-DC-TT-201 Return to Mountain’s Toe Gold Mine, a Tier 2 APL 8 adventure expanding on the material in Dragon of Icespire Peak.
  • Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)

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.

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.

Fantasy Grounds licenses are on sale for both Fantasy Grounds Unity Standard and Ultimate with big discounts off the regular price both for the monthly subscription and the permanent pay-once-keep-forever license.
  • Price: $19.50 one-time payment (50% off) for Standard or $49.66 one-time payment (67% off)
  • End Date: May 11, 2024

War. War never…okay I know I’ve been talking about Fallout a bunch but the show is incredibly popular and doubled sales for the RPGs and Modiphius is currently sold out of the core rulebook in physical copies. Which is why it’s good that the Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Roll 20 bundle is on sale with the core rulebook in PDF along with the full rules on Roll20 ready to play.
  • Price: $47.99 (20% off)

If you’ve ever been curious about the Fast! Furious! Fun! setting-neutral roleplaying game Savage Worlds, Pinnacle Entertainment Group has several bundles for Roll20 starting with the Savage Worlds Core Rulebook Bundle featuring the core rules, Action Deck, and Adventure Deck both in PDF and ready for the Roll20 VTT.
  • Price: $45.57 (20% off)

If you want a different take on Pathfinder, the Pathfinder for Savage Worlds bundle has the core rules and the Bestiary plus a Roll20 module all ready to jump into your Savage adventures in Golarion.
  • Price: $68.78 (20% off)

And for the original setting for Savage Worlds, there’s also a bundle for Deadlands the Weird West RPG with the core rulebook in PDF format and the action deck with both also ready to run on Roll20.
  • Price: $63.98 (20% off)

And over on Storytellers Vault, if playing regular vampires wasn’t evil enough for you, the bundle The Black Hand Starter Set can jumpstart you into the Kindred who revel in their bestial nature for 5e with The Black Hand: Playing the Sabbat and Our Graves Are Empty.
  • Price: $29.99 (25% off)

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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

Itch.io released a charity megabundle featuring a total of 373 items worth more than $1600 for a rock bottom price supporting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. The bundle is another mixed group bundle featuring TTRPGs, video games, novels, asset packs to make your own games, and a lot more.
  • Price: $8.00 (over 99% off)
  • Charity: Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (All proceeds)
  • End Date: May 5, 2024 HOURS LEFT!!

And there’s a sister bundle also ongoing specifically for tabletop RPGs with the TTRPG for Palestine bundle on Tiltify. This bundle includes almost 200 TTRPGs including Gutterpunk the TTRPG, Remember Us, A Stitch in Time, Punktopia: The Punkpunk RPG, Drama Llamas, and many others.
  • Price: $15 (99% off)
  • Charity: Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (All proceeds)
  • End Date: May 7, 2024

Over on Bundle of Holding, a rare software bundle is up in the Profantasy Mega Bundle with a collection of map making software. The core bundle features Campaign Cartographer 3+ plus three sets of symbols and the Tome of Ultimate Mapping. You can add on even more map-making software options with the Designer Collection adding Dungeon Designer 3, City Designer 3, Fractal Terrains 3, Cartographer’s Annual 2022, and Token Treasury: Monsters 1-2.
  • Price: $29.95 (79% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Water.org (10%)
  • End Date: May 8, 2024

There’s not one, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE bundles for Ars Magica from Atlas Games and you have just one day left to grab them! The first bundle features the core rules for Ars Magica Fifth Edition (as in the 5th edition of the Ars Magica rules and not a 5e D20 system version of the game) along with the sourcebooks Covenants, Houses of Hermes: True Lineages, Apprentices, and The Living Covenant. The Bonus Collection adds on Houses of Hermes: Mystery Cults, Houses of Hermes: Societates, The Lion and the Lilly, and the adventure books The Broken Covenant of Calebais and Tales of Mythic Europe.
  • Price: $14.95 (73% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Montessori School of Duluth
  • End Date: May 6, 2024 Final Day!

The Ars Magica More Magic bundle is exactly what it says on the tin – books to add more magic to your games. The Starter Collection has the magic expansion books The Mysteries, Hedge Magic, and Ancient Magic while the Bonus Collection adds on Rival Magic, Hermetic Projects, Tales of Power, and Transforming Mythic Europe.
  • Price: $12.95 (71% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Montessori School of Duluth
  • End Date: May 6, 2024 Final Day!

The third bundle Ars Magica Wizards and Power features the sourcebooks Realms of Power: Magic, Against the Dark, and The Sundered Eagle while the Bonus Collection adds on three Realms of Power books (The Divine, The Infernal, and Faerie), Guardians of the Forests, Faith and Flame, and The Fallen Fane.
  • Price: $12.95 (71% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Montessori School of Duluth
  • End Date: May 6, 2024 Final Day!

If you want more detailed setting information, the Ars Magica Mythic Europe bundle includes Lords of Men, The Church, City and Guild, and Art and Academe with the Bonus Collection adding on Magi of Hermes, Legends of Hermes, Ars Magica Antagonists, and Grogs.
  • Price: $14.95 (75% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Montessori School of Duluth
  • End Date: May 6, 2024 Final Day!

And finally, if you’d like to expand your Ars Magica game outside Europe, the Ars Magica World of Magic bundle features the location books Mythic Locations, The Cradle and The Crescent, Thrice-Told Tales, and Hooks while the Bonus Collection adds on The Contested Isle, Lands of the Nile, Between Sand and Sea: Mythic Africa, Through the Aegis, and Dies Irae.
  • Price: $14.95 (73% off) with variable-cost Level Up option
  • Charity: Montessori School of Duluth
  • End Date: May 6, 2024 Final Day!

Over on Humble Bundle, Modiphius knows that Wargaming. Wargaming never changes. That’s why they’re doing an encore bundle of the Fallout Wasteland Warfare bundle with both the wargaming rules and the RPG add-on for the skirmish miniature game plus STL files for 3D printers for terrain for the game. Note: This is not the 2d20 System RPG, but the campaign mode that expands on the wargame with additional RPG elements. Fallout fans can pick up the core rules, quickstart, several scenarios, and the STL file for a ruined Red Rocket all on the basic tier. The second tier adds on the RPG rules, two more scenarios, and two more STL files - a ruined Sanctuary Hills house and a pre-war preserved Red Rocket station. The top their expands even further with a full collection of STL files for floors, walls, stairs, fences, furniture, and other accessories to recreate a vault, a pre-war APC tank, a Vertibird, and the Vault Girl herself holding a sledge hammer giving the iconic thumbs-up along with the campaign book Caught in the Crossfire.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18 (92% off at top tier)
  • Charity: Trees, Water, & People (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: May 11, 2024

The amazing BattleTech Fiction Collection Bundle has been extended for another week. So quickly, the base level includes four novels plus the anthology magazine Shrapnel while the second tier adds on six more novels and the third tier includes a total of 70 titles. And if you bought the BattleTech fiction bundle last year, that’s where you should stop. But if you didn’t, you might be a little confused at the “71 item bundle” for the top tier. Well that “one” item is actually the entire 2023 BattleTech fiction bundle featuring a total of sixty more titles from the classic era of BattleTech fiction for a total of one hundred thirty – repeat, 130 – novels and short story collections cover every era of BattleTech lore at an amazing discount.
  • Price: $1/$10/$18/$30 (96% off at top tier)
  • Charity: American Civil Liberties Union (user-defined, default 5%)
  • End Date: May 9, 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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