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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!
If you’d like to play Call of Cthulhu with the characters of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London novels, Chaosium has precisely that with investigator stats for Molly, Nightingale, Abigail, and Indigo (and yes, you can use them in Chaosium’s Rivers of London RPG).
- Price: Free
Paizo doesn’t release to DriveThruRPG often, but they have with the Free RPG Day adventure from 2020, Little Trouble in Big Absalom where the party is made of up kobolds who get drawn into a big adventure involving a magical hedge trimmer.
- Price: Free
You can also get the 2021 Free RPG Day adventure, Threshold of Knowledge, which places the players in the roles of students from Magaambya who must track down their missing professor.
- Price: Free
While it’s shown up a couple of times on EN World already, I feel I must bring up Darrington Press’s release of the Candela Obscura Quickstart Guide which is the subject of the current new series on Critical Role.
- Price: Free
And Kobold Press released a preview of the Tales of the Valiant 5e variant they currently have on Kickstarter. The 63-page preview features four classes (Fighter, Priest, Rogue, Wizard with two subclasses each), four lineages (elves, dwarves, humans, and beastkin), eight monsters, the new Talent and Luck systems, and more.
- Price: Free
Sebastian Baar released a starter set for EDGE, a new RPG system that “tries to bridge the gap between old-school roleplaying and a more modern, cinematic style of play” which comes with a trio of one-shot adventures in different genres plus the bonus four adventure in this bundle, Valorn’s Tomb.
- Price: Free
Fishwife Games has a pair of supplements for GMs in a hurry, the first is 50 Hirelings 7 with fifty hirelings with full name, gender, role/occupation, active description, background description, and expected salary useful for any fantasy RPG.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.85)
The second is 50 Scoundrels 13, again usable in any fantasy RPG with full name, gender, general description, worn clothing/armor, carried weapon(s), carried treasure and coins, and an extra carried item of interest.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.85)
Age of Ravens Games has a playbook for Masks: A New Generation called The Crew. “When you gained your powers, you were uncertain and unsure. But a team of people joined together to help you out. Perhaps they were responsible for you gaining your powers, maybe they created your tech, or maybe they just kind of fell into your orbit.”
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
Lyn Roxas released a tarot-based RPG Foretold where the results of actions are determined by pulling tarot cards from individual Decks of Fate leaving you to decide if the results were random chance or destined by fate.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Decio Michellis Neto has a playable version of the Gnoll along with subtypes that are based on real-world hyenas.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
Doug Strain brings the most terrifying thing possible to 5e with The Book of Vile Math. Yes, math in your RPG! Nine chapters of puzzles based on geometry, logic, physics, computer science, and more with that even the author describes as “Dante’s voyage through the nine circles of mathematical hell”.
- Price: Free
I’m a big fan of the cheesy horror movie Killer Klowns from Outer Space so I’m thrilled that Gabriel Gro has brought them to 5e with Space Clowns: Jovial Predators with four different clown-inspired monsters along with magic items like the Seltzer Bottle and Squeaky Shoes along with the lore of Clownspace.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.99)
And what could go better with clowns than a carnival, as Adam Gierke released Falling Star Carnival – Hunt for Winter’s Trophy, an adventure for 5th to 7th level characters about the Falling Star Carnival which just arrived in the frosty city of Stormreach.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $3.50)
If you want an alternative for potions for your games, why not try a nice cuppa? Jefferson Chalmers released Tempest in a Teapot – The Art of Brewing Tea with fifty recipes to magical tea brews with unique effects along with new feats and new magic items.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested $1.00)
Cacklin Slayers has the adventure Rotmother’s Rhyme for a party of level 4 characters. The adventurers are tasks with tracking down a nobleman who went missing in the swamps in an adventure inspired by the folklore of Baba Yaga.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $4.99)
Over on Storytellers Vault, Lorelai Walker released Pretty Guardian Faerie Knights, a Hunter: The Vigil conspiracy inspired by shoujo magical girl anime and manga. Inspired by the dreams of disaffected modern youth, these magical girls use the powers granted by the Seelie Fae to face down their Unseelie enemies and other creatures that go bump in the night.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $7.99)
This week’s lightning round features new classes and subclasses for 5e. As always, these are either free or pay what you want with the suggested price listed 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.
As part of PaizoCon going on this weekend, DriveThruRPG has a huge sale on Pathfinder and Starfinder books. While Paizo doesn’t publish directly to DriveThru for the most part, the sale includes some top-tier third party books from Kobold Press, Minotaur Games (Pathfinder creator Jason Bulmahn’s publishing company), Rogue Genius Games (Starfinder lead designer Owen K.C. Stephens’s publishing company), and many others.
- Price: 25% off or more
- End Date: May 29, 2023
And speaking of PaizoCon sales, Eldritch Osiris Games collected a megabundle of over 30 Pathfinder 1st Edition and Pathfinder 2nd Edition products including new character classes, new ancestries, new rules options, new monsters, and a lot more including options ready to import into the Foundry VTT.
- Price: $39.98 (77% off)
Elven Tower has a bundle of one-shots for 5e featuring a dozen adventures ranging from 3rd level to 9th level, all of which include the adventure in full-color PDFs, printer-friendly black and white, and separate high resolution map files ready to import to your favorite VTT.
- Price: $9.90 (46% off)
Doppelganger Publishing has a bundle of sci-fi battlemaps made for space opera games featuring maps for multiple starships, space stations, ground-based stations, and exotic alien planets plus a bonus supplement 100 Bounties to Hunt Across the Galaxy.
- Price: $4.99 (61% off)
On DriveThruRPG, EN Publishing’s system Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition now has its own system category to make it easier to find third-party products published for the system. In celebration, many of those titles both from third-party publishers and EN Publishing itself are on sale.
- Price: 25% or more off
- End Date: May 31, 2023
Charity Bundles and Sales
Itch.io has the Cat’s Mystery Illness Bundle from Peach Garden Games, a charity bundle raising money to help diagnose a poor kitty who needs help. The bundle comes in three tiers with nine, fifteen, and sixteen indie RPGs from Peach Garden Games, Catscratcher Studio, Ziva McPherson, Hypnos, and more.
- Price: $10/$15/$25 (68%/$82%/81% off respectively)
- End Date: June 1, 2023
- Charity: Diagnosing a kitty (all proceeds)
The Humble Store has the video game Solasta: Crown of the Magister and its DLC on sale. In case you missed the coverage at launch, Solasta is a turn-based roleplaying video game that uses the 5e rules with unique class options and other custom material not included in the SRD to create a full single-player experience where you roleplay as the entire party.
- Price: $11.99 (70% off) for the core game, 25-36% off on DLC
- Charity: Account default charity (user-defined, default 5%)
On Humble Bundle, Paizo released the Starfinder Solidarity Bundle featuring a full library of Starfinder books. If you’ve never played the space fantasy spinoff of Pathfinder, the base level features the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Player Character Folio, GM Screen, Beginner Box, and the first adventure in the We’re No Heroes adventure path. The top-tier level is a full library of 27 digital products plus two physical products, the hardcover of Alien Archive 2 and the reference cards Critical Hit Deck (shipping extra).
- Price: $5/$15/$25/$45 (89% off at top tier)
- End Date: June 1, 2023
- Charity: The Trevor Project (user-defined, default 5%)
Catalyst Game Labs and Humble Bundle have extended the BattleTech Legends library of classic BattleTech novels. Even the $1 level gets you four amazing books, the book that got me into BattleTech, Robert Thurston’s Way of the Clans plus the novel that started off the line, William H. Keith’s Decision at Thunder Rift along with a pair of novels by Robert N. Charrette, Heir to the Dragon and Wolves on the Border. The second $10 level adds on six more books from Michael A Stackpole, Loren L. Coleman, and more and the top tier $18 is an amazing deal for sixty novels in your choice of EPUB or MOBI format for easy reading on any e-reader, tablet, phone, or computer.
- Price: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at top tier)
- End Date: June 1, 2023
- Charity: The Global FoodBanking Network (user-defined, default 5%)
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.
