Freebies and Pay What You Need
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So, you all meet in a tavern. No, significantly, this OSR-style roleplaying from Andy McDermott is known as You All Meet in a Tavern, a title I’ve a smooth spot for.
For an additional light-weight fantasy RPG, there’s Dwarves, Gnomes, and Halflings with an emphasis on non-combat components, talent development, and an open magic system with doable miscasts.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $0.00)
And one more new rules-lite system, the Pathwalker One Core Guidelines (no relation) is a setting-neutral RPG utilizing a singular Path System for character creation and development.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $1.00)
And yet another core rule system, the fantasy RPG Misplaced Roads of Lociam – Age of the Black Chaimara is a system utilizing two ten-sided cube set on the planet of Lociam with guidelines for journey, preventing, magic, prayer, riches, and extra.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $0.00)
- Additionally accessible as Print-on-Demand
Extra goodies for OSR followers, Jeremy Reaban has The OSR Slayer, a personality class made for OSR programs based mostly on 1e or B/X guidelines that permits the character to smite foes with weapons or fists and select to realize powers from the evil they oppose.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $1.00)
Born2BPlayer has a brand new journey for Delta Inexperienced titled Azzurrina is Lacking which sends the brokers to search out the daughter of a senator who has disappeared close to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Superhero RPG followers, meet Ink!, a wisecracking webslinger with an immature and 4th-wall-breaking humorousness (sure, Spider-man meets Deadpool) with stats for Guardians OSR, Icons, and Champions Now.
You realize what Pathfinder 2nd Version has been lacking? Big stompy robots. Fortunately Eldritch Osiris Video games introduced us Mechfinder: Unvierse of Mech and Magic with a preview of the upcoming full recreation.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $1.00)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Bas Klein launched Stakes, a tavern card recreation so as to add some selection to downtime together with three new spells designed to cheat at card video games.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $0.73)
Thomas and Rachel Kolar deliver us a brand new Area of Dread with The Queenswood that includes the Darklord Queen Narcissa impressed by the fairy story Snow White.
As localization is a gradual and costly course of, not all merchandise can be found in all languages. Whereas not a full translation, Demise Home Turkce Betimlemeler from Legendary Service provider interprets among the location descriptions and taste textual content from Curse of Strahd into Turkish (although you’ll nonetheless want the e-book for all recreation stats, encounters, treasure, or different supplies).
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $0.00)
Gabriel Gro exhibits up right here usually along with his customized courses (and he’ll present up once more in only a second), however this week he additionally has a brand new species, Formians: Cosmic Insectoids. This conversion of the basic insectoid race from earlier editions with 5 monster stat blocks and up to date lore about formian society.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $2.75)
And he additionally has a brand new participant race with Zodacians: The Zodiac Woke up. The Zodacians have twelve subspecies based mostly on every of the twelve indicators of the zodiac with distinctive skills and powers for every together with full lore for the species.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $1.99)
Over on Storytellers Vault, Justin Blasdel has a brand new tackle the Werewolf: The Apocalypse setting with the thought…what if Pentex took over? Utopia: The Residing Nightmare is a big metropolis setting the place ten % of the inhabitants are formor and the opposite 9 want they might be. New creation guidelines, a brand new Contamination trait, setting historical past, 4 new Mockery Breeds, and extra guidelines for Werewolf: The Apocalypse twentieth Anniversary Version.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Advised: $5.00)
And our lightning spherical this week is a round-up of the brand new courses, subclasses, and variant courses accessible on Dungeonmasters Guild. All merchandise are free or pay-what-you-want with the recommended value in parentheses.
Bundles and Gross sales
Be aware: I’ve included finish dates when listed for the next gross sales, however please be warned that these with out printed finish dates might finish immediately so be sure you plan purchases accordingly.
Over on Itch.io, Gizmo is internet hosting a sale on Mörk Borg dietary supplements with a bundle of 15 adventures, guidelines expansions, settings, instruments, character choices, and extra. And whereas not exactly a charity bundle, it’s for a superb trigger: Gizmo has a brand new canine whose birthday is subsequent month and deserves treats.
- Value: £8.00 (85% off)
- Finish Date: Might 31, 2023
Chaosium has as soon as once more gathered choose entries from the Miskatonic Repository neighborhood content material program for the Miskatonic Might 2023 Bundle. This bundle options 5 adventures for Name of Cthulhu from diversified settings reminiscent of Regency Period on the excessive seas, 1898 Kenya, and Jazz Age New Orleans together with the usual Twenties and modern-day.
The Cupboard of Curiosities launched the CBR+PNK bundle, a rules-lite Cast within the Darkish impressed cyberpunk RPG the place you tackle the function of a runner group doing One Final Job™. This bundle contains the core guidelines, the +Bizarre complement so as to add magic to the setting, the principles growth Cyberpunk Hunters, the journey Thoughts the Hole, and the setting books Mona Rise Megalopolis and PRDTR.
The bundle for CBR+PNK can also be accessible on Itch.io, and over 1900 free neighborhood copies on the time of writing of the core guidelines accessible because of the crowdfunding stretch targets for many who can’t afford the sport right now.
- Value: $19.90 (36% off)
- Free neighborhood copies accessible for these experiencing monetary hardship, from the World South, need to play the sport on an rising channel/podcast, and/or simply need to attempt the sport earlier than committing to a purchase order
Earl of Fife Video games launched two bundles for the sci-fi recreation Mothership with totally different themes. The primary, 2023 Mothership Blue Collar Sci-Fi Bundle, options elective guidelines, adventures, sourcebooks, expansions, areas, and extra for exploring the company aspect of the sci-fi/horror recreation.
In the meantime, the 2023 Mothership Xeno-Horror Bundle seeks to broaden on the horror aspect of Mothership with new terrors lurking within the unknown of area with extra adventures, sourcebooks, and dietary supplements.
Charity Bundles and Gross sales
Itch.io has a brand new mega-bundle, the Türkiye & Syria Earthquake Aid Mega Bundle with over 200 video video games, asset packs, tabletop RPGs, and extra from all kinds of impartial creators.
- Value: $10 (98% off)
- Finish Date: Might 21, 2023
- Charity: Turkish Philanthropy Fund, Docs With out Borders, UNICEF, White Helmets, Ahbap, and extra (all proceeds)
Over on Bundle of Holding, Privateer Press has the Iron Kingdoms: Requiem bundle utilizing the 5e guidelines set. This steam-powered sword and sorcery fantasy bundle contains the core rulebook, the Monsternomicon, GM’s Toolkit, and the adventures Legend of the Witchfire and An Echo within the Darkness whereas the bonus connection provides on the sourcebooks Borderlands and Past and The Borderlands Survival Information plus three extra adventures set within the Borderlands.
- Value: $14.95 (77% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up possibility
- Finish Date: Might 26, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
Earlier than Shadowrun, earlier than BattleTech, even earlier than the unique Star Trek RPG, FASA Company was referred to as a licensee producing dietary supplements for the science fiction recreation Traveller. And now Bundle of Holding has collected lots of their basic adventures and sourcebooks collectively within the FASA Traveller Bundle. The bundle contains six adventures together with maps of the ISCV King Richard and a Starport Resort Complicated, whereas the bonus assortment provides on eight extra starship plans, the Sky Raiders journey trilogy, and the FCI Shopper Information.
- Value: $9.95 (85% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up possibility
- Finish Date: Might 22, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
Liberi Gothica Video games has a bundle that includes the tabletop fantasy recreation Fellowship. One participant acts because the Overlord bent on world destruction whereas the opposite gamers kind a coalition of heroes enterprise a dangerous journey to save lots of the day utilizing guidelines based mostly on the Apocalypse Engine. The starter assortment options the bottom rulebook, Fellowship 2 – Inverse Fellowship, and a group of different playbooks for Dungeon World whereas the Bonus Assortment provides on Fellowship 3 – In Rebel and Fellowship Ebook 4 – Beneficiant Fellowship together with 4 extra playbooks.
- Value: $9.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up possibility
- Finish Date: Might 18, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
For GMs in search of a fast generator for plot concepts, Larcenous Designs has the GameMaster’s Apprentice, a line of idea-generator playing cards from Nathan Rockwood. The bottom degree options all three 120-card decks in PDF format to print as sheets and as particular person JPG photos to be used with VTTs and different card-creation software program, whereas the bonus assortment provides on an extra 5 extra decks.
- Value: $7.95 (74% off) with variable-cost Stage-Up possibility
- Finish Date: Might 16, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
On Humble Bundle, Paizo launched the Starfinder Solidarity Bundle that includes a full library of Starfinder books. Should you’ve by no means performed the area fantasy spinoff of Pathfinder, the bottom degree options the Starfinder Core Rulebook, Alien Archive, Participant Character Folio, GM Display, Newbie Field, and the primary journey within the We’re No Heroes journey path. The highest-tier degree is a full library of 27 digital merchandise plus two bodily merchandise, the hardcover of Alien Archive 2 and the reference playing cards Crucial Hit Deck (delivery additional).
- Value: $5/$15/$25/$45 (89% off at prime tier)
- Finish Date: June 1, 2023
- Charity: The Trevor Challenge (user-defined, default 5%)
Catalyst Sport Labs and Humble Bundle gathered collectively a library of basic BattleTech novels. Even the $1 degree will get you 4 superb books, the e-book that bought me into BattleTech, Robert Thurston’s Approach of the Clans plus the novel that began off the road, William H. Keith’s Choice at Thunder Rift together with a pair of novels by Robert N. Charrette, Inheritor to the Dragon and Wolves on the Border. The second $10 degree provides on six extra books from Michael A Stackpole, Loren L. Coleman, and extra and the highest tier $18 is an incredible deal for sixty novels in your alternative of EPUB or MOBI format for simple studying on any ereader, pill, telephone, or laptop.
- Value: $1/$10/$18 (94% off at prime tier)
- Finish Date: Might 25, 2023
- Charity: The World FoodBanking Community (user-defined, default 5%)
That’s all for this week! If you already know of any bundles or gross sales beginning quickly, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Mastodon, or ship me a message right here on EN World. Low cost percentages have been rounded to the closest entire quantity and are based mostly on the usual retail value offered by the location. Be aware: Hyperlinks to Amazon, Humble Retailer, Humble Bundle, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG might comprise affiliate hyperlinks with the proceeds going to the writer of this column.
