Freebies and Pay What You Want
Note: While “Pay What You Want” downloads can be found without cost, please help the creators if you’re ready!
The basic roleplaying sport Pendragon has a brand new quickstart set, The Adventure of the Sword Tournament. This quickstart is for the upcoming sixth Edition of the Arthurian RPG Pendragon thought-about to be the magnum opus of legendary designer Greg Stafford that tells the story of the event the place King Arthur pulls the sword from the stone.
Over on DriveThruRPG, we now have a pair of RPGs meant to show worldbuilding right into a sport itself. The first from Raspberry Lane Games is Pantheon, a solo sport that lets you create your personal legendary Gods and develop the legends surrounding them.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.00)
Next from WatcherDM is QuestionCrawl, a one-page RPG to permit the whole group to create the world from geography to factions to wonders and extra. All you want is a deck of taking part in playing cards and a six-sided die to create a whole world in simply a few enjoyable hours.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
And now we now have a pair of video games which might be clearly impressed by one thing they take nice pains to not identify for authorized causes. The first is Miners & Makers from Douglas J Coughler which is an RPG that includes pixel artwork that’s about crafting issues that you just’ve mined. This is a full rules-lite sport impressed by the design of Grant Howitt that has every thing you could Mine after which craft as you discover the world.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
And from Porcupine Publishing, Indomitable Gauls is a family-friendly journey sport that pits the plucky Gauls towards the devious invading Romans. If you’re accustomed to the French-Belgian comedian Asterix, precisely what to anticipate from this sport.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $2.00)
This is my first time seeing this collection, however Alexey Aparin has a set of STL recordsdata for 3D printers known as Pocket Lands, sturdy small figures of assorted races and courses scaled to make use of as miniatures. The latest pair this week are the Elf carrying a cloak and drawing a sword and the Rogue carrying a hooded cloak holding a dagger. The aesthetic is vaguely chibi impressed and the squat figures are designed to be sturdy sufficient to be thrown in your cube bag and rattled round with none harm. These two entries deliver the collection as much as eight whole figures prepared to your residence 3D printer.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00 every)
Icarus Games seems that can assist you make extra use of your 5e DM display screen with a set of inserts. The assortment of condensed tables will be printed and added to your DM display screen for fast entry to a monster builder, NPC generator, weapon harm desk, circumstances desk, and extra.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.50)
Over on DMs Guild, you possibly can in all probability guess the order of the week has been Spelljammer. Specifically a number of new variations on the fight guidelines. First from Michael Hammock, we now have Spelljammer 5e Theater of the Mind Ship Combat Rules that may can help you have interaction in ship-to-ship fight with no need a map and miniatures or tokens.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
And for many who need extra detailed fight guidelines, Atrus has Spelljammer Combat Expanded with extra choices for participant characters to become involved within the fight with particular actions, group checks, and new stat blocks for ships and their artillery weapons.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $1.00)
And for extra guidelines general, Aiden Fisk presents A Space Hamster’s Guide to Spelljammer with further ship fight guidelines and optionally available adjustments, a “crew as a resource” system for ship weapons and gear, guidelines for creating variant Giant Space Hamsters, extra ship-based gear, and extra.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $5.39)
For these wanting extra to discover in Spelljammer, Jesse Winter launched Worlds of Wildspace: Crakateg. Travelers to this world are confronted with an awesome sense of ennui, pushed to simply surrender on their mission as a result of hopelessness of existence and be part of the inhabitants that exist spinning their wheels for no goal. Okay, that’s a little bit of a temper.
- Price: Pay What You Want (Suggested: $0.99)
Bundles and Sales
Note: I’ve included finish dates when listed for the next gross sales, however please be warned that these with out printed finish dates could finish immediately so you’ll want to plan purchases accordingly.
The fan creation portals Pathfinder Infinite and Starfinder Infinite have an enormous sale occurring. Similar to DMs Guild or Storyteller’s Vault, the 2 Infinite storefronts enable creators to make their very own materials for Pathfinder and Starfinder past what’s allowed by the usual OGL releases. Over 600 titles are on sale as a part of the occasion so it’s a good time to seek out some fascinating or area of interest third-party content material.
- Price: Up to 40% off
- End Date: August 28, 2022
Evil Hat’s summer time sale continues to be going robust, providing 20% off your total buy by means of their webstore together with each digital and bodily merchandise (Note: bodily merchandise can solely ship to the USA). When testing, use the code SUMMERGAME2022 to use the low cost, restricted to 1 use per buyer.
- Price: 20% off
- End Date: September 21, 2022
If you bear in mind I beforehand talked concerning the PocketQuest sport jam from DriveThruRPG, there’s not a number of collections accessible to select up a plethora of titles underneath the theme “Summer Camp”. There are three genre-themed bundles: Flashlight Bundle for horror video games, Dark Comedy Bundle for humorous video games, and Sunny Bundle for whimsical and cheery video games, plus one MegaBundle that includes all three.
- Price: $19.99 per bundle or $49.99 for the MegaBundle (47% to 61% off)
- End Date: September 1, 2022
And the Spelljammer flood wasn’t restricted to simply free content material as we now have two completely different bundles of latest courses for the setting. From Mitchell Turnbull, the Spelljammer Class Bundle contains three new courses: Channeler, Golemancer, and Spellslinger.
And we even have one other Spelljammer Classes Bundle from Stratos Folakis that includes not simply the brand new courses for the Gunslinger and Psion, however a full Psionic Handbook with over 200 psionic spells.
Charity Bundles and Sales
Munchkin artist and Dork Tower author/artist John Kovalic is as soon as once more doing his annual bicycle charity journey with a duck on his head. This marks the tenth yr of Kovalic doing a motorcycle marathon with wild stipulations and wonderful rewards for donating in help of native meals banks in Wisconsin. Rewards begin with colour e-book PDFs and signed put up playing cards and go all the way in which as much as cameos in Dork Tower or customized playable Munchkin playing cards.
- Price: Multiple reward tiers for donations
- End Date: August 31, 2022
- Charity: FairShare CSA Coalition (100%)
Bundle of Holding brings us a set from small press publishers within the Treasure Trove Bundle. The core bundle options Girl Underground (Powered by the Apocalypse sport a couple of younger woman and her companions dealing with the horrors of Wonderland), Hunt the Wicked (galactic bounty hunters defending humanity from extinction), Mage to Order (magical upkeep engineers conserving a magitech metropolis operating), Save the Universe (story-focused house opera pitting the heroes towards a galactic menace), and The Spider and the City (a solo journaling sport a couple of felony mastermind in a metropolis wracked by insurrection). The Level-Up choice provides on 5 extra video games, Dueling Fops of Vindamere, .dungeon, Over Arms, The Well, and Wicket & Graceful.
- Price: $9.95 (77% off) with variable price Level Up choice
- End Date: September 6, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Bundle of Holding additionally has a pair of bundles for Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, a Powered by the Apocalypse RPG about constructing a brand new world within the ruins of the longer term. The first bundle has the core rulebook together with an inspiration artbook and a soundscape, together with a Level-Up choice so as to add on 4 completely different campaigns together with Generation Ship, Primal Pathways, Godsend, and Worldfall.
- Price: $9.95 (76% off) with variable price Level Up choice
- End Date: August 29, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
The second bundle is one more growth of latest settings and campaigns for Legacy: Life Among the Ruins with six extra books: The Engine of Life, End Game, Wasteland Almanac, Rhapsody of Blood, Rhapsody of Blood: Terra Incognita, and Free From the Yoke.
- Price: $14.95 (76% off)
- End Date: August 29, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
If you need large robots capturing lasers and missiles at one another, there’s no higher place to go than the unique with BattleTech. The BattleTech Total War Bundle of Holding comes with every thing you could get began with each the tabletop wargame and the roleplaying sport with MechWarrior: Destiny for roleplaying, the excellent tabletop wargame guidelines with BattleTech: Total Warfare, and the customized mech constructing and technical improve sourcebook BattleTech: TechManual on the core degree. There’s additionally a bonus assortment add-on that expands the foundations much more with Strategic Operations that covers house battles, Campaign Operations for managing items from small mercenary corporations to total House regiments, and Tactical Operations: Advanced Rules for brand new battlefield ways, climate and biome guidelines, artillery, and much more.
- Price $12.95 (71% off) with variable price Level Up choice
- End Date: August 22, 2022
- Charity: Direct Relief (10%)
Paizo is again on Humble Bundle with the Pathfinder: Strength of Thousands Bundle for Pathfinder 2nd Edition. This bundle has three tiers of PF2e materials beginning with the $5 tier with the primary two entries within the Strength of Thousands Adventure Path, the Pathfinder 2e GM Screen, a pack of character sheets, two map packs, and two Pathfinder Bounty collections. The $15 tier provides on eleven extra books together with the third by means of fifth entries within the Strength of Thousands AP, Lost Omens: The Mwangi Expanse, the stand-alone journey The Slithering, a trio of Pathfinder Society adventures from the Year of the Open Road, and an extra trio of map packs. And for many who haven’t jumped into Pathfinder 2e but, the highest tier of $25 will get you the total core e-book and sourcebook set of the Pathfinder Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Lost Omen’s World Guide, Advanced Player’s Guide, Lost Omens Character Guide, plus two extra stand-alone adventures and the closing entry within the Strength of Thousands.
- Price: $5/$15/$25 (94% off at highest tier)
- End Date: September 8, 2022
- Charity: Comic Books for Kids! (user-defined, default 5%)
Humble additionally has a bundle of video video games with a number of TTRPG-based titles you may need heard me speak about earlier than a couple of times. The Storied Strategy & Roleplaying bundle options the whole trilogy for Shadowrun Returns (Dead Man’s Switch, Dragonfall, and Hong Kong), the BattleTech Mercenary Collection that features all DLC for the sport, the non secular successor to Obsidian’s earlier D&D titles Pillars of Eternity, Age of Wonders: Planetfall, Pillars of Eternity, and Knights of Pen & Paper 1 & 2.
- Price: $12 (96% off)
- End Date: August 31, 2022
- Charity: National Network of Abortion Funds and NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation (user-defined, default 5%)
The Maps Spectacular bundle is again with an enormous assortment of map-making software program and property. The bundle is damaged into 4 tiers every including on extra choices together with City Designer 3, Dungeon Designer 3, Campaign Cartographer 3, and loads of toolkits, artwork property, image units, and supply maps to design any map you possibly can presumably want for fantasy, modern-day, or science fiction campaigns.
- Price: $1/$25/variable/$30 (93% off at highest tier)
- End Date: September 1, 2022
- Charity: National Network of Abortion Funds and OCEANA: Protecting the World’s Oceans (user-defined, default 5%)
Humble Bundle additionally has an enormous assortment of classic-inspired books within the Essential Classic Fantasy RPG Bundle. There’s 5 tiers whole every filled with OSR rulebooks, sourcebooks, adventures, expansions, and extra plus system-neutral setting books and map packs. The bundles vary from seven books together with the core guidelines for Old-School Essentials all the way in which as much as a complete of 59 books together with one bodily hardcover on the prime tier.
- Price: $1/$10/$18/$25/$45 (94% off at highest tier)
- End Date: August 25, 2022
- Charity: Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (user-defined, default 5%)
That’s all for this week! If of any bundles or gross sales beginning quickly, please contact me on the EN World Discord or ship me a message right here on EN World. Discount percentages have been rounded to the closest complete quantity and are based mostly on the usual retail value supplied by the positioning. Note: Links to Amazon, Humble Store, Humble Bundle, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG could include affiliate hyperlinks with the proceeds going to the creator of this column.