Freebies and Pay What You Need
Be aware: Whereas “Pay What You Need” downloads can be found without spending a dime, please help the creators in case you are in a position!
Beginning out on Itch.io, Geek Rampage has The Hobling Goblin by Christian Conkle, an journey for the “gonzo science fiction fantasy” setting Challengers of Vanth for MÖRK BORG.
Over to DriveThru, we’ve got Comet by the Sea from Immersive Adventuring, an journey location and toolbox for 5e. The setting is an archipelago with a high-resolution regional map, eight encounters, 5 NPCs, and 4 quests for various alignments so you’ll be able to tailor the journey to your get together.
Mongoose Publishing has a Christmas current for all Travellers, the remastered model of the basic Traveller journey Stranded. “Pressured to eject from a crippled starship, the Travellers discover themselves on a glacier with nothing greater than the contents of their survival kits. The one settlement on-planet is 250 km away by way of rugged terrain, and it seems rescue isn’t coming.” EDIT: The unique journey that is based mostly on is Loren Ok. Wiseman’s 1981 Marooned. Because of @harunmushod for pointing this out.
And for an additional freebie current, Troll Lord Video games collected collectively a complete bundle of their 5e settings and adventures plus three adventures for Castles & Crusades.
Marcus L. Rowland launched a number of merchandise based mostly round the Carnacki the Ghost Finder Edwardian horror tales of William Hope Hodgeson. The earlier hyperlink is to the unique novel revealed in 1913, whereas the sport itself is accessible in three dietary supplements within the Forgotten Futures IV collection utilizing an authentic system: The Carnaki Cylinders for the setting, The Electrical Pentacle Handbook for expanded historical past, and The Pentacle Recordsdata for the journey.
If you need a rules-lite RPG that’s suitable with OSR, 3E, and 5E; then Expertise RPG from Maynard guarantees to fill that area of interest. The 9-page system consists of character creation, full guidelines, an armory of magic gadgets, a bestiary, and a customized character sheet.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $4.99)
One other distinctive system is However I’m Only a Gnome… from Marcin “Miroku” Gajosek that, you guessed it, locations you within the function of gnomes. Not simply any gnomes, however members of a particular group despatched to make progress of their scientific area of magic, alchemy, or mechanics.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $1.37)
“Welcome Worker Quantity 1587” begins the outline of Harmless Goblin’s WEAREALLONE, a solo RPG about climbing the company ladder whereas struggling in opposition to a poisonous work atmosphere that exists solely to perpetuate greed and distress. You recognize, in case you need some escapism.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $3.64)
On Dungeonmasters Guild, Bryan Kirk has a group of ten distinctive magic spears, every with a singular id and new talents to carry extra selection to the traditionally iconic weapon.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $0.00)
If you need some magic gadgets with a little bit of silliness to them, Walker DeVaughn has Morientente Madnd’s Manic Guide of Magic Gadgets. Be warned that these are game-breaking on function for the hilarity, however in the event you just like the goofy randomness of chaotic magic gadgets, this 9-page assortment is for you.
Gryphon Video games additionally needs to add some extra magic to your video games with Signature Spellbook, a group of recent spells together with a chaotic response spell, a therapeutic spell particularly for warforged, and extra.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $0.50)
In fact, there’s extra to D&D than simply the magic and Nedrapter seems to be so as to add some versatility to mundane weapons with Brutality Weapons. This complement provides new vital results for all present weapons, all-new weapons, new weapon properties, and spellcasting foci results to make every weapon really feel distinctive and fascinating.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $5.00)
It’s the season for vacation one-shots, and Gabriel Sanchez has The Christmas Countdown that sends the fifth degree get together on a mission to rescue Santa from an assault and save Christmas!
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $2.95)
Okay, yet one more foolish vacation journey with Weekend at Gerard’s by Penny Blake. The lich Gerard has invited you to a fabYULEous (groan) get together the place after all one thing goes fallacious, and the group turns into wrapped up in a homicide thriller. Works as a stand-alone journey or as a sequel to Cupcakes of Doom (obtainable for $1.00).
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $0.00)
Richard Gubitosi launched the third degree journey Vengeance in Graywall for the Eberron marketing campaign setting. After experimenting on the characters throughout the Final Struggle, the necromancer Cayna Lornath is on the run in Graywall able to sacrifice the get together’s long-lost captain to gas a ritual to the Grim King and turn into a robust undead.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $1.00)
Who doesn’t want an excellent tavern they’ll plop into any setting at a second’s discover? Oguzhan Ozgenc has one for us with Sundown Tavern, a two-story tavern with descriptions, rooms, characters, and plot hooks.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $4.99)
Talking of fine assets while you want a location quick, Josh Huddy launched A Maze With out Maps, an mini-game maze encounter that may be dropped into any setting. Race in opposition to time to make it out of the maze and depend on reminiscence to navigate the twists and turns and hope you don’t find yourself again the place you began.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $1.00)
Philibert’s Scribbles launched Deep Dive: Koalinth, an aquatic goblinoid species that goes again to the early years of Dungeons & Dragons. This 26-page complement options revised lore, guidelines to play a koalinth, strategies on changing them in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, six organizations and societies, 19 new stat blocks, a brand new water car, and extra.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $2.99)
Should you thought that was massive for a PWYW title, that’s nothing in comparison with Esteban Ruquet’s A New Daybreak: Renaissance in Faerun which updates the timeline to usher in components from the Enlightenment. This 96-page sourcebook options an alternate historical past the place the gnomes handle to avert the varied apocalypses plaguing Toril and advance understanding of science with 17 kingdoms that make up trendy Faerun, new lists of apparatus, new factions, updates to the core races with cultural variants, 4 new subclasses, 52 NPC statblocks, and much more.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $9.99)
Heading over to Storytellers Vault, Tremendous Vlad launched Curiouser and Curiouser Bargains for Changeling: The Misplaced 2nd Version with 25 new Contracts, 12 new Entitlements, and a revamped Token Crafting and Goblin Fruit Farming system.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Prompt: $4.99)
We’ve acquired a bunch of map collections as soon as once more this week. As all the time, all of those are both free or pay what you need with the value listed in parentheses.
And we even have a number of new subclasses obtainable this week. Similar factor right here, every little thing’s free or pay-what-you-want with the advised value listed.
And for the primary time, we even have a complete lot of tokens prepared to be used on digital tabletops! All of those are from Caeora and obtainable without spending a dime.
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 revealed finish dates might finish out of the blue so make sure you plan purchases accordingly.
DriveThruRPG has the Train Your Children to Sport Sale with reductions on video games particularly focused for youngsters and households together with titles like Children on Bikes, Hero Children, Docs & Daleks, Pugmire, Oz: A Fantasy Position-Taking part in Setting, and extra.
- Value: Reductions differ, most round 25% off
- Finish Date: December 25, 2022
Chaosium is again with one other bundle from their group creator portal Miskatonic Repository with a group of ten vacation themed dietary supplements and adventures for Name of Cthulhu within the Christmas Assortment.
- Value: $19.99 (67% off)
- Finish Date: December 30, 2022
Evil Genius Video games pulled collectively a bundle for the On a regular basis Heroes RPG based mostly on D20 Trendy together with two of the licensed properties, Escape from New York and The Crow.
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, we’ve got the Ravenloft Xmas Megabundle that includes the Monsters of the Multiverse: The Ravenloft Recordsdata together with fifteen conversion paperwork to play your favourite AD&D 2nd Version Ravenloft adventures together with Feast of Goblyns, Vecna Reborn, When Black Roses Bloom, and extra.
For customers of Fantasy Floor need to take a look at the Converter’s Alternative 2022 Bundle with eight dietary supplements and adventures for 5e all prepared to make use of in Fantasy Grounds Unity.
Charity Bundles and Gross sales
Bundle of Holding has a pair of bundles for Rifts, first the Rifts Core Mega to get you began with the multiverse-hopping RPG. The Corebook Assortment options Rifts Final Version, 3 Rifts Guides and Kits, and Index and Adventures V1-2 with the Sourcebook Assortment add-on together with eleven sourcebooks to increase your sport.
- Value: $19.95 (71% off) with variable-cost Degree Up possibility
- Finish Date: January 3, 2023
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
The second bundle is the Rifts Land and Sea bundle that includes the books Rifts Atlantis, Rifts Underseas, Lemuria, Splynn Dimensional Market, and Secrets and techniques of the Atlanteans. The Nations Assortment provides on one other 9 books from the Rifts Worlds collection.
- Value: $14.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Degree Up possibility
- Finish Date: January 3, 2023
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
Should you’ve been left behind on the Blades within the Darkish practice, Bundle of Holding is right here with a bundle of Cast within the Darkish books. The core assortment consists of Blades within the Darkish core rulebook, the solo play variant Alone within the Darkish, and the Duskwall Heist Deck and Doskvol Road Maps equipment, whereas the add-on provides extra setting choices together with Band of Blades, Scum and Villainy, Hack the Planet, A Fistful of Darkness, and Glow within the Darkish.
- Value: $12.95 (71% off) with variable price Degree-Up possibility
- Finish Date: December 27, 2022
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
If you need a Cast within the Darkish sport that comes extremely advisable, Grant Howitt and Chris Taylor have a pair of bundles for his or her Spire RPG and setting. The Starter Assortment options the core rulebook Spire: The Metropolis Should Fall detailing the mile-high fantasy-punk darkish elf metropolis of The Spire together with the Strata sourcebook and three marketing campaign frames. The Bonus Assortment provides on six extra titles to increase the world together with an mp3 soundtrack assortment to set the temper to your video games.
- Value: $12.95 (71% off) with variable price Degree-Up possibility
- Finish Date: December 27, 2022
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
There’s additionally the the Coronary heart Bundle that includes the Coronary heart: The Metropolis Beneath spinoff of The Spire that works as an growth or as its personal sport. This stand-alone sport takes place within the undercity and dungeons beneath the Spire and sends gamers into the outlawed cathedrals, predatory buildings, and twisted evening forests that lurk beneath town. The bundle consists of every little thing it is advisable play together with the Coronary heart: The Metropolis Beneath core guidelines and 4 dietary supplements to increase your sport.
- Value: $16.95 (72% off)
- Finish Date: December 27, 2022
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
Okay…those that comply with me on social media have already heard me speaking about this bundle from Bundle of Holding, however Shadowrun 1e-2e Mega Bundle is actually the place I began in tabletop roleplaying. I owned each one in every of these books and browse and re-read them so many occasions that they nearly fell aside (and truly did within the case of my Shadowrun 2nd Version Core Rulebook). To me, the books included on this bundle are nonetheless the gold commonplace in sport writing and worldbuilding for a roleplaying sport setting. The bundle consists of not simply the core rulebooks and the supporting sourcebooks for Shadowrun 1st Version but additionally classics like Common Brotherhood, Harlequin, Company Shadowfiles, Shadowbeat, and extra. The add-on expands the gathering into Shadowrun 2nd Version with all of the core books plus sourcebooks nonetheless helpful in Shadowrun to today for historical past and worldbuilding akin to Aztlan, Tir Tairngire, Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn’s Secrets and techniques, Threats, and much more. And critically, if anybody has any questions on any of the books on this bundle, be happy to ask me within the feedback or on social media as a result of I’m all the time prepared to speak about a few of my favourite sport books ever revealed and have learn each one in every of these cover-to-cover a number of occasions.
- Value: $19.95 (80% off) with variable-cost Degree-Up possibility
- Finish Date: December 22, 2022
- Charity: Diana Jones Award Rising Designer Program (10%)
Over on Humble Bundle, it’s fascinating timing with the announcement of Henry Cavill starring and producing in a Warhammer 40,000 TV Collection, however this bundle got here out earlier than the information broke so you will get the leap on adventures within the Imperium with Warhammer 40K Wrath & Glory. Whereas there are three ranges to this bundle, I like to recommend any new gamers wanting to take a look at the system go forward and get the highest degree as a result of it’s the one one that features the Core Rulebook.
- Value: $1/$10/$18 (90% off at prime tier)
- Finish Date: January 5, 2023
- Charity: Kids’s Well being Eire (user-defined, default 5%)
R. Talsorian Video games and Humble Bundle have The Witcher RPG and Extra Bundle, and the “and Extra” title does a disservice to the superb Citadel Falkenstein. I beforehand mentioned that The Witcher wants no introduction in 2022, however one commenter mentioned it does so the tabletop RPG is predicated on the identical novel darkish fantasy novel collection by Andrzej Sapkowski that the blockbuster video video games from CD Projekt Crimson and the Netflix live-action collection are based mostly on. Set in a world filled with harmful monsters, the one factor extra lethal are the Witchers, educated from start to trace down these twisted creatures from fairy tales and folklore and hunt them down. The bundle consists of on the top-tier the core rulebook and the dietary supplements A Guide of Tales, A Witcher’s Journal, A Tome of Chaos, and Lords & Lands. This bundle additionally consists of the underappreciated masterpiece Citadel Falkenstein combining fantasy components, Victorian aesthetics, and ingenious industrial know-how right into a sport that was steampunk nearly earlier than the time period “steampunk” even existed.
- Value: $1/$10/$18 (90% off at prime tier)
- Finish Date: December 24, 2022
- Charity: Starlight Kids’s Basis (user-defined, default 5%)
That’s all for this week! If you realize 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 complete quantity and are based mostly on the usual retail value supplied 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.
