Freebies and Pay What You Need
Observe: Whereas “Pay What You Need” downloads can be found without spending a dime, please help the creators if you’re in a position!
Noah Kastin launched Neon Scissor Run, a sport about attempting to determine what’s occurring within the sport wherein you win at about the identical time as when you determine how the sport world works. The sport is constructed round metanarrative absurdity as you play regular individuals who have been attacked by villains and should work out learn how to defeat them by determining what works on this world (even when it is unnecessary in actuality).
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $0.00)
For one thing rather less dada, Kyler G. has Resistance is Futile!, a science fiction alien invasion roleplaying sport the place a number of alien races compete with humanity itself for management of Earth.
Girls and gents, girls and boys, youngsters of all ages, and all these in between or not one of the above, come proper up and see the wonderful sights ready for you in Matthew Pfister’s Freakshows! This MORK BORG bestiary will present you creatures not like these you’ve ever seen earlier than and, what’s extra, will develop with new choices because the file is up to date every month! (Observe: This description works greatest in case you maintain the carnival barker voice in your head the whole time)
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
When you miss the status lessons from earlier editions of D&D, Hewie Enfield launched Status – Status Courses for 5e to convey them again. This assortment options ten status lessons from the three.5e SRD up to date for 5e guidelines plus a model new status class.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $2.50)
For the aspiring sport designers and homebrewers on the market, The Gorilla of Future has a information that will help you with crafting new spells with The Spell Writing Information. The ebook makes use of an algorithmic technology methodology to put in writing spells inside any magic system and, whereas 5e is used for example, it may be used with any system. The textual content additionally contains the spells from the 5e SRD rewritten to evolve with the terminology used for this new design system.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $9.99)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, we’re beginning with a brand new set of elective guidelines from Howl Dgargon so as to add extra depth to lockpicking. The system provides extra nuance and penalties to lockpicking with random occasions that may occur from damaged lockpicks to triggered alarms.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.00)
Talking of alternate guidelines system, CypherCA has Subclass Roulette to permit you to combine and match options from completely different subclasses inside your class to create a extra personalized character to suit your idea higher.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $0.50)
Michael LeBossiere has a set of 30 shade maps for quite a lot of places and landscapes with a business license included as long as they’re utilized in a by-product product (no simply repackaging the maps and promoting them) and also you embody a credit score. Make certain to verify the license for full particulars earlier than utilizing in a business product!
When you’d like a Spelljammer journey appropriate for conference play, Robbie Nice launched The Ghost Ship’s Sting, a Tier 1 (optimized for APL 3) conference mission meant for a two-hour time slot that sends the social gathering from the Rock of Bral to the sting of Realmspace oh behalf of a dohwar merchand and his mysterious consumer.
Within the journey Nothing Out of the Strange from Julian Kroes, the fifth degree social gathering has the destiny of the village of Rustwater is of their palms as a easy quest to cope with a bunch of bandits turns into greater than it appears and ends with a twist on the traditional story of fine vs. evil.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $1.20)
When you’re in search of a brand new mini-game so as to add to downtime, Bas Klein has Cursed Tower, a card sport utilizing an ordinary deck of playing cards with variant guidelines (and dishonest methods) to play in taverns and different social settings.
- Worth: Pay What You Need (Urged: $0.76)
We’ve obtained a pleasant number of new species/races/subraces this week on DM’s Guild. As standard with these lightning rounds, all of those are free or pay what you need with the steered value in brackets.
And we now have a number of new subclasses as nicely.
Bundles and Gross sales
Observe: 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 abruptly so make sure to plan purchases accordingly.
Kobold Press collected their wonderful Kobold Information collection on tabletop roleplaying sport design into the Kobold Guides Bundle 2023. The bundle contains the Full KOBOLD Information to Sport Design 2nd Version, two volumes of the KOBOLD Information to Worldbuilding, the KOBOLD Information to Board Sport Design, and extra for a useful useful resource for aspiring sport designers or those that simply need to enhance operating and taking part in video games.
Fantasy Grounds has a sale on Fantasy Floor Unity licenses, upgrades, rulesets, titles, and extra. Not solely are you able to save on licenses, however there are some deep reductions on a number of editions of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks, adventures, and sourcebooks plus offers on Cyberpunk RED, Star Trek Adventures, Shadow of the Demon Lord, Fallout RPG, Vaesen, and extra together with the EN Publishing Degree Up: Superior 5e introductory journey Reminiscences of Holdenshire.
- Worth: As much as 25% off
- Finish Date: March 22, 2023
Over on Roll20, there’s a sale on choose Paizo merchandise with newly lowered costs together with the Pathfinder 2nd Version Newbie Field, Core Rulebook, Bestiary, Superior Participant’s Information, Secrets and techniques of Magic, and the Kingmaker Journey Path.
Charity Bundles and Gross sales
Itch.io has one other of their large mega-bundles with the TTRPGs for Trans Rights in Florida bundle. The bundle has already raised over $160,000 on the time of writing and contains video games just like the Nebula Award profitable Thirsty Sword Lesbians, Wanderhome, Visigoths Vs. Mall Goths, We Deal in Lead, and over 500 extra titles plus off-site donations from Chaosium and Motion Fiction plus the fundraiser has matching funds as much as $500,000.
- Worth: $5.00 (over 99% off)
- Charity: Zebra Youth and Transinclusive Group (all proceeds)
- Finish Date: April 7, 2023
Prolific sport designer Owen Ok.C. Stephens has put collectively a bundle on Bundle of Holding as a fundraiser for medical payments. The bundle options 5 Pathfinder 2nd Version adventures together with the total marketing campaign The Skaldwood Blight Journey Path that goes from Degree 1 to Degree 20.
- Worth: $9.95
- Charity: Owen Ok.C. Stephens Medical Payments (all proceeds)
- Finish Date: March 22, 2023
Pinnacle Leisure created the Jonathan M. Thompson Memorial Bundle benefiting the household of Thompson who handed away final month. This bundle collects about 150 sport merchandise (it’s actually arduous to estimate on DriveThru with out shedding depend) from over 100 publishers together with many titles for Savage Worlds akin to sourcebooks, settings, adventures, bestiaries, equipment, tie-in fiction, and much more.
- Worth: $25.00 (96% off)
- Charity: The household of Jonathan M. Thompson
On Itch.io, Peach Backyard Video games together with over 100 different creators have put collectively the Solo however Not Alone 3 bundle with 149 single-player TTRPG titles starting from introspective journaling workout routines to intense hexcrawls supporting suicide prevention.
- Worth: $10.00 (over 99% off)
- Finish Date: March 31, 2023
- Charity: Jasper’s Sport Day (all proceeds)
Over on Bundle of Holding, there are a pair of bundles for GURPS from Steve Jackson Video games. The primary is the GURPS 4e Fight Motion bundle that includes the sourcebooks GURPS 4e Martial Arts, Tactical Capturing, Gun Fu, and three further high-tech gun books. The Bonus Assortment provides on 5 extra motion dietary supplements, 4 extra martial arts dietary supplements, and Transhuman House: Martial Arts 2100.
- Worth: $17.95 (78% off) with variable-cost Degree Up possibility
- Finish Date: March 28, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
And the second bundle is the GURPS 4e Supers Bundle which, as you may guess, is about superheroes. The Starter Assortment contains GURPS 4e Supers and GURPS 4e Powers whereas the Energy-Up Assortment provides on 4 GURPS Powers expansions and 9 GURPS Energy-Ups.
- Worth: $9.95 (85% off) with variable-cost Degree Up possibility
- Finish Date: March 28, 2023
- Charity: Direct Aid (10%)
Over on Humble Bundle, the Warhammer 40,000 Darkish Heresy, Black Campaign, and Solely Battle bundle is again that includes on the high tier a complete of 46 titles together with the core rulebooks for all three video games (together with the second version for Darkish Heresy as nicely) plus sourcebooks, adventures, equipment, gameplay aids, and extra.
- Worth $1/$15/$25 (97% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: April 6, 2023
- Charity: Youngsters’s Well being Eire (user-defined, default 5%)
The Maps Bonanza Bundle is again on Humble Bundle as nicely with a number of tabletop RPG mapping software program. There are 4 ranges, the primary that includes Fashionable Mapper and Age of Exploration for overland world maps for various time durations together with Dungeons & Floorplans for tactical scale maps. The second degree provides on a one-year license for Marketing campaign Cartographer 3+ and the sci-fi model Cosmographer 3 plus the add-ons Symbols: Cities of Schley and Supply Maps: Cities. The third tier provides Fantasy World Mapper, Fantasy Metropolis Mapper, Science Fiction Mapper, and Age of Cthulhu. Lastly, the highest tier provides on a lifetime license for Marketing campaign Cartographer 3+ (changing the one-year license), Fractal Terrains 3+, and the useful resource bundles World Builder’s Compendium and Dungeons of Schley Image Set 4.
- Worth: $1/$25/variable/$30 (93% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: April 4, 2023
- Charity: Carbonfund.org Basis and Oceana (user-defined, default 5%)
For many who need to meet up with the earlier version of Shadowrun, Catalyst Sport Labs and Humble Bundle have the Shadowrun 5e Mega Bundle. The highest tier of the bundle contains the Shadowrun fifth Version Core Rulebook (that might be the fifth version of the Shadowrun guidelines and never a model of Shadowrun made for 5e D20 System guidelines) together with the core sourcebooks (the foundations growth books for every main side of gameplay) Run & Gun for weapons and fight, Road Grimoire for magic, Chrome Flesh for cyberware and different implants, Rigger 5.0 for automobiles and drones, Information Trails for hacking and decking, Howling Shadows for critters, and Run Sooner for normal participant choices together with 11 extra books protecting campaigns, participant assets, setting sourcebooks, and extra superior rulebooks.
- Worth: $1/$10/$18 (96% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: March 30, 2023
- Charity: International FoodBanking Community (user-defined, default 5%)
We’ve additionally obtained the Castles & Crusades Bundle from Troll Lord Video games that includes a library of books for the retro-styled D20 fantasy RPG. The highest tier of this bundle contains the Castles & Crusades seventh Version core rulebook, the Monsters & Treasures GM reference ebook, the Codex Classicum participant possibility growth, and 34 extra books and dietary supplements.
- Worth: $1/$10/$18 (95% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: April 1, 2023
- Charity: Navy-Marine Corps Aid Society (user-defined, default 5%)
Whereas not precisely a roleplaying sport product, the traditional comedian ebook collection ElfQuest positively shares a lot of its DNA with fantasy roleplaying. The bundle contains 13 volumes on the high tier with the whole 45-year run of the comics from the unique points all through to The Last Quest.
- Worth: $1/$10/$18 (88% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: March 23, 2023
- Charity: Hero Initiative (user-defined, default 5%)
When you’ve ever thought of doing your personal YouTube movies, podcasts, or different edited content material, you’ve seemingly gotten sticker shock at the price of software program to supply and edit audio and video. The King of Content material Creator Bundle is a godsend, significantly for these in search of video enhancing software program, because the second tier has Vegas Professional 18 Edit and the top-tier provides on Sound Forge Audio Studio 15, Music Maker Plus 2021, and a large assortment of samples and different templates.
- Worth: $1/$25/variable (as much as 97% off at high tier)
- Finish Date: April 6, 2023
- Charity: Malala Fund (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 primarily based on the usual retail value offered by the positioning. Observe: 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.