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Crowdfunding by Bundle contributors – Jan 2017
Middarmark is The Burning Wheel’s new campaign world of perilous adventure for the Torchbearer RPG (from our November 2014 Indie Cornucopia +2). Kobold Press is funding a new edition of its Midgard Campaign Setting, which we showcased in our July
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2016: The Bundle of Holding year in review
I’m Allen Varney, operator of the Bundle of Holding. In 2016, a year of besetting difficulties worldwide, the Bundle of Holding enjoyed an almost tasteless prosperity. Counting the four in progress as 2016 ends, I presented 69 offers that sold
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Crowdfunding campaigns by Bundle contributors – October 2016
Jason Sholtis contributed The Dungeon Dozens, his inventive collection of random D12 tables, to the November 2014 Worldbuilder’s Toolkit +2. Now Jason brings his fecund creativity to a new Old School sandbox adventure/mini-campaign, Operation Unfathomable — “an internally consistent gonzo
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Crowdfunding campaigns by Bundle contributors – August 2016
If you like Greg Stafford’s Arthurian roleplaying game King Arthur Pendragon (and our May 2014 Pendragon Bundle), check Pendragon publisher Nocturnal Media’s Kickstarter campaign to revive Stafford’s 1989 Prince Valiant Storytelling Game. Based on the long-running comic strip, the Prince
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2015: The Bundle of Holding year in review
Allen Varney here, operator of the Bundle of Holding. In 2015, its third year of operation, the Bundle site launched 53 time-limited offers of tabletop roleplaying game ebooks, down from 62 in 2014. Though the reduced number brought a revenue
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Promoting your bundle – by Monte Cook
Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame designer Monte Cook (designer of Numenera and a principal designer of Dungeons & Dragons 3.0) founded Monte Cook Games. Monte and MCG have contributed several spectacular Bundle of Holding offers, including Numenera (April 2014), Ptolus
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Crowdfunding campaigns by Bundle contributors – March 2015
Just three days left to pledge to the Kickstarter for Don’t Turn Your Back, “a worker placement/deck-builder board game set in a city of Nightmares,” from Evil Hat Productions. You’ll recognize the setting of Don’t Turn Your Back from the
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2014: The Bundle of Holding year in review
In our second year of operation, the Bundle of Holding presented 62 time-limited offers of tabletop roleplaying game and RPG-related ebooks, more than twice our 2013 total of 25. Our revenue more than doubled over 2013, and we raised $79,851
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SORCERER: a landmark in tabletop roleplaying history
Sorcerer by Ron Edwards, one of the standout bonus games in the Bundle of Holding’s resurrected Indie Initiative offer that ends this Thursday, is a watershed game in roleplaying history. Historians of indie games point to the design influence of
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Torchbearer: Dungeon crawling for the iron-willed
From Burning Wheel, makers of Mouse Guard and the Burning Wheel system, Thor Olavsrud and Luke (Burning Wheel) Crane bring you Torchbearer, a potent combo of old-school dungeon crawling, indie gameplay, and bracing rigor. For just a few more hours,
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