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Since February 2013 we’ve run hundreds of offers, each featuring a talented tabletop roleplaying game designer or a fellowship of designers. Here are the bundles we’ve run to date.

December 2024

World Wide Wrestling

World Wide Wrestling, the Apocalypse Engine game of pro wrestling action, lets you create your own professional wrestling franchise with satisfying and surprising storylines. It’s about the clash of good and evil on the grandest stage. It’s about whether you’ve got what it takes. It’s about feuds, championships, betrayal, and righteous victory. And, in the end, it’s about what the audience thinks of your efforts.

Slugblaster

Slugblaster: Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede is the Forged in the Dark RPG of teenagehood, giant bugs, circuit-bent rayguns, and trying to be cool. In the middle of nowhere, surrounded by wheat and canola, bored teenagers ride hoverboards into a vibrant multiverse of exotic worlds. If you like the action and energy of Jet Set Radio Future, Scott Pilgrim, and the Spider-verse movies – weird stuff like Everything Everywhere All at Once and Futurama – Tony Hawk games, Skate Kitchen, and YouTube DIY videos of actual kids making actual lasers in their actual bedrooms – then solder up your raygun, print some hazwear in your dad’s garage, grab your hoverboard, and watch out for metaterrestrials as you make a name for yourself in the competitive punk-rock world of interdimensional action sports.

This Quick Deal presented the complete Slugblaster: Kickflip Over a Quantum Centipede rulebook (plus the pay-what-you-want Slugblaster Turbo quickstart).

November 2024

Cornucopia 2024

This was our twelfth all-new assortment of top-quality RPGs.

  • DIE: The RPG (Rowan, Rook, & Decard): Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans designed this lavish 410-page RPG based on their Image Comics series about adults dragged back into a fantasy world they though they’d escaped decades earlier.
  • Exile: Dark Fantasy Roleplaying (One of Wands): Ema Acosta’s dark, driven fantasy RPG of disgraced misfits, sentenced to a quick end in The Below, who resolve to forge their own path back home.
  • Fight to Survive (Radio James Games): James Kerr’s tribute to down-and-dirty 1980s martial arts movies where your friends and comforts are just as important as your moves.
  • Magonomia (Shewstone Publishing): Elizabethan English wizardry based on authentic historical practice and folklore in a world steeped in invisible spirits, enigmatic faeries, and secret societies. Based on Fate Core.
  • Pasión de las Pasiones (Magpie Games): Brandon Leon-Gambetta’s high-emotion Apocalypse Engine game of thrilling telenovela-style melodrama. You’re just trying to keep this family from tearing itself apart! (We presented an abbreviated “ashcan” edition of Pasión de las Pasiones in our June 2018 Apocalypse Engine 3. This Cornucopia offered the complete game.)
  • Swyvers (Melsonian Arts Council): Luke Gearing’s grotty-heist urban fantasy about gangs in a sprawling city your play group generates on the fly.
  • Syma (Gallant Knight Games): Alan Bahr’s Old School incense-and-iron FRPG set in a medieval world where the Church has just fallen and undead Templars roam the land.
  • Thousand Arrows (Galileo Games): Character-driven battle sagas like Lone Wolf and Cub and Shōgun set in Japan’s Warring States period by James Mendez Hodes. Powered by the Apocalypse.

Torg Eternity Cosms 3

Rounding out the roster of seven invading cosms in Year One of the Possibility Wars, this all-new offer presented the Tharkold and Pan-Pacifica settings in Torg Eternity, the cinematic cross-genre RPG from Ulisses Spiele. These are the complete setting lines funded in the June 2020 Tharkold and May 2022 Pan-Pacifica crowdfunding campaigns. Tharkold is a Cold War techno-horror realm of demonic occultech, cybernetic warthralls, and the irradiated, mutant-infested Blasted Zone. The high-tech Kanawa Corporation of Pan-Pacifica has concealed its invasion through skillful deepfakery and social-media campaigns, aided by the jiangshi pandemic that has turned millions into hopping vampires.

Household

Household, from Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano and Simone Formicola of Two Little Mice in Rome, is a wainscot fantasy (a term for stories of tiny folk in an outsized world) filled with adventure, intrigues, and social interactions in a large abandoned house. Its setting resembles the early XIX Century, and each room constitutes a nation unto itself. Funded in a powerhouse(hold) May 2022 Kickstarter campaign, Household casts players as littlings, the Little Folk from European folklore. These miniature beings navigate crises across five troubled years starting at the end of the First Household War. In this time of ideological and industrial revolution, the littlings overcome old disagreements and make new alliances. This epochal history ends in the shadow of a new threat.

Vikingverse

When the Wolf Comes is Ian Stuart Sharpe‘s science-fantasy RPG of Vikingverse action from Schwalb Entertainment based on Shadow of the Demon Lord. The Vikingverse is set during a reimagined Ragnarök, the doom of the gods. Fated to be devoured by the great wolf Fenrir, Óðinn defied the Norns by changing destiny – by granting forbidden knowledge to the Norse kingdoms. Now, in this alternate present, expeditions of Widefarers, Runemasters, Song Smiths, Thread Riders, Numberwitches, and other Norse heroes travel the Yawning Void via the greenways of Yggdrasil, the Worlds Tree. The Níu Heimar (Nine Homeworlds) are your setting for sagas of phenomenal trial or great personal sacrifice. Ragnarök has struck throughout the shattered timelines; the Fates send your heroes, pawns in a cosmic game, to stand against doom across the Kingdom of the Heavens. In this elementally hazardous universe, perhaps all that matters is how you meet the end.

Brancalonia

Brancalonia is a “Spaghetti Fantasy” D&D 5E campaign setting from Acheron Games (Milan, Italy). Set in a topsy-turvy version of medieval Italy (the title alludes to a 1966 Italian comedy film, L’armata Brancaleone), this unheroic, picaresque, and roguish world draws on Italian culture and pop-culture from Umberto Eco to Corto Maltese – Renaissance epics and Italo Calvino – The Princess Bride, Pinocchio, and a hundred more. Brancalonia is a brawly low-fantasy land of legendary knights and skilled treasure-hunters – but you’re not them. You’re Knaves: lowlife swindlers, slobs, and scoundrels who get pulled out of prison to fix things after those heroes mess up. You might take Jobs from talking mice, omnipotent fairies, devils from Inferno, and foul-mouthed marionettes. If you climb the ranks of your free company, you can hope to pull off a heist that will set you up for life. What could go wrong?

October 2024

Corsairs of Cthulhu

This all-new offer presented Corsairs of Cthulhu: Fighting the Mythos in the Golden Age of Piracy and other historical Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition scenarios from New Comet Games. This piratical guide to the years 1650-1730 gives you new rules for alchemy and voodoo, historical occupations and equipment, and maps of Port Royal and far Tortuga. Your 17th-Century Investigators can crew a pirate or privateer vessel, freelance out of a Caribbean port, or sail their own ship as corsairs. They face curses left by ancient civilizations, and nightmares hidden around the Gulf and the seas beyond (waaay beyond).

Note: These campaigns require Call of Cthulhu Seventh Edition or compatible rules such as the free and open Cthulhu Eternal.

Grizelda’s Guides

Bring the paranormal to your D&D 5E campaign with the haunts, spirits, seances, and undead monsters in the Grizelda’s Guide to Ghost Hunting sourcebook and its companion supplements and adventures from Scoundrel Game Labs. Conjure new life for your encounters with the dead, using new player character subclasses like the Deathseer, Vengeance Seeker, and Haunted Accomplice; feats like Spirit-Touched and Necromantic Alchemist; and magical items like the mirror of curse detection and shrieking sword cane. As you adventure against a bestiary of foes like Fury Specters, Ghastly Siphons, and the Scarecrow Colossus, you’ll need help from ghost-hunting guilds, exorcists, mediums, an inexplicably friendly zombie, and the arcane items in the Cursed Curiosities shop – run by Grizelda, a guilt-stricken former adventurer with a dark past.

TEETH RPG

TEETH is a fantasy-horror RPG of occult crime and monster-hunting in a cursed corner of 18th-Century England. A grotesque tragicomic meld of Blackadder and The Witcher, TEETH adapts the Forged in the Dark rules for monster-hunting in the benighted Vale of the Deleuth, which glories in revolting mutations, occasional insurrection, murderous Hogmen, and also-murderous pies. You’re supposedly a Hunter, charged with driving back monstrous incursions and protecting the trade in occult artifacts. But that is subterfuge! Your Outfit of bruisers, scholars, trackers, and sappers (explosives experts) share a Secret Agenda, and a one-year time limit before occult contamination corrupts you. If you execute your mission and escape the Vale before Winter ends, you can claim victory – however horrible the cost.

Fate of Cthulhu

Fate of Cthulhu is the standalone action-horror RPG from Evil Hat Productions. In this “Cthulhu Mythos meets The Terminator” game based on the flexible and fast-playing Fate Core system, you’re a soldier from the future who travels to our time to stop the arrival of the Great Old Ones. Horrible things will still happen, and you may give in to corruption (to gain powerful “corruption stunts”), but you’ll use your foreknowledge to punch the apocalypse in the face – or die trying.

Wulfwald

Wulfwald is Lee Reynoldson’s old-school FRPG from Glasgow-based publisher Lost Pages set in a low-fantasy world inspired by mythic Anglo-Saxon tales. In Wulfwald you play a Wolfshead, an outcast adventurer trying to regain a place in society, in a world filled with mythic monsters, dark and dangerous magic, and even more dangerous rulers. The life of a Wolfshead is fear, mistrust, and privation. Being excluded from society is perilous; you might survive but never thrive. Seeking redemption, you undertake covert missions and skulduggery for a Thegn, a noble warlord. Together you form your Thegn’s Wolfpack, a dire weapon he wields ruthlessly.

This Quick Deal presented the complete five-book set of Wulfwald core rulebooks, funded in a March 2022 Kickstarter campaign: Wolfsheads, Magic, Campaign, Monsters, and People.

The Dread Thingonomicon

The 476-page Dread Thingonomicon compendium from Raging Swan Press is crammed with system-neutral lists for every overworked FRPG gamemaster. These 73 chapters, compiling hundreds of tables Raging Swan published across seven years in its 20 Things line of mini-supplements, give you the tools to add flavor and detail to any fantasy RPG session. (Check out Raging Swan’s free 54-page Thingonomicon sample.)

Unknown Armies 3E

Unknown Armies is the acclaimed Atlas Games RPG of postmodern occult intrigue, transcendental horror, and furious action, about broken people risking everything to change the world. Reality as we know it is shaped by a group of 333 people so dedicated to certain attributes that they become the archetypes of the Invisible Clergy, who are locked in an eternal struggle for power. Your characters are pawns in this power struggle – and you’re hoping to join the ranks of the Invisible Clergy itself. You might struggle against the New Inquisition, the Sect of the Naked Goddess, or your own deteriorating sanity. You might face vampires, godwalkers, or fellow practitioners of magick. Against unrelenting opposition, will you win through?

Kenneth Hite’s Cthulhu

Star designer Kenneth Hite (Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents, Suppressed Transmission, and more than 70 other RPGs and supplements) has analyzed works of HP Lovecraft in treatises such as the two Tour de Lovecraft volumes, and has reimagined the Mythos in diverse Cthulhu Mythos gaming sourcebooks from Atomic Overmind Press.

September 2024

Beam Saber

Beam Saber is the anime-inspired Forged In The Dark SFRPG from Austin Ramsay Games about Pilots fighting The War across known space. Send your squad of characters and their Gundam-style mecha into dramatic and challenging battles, and then play to find whether they get out physically and mentally intact. The “fiction-first” Forged In The Dark rules ensure play moves quickly. Jump right to the action, and play out flashbacks that show how you prepared everything you need in the moment. Play any of a dozen-plus Pilot playbooks in one of eight Squad types, or create new squads, factions, and regions that suit your style. And remember, Pilot: Fight The War, not yourself.

Slowquest

Slowquest mini-adventures by Bodie H for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and compatible systems are short, ready-to-run one-shot scenarios (for character levels 1-5) that prize problem-solving and roleplay over combat. Bodie’s stylized, cartoony visuals help set a mood of lighthearted fun – though watch out for toad goblins, beak grubs, sick Mushrumps, and Gralk.

Aquelarre

This all-new offer presented the English-language version of Aquelarre, the acclaimed Spanish tabletop dark-fantasy roleplaying game. Across the Iberian Peninsula of the late Middle Ages, angels, demons, and nonhuman creatures support or exploit five warring kingdoms. Vampires ride with the mercenary White Companies that plunder Navarre; lobisome werewolves howl in Galicia; lamias stalk the roads and ghouls sniff the tombs in Granada, the land once called Al-Andalus; fallen renuberos join the Inquisition in Aragon, doing evil to regain favor with infernal forces; and Castilian king Pedro the Cruel makes deals with the Black Prince of England, deals that can cost him his throne and his soul. Behind it all, the witches of Galicia, the meigas, invoke the power of Lucifer in their ritual gatherings, the Aquelarre.

KoDT Trouble 7

This was our all-new seventh bundle presenting Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. This offer included the Bundle of Trouble compilations #61-70, collecting KoDT issues #219-258 (2015-2018): Knights of the Dinner Table Bundle of Trouble Vol. 61, V62, V63, V64, V65, V66, V67, V68, V69, and V70, along with a collection of lost issues, the KoDT Midnight Special.

Shadows Over Sol

Shadows Over Sol is a hard-sf horror game from Tab Creations. In 2241, in the wake of World War IV, humanity has colonized the inner Solar System and explored the outer planets, bringing along its old rivalries and new conspiracies. You might be a Groundside techno planning the colonization of Alpha Centauri – a spacer from the lost Jovian Trojan colonies running corporate espionage – a cyborg soldier seeking a new life in the void – a gene-lined Quicksilver, android, or uplifted animal. Whether you’re fighting bioengineered monstrosities, salvaging abandoned space stations, or hunting Sovereign Liberation Front terrorists in the Belt, Shadows Over Sol supports your adventures in many styles of science-fictional horror, from investigation to action to brute survival, using the playing card-based Saga Machine rules.

Troika! 2024

This new offer was our third collection of recent sourcebooks and adventures for Troika! from Melsonian Arts Council. The simple Troika! rules, inspired by the 1980s Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, send beginners and jaded roleplayers alike on crazed cross-planar dimension-hopping journeys in a golden barge among the crystal spheres strung like pearls across the hump-backed sky. These Troika! supplements let you trip the light fantastic, or maybe just trip out, in visionary acid-fantasy adventures fueled by hallucinatory creativity.

Level Up Adventures

This new companion to our November 2022 Level Up Bundle added the Level Up Starter Box and recent supplements and adventures for Advanced 5E from EN Publishing.

Skullkickers

The rowdy fantasy-comedy comic book series Skullkickers created by Jim Zub (Dungeons & Dragons, Conan the Barbarian, Avengers) stars hard-headed mercenaries Rolf Copperhead and Rex Maraud, who kill monsters and cause havoc in their endless search for money, fame, and adventure. The twisted trail Rolf and Rex follow is littered with troubles aplenty: patchwork zombies, bloodthirsty faerie folk, pirate crews, giant rain weevils, a neat-freak Goo Elemental, cross-dimensional bar fights, and the Deep Thool, among many other perils. For lovers of fantasy, action comedy, ridiculous violence, and the kicking of many skulls – for every tabletop roleplayer who likes a good hack-and-slash adventure – Skullkickers is Dungeons & Dragons by way of Deadpool. And tabletop roleplaying gamers will enjoy the prefaces to these collected volumes by Robin D. Laws, Steve Jackson, Tracy Hickman, and other RPG gaming luminaries.

August 2024

Historica Arcanum Crusades

Historica Arcanum: Era of the Crusades is a historical-fantasy campaign setting from Metis Creative for Fifth Edition and compatible tabletop roleplaying systems. Historica Arcanum settings reveal the occult secrets of world history. Era of the Crusades explores the monumental 12th-Century conflict between Crusader Knights and the forces of Saladin. Gameplay options include new character classes and subclasses, Knightly Orders and Professions, and the Deck of the Damned, a system for combat and narrative stress. In magical counterparts to real landmarks, you’ll meet historical figures and fight legendary monsters, solve mysteries, intrigue among factions, and shape the arcane history of the Historica Arcanum universe.

This all-new offer included the complete 273-page Era of the Crusades setting sourcebook, The Sigil of Jerusalem campaign, and an atmospheric soundtrack.

Phones of Glory giveaway

Phones of Glory, the game of civic engagement by designer Jason Morningstar (Fiasco), makes it fun to remind voters to head to the polls on Election Day. Invite some friends over and make the calls together, before a panel of judges, hoping for the glory that comes with the best executed call of the day. The calls stay serious – it’s just the game that’s absurd.

This offer (presented ahead of America’s Election Day in 2024) consisted of a free copy of Phones of Glory. If you missed it, don’t worry – you can get your own free copy from DriveThruRPG. And you can get lots more games like this by joining the Bully Pulpit Patreon crowdfunding campaign.

DCC Dying Earth

Funded in a June 2021 Kickstarter campaign, the 2022 Goodman Games adaptation for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG is the newest licensed RPG version of the world-famous Dying Earth stories by legendary fantasist Jack Vance. This version is different from the 2001 Pelgrane Press Dying Earth RPG, which we’ve presented many times.

Mongoose 2300AD 2E

In the 2021 Mongoose Publishing Second Edition of 2300AD, humanity is claiming worlds far from Earth. Despite nearly destroying itself in the Twilight War, despite all the wars since, humanity has held on and kept its dream alive. Campaigns in 2300AD are about interstellar exploration – war on the far frontier – new colonies on hostile worlds – discovering and understanding alien species – even espionage in the gritty megacities of the Core worlds. Using the Mongoose Traveller 2E core rules, expect a grittier experience – less Space Viking, more Aliens.

Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying

Mazes Fantasy Roleplaying, the episodic FRPG of sword-and-sorcery dungeon delving from 9th Level Games, recasts the classic dungeon crawl with modern rules. Mazes FRP is about exploring forgotten caverns and ruins while avoiding perilous traps. Designed for episodic play, Mazes FRP is easy to learn and teach, and ready to play with minimal prep, making it ideal for one-shots and conventions. Each maze is intended to be a simple dungeon crawl that can be resolved in a few hours.

Serpentine Quick Deal

As a tie-in to the 2024 Pelicon online gaming convention, Pelgrane Press kindly allowed us to present the Swords of the Serpentine FRPG rulebook. Swords is the GUMSHOE-powered sword-and-sorcery RPG set in Eversink, a fantasy city modeled on Renaissance Venice. You may dive deep into flooded ruins in search of lost treasure, play politics against sly nobles to discredit a powerful enemy, track down murderers with the City Watch, or plan breathtakingly ambitious thefts that take place in broad daylight. Your actions change the city, the politics, and the state of the world. Using the famous GUMSHOE rules for investigation and detection, you’ll learn secrets that can bring down the mighty or raise the humble, and you’ll uncover whispers of the past – even, yes, the corrupting sorceries of the long-dead Serpentine Empire.

This Quick Deal offered the Swords of the Serpentine core rulebook and the free Losing Face quickstart adventure.

July 2024

Ultraviolet Grasslands

The Ultraviolet Grasslands is the psychedelic fantascience Rainbowlands caravan pointcrawl campaign setting for Old School tabletop roleplaying games by designer-illustrator Luka Rejec at WTF Studio. At the edge of the Rainbowlands stands the Violet City, the last bastion of civilization. Your player characters, seeking money or ancient secrets, lead epic caravan journeys across the Ultraviolet Grasslands – past the Way Stone Graveyard, the Behemoth Shell, Dead Bridge, the Near Moon, the Cauldron of Revitalized Divinity, and dozens more locations – to the fabled Black City on the shore of time and space. In both its 2020 First Edition (funded in a February 2019 Kickstarter campaign and its 2022 “director’s cut” enhanced version, Ultraviolet Grasslands has earned praise for its fevered vision of a dying-earth world inspired by Moebius’ Airtight Garage, Jodorowsky, Fury Road, and heavy metal. (And, uh, Heavy Metal.)

The Gaia Complex

The Gaia Complex is the Hansor Publishing cyberpunk RPG of flesh and wires in New Europe. In a megacity of intense violence, secret corporate warfare, and vampiric uprisings, an overzealous AI called Gaia governs the city and protects (controls) its citizens. You’re a Merc, uncovering secrets and using them to chase your next payout from the syndicates. But Gaia’s secrets are many and unexpected. Whether you’re a combat-ready Operator, Core Hacker, black marketeer, street-savvy Data Dealer, or feral who mind-melds with animals, the concrete jungle of New Europe – of NeoMunich, Bruss, Morvan, The Hamm, Paris-Zone, The Dome, and the vampire-controlled Outer Fringe – can eat you alive. (Especially the vampires.) For fans of Blade Runner, Altered Carbon, Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed, Elysium, and Dredd, The Gaia Complex lets you create stories of conspiracy, discovery, hardship, and brutal violence.

Spirit of ’77

Spirit of ’77 from Monkeyfun Studios is the 1970s pop culture RPG that turns up the volume and never slows down. In a world where Nixon made a deal with aliens to win the Vietnam War and remains in power behind the scenes, your characters – kung-fu tough guys, red hot mommas, starry-eyed rockers, hardboiled sleuths on an expense account, maverick agents, motorcycle daredevils, you name it – might investigate government conspiracies, fight drug-dealing luchadores, ride shotgun in a Disco Ambulance, or confront angry spirits at 77,000 feet. You solve problems, shoot troubles, and stick it to The Man in funkadelic adventures that use an open-ended player-driven rules system Powered by the Apocalypse.

Fading Suns Lost Worlds

This all-new offer, a companion to the July 2022 Fading Suns 4E Bundle, added recent sourcebooks and adventures for the far-future passion-play space fantasy RPG Fading Suns from Ulisses Spiele. Funded in the July 2022 Fading Suns: Lost Worlds Kickstarter campaign, these Lost Worlds sourcebooks take us to worlds cut off long ago from the Empire and the solace of the Universal Church. Gear up and set off to rediscover these mysterious planets.

June 2024

Dyson’s Delves

This new offer presented hundreds of hand-drawn maps by master cartographer Dyson Logos. Famous in the Old School Revival community for his distinctive crosshatching style, Dyson has drawn maps for publishers including Wizards of the Coast (Candlekeep Mysteries, Glory of the Giants), Kobold Press, and dozens more. He’s released more than a thousand maps and dozens of adventures free on his Dyson’s Dodecahedron blog (funded by his successful Patreon campaign). You can download all these maps for free from the Dodecahedron blog. Dyson has also gathered them in convenient collections self-published through his ZERObarrier Productions imprint. Several of these titles grant royalty-free commercial licenses, so you can adapt them for your own published adventures.

Orbital Blues

Orbital Blues is the lo-fi space Western RPG from SoulMuppet Publishing (Best Left Buried). This is the rock’n’roll future of yesteryear that never was – and nobody wanted. It’s an interstellar age of cowboys, outlaws, and bandits, of hypercapitalism and a cutthroat gig economy. With your ship and your crew of Interstellar Outlaws, you eke out a living in the Frontier Galaxy, chasing the dream of freedom. Orbital Blues lets you play out old-school adventures in the style of Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Esper Genesis

Esper Genesis is the space opera adaptation from Alligator Alley Entertainment of the D&D Fifth Edition rules. Spacefaring empires collide as, on many planets, ancient machines called Crucibles grant gifted adepts control of the cosmic energies that can alter gravity, empower the mind, and warp time and space. This new awakening, both miraculous and revolutionary, is christened “Esper Genesis.” If you like Mass Effect, Phantasy Star, and Ghost in the Shell, brace yourself for high adventure filled with high-tech gadgets and weapons, robots and aliens, starfighters and space cruisers, all built using the familiar D&D 5E rules. (The Esper line stands alone; you don’t need the D&D rulebooks.)

Operation Unfathomable

Operation Unfathomable is a gonzo Underworld wilderness campaign setting by Jason Sholtis (The Dungeon Dozen) for FRPG retro-clones. Your fledgling 1st-level adventurers explore a vast and incomparably bizarre cavern-world of civilized fungoids, bat-winged dwarves, two-headed giant ape mummies guarding franchise temples, decapitante soldiers, psychephages, death-ray revolvers, the ruins of the now-extinct Genocide Beetle civilization, the Fizzy Drink of Ocular Autonomy (“causes eyeballs to leave their moorings and levitate freely”), and Shaggath-Ka the Worm Sultan. In most circumstances, fragile beginning characters would be doomed. But explorers with good sense (and a willingness to hide) can hope to gain great treasure and speedy advancement.

Shadowrun 5E Missions Mega

This new Megabundle companion to our February 2019 Shadowrun 5E Essentials offer added the Seattle Sprawl location guide and lots of Sixth World sourcebooks and adventures.

May 2024

Runehammer Crown and Skull

Crown and Skull, from Index Card RPG designer Brandish “Runehammer” Gilhelm at Runehammer Games, puts the players at center stage: Players can build their own custom equipment and spells, roll all the dice in combat, and discover new setting locations, inhabitants, and events – and the Game Master is right at the players’ side, discovering all this with them, and using the game’s inventive no-prep tools to improvise legendary adventures across the North Holds. Characters earn hero points in play and grow their own way, eventually making the fateful choice: Crown (service to the kingdom) or Skull (independent destiny)?

This all-new offer presented the complete Crown and Skull Digital Bundle (as sold on the Runehammer Games website) with the Crown and Skull core rulebook, the North Holds setting poster map in hexgrid and no-grid versions, 30 image tokens suitable for virtual tabletop (VTT) platforms, and 23 atmospheric MP3 music tracks to enhance your game sessions.

Rifts Coalition Wars

This new companion to our December 2022 Rifts Core Megabundle added supplements and sourcebooks about the Coalition States, a dominating presence across the central United States of Rifts Earth. A militaristic high-tech human-supremacist dictatorship ruled by Emperor Karl Prosek, the CS brands itself a defender of humanity in a stand-or-die war of survival against wizards, psychics, mutant animals, and D-Bees (Dimensional Beings). Seeking new land and resources, and the eradication of all magic from the Earth, the Coalition States invade the Techno-Wizard stronghold of Tolkeen. The magical superstate responds with a blitzkrieg counterattack, and soon darker forces on both sides join the conflict. The Siege on Tolkeen campaign proceeds across six large sourcebooks, plus a final Aftermath postscript that tours the changed world after war’s end.

Wyrd Penny Dreadfuls

This all-new companion to our November 2021 Wyrd Breach Bundle added many Penny Dreadful One-Shot scenarios and the recent expansion From Shadows for Through the Breach, the Lovecraftian-Wild West-steampunk RPG based on the Malifaux miniatures game from Wyrd Games.

They Came From Beneath the Sea!

They Came from Beneath the Sea! is the RPG of drive-in B-movie horrors from decades past – of melodrama, science fiction, and farce – from Onyx Path Publishing. PLAY heroic humans driving back watery threats that seek to invade, destroy, or subjugate humanity! CAPTURE everything great about monster movies of the 1950s and 1960s – the thrills and (optionally) the campy humor – using the cinematic Storypath dice-pool system! GRAB your chocolate malt, turn on the jukebox, and ready your harpoons! Don’t be caught unawares when it’s revealed that They Came From Beneath The Sea!

Mongoose JTAS

This all-new offer presented the first 12 volumes (2019-2023) of the Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society, the guides for Traveller from Mongoose Publishing. JTAS features articles covering all aspect of the Third Imperium and the Charted Space universe: strange creatures on distant worlds, playable alien species, new spacecraft, detailed worlds, patrons, and full adventures.

In this list, each link goes to the DriveThruRPG product page that lists highlights of that volume: Journal of the Travellers’ Aid Society Volume 1,JTAS V02, V03, V04, V05, V06, V07, V08, V09, V10, V11, V12.

April 2024

Moon Toad Cepheus Engine

The Cepheus Engine SFRPG adapts the rules from Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller First Edition (2008), released under the Open Game License, to help you create an experience similar to the original 1977-81 Classic Traveller “little black books.” UK designer and illustrator Ian Stead from Moon Toad Publishing has produced a popular edition of the Cepheus rules, followed by major rules expansions and a flotilla of fully illustrated, full-color starship guides. Populate your Cepheus or Traveller campaign with scout ships, Far Traders, transports, escorts, and planetary vehicles of every kind.

ProFantasy Megabundle

This new offer presented Windows mapmaking programs from ProFantasy Software Ltd., including Campaign Cartographer 3+, Dungeon Designer 3, City Designer 3, and Fractal Terrains 3, along with tutorials, tokens, symbol sets, and map tools.

Delta Green fiction

This offer, compiled from four previous Bundles of Holding (2013-2019), gathered dozens of stories and full-length novels inspired by Arc Dream Publishing‘s roleplaying game of modern-day Cthulhu Mythos conspiracy-horror, Delta Green. These novels and short-story collections, drawn from four past Bundle of Holding offers (2013-2019), show the ways Delta Green operatives slip through the system, manipulating the federal bureaucracy while pushing the darkness back for another day – often at shattering personal cost.

Discworld RPG Powered by GURPS

Steve Jackson Games published several versions of a Discworld game based on the comedic novels of Terry Pratchett. This new offer presented the 2016 Second Edition standalone Discworld Roleplaying Game Powered by GURPS, the Fourth Edition of the Generic Universal RolePlaying System, along with two GURPS 4E supplements that enhance the setting.

Chronicles of Darkness Dark Eras

This new offer presented dozens of historic settings for the Chronicles of Darkness from Onyx Path Publishing. We have shared the world with monsters for millennia. In the time of Alexander the God-King, mages fought their secret wars. In Elizabeth’s London, vampires built their own empire brick by bloody brick. Before the founding of America, hunters fought enemies within and without. And in the Cold War, as the clock ticked towards Armageddon, we could have been damned by fallen angels. Dark Eras reveals the world throughout its long and storied past. Learn secret histories from the flame-lit Neolithic to the 1970s, from pharaonic Egypt to the Scandinavian witch trials, from Arthurian Britain to the Great War and beyond. Each setting features character creation rules and story hooks for two or three Chronicles of Darkness game lines, including Vampire: The Requiem, Mage: The Awakening, Hunter: The Vigil, Changeling: The Lost, and more.

KoDT Trouble 6

This all-new offer was our sixth collection presenting Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. This offer included the Bundle of Trouble compilations #51-60, collecting KoDT issues #179-218 (2011-2015): Knights of the Dinner Table Bundle of Trouble Vol. 51, V52, V53, V54, V55, V56, V57, V58, V59, and V60.

March 2024

Ruins of Symbaroum 5E

Ruins of Symbaroum is the 2021 Free League Publishing adaptation for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition and compatible systems of Symbaroum, the 2016 FRPG set in the primeval Forest of Davokar. Free League funded the Ruins of Symbaroum supplements and adventures in a big April 2021 Kickstarter campaign. Building on the 5E Open Game License rules, Ruins adds new Origins, Backgrounds, classes, and Approaches (subclasses); optional rules for Troupe Play, Advanced Traps, Pitched Battles, Ceremonial Magic, and more; and 5E conversions of the amazing Davokar bestiary. (These Ruins 5E supplements and adventures require the Fifth Edition OGL rules or compatible rulebooks. If you want the original 2016 standalone Symbaroum RPG, check our Symbaroum Starter Pack in the Bundle Store.)

Goodman d20 Monster Guides

This all-new offer presented 13 big d20 System monster sourcebooks from Goodman Games. Published in 2006-2009 for D&D 3.x, these inventive and detailed treatises describe, in 32 to 128 pages each, adversaries both major (beholders, liches, rakshasas) and minor (velociraptors, wererats). As d20 System supplements, these Guides work as-is with Pathfinder 1E, and gamemasters of Fifth Edition and compatible “ampersand fantasy” systems can easily adapt the extensive discussions of monster physiology, social structure, culture, tactics, and campaign use.

Far Horizons Short Games

This all-new offer presented ninety-two small RPGs from the creator-led Far Horizons Co-op collective of indie RPG designers. Each volume gathers an eclectic mix of ready-to-play standalone RPGs. Each game runs between 10 and 64 pages. Some are solo journaling games, others one-shots; still others support large groups and long campaigns. This offer included Far Horizons Anthology Collection 2 Volume 1 and Collection 2 V2, along with all eight volumes of its precursor series The San Jenaro Games Digest Quarterly, published between Summer 2019 and Winter 2021: Volume 1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V6, V7, and V8.

A Magical Society

Gathered from four previous Bundle offers (2014-2019), these system-neutral historical sourcebooks and “Aggressive Ecologies” from Expeditious Retreat Press, full of ready-to-run systems, generators, gameable nuts-and-bolts details about the High Middle Ages, let you create terrain, cultures, kingdoms, landholdings, economies, and trade routes that help make every fantasy campaign setting more authentic and believable.

February 2024

Chivalry and Rising Sun

This new offer presented Chivalry and Sorcery Fifth Edition from Brittannia Game Designs, along with the new 2021 version of its Land of the Rising Sun campaign setting.

Sig and Spark

This new offer presented the indie RPGs Sig: Manual of the Primes and Spark by designer Jason Pitre at Genesis of Legend. Inspired by AD&D Planescape, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and other otherworldly settings, Sig is a colorful, cosmopolitan city at the nexus of the Eternal Planes of Existence. It’s the battlefield where the political factions fight for territory, and a rough home for cutters hungry for coin and glory. Whether you’re a clever spy, renegade sorcerer, or reckless smuggler, in Sig you’re going to get rich or die trying.

KNOCK! Magazine

KNOCK! is the Merry Mushmen‘s magazine for old-school fantasy games. Dubbed “an Adventure Gaming Bric-à-Brac and a Compendium of Miscellanea for Old School RPGs,” KNOCK! showcases breathtaking layouts, dazzling color, and a barrage of articles, essays, tables, rules, maps, monster stats, and adventures that range from weird to – well, no, they’re all uniformly weird. Every overstuffed 200+-page issue features the most audacious designers in the Old School Revival.

January 2024

Good Society

Good Society, the Jane Austen-inspired roleplaying game from Storybrewers Roleplaying, is a collaborative Regency RPG that captures the heart, and the countenance, of Jane Austen’s novels, as well as shows like Bridgerton, Downtown Abbey, and Upstairs, Downstairs. Create your own Regency character, from a wealthy heir who falls in love with the aloof new arrival, to a charming socialite bent on ruining a rival’s reputation. On the surface Good Society is about balls, estates, sly glances, and turns about the garden. Yet players must navigate powerful undercurrents of social ambition, family obligation, and breathtaking, heart-stopping longing. Good Society gives you the power to change the story in your favor: taking control of influential connections; creating rumors and scandal; and orchestrating balls, carriage accidents, and even marriages. Exploit your advantages, connections, and family influence to achieve your secret desire, while jealously guarding your good name.

FYI, there’s also a Good Society LARP, which wasn’t part of this offer.

Axes and Anvils

Axes and Anvils: A Game of Dwarves is a dwarf-clan FRPG from Shields Up! Publishing. In the Kingdom of Stoneshadow, your Fellowship of experienced warriors undertakes missions to help your clan. Axes and Anvils character creation is fast and easy, the setting is strong in flavor and atmosphere, and the clan framework easily supports both one-evening adventures and years-long sandbox campaigns in the open-table “West Marches” style. If you like kickass warriors, player-driven action, and battles against undead warbands in the Shadowmines, Axes and Anvils is your Dynastic Prestige toolkit for crafting mithril-grade adventures.

Relics: A Game of Angels

The modern urban-fantasy RPG Relics from Tin Star Games casts you as a fallen angel, trapped on Earth now that the gates to Heaven have closed forever. Powerful celestial items are scattered through human history, and the cold war between light and dark has turned into a mad arms race. Control the Relics and you control the world – but first, you must find them.

The Sprawl

The Sprawl, an Apocalypse Engine cyberpunk SFRPG from Ardens Ludere, is a game of mission-based action in a gritty neon-and-chrome future right out of William Gibson. You are deniable, disposable assets of vast multinational corporations, performing tasks those multinationals can’t do – or can’t be seen to do. The tools in The Sprawl rulebook and its supplements let you run fast-playing, fiction-first cyberpunk missions in your own Sprawl at the nexus of bleeding-edge technology and fragile humanity. Or use these full-featured rules as a drop-in replacement in games like Shadowrun or Cyberpunk Red.

The Midderlands

The Midderlands is a grim, green, grime-smeared old-school campaign setting from MonkeyBlood Design. The Midderlands is a green-hued, dark-fantasy, late-Middle Ages, early-Renaissance land based on writer-artist-cartographer Glynn Seal’s home in the United Kingdom, the Midlands. This atmospheric (not to say fetid) sandbox setting adapts easily to any OSR retroclone.

December 2023

Trophy

This all-new offer presented the Gauntlet Publishing Trophy RPGs of psychological horror and tragic ends. In Trophy Dark and its standalone companion game Trophy Gold your obsessed treasure-hunters explore ancient forests and ruins that don’t want you there. Through desperation and sacrifice, you may reach your goal, face the monstrous entities that guard it, and – maybe – escape alive. But unless you gain enough treasure to pay your debts, you’ll face certain death back home. The Trophy games combine fast and flexible push-your-luck rules, player-driven gameplay, and jaw-clenching suspense.

Kobold Guides

This new offer gathered the Kobold Press volumes of essays on games and gamemastering. In these nine .PDF ebooks, dozens of experienced designers have contributed more than 200 practical, thought-provoking essays on worldbuilding, magic systems, combat, and crafting compelling stories. Use the advice in these authoritative essays to think about games like the professionals do. (Six of these titles originally appeared in our Worldbuilder’s Toolkit offer series, 2013-2021.)

Numenera Horizons

This new companion to our September 2021 Numenera Discovery Bundle added recent supplements and adventures for Numenera, the Monte Cook Games science-fantasy RPG of discovery and destiny in the Ninth World a billion years away. (Four of the 12 supplements in this bundle previously appeared in our July 2017 Numenera Ninth World Bundle.)

Dragonbane and Year Zero

This new offer presented English-language tabletop roleplaying games from Free League Publishing, including Dragonbane (the 2023 version of the venerable Scandinavian FRPG Drakar och Demoner), along with five Free League RPGs – Twilight: 2000, Vaesen, Forbidden Lands, Coriolis, and Mutant: Year Zero – that use the Year Zero Engine rules system also seen in ALIEN, Blade Runner, The Walking Dead, and Tales From the Loop. Year Zero plays fast, giving you meaningful and decisive results in one die roll. Well suited for harsh, survival-focused settings, Year Zero games are often deadly, and player characters are rarely safe from danger no matter how experienced they are. The YZE system is player-focused, story-driven, and adaptable.

Mongoose Traveller Mercenaries

This all-new companion to our May 2021 Mongoose Traveller 2E Bundle added the three-book Mercenary Second Edition boxed set (2021) (funded in a February 2021 Kickstarter campaign) and its support line with additional tickets, equipment, adventures, and an entire theater of operations, the Solomani Front.

Dungeon Fantasy Powered by GURPS

Dungeon Fantasy is a ready-to-play standalone RPG based on GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games. Design and fine-tune your fantasy characters, monsters, treasures, and traps to work exactly the way you like. Funded in a big September 2016 Kickstarter campaign, Dungeon Fantasy harnesses the customizing power of GURPS to give you fully-realized characters and fantastic adventures.

Blades in the Dark 2

This new sequel to our December 2020 Blades in the Dark offer featured the rulebook and play aids for Blades in the Dark from One Seven Design Studio, along with many recent Forged in the Dark standalone games based on the Blades System Reference Document.

November 2023

Shadowrun 3E Megabundle

This new Megabundle delivered a giant data-drop for the 1998 Third Edition of Shadowrun, the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Catalyst Game Labs. Shadowrun Third Edition is widely admired as the last version of the original rules before the 2005 Fourth Edition took the game in new directions. This offer included the 3E rulebook plus two dozen supplements, play aids, and adventures – everything you need for a complete campaign in the Awakened world of 2060.

Bluebeard’s Bride

Bluebeard’s Bride is an RPG of fairy-tale gothic horror from Magpie Games based on the classic fairy tale. Magpie’s Bluebeard’s Bride RPG differs from the story in that a group of players collectively play the eponymous Bride. Using an adaptation of the Apocalypse Engine rules system, each player takes the role of a distinct part of the Bride’s mind – a Sister – who guides the Bride through Bluebeard’s house, armed with a set of keys. The players decide the Bride’s actions, pushing the Bride deeper into mystery. They learn about Bluebeard’s former wives and the many terrible things that can hide behind a locked door.

Cornucopia 2023

This eleventh annual offering of top-quality RPGs featured one of the Cornucopia series’ strongest lineups ever.

Sine Nomine Corebooks

This new offer assembled (from seven previous offers) standalone RPG rulebooks by acclaimed designer Kevin Crawford of Sine Nomine Publishing. Sine Nomine RPGs present a huge array of system-independent sandbox gaming tools. Easily generate kingdoms and AIs, planets and pantheons, cults and factions, monsters and mechs, dungeons and starships, and tons more.

All these rulebooks except Cities Without Number had appeared in one or another of seven previous Bundle offers: Stars Without Number (Oct 2013), Fantasy Frontiers (July 2015), Nerves 3 (Oct 2015), Bundle for Two 1 (Feb 2017), More SWN (March 2019), Cornucopia 2022 (Nov 2022), or Non-OGL Fantasy (Jan 2023).

Mongoose Ultimate d20

In 2002-2005 Mongoose Publishing compiled 14 “Supplementary Rulebook” collections of third-party d20 System open content published under the Open Game License. Grouped by subject, these Ultimate volumes ranged in size from 48pp to 256pp and gathered material from dozens of sources such as Alderac, Fantasy Flight, Green Ronin, Monte Cook, Mystic Eye, and Mongoose’s own Quintessential series. This all-new offer presented nine Ultimate compilations.

Torg Cosms 2

This all-new companion to our September 2019 Torg Eternity Essentials added the complete Cyberpapacy and Orrorsh setting lines crowdfunded in the November 2019 Cyberpapacy campaign and the January 2021 Orrorsh campaign.

City of Mist Unveiled

This new companion to our August 2021 City of Mist Essentials added recent sourcebooks and adventures for the City of Mist comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis.

Nibiru

In Nibiru, the Araukana Media SFRPG of lost memories on a continent-sized space station, your amnesic Vagabonds venture from the Core Sectors of the Antumbra to explore the vast high-gravity frontiers of the outer disc. In that Skyless World you’ll recover your past, gain new abilities through Revelations, and carve a new life. The game’s rules foster creative writing; players produce bite-sized bits of character background to advance the story. For fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Martian, Ringworld, The Expanse, and Rendezvous With Rama, this monstrous ancient machine makes a compelling backdrop for narratives of loss and recovery, of captivating mystery, and of the tremendous varieties of human experience.

October 2023

DCC Funnels

In a Dungeon Crawl Classics “funnel” adventure, your players send a dozen-plus hapless normal, un-heroic characters into a deadly environment where they rapidly die horrible and/or hilarious deaths. The resourceful survivors get promoted to 1st level, choose a character class, and become new PCs in a DCC RPG campaign. This all-new offer, with zero-level modules from both DCC RPG publisher Goodman Games and many third-party publishers, showed why funnel adventures are a much-loved hallmark of Dungeon Crawl Classics.

The Arkham Gazette

The Arkham Gazette is a Miskatonic Country magazine from Sentinel Hill Press supporting Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu. Since 2013 each big issue of The Arkham Gazette has covered one area in depth of the New England region formerly called “Lovecraft Country” (not to be confused with the unrelated 2020 HBO Max TV series Lovecraft Country). From crumbling, whisper-haunted Arkham to decaying Innsmouth to the fog-draped village of Kingsport, The Arkham Gazette is your guide to local sites of interest, curiosities, odd citizens, peculiar histories, and books of forbidden lore. Each issue includes a full-length scenario for Call of Cthulhu Sixth or Seventh Edition, high-quality handouts, and a full bibliography of relevant published scenarios.

Palladium Apocalypse

This new offer presented standalone horror RPGs of dark ruined futures from Palladium Books. Whether you play genetically engineered rebels hunted by the insane Artificial Intelligence N.E.X.U.S. in Splicers, the human resistance fighting alien Bug invaders in Systems Failure, or the hapless survivors of the zombie apocalypse where the Dead Reign, all the standalone RPGs and supplements in this bargain-priced collection work well with every game based on Palladium’s Megaversal rules system.

Kult Secrets and Whispers

Kult: Divinity Lost is the 2018 Helmgast edition of the acclaimed RPG of contemporary horror. If you had already torn aside the veil of Illusion with the rulebooks and early supplements in our October 2020 Kult: Divinity Lost Bundle, your journey beyond Elysium continued with this new companion offer of recent supplements and scenarios funded in the June 2020 Kult: Divinity Lost Horror Guide & Scenario Collection Kickstarter campaign.

The Arcane Library

This all-new offer presented bloodcurdling D& D Fifth Edition adventures from The Arcane Library. Each of these short, easy-to-run modules fills one short play session (3-5 hours) and includes full-color maps suitable for online virtual tabletop (VTT) play. Designer Kelsey Dionne wrote the highest-rated Dungeon Masters Guild adventure ever, Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse. In early 2023 she raised US$1.3M on Kickstarter for her old-school standalone FRPG Shadowdark.

Best Left Buried

Best Left Buried is the rules-light fantasy horror RPG from SoulMuppet Publishing where the monsters are scary and the players are scared. Players take the role of Cryptdiggers, professional dungeon-divers who venture underground in search of riches. Cryptdiggers brave dark tunnels, solve cryptic puzzles, and face terrifying monsters. Characters who survive might be permanently changed by their experience. They are often broken, beaten, and diminished – as ruined as the crypts themselves.

Scarred Lands 5E

This new offer presented the version of the Scarred Lands post-apocalyptic fantasy setting from Onyx Path Publishing for D&D Fifth Edition and compatible systems. The world of Scarn, battered and broken in a war of gods and titans, was the first campaign setting ever released under the d20 System License. Introduced in 2000 as part of White Wolf Game Studio’s Sword & Sorcery brand, the Scarred Lands line grew to nearly three dozen titles by 2004. In 2016 a successful Kickstarter campaign resurrected the Scarred Lands setting under the 5E Open Game License.

September 2023

Novel Writing Game Tools 2023

This was our second annual offer of roleplaying ebooks and creativity aids intended to inspire writers as they prepared for the 2023 National Novel-Writing Month event. Each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a new novel. They enter the month as teachers, mechanics, stay-at-home parents, or gamers; they emerge as novelists. These solo journaling and group story-making games help build the foundation for your novel by first creating a setting, characters, and plotline.

Flying Circus

Flying Circus is the aviation-fantasy RPG from Newstand Press. In Flying Circus you’re a fantasy adventurer, but instead of a sword and spells, you have an overworked biplane with rusty machine-guns – and you might still have to fight a dragon. Above the sprawling industrial-fantasy land of Himmelgard, daring pilots – heroes, knights errant, and scoundrels for hire – protect small rural communities beset by monsters, bandits, and tyrants. Flying Circus optimizes the Apocalypse Engine system to support highly detailed aircraft construction rules and an authentic (and authentically dangerous) flight experience that will charm fans of anime classics like Porco Rosso and Laputa.

Mistborn Adventure Game

The Mistborn Adventure Game from Crafty Games is based on the bestselling Mistborn fantasy novels by Brandon Sanderson. Explore the world of Scadrial under the Final Empire and beyond, and learn the magical secrets of Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy. Your brave (or foolhardy) heroes may be former slave skaa, disenfranchised nobility, or travelers from the far-off Terris mountains. They may wield magic or have the clout to summon armies, stymie lords, or rouse the masses. Their common cause drives them to change the world.

KoDT Trouble 5

This all-new Quick Deal was our fifth collection of Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. In every issue of KoDT, the players in B. A. Felton’s HackMaster campaign find so many devious new ways to torment their Gamemaster, you’ll say “They’re just like my players!”

This all-new offer included KoDT Bundle of Trouble Volume 41, V42, V43, V44, V45, V46, V47, V48, V49, and V50.

Delta Green RPG Megabundle

Arc Dream Publishing‘s RPG of modern-day Cthulhu Mythos conspiracy-horror, Delta Green, is a compelling mix of conspiracies, UFOs, intelligence tactics, and Lovecraftian terror, renowned for its scope, depth, authentic tradecraft, and imagination. This new offer presented a giant black-ops cache of rulebooks and supplements – five pulled from two previous DG RPG offers, alongside seven major recent releases.

Delta Green Asset Packs

Operatives in the conspiracy called Delta Green use their positions in government and private law enforcement to battle the perils of the Cthulhu Mythos. They examine classified dossiers, confidential memos, police and autopsy reports, alien blueprints, and transcripts of disturbing interviews with disturbed people. These Asset Packs present high-res logos and graphics that let any Delta Green Handler (gamemaster) craft convincing prop documents. Each Asset Pack includes 15-30 corporate or government logos and document stamps (“Classified,” “Confidential,” etc.) in transparent .PNG format. Each image is presented in both “clean” and “dirty” (faded, discolored) versions, so you can make handouts that plausibly came from a long-abandoned warehouse at the Hanford nuclear site or a bombed-out Jamaican drug lab. Each Pack includes brush sets with all the images in Photoshop and Procreate formats.

  • Classified Pack 1: Document stamps for Approved, Confidential, Declassified, Evidence, Insane KIA, MIA, Microfiled, Top Secret, etc.
  • Known Vectors: Fictitious DG entities such as the Benthic Company, Breckenridge Corporation, Center for the Missing Child, Club Apocalypse, March Technologies, M-EPIC, Phenomen-X, the PX Penumbra, Red Hook Social Club, and logos and symbols for Delta Green itself.
  • Law Enforcement Pack 1: Logos for the ATF, Border Protection, DEA, Department of Justice, FBI, Immigration, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Treasury, US Marshals, US Postal Inspectors, the Secret Service, and the New York City police department. Includes .SVG versions.
  • Private Sector Pack: Logos for Blackwater, Boeing, Booz Allen Hamilton, CACI, Constellis, DynCorp, G4S1, GardaWorld, Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Pinkertons, RAND Corporation, and Wackenhut. Includes .SVG versions.
  • Public Interest Pack 1: Logos for AmeriCorps, the IRS, NIH, Nuclear Security, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and many US cabinet departments. Includes .SVG versions.

August 2023

The Nightmares Underneath

The Nightmares Underneath is a standalone old-school horror-fantasy RPG by Johnstone Metzger (Class Warfare, Adventures on Dungeon Planet, Wizard-Spawned Insanities) from Chthonstone Games. The physical world faces invasion by deadly “incursions” from the Realm of Nightmares that manifest as dungeons. To destroy the incursion, your fantasy adventurers must risk nightmarish curses, face the dungeon’s monsters, and loot its treasures. Use your loot to improve your home community, making it more prosperous and helpful for your expeditions into the ruins from the Age of Chaos, where you may find items of great magical power to banish the nightmares.

Everywhen

Everywhen is the rules-lite universal system from 13th Planet Games based on Simon Washbourne’s cult-classic sword-and-sorcery FRPG Barbarians of Lemuria. Adapting the fast, fun BoL 2d6-based system and character Careers, Everywhen adds rules for vehicles, chases, investigations, social conflicts, psionics, and mass battles suitable for campaigns in any era or background. Play every kind of character from ancient Mesopotamians to Shaolin monks, 16th-Century vampire hunters to WWII commandos, and Miami vice cops to space truckers, all using the eminently hackable Everywhen, called “the AK-47 of indie games.”

Historica Arcanum

Historica Arcanum is a series of alternate-history Fifth Edition fantasy campaign settings from Turkish publisher Metis Creative. The Historica Arcanum timeline spans many centuries. In the alternate 13th Century of Empires of the Silk Road, magic is dangerous, unstable, and tightly controlled. North of the Silk Road, the Khanate of the Eternal Blue Sky is rising; to the west, impoverished Crusader Kings covet the Road’s treasures; between them, in the Sultanate of Persia, the warlock Hasan Sabbah and his Hashashin Order pit kingdoms against one another in a deadly game. Then jump forward to the alternate 19th-Century Istanbul (not Constantinople!) of The City of Crescent. In this capital of the crumbling Ottoman Empire, rooftop chases atop coffee parlors lead adventurers to bustling bazaars, through mighty palaces, and down to deadly catacombs. In magical counterparts to real landmarks, you’ll solve mysteries, intrigue among factions, fight legendary monsters, and shape the arcane history of the Historica Arcanum universe.

Hyperborea 3E

The 2022 Third Edition of Hyperborea North Wind Adventures is a vividly dangerous, edge-of-the-world setting inspired by the weird sword-and-sorcery fiction of Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, and many others. The isolated Land Beyond the North Wind is a flat hexagonal realm hemmed in by the mystical boreas. In the unchanging scarlet radiance of a bloated, dying sun, roiling seas spill eternal over the world’s rim. In this land of perpetual decay, heroic cataphracts, pyromancers, runegravers, purloiners, legerdemainists, and sublunary Gnoph-Yikks delve dungeons and ruins, explore frontiers, and plunder gold and treasure.

dicegeeks Eras

Matt Davids at dicegeeks has busily populated entire books of percentile tables designed to spark creative ideas and help desperate gamemasters whose players suddenly decide to investigate some random name dropped in passing. The tables in this offer enhance RPGs set in many historical and future eras. Each book includes more than two dozen tables that work with any roleplaying game set in that time. The historical books also include lots of authentic period info like book titles, famous people, slang terms, and other details that enliven your roleplaying sessions with the roll of a few dice.

July 2023

Blue Rose Aldean Adventures

This new companion to our March 2020 Blue Rose Bundle added recent campaigns and adventures for the 2017 Second Edition of Blue Rose, the RPG of romantic fantasy in the land of Aldea from Green Ronin Publishing.

Hydra Cooperative

Hydra Cooperative is a creator-owned consortium of old-school designers who pooled their resources to publish inventive and strikingly packaged titles. (Gotta love a title like What Ho, Frog Demons.) This Quick Deal collected many Hydra rulebooks and modules that had appeared separately in one or another of five previous offers from 2015-2020.

Track current Hydra developments at Chris Kutalik’s Hill Cantons blog and Trey Causey’s blog, From the Sorcerer’s Skull.

Legendary Beginnings 5E

The Legendary Beginnings line of all-ages D&D Fifth Edition adventures from Legendary Games presents exciting scenarios especially designed for those new to roleplaying or on the younger side. These adventures can be played with the full D&D 5E rules or the simplified Starter Set. Whether your players are your own kids, neighbors, youth groups, scout troops, or just friends who’ve never rolled polyhedral dice, these adventures make their introduction to roleplaying a Legendary Beginning.

Root: The Roleplaying Game

Based on the bestselling Root board game, Root: The Roleplaying Game from Magpie Games adapts the Apocalypse Engine rules to let you create stories of animal courage a la Redwall, Watership Down, and Mouse Guard.

Worldographer

Worldographer is an easy-to-use program from Inkwell Ideas that lets you quickly craft maps of worlds, kingdoms, cities, villages, and dungeons for tabletop FRPGs. Whether you run Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux, Worldographer lets you make colorful TSR-style hexmaps and square-grid battlemats step-by-step in minutes. The program can also autogenerate a map – anything from a wayside inn to a complete campaign world – and can annotate your map with details and special features, all fully editable. This all-new offer presented license keys for the Pro Version of Worldographer and its two expansions, along with many Inkwell Icon Sets compatible with Worldographer or any mapmaking program. The basic version of Worldographer is a free download from the Inkwell Ideas website, with no purchase required and no time limit. These links go to the Icon Sets on DriveThruRPG.

June 2023

Dork Tower

Dork Tower is the fan-favorite webcomic by John Kovalic (Munchkin) about five gamers and the worlds they create, the games they play, the tech they abuse and misuse, and the conventions they road-trip to – a comic for everybody, geeks or otherwise. Dork Tower started in 1997 in Shadis and (later) Dragon magazines, then moved to comics and the web. The big collections in this new offer from Dork Storm Press have together sold more than half a million copies. In chronological order, more or less:

Warlock-Warpstar

This new offer presented two old-school RPGs from from Fire Ruby Designs inspired by the early days of British roleplaying – the dark yet wondrous spirit of early Games Workshop and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. The fantasy game Warlock! and its standalone compatible space-opera companion Warpstar! both feature career-based characters, concise rules, and a unified 1d20+skill mechanic that adapts easily to published grim-and-perilous adventures and helps you create your own new stories.

BattleTech Shrapnel

The Official BattleTech Magazine from Catalyst Game Labs, Shrapnel, gives you technical readouts, equipment, unit digests, playable scenarios, background articles, and more – the edge BattleTech board game players and roleplayers need to triumph in BattleMech combat on the war-torn battlefields of the 31st Century. This offer included BattleTech: Shrapnel Issue #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, and #10.

The Dark Eye Megabundle

This big offer featured the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele of the leading German RPG of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye. In continuous publication since 1984, The Dark Eye is Germany’s premier FRPG. As a virtuous knight, elven ranger, or erudite mage, you’ll rebuild the war-weary Middenrealm, marvel at the Lands of the Tulamydes, discover lost ruins in steaming jungle, or drive back the evil of the Shadowlands. Rescue innocent victims from cults of the Nameless One – navigate labyrinthine intrigues at the Court of the Empress – or defend border cities from the Orc Storm.

Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants

Brinkwood: The Blood of Tyrants is a Forged in the Dark castlepunk FRPG from Far Horizons Co-op of rebellion against world-dominating vampires. Drink the rich!

Steamforged Epic Encounters

Grab a truly epic encounter for your next FRPG session! Made for new and experienced players, every Epic Encounters set from Steamforged Games features a ready-to-play, all-in-one, 5E-compatible battle module that drops easily into any ongoing campaign. Each 25-35pp Epic Encounter includes a full-color adventure book with complete descriptions and stats, two large full-color maps, and advice on adjusting the challenge level for your characters.

Dragongrin

A Dead Man’s Guide to Dragongrin is a dark-fantasy 5E campaign setting from Absolute Tabletop. Evil reigns in the realm of Dragongrin, where once-free lands kneel to the Dismembered Lord and his tyrannical Lords of Ash. Only a few embattled heroes still oppose his dominion. With A Dead Man’s Guide to Dragongrin, a comprehensive campaign setting guide and worldbuilding toolkit, you can forge your legend. (Eons ago before the Godswar, the Titans used the word grin for “graveyard.” The continent once known as Arthunvale, the final rest of the ancient dragons annihilated in the First War, is commonly called Dragongrin. Long-buried dragon carcasses make the land’s northern region toxic and unlivable.)

Lex Arcana

Lex Arcana is the historical-fantasy RPG from Acheron Games of a magical Roman Empire that never fell. Travel the known world to study arcane lore, uncover conspiracies, and battle dangerous supernatural creatures. It’s Cthulhu Invictus meets The X-Files – the HBO Max Rome series meets The Witcher. Dive into the mysteries and dangers of ancient Rome. The Emperor commands!

May 2023

Sorcery & Super Science

Sorcery & Super Science is a gonzo-apocalypse SFRPG from Expeditious Retreat Press. After a worldwide catastrophe, the Moon’s in pieces and even time is broken. It is a dangerous new world, where advanced technology exists alongside mystic artifacts – where super-scientists use their knowledge to create tools for trade, health, and combat – where mutants pit their powers against Winged Carnivorous Mastodons and other terrors of the wilds. Flex your mutated muscles, whisper the words of long-dead sorcerers, or repair the technology of a world long gone. Get your Thundaar on, because the world under the shattered moon is yours to explore.

Lankhmar Thieves

This new companion to our April 2021 DCC Lankhmar Bundle added Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG adventures in the licensed DCC Lankhmar setting from Goodman Games based on the Fritz Leiber stories of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Freeport Pathfinder

This all-new offer presented the Pathfinder First Edition version of the venerable rum-soaked pirate stronghold, Freeport, The City of Adventure from Green Ronin Publishing. Funded in a February 2013 Kickstarter campaign, the Pathfinder 1E version of Freeport became the largest and best-supported vision of the city. (We featured the original d20 System version in our June 2015 Freeport Bundle).

Girl Genius 2

This all-new companion to our October 2020 Girl Genius Bundle added the seven graphic albums that compose Volume 2 of the Studio Foglio gaslight-fantasy webcomic Girl Genius.

Dungeon Age Adventures

The old-school fantasy modules in the Dungeon Age series by writer and game designer Joseph R. Lewis are set on Joseph’s ancient world of Harth, inspired by classic fantasy authors like Jack Vance, Michael Moorcock, and Fritz Leiber. Presented in dual versions for D&D Fifth Edition and for old-school retroclones such as Old-School Essentials, these ready-to-run Dungeon Age scenarios fit easily into any ongoing fantasy campaign.

Arc Dream Mythos

This offer showcased Cthulhoid scenarios and magazines from Arc Dream Publishing. Best known for its Delta Green RPG line, Arc Dream has also published the extraordinary Dreamlands campaign The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man and many issues of The Unspeakable Oath, a digest of arcane lore supporting Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu and other Mythos RPGs. Each issue of the Oath presents Arcane Artifacts, Mysterious Manuscripts, Tales of Terror, Messages in a Bottle, Unconventional Firearms, and full-length scenarios. Contributors include some of the hobby’s best and most knowledgeable Lovecraftian gaming writers.

Honor + Intrigue

Honor + Intrigue from Basic Action Games is set in the Baroque Era of the 17th Century, when highwaymen menace the coach-roads, musketeers protect the king, and buccaneers cross swords on the high seas. Amid tangled webs of intrigue friends become betrayers – enemies make fleeting allies – rival nobles who smile cordially at court plot in secret – and high-flying heroes laugh at danger, swing into action, and meet foes with flashing steel and a sharp tongue. Based on the simple and fast-playing Barbarians of Lemuria system, Honor + Intrigue is a standalone game with rules for dueling (in many unique fencing styles), social combat, black powder weapons, alchemy, sorcery, and Fortune points that help you beat overwhelming odds. You can swing from a tapestry, crash through the window, lunge at your enemy, and parry his attack all in a single turn!

Iron Kingdoms: Requiem

This all-new offer presented the 2021 D&D Fifth Edition version of Iron Kingdoms: Full Metal Fantasy from Privateer Press. (We presented the original standalone Iron Kingdoms in the September 2016 Iron Kingdoms Bundle.) Armed with the arcane technology of mechanika and accompanied by mighty steamjacks, you explore the soot-covered cities of the Iron Kingdoms in a steam-powered world fueled by magic and contested with gunfire and steel.

Grim Noir RPG

This all-new offer featured Grim Noir RPG, the GUMSHOE film-noir RPG from Finnish company Northern Realms of occult mysteries. In a City of dark alleys and glamorous restaurants, a labyrinth of dreams and schemes, Heaven and Hell have struck a Pact, an armistice, that prohibits them from waging war on Earth. Instead, they gather souls using proxies, “Reapers.” You’re a Reaper, a detective investigating dangerous cases with a supernatural twist that makes them too dangerous for the City’s police. Pursuing the trail, you and your fellow Reapers uncover corruption, coercion, and vice – powers of Heaven and Hell tempt you, mislead you, cheat you – you face impossible choices. The City’s elite may wind up gruesomely destroying themselves, and possibly you as well.

FASA Traveller

This all-new offer presented the early 1980s Classic Traveller supplements published by FASA Corporation. Later known for BattleTech and Shadowrun, FASA started as a Traveller licensee, publishing starship deck plans and adventures, many by the prolific designer J. Andrew Keith and his brother William. Still admired today, these modules represent old-school Traveller design at its best.

April 2023

Solidarity Bundle

These RPGs about modern life, cryptography fantasy, and dystopian futures – all drawn from one or another of five previous Bundle of Holding offers – examined corporate accountability and citizen empowerment in the context of an incident where a Hasbro executive dispatched private security to a YouTuber’s home to seize his purchases.

GameMaster’s Apprentice Decks

This all-new offer presented the complete GameMaster’s Apprentice line of idea-generator cards by Nathan Rockwood at Larcenous Designs. For GMs, solo gamers, or writers – for any creator seeking inspiration – the thousands of snippets in these 120-card GameMaster’s Apprentice decks suggest story seeds, encounters, characters, and randomizers at the flip of a card.

Airship Daedalus

Airship Daedalus is the deco-punk RPG from Deep7 Press of 1920s pulp adventure a la Indiana Jones, The Rocketeer, Sky Captain, and The Mummy. In an alternate Modern Age that never was, operatives of AEGIS need hardboiled courage against overwhelming odds as they fight to free the world from the secret cult of the Silver Star. Chart a course for two-fisted excitement as a pilot, explorer, soldier, scientist, pirate, entertainer, occultist, masked avenger, and more. Discover lost cities, battle ancient horrors, and thwart the machinations of secret societies bent on world domination.

Tiny Dungeon Megabundle

This big new offer gathered many RPGs from Gallant Knight Games that use the streamlined, minimalist TinyD6 rules. These Tiny games play fast, have characters you can describe on an index card, and cover a huge range of genres: fantasy, space opera, superheroes, mecha, post-apocalypse, Wild West, pirates, zombie and Mythos horror, and ummm fishing, can’t forget fishing. (YouTuber Dave Thaumavore has a good Tiny Dungeon rules summary.) And you can mash them all together, to play supers and imperious magicians fighting kaiju in an apocalyptic alien zombie-haunted Weird-West wasteland. While on a fishing trip.

Mongoose d20 Classic Play

This all-new offer featured Classic Play and other lines of FRPG supplements produced by Mongoose Publishing from 2001 through 2006 for the d20 System. Each 256-page Classic Play compendium details one particular element of fantasy gaming, drawing on dozens of sources released under the Open Game License. These vintage d20 System sourcebooks give you rules, ideas, and insights to enliven Dungeons & Dragons 3.x, Pathfinder, or any fantasy game.

SHIVER

The pop-culture horror RPG SHIVER from Parable Games lets you bring your favorite horror films, TV shows, and books to life. Always wanted a sequel? Thought the ending was bad? Rewrite the stories, relive the tales you love, and create your own cult classics. With simple, fast-playing rules, SHIVER is perfect for one-shots, breaks from your regular game, or even for creating an entire media franchise at your gaming table.

SHIVER uses special symbolic dice. You can order a 14-die Archetype Dice Pack from the Parable Games webstore, or use the free online SHIVER dice roller.

More Mörk Borg

This all-new offer featured English-language third-party supplements and adventures for the heavy-metal artpunk FRPG of miserable heretics in a bleak and doomed world, Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing. All these titles require the Mörk Bork core rulebook.

March 2023

Clement Sector 3E

Clement Sector is the 24th-Century space opera setting from Independence Games that uses the Cepheus Engine based on the First Edition of Mongoose Traveller. Set in a distant space sector left stranded after a wormhole collapse, these sourcebooks adapt easily to Traveller or any proto-Traveller campaign.

Heroic Maps Future

These full-color digital battlemaps from Heroic Maps work with any tabletop SFRPG. Since 2013 Joseph and Sarah Bilton have produced battlemaps and tiles featuring castles and villages, dungeons and crypts, starships and space stations. This new offer headed to the stars with science-fictional settings including spacecraft and space station deck plans, an asteroid base for smugglers, and lots of planetside structures.

Lampblack & Brimstone

This offer gathered many short supplements published by Jason Lutes at Lampblack & Brimstone. Though designed for the Apocalypse Engine FRPG Dungeon World, these attractive and inventive supplements – the popular Perilous Wilds, Servants of the Cinder Queen, and many more – introduce fun techniques of worldbuilding, overland travel, and dungeon creation that help any fantasy campaign.

Goodman Games D&D 4E

This all-new offer presented supplements and adventures published by Goodman Games in 2008-2010 for the Fourth Edition (2007-2013) of Dungeons & Dragons from Wizards of the Coast. Goodman’s modules, character sourcebooks, and bestiaries showcase the appeal of a system that still attracts enthusiasts on Reddit, Discord, and on virtual tabletops.

KoDT Trouble 4

This was our fourth offer of Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. This all-new offer included Knights of the Dinner Table Bundle of Trouble V31, V32, V33, V34, V35, V36, V37, V38, V39, and V40.

Rogue Genius Pathfinder

Ron Lundeen at Run Amok Games kindly contributed this all-new collection of Pathfinder Second Edition adventures to help publisher Owen K.C. Stephens at Rogue Genius Games after Owen suffered a pulmonary embolism and other health issues.

Mystical Throne Gaming Guides

The Tabletop Gaming Guide system-neutral historical sourcebooks from Mystical Throne Entertainment are short (55-100pp), lively treatises that cover one historical era’s context, notable locales, everyday life, historical figures (with roleplaying details like appearance and mannerisms), law enforcement and military organizations, and ways to use the material in your games. Each sourcebook ends with short adventure ideas and a timeline. Use these books to lay the groundwork for your historical or alternate-history adventures, and as guides for creating characters of the time.

GURPS 4E Combat Action

Paired with the 4E Supers offer, this all-new bundle, full of fighting vigor, presented flying-fist, rapid-fire supplements for the Fourth Edition of GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games.

GURPS 4E Supers

This all-new collection presented the current versions of Supers, Powers, and many Powers expansions for GURPS Fourth Edition.

War of the Burning Sky

War of the Burning Sky is EN Publishing‘s monumental 12-part, 761-page adventure saga for D&D Fifth Edition about the aftermath of a great war. After would-be conquerers bring the world to the brink of annihilation, your heroes lead armies into battle, influence great events, and ultimately decide who will rule: perhaps an ally, or themselves, or mere anarchy. On an epic path from 3rd to 21st level, they can lead the world into a golden age, or let it be scorched under a rain of fire.

February 2023

Arcana of the Ancients

Arcana of the Ancients adapts the Numenera setting from Monte Cook Games for D&D Fifth Edition. Add mysterious technology and weird science-fantasy atmosphere to your existing fantasy campaign – explore incomprehensible ruins and face bizarre creatures of the Ninth World in search of the ancient devices called numenera – or build your own far-future campaign world from the ground up.

The One Ring Starter

The One Ring Second Edition lets you adventure across Eriador in JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth. This new offer from Sophisticated Games and Free League Publishing presented The One Ring Starter Set. Explore the Shire as the hobbits whose children will go on to do extraordinary things, such as Drogo Baggins, Rory Brandybuck, and Esmeralda Took. Using streamlined rules, ready-made characters, and a tight focus, The One Ring Starter Set makes it easy for new (and maybe younger) players to take their first steps into Middle-earth.

Worlds of 2d20

This big offer presented 2d20 System RPGs from Modiphius Entertainment.

Delver Lost Tomes

This new offer gathered a dragon hoard of dungeon maps and random tables from The Tabletop Engineer for the Old-School Essentials tabletop fantasy roleplaying game and other Old School Revival RPGs. Use these play aids before or during your game sessions to generate quick side quests, nonplayer character hirelings, magical treasures, and spur-of-the-moment colorful details about any sword, skeleton, trap, tome, brazier, blessing, scroll, song, map, Wanted poster, or owlbear that suddenly appears on the scene.

Purple Sorcerer DCC

Purple Sorcerer Games is one of the oldest third-party publishers supporting the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games. Purple Sorcerer produces free online DCC generators and that indispensable DCC utility, the Crawler’s Companion. Purple Sorcerer’s DCC scenarios feature colorful funnels with gaudy vistas, melodramatic characters, and deadly perils.

January 2023

Hero Plus

The Hero Plus line for the HERO System rules from Hero Games presents short, no-frills adventures designed to fill one game session. Whether set in the 1930s metropolis of the Midnight Brigade, on the Sunless Ocean of Inner-Earth, or way out in the pirate-infested spacelanes of Solar Smith, Hero Plus Adventures are written simply so you can run them easily and with minimal prep. These Plus releases work with both Fifth and Sixth Edition HERO System.

Advanced Adventures Megabundle

This new offer presented all 43 short, ready-to-play modules in the long-running Advanced Adventures line from Expeditious Retreat Press. These Old School Revival dungeon crawls were written for the open-license OSRIC system (the “Old School Reference & Index Compilation,” a free AD&D 1E retroclone) but adapt easily to any old-school fantasy RPG.

Alternatives to D&D

For gamers who have been playing Hasbro’s Dungeons & Dragons and are looking for something different, this offer gathered top-quality FRPGs from many publishers. Whether full-featured rules tomes like Dungeon Crawl Classics, HackMaster, and Shadow of the Demon Lord, tactical action games like Fragged Kingdom, or old-school minimalists like Tiny Dungeon and Five Torches Deep, these fine FRPGs (all drawn from previous Bundle of Holding offers) can handle the monsters, magic, and heroic adventure you expect.

Beowulf

Beowulf: Age of Heroes is the mythic lone-hero 5E campaign setting from third-party publisher Handiwork Games. One of the oldest recorded stories in Western Europe, the epic poem Beowulf is a tale of a hero against a monster – and the monster’s mother – and a dragon. Beowulf: Age of Heroes introduces a new Hero class and creative rules for Followers, portents, voyages, and your Hero’s wyrd (fate or destiny). Beowulf adventures work great for a gamemaster and just one Hero player (plus nonplayer Followers), so it’s easy to start a game and easy to keep the campaign going. Discover a fierce medieval land of wild seas and savage monsters, of meadhalls and legendary heirloom swords. Gain Followers, take Inspiration from unique Portents, and use specially crafted tokens to guide your voyage along the Whale Road. Embrace your wyrd, and sail on to glory. (Note: Beowulf: Age of Heroes requires the Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition rulebooks.)

Non-OGL Fantasy

This new offer gathered top-quality fantasy RPGs that aren’t based on the Open Game License (OGL) derived from Dungeons & Dragons.

QAGS

QAGS is the “Quick Ass Game System” for simple, fast-playing RPG adventures in any genre. QAGS (“kwags”) can run anything from historical swashbuckling to far-future space opera. Define your characters with six Words (Body, Brain, Nerve, Job, Gimmick, and Weakness), Skills, a Tag Line, and Dumb Facts. A single roll of a 20-sided die decides the success of any action. Use your Yum Yums (edible candy experience points) to re-roll failures, dodge damage, or even take control of the game. As simple or complex as you want, QAGS is great for new players and for seasoned gamers who like improv, weird settings – and snacks.

Wicked Ones

Choose the greater of two evils with Wicked Ones from Bandit Camp. This Forged in the Dark RPG casts you as fantasy monsters building a dungeon, launching raids on the surface to gather a hoard, and pursuing nefarious master plans. There’s pillaging, rituals, concoctions, contraptions, discoveries deep underground, dungeon rooms, traps, creatures, minions, and more. Unfortunately your vile deeds lure increasingly greedy and powerful adventurers into your dungeon. Can you stave off the inevitable onslaught of heroism?

December 2022

13th Age Megabundle

This comprehensive new offer combined two past bundles and added recent supplements to present almost the entire line to date for 13th Age, the bestselling RPG of freewheeling fantasy adventure in the Dragon Empire from Pelgrane Press. 13th Age combines the best parts of traditional d20 RPGs with story-focused rules that let you run the kind of game you want. 13A gives you unique characters who, through their icon relationships, are immediately embedded in the setting in important ways – customizable monsters – and escalation dice for exciting, fast-moving battles.

The Fantasy Trip

The Fantasy Trip, the vintage 1980s FRPG from Steve Jackson Games, was the first roleplaying game designed by Steve Jackson (GURPS, Car Wars, Ogre, Illuminati, Munchkin). The early game company Metagaming originally published TFT, but when Metagaming went out of business around 1982, support ceased. TFT was off the market for more than 35 years. In 2017 Steve Jackson regained rights to his work and set about creating a new edition. The July 2018 Kickstarter campaign raised more than US$300K. The Legacy Edition, released later that year, has helped TFT find a new audience.

Rifts Core Megabundle

This giant new offer presented Kevin Siembieda‘s Rifts® RPG from Palladium Books of a shattered Earth invaded by countless realities. This Megabundle combined nine titles from previous Rifts offers with nine major supplements new to the Bundle of Holding.

Rifts Land and Sea

This new companion to our Rifts Core Megabundle added World and Dimension Books that guide you on adventures across the continents and deep into the ocean depths.

Heart

This all-new companion to our December 2020 Spire Bundle presented Heart: The City Beneath, a standalone fantasy-punk RPG from Rowan, Rook, & Decard about thrilling and desperate dungeon-crawls in the unreal world below the towering mile-tall drow city of a thousand gods, Spire. As a Deadwalker, tech-armored Vermissian Knight, Junk Mage, Deep Apiarist, or other obsessed character, you delve into the outlawed cathedrals, predatory buildings, and twisted night forests of a nightmare undercity that will give you everything you’ve ever dreamed of – or kill you in the process.

November 2022

Tales From the Magician’s Skull

Tales From the Magician’s Skull from Goodman Publications is a fantasy fiction magazine that overflows with thrilling new adventures in the spirit of the fabled pulps. Many tales include location maps, and each issue has an appendix that gives Dungeon Crawl Classics game statistics for elements from the stories – creatures, magic items, and more.

Shadowrun 1E/2E Megabundle

This all-new offer presented the First (1989) and Second (1992) Editions of the cyberpunk-fantasy SFRPG Shadowrun from Catalyst Game Labs. Originally published by FASA Corporation, these are the early rulebooks, supplements, and sourcebooks that made Shadowrun a smash hit from the start.

Cornucopia 2022

This was our tenth annual offer, keyed to the American Thanksgiving holiday, of top-quality RPGs.

Engine GM Guides

These treatises on gamemastering from Engine Publishing help improve your skill in running tabletop roleplaying games. Written by the experienced GMs at the widely read gamemastering blog Gnome Stew and by many of the field’s leading RPG designers, Engine’s system-neutral guides show how to prepare and run a game session, conjure interesting characters and storylines, manage an ongoing campaign, and (ahem) improvise when your players gleefully destroy your sessions, characters, storylines, and campaign.

Level Up!

Level Up!, the standalone Advanced 5E FRPG from EN Publishing, is a complete, independent rules set backwards-compatible with Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition. For those who like 5E but want an extra layer of crunch, Level Up enhances the game with deeper, more flexible options: diverse heritages, a reworked ranger class, a new warlord class, martial maneuvers, strongholds, a complete exploration system, thematic journey rules, new combat conditions, distinctive weapons and armor, crafting of magic items, monster templates, and improved Challenge Ratings for adversaries. All the A5E titles also work as supplements to your existing Fifth Edition books. If you just want the monsters, or the class overhauls, or the exploration rules, you can drop the A5E creations smoothly into your existing campaign. EN Publishing offers lots of free A5E downloads and many free online aids at a5E.tools.

Mongoose Traveller Explorations

This all-new offer featured the 2022 Update corebook and recent sourcebooks for the Second Edition Traveller SFRPG line from Mongoose Publishing.

Traveller Great Rift

This all-new offer presented The Great Rift setting guide and Deepnight Revelation campaign for Mongoose Traveller, along with many adventures that fill out a decades-long trip across very deep space. Send your player characters on a trek to strange new worlds where no Traveller has gone before.

October 2022

Weird Frontiers

The Lovecraftian Weird-West RPG Weird Frontiers from Stiff Whiskers Press is set in an alternate 1865 where a cabal of Nyarlathotep cultists awakened long-dormant Elder Gods. Like a creature fighting a sickness, Earth responded by activating long-dormant ley lines brimming with arcane energies, “kissing” common folks with extraordinary supernatural abilities. You are one such trailhand, fighting an ever-growing evil in a wounded country still recovering from the bloodiest war in American history. You can turn tail or take the fight to the night, and you ain’t about to be called yeller! Saddle your horses and clean those irons, trailhand, ’cause there’s something slithering across the dark frontier and it’s dead set on making vittles out of you and your ragtag posse.

GURPS Horror

This all-new companion to our June 2022 GURPS 4E Essentials Bundle added Fourth Edition sourcebooks dripping with zombie gore, monster ichor, and a drenching horrifying-ness.

Monster of the Week

Monster of the Week is the Apocalypse Engine creature-hunting RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Some people are mean, smart, crazy, and/or hurt enough to go and hunt monsters. Monster of the Week casts you as one of 12 Hunter characters (Chosen, Crooked, Divine, Expert, Flake, Initiate, Monstrous, Mundane, Professional, Spell-Slinger, Spooky, and Wronged). Hunt high-school beasties a la Buffy the Vampire Slayer, travel the country to bring down unnatural creatures like the Winchester brothers of Supernatural, or head up government investigations like Mulder and Scully.

DCC Horror

Though many Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG modules from Goodman Games present sword-and-sorcery scenarios of gold and glory, in 2015 Goodman branched out (oozed out?) to produce annual horror scenarios – often tied to Halloween – that throw standard DCC fantasy characters into nightmarish pocket dimensions, Cthulhoid laboratories, Frankensteinian towers, abomination-haunted coffin ships, and cursed wedding receptions. Slip any of these scenarios (for character levels 0-6) into your regular campaign as a trick, and with the right attitude everyone will eat them up like a treat.

Monsters and Other Childish Things

Monsters and Other Childish Things is the distressingly funny RPG from Arc Dream Publishing about kids and the other-dimensional horrors who love them. Using a modified version of the One-Roll Engine, MOTC can handle the lightest and darkest themes of childhood. Of 63,514 entries in the authoritative RPG.net Game Index, Monsters and Other Childish Things ranks #16.

Novel Writing Game Tools

This all-new offer helped writers prepare for November’s annual National Novel-Writing Month event with roleplaying ebooks and creativity aids that inspire aspiring novelists. Each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write, determined to end the month with 50,000 words of a new novel. They enter the month as teachers, mechanics, stay-at-home parents, or gamers; they emerge as novelists. It’s a fun, free, seat-of-your-pants approach to creative writing. In 2021 427,000 writers participated. These solo journaling, group story-making, and mapmaking games help lay the foundation for your novel by first creating a setting, characters, and timeline.

September 2022

Psi-punk

Psi-punk is the psionic-cyberpunk SFRPG from Accessible Games. Based on the Fudge universal system, Psi-punk takes you to the North American Union of 2096, where ghosts, psiborgs, technomancers, and soul jackers walk among us. To compete, you’ll build your ideal body, implant a few high-tech devices, sign up with a megacorp or government, and discover what it means to be more than human.

Fudge-based RPGs use Fudge Dice, available from Evil Hat Productions (as “Fate Dice”), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link).

Infinity Factions

This new companion to our December 2019 Infinity Bundle added recent sourcebooks for Infinity, the Modiphius Entertainment 2d20 SFRPG of adventure in the Human Sphere and beyond.

KoDT Trouble 3

This all-new Quick Deal was our third collection of Jolly R. Blackburn‘s long-running comic about tabletop roleplaying, Knights of the Dinner Table from Kenzer & Company. In every issue of KoDT, the players in B. A. Felton’s HackMaster campaign find so many devious new ways to torment their Gamemaster, you’ll say “They’re just like my players!”

This new offer included KoDT Bundle of Trouble Volume 21, V22, V23, V24, V25, V26, V27, V28, V29, and V30.

Apocalypse Engine 5

This was our fifth all-new offer of indie RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse – that is, based on Vincent and Meguey Baker’s landmark indie RPG Apocalypse World.

Troika Worlds

This new offer featured recent acid-fantasy adventures for Troika!, the psychedelic fantasia on the 1980s Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. You are a Wizarding Nautiloid, cryptozoologist, venomist, Misstep Monastic, Octopod Headfoot, or maybe a Charonite Guilder or Washed-Up Blacksash, dimension-hopping in your golden barge among the crystal spheres strung like pearls across the hump-backed sky. Trip the light fantastic with this new assortment of visionary adventures fueled by hallucinatory creativity.

August 2022

MageGate Treasures

This all-new Quick Deal uncovered a rich hoard of more than 1,200 magical devices in the 250 Best Magic Items series from MageGate Games for Fifth Edition D&D.

True20

True20 is the streamlined d20-based RPG system from Green Ronin Publishing. Using modifications derived from the First Editions of Green Ronin’s Mutants & Masterminds (2002) and Blue Rose (2005), True20 introduces new character, combat, and experience systems that simplify the d20 System that powers D&D 3.x and Pathfinder. True20 holds respect as one of the most interesting variants to emerge from the d20 System boom.

Warbirds

Warbirds is the Outrider Studios pulp-action RPG of fighter pilots chasing fame. In bygone days pilots were lauded as heroes of the sky. They braved new frontiers, fought wars on unproven battlefields, and returned home as legends. Warbirds recaptures the adventure, the romance, and the celebrity of that era. As an elite group of fighter pilots, your party will fly and fight for the freedoms of Azure – the only world you have left – while enjoying, or enduring, the fame, fortune and adulation of its citizens. Warbirds is a game about sacrifice and stardom. Why do you fly?

DCC Chaos Rising

This all-new offer, a companion to the original April 2021 Dungeon Crawl Classics Bundle, added recent modules and sourcebooks for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games.

Never Going Home

This all-new offer presented Never Going Home, the Wet Ink Games World War Occult RPG set in the horror-haunted trenches of WWI. In Never Going Home the 1916 Battle of the Somme tore open the Veil between Earth and the occult world beyond. Now, as part of a Unit of soldiers in the trenches, surrounded by the horrors of combat, you witness Corruption leaking into the world. The Whispers tempt you, promising power to save your friends. Will you give up some of your Humanity to live another day?

Indie Treasure Trove 2022

This all-new offer gathered a wide range of top-quality small-press RPGs.

  • Dueling Fops of Vindamere by Greg Stolze (Crankshaft Constellation): Boast, show off, wager, conspire, fight, elope, wed, rise in society, and boast some more in a scandal-plagued city. Cool your ardor, swain!
  • .dungeon by Batts: This tabletop RPG casts you as Players in an online fantasy game. Wait, what?
  • Girl Underground by Lauren McManamon and Jesse Ross (Hedgemaze Press): A low-prep Apocalypse Engine RPG of a young girl and her Companions travelling a semi-sinister Wonderland.
  • Hunt the Wicked by Ben Dutter (Sigil Stone Publishing): Galactic bounty hunters keep the peace to protect humanity from extinction.
  • Mage to Order by Joie Martin (Drowning Moon Studios): The Municipal Order of Technomantic Engineers keeps the lights on in the magitech city of Thelema.
  • Over Arms by Cory Burns (Rookie Jet Studio): Awaken your psychic Anima and learn to understand its abilities and purpose in this rules-light RPG based on Japanese manga and videogames.
  • Save the Universe by Don Bisdorf: Create a galactic menace and the heroes that defeat it in this simple, story-focused space opera.
  • The Spider and the City by Thomas Manuel: A solitaire journaling game of a criminal mastermind in a city wracked by rebellion.
  • The Well by Peter Schaefer (Shoeless Pete Games): In this “dungeon climb” you head upward through a miles-deep shaft to fight undead and loot abandoned tunnels.
  • Wicked & Graceful by Rose Bailey (Fantasy Heartbreaker): In the waning days of the Atlantean Empire, you work (or not) to avert the coming Fall. The prequel to Bright & Terrible.

Traveller5

This all-new offer presented the 2014 Fifth Edition of Traveller, which updated earlier editions with tons of new, player-requested features.

Legacy New Worlds

This new companion to our September 2019 Legacy Bundle added recent supplements for Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, the (post-) Apocalypse Engine RPG of building a new world from UFO Press.

Lightspress Toolkits

This all-new offer presented system-neutral RPG treatises and gamemastering advice from Berin Kinsman at Lightspress Media. In each of these eight slim “lo-fi” .PDF ebooks, Berin offers the wisdom of his long experience running many kinds of games. Take inspiration from these short guides to better imagine, develop, and run your own game sessions.

BattleTech Total War

This all-new collection gathered the core rulebooks for the BattleTech board game from Catalyst Game Labs, along with Mechwarrior: Destiny, the 2020 edition of the MechWarrior RPG. Destiny adapts the easy-to-learn Cue System (Shadowrun: Anarchy) for story-first MechWarrior adventures. The RPG integrates smoothly with the board game rules in this offer’s comprehensive BattleTech corebooks, including Total Warfare and its three Operations expansions. Climb into your armored ‘Mech and join battles across the vast interstellar empires of the 31st Century.

July 2022

Halls of Arden Vul

The Halls of Arden Vul is a vast megadungeon from Expeditious Retreat Press for old-school D&D, AD&D, and OSR retroclones. Originally published in five volumes in 2020 – the hardcover set runs US$275 – the 1,100-page Arden Vul is one of the largest megadungeons published for old-school gaming, with more than 2,000 keyed encounter areas spread across ten main levels and 15 sub-levels. The scale of the Halls and the variety of experiences ensure no two groups encounter the Halls in the same way. In fact, the same player group might run several different parties through the Halls and never see a given area twice – even the entrances.

This all-new offer presented .PDF ebooks of The Halls of Arden Vul Complete, the pay-what-you-want Maps of Arden Vul, and The VTT Maps of Arden Vul for virtual tabletops.

Legendary Epic Monsters

This all-new offer featured high-level rules, scenarios, and bestiaries for D&D Fifth Edition from Legendary Games.

Encyclopedia Arcane

This all-new offer presented the Encyclopedia Arcane line of FRPG supplements produced by Mongoose Publishing from 2001 through 2004 for the d20 System. Each 64-page installment in the Arcane series (and its companions, Encyclopedia Divine and Encyclopedia Psionica) explores one kind of power in depth, presenting new prestige classes, feats, spells, and magic items. These colorful and imaginative books provide tons of useful information that enhance the quality of magic in any fantasy game.

Eclipse Phase 2E

This all-new offer presented the 2019 Second Edition of Eclipse Phase, the SFRPG of transhuman survival from Posthuman Studios. After losing Earth in a war with AIs, transhumanity disperses throughout the Solar System and beyond, struggling to survive. In a typical Eclipse Phase game, characters belong to Firewall, a secret cross-faction organization that protects transhumanity from biowar plagues, self-replicating nanoswarms, nuclear proliferation, terrorists with WMDs, net-breaking computer attacks, rogue AIs, alien encounters, and anything else that could drive an already decimated transhumanity to extinction. Agents may even step through a Pandora Gate, a wormhole to distant stars and the alien secrets beyond. Funded in an April 2017 Kickstarter campaign, Eclipse Phase Second Edition improves the game with faster character creation, streamlined “resleeving” (body switching), new skill and gear systems, updated combat and hacking rules, and four sample teams. Most First Edition source material is compatible with the 2019 Second Edition.

Fading Suns 4E

This all-new offer presented the Fourth Edition (2021) of Fading Suns, the space fantasy RPG from Ulisses Spiele. Fading Suns has starships, blasters, powered armor, alien races, and weird science — but also heroic knights, noble lords, high priests and headstrong merchants — quests, artifacts, and inscrutable mysteries. And there is horror: monsters and maddening, terrifying metaphysical truths. It’s a medieval passion play, where Humanity’s greatest civilization has fallen, bringing a Dark Age to the Known Worlds. The Universal Church of the Celestial Sun (modeled on the historical Byzantine Orthodox Church) pursues cosmic intrigues against the Noble Houses and the Reeves Guild. But even as the stars fade to cinders and the sinful await Final Judgment, a leader has arisen. Emperor Alexius has sworn to unite the worlds again under one banner — to ignite hope once more.

Amazing Adventures 5E

The Amazing Adventures first edition rulebook (2018) (part of our May 2016 Pulp Adventure Bundle) focused on 1930s action using the SIEGE Engine, the basis of Castles & Crusades from Troll Lord Games. This all-new offer’s 2020 edition, completely compatible with D&D Fifth Edition, lets you run anything from 1930s pulp adventure to modern urban fantasy, cyberpunk corporate raiding to space opera. This 5E rulebook is a toolkit to build any style of play you like.

June 2022

GURPS 4E Essentials

With GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games, you can be anyone you want: an elf fighting for the forces of good, a spy on a deep-cover mission, a futuristic swashbuckler carving up foes with a force sword, or literally anything else. For more than three decades GURPS has been supported with hundreds of supplements and sourcebooks. This all-new offer (the first of three, followed quickly by GURPS Fantasy and GURPS Space bundles) presented all the important rules and supplements you need to get started with the Fourth Edition (2004) of one of the longest-lasting and best-supported universal systems in the hobby.

GURPS 4E Fantasy

These supplements for GURPS Fourth Edition, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games, added the major Fourth Edition magic rules expansions, the Banestorm worldbook, and many Thaumatology sourcebooks.

GURPS 4E Space

This new companion to our GURPS 4E Essentials offer added GURPS Fourth Edition supplements and sourcebooks that open the high frontier and unleash the indomitable powers of the mind.

Red Markets

The Red Markets RPG of cutthroat economic horror from Hebanon Games takes place during an unevenly distributed zombie apocalypse, where the world is divided: infected and clean, living and dead, haves and have-nots. The mercenary entrepreneurs called “Takers” live on the wrong side of that divide — the Loss, where even the apocalypse offers no escape from the everyday grind. You and your crew hustle, scheme, and fight to profit from humanity’s imminent extinction. If actual monsters don’t consume you, debt will, and the cycle of poverty is harder to escape than hordes of undead.

Heroic Maps

Since 2013 Joseph and Sarah Bilton at Heroic Maps have produced full color digital battlemaps and tiles featuring castles and villages, dungeons and crypts, temples and caverns. Funded by a strong Patreon campaign, Heroic has published hundreds of unique landscapes, of which this all-new collection presented a wide-ranging sample.

  • The useful Heroic Maps GM Starter Pack
  • Under Caves and Under Caves – Chambers
  • The Discover: Villages series, depicting one rural hamlet in four seasons: Villages – Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter
  • Villages – Interiors, a companion set for the Discover maps
  • The complete nine-set Hellscapes collection of the Nine Levels of Hell, starting with Hellscapes – Level 1: A ravaged and war-torn land, cut in half by the Styx
  • Level 2: A flat featureless plain winds its way past stagnant rivers to the walls of the City of Iron
  • Level 3: A desolate swamp, with stinking marshes and oozing mud as far as the eye can see
  • Level 4: A plane of fire and ash, with pits of fire hot enough to burn devils
  • Level 5: A frozen ocean, cold enough to freeze your soul
  • Level 6: A corrupted and perilous place, full of rotting bones, pits of tar, and harsh coppery scents
  • Level 7: A devastated ruined city, filled with decay and despair
  • Level 8: A frozen wasteland, permanent blizzards and perilous ice
  • Level 9: A barren red wasteland, cut by impossibly deep chasms

Sea of Thieves

This all-new offer presented the piratical tabletop RPG from Mongoose Publishing based on Sea of Thieves, the 2018 Rare Limited video game for Xbox Game Pass and Windows 10. Set sail from Cannon Cove and the Shores of Plenty for the Ancient Isles, the Devil’s Roar, and the Shroud beyond. Race other pirates to buried treasure — fight Skeleton Captains on tropical islands — tackle Voyages for the Gold Hoarders, Order of Souls, and Merchant Alliance — brave Megalodons and Krakens from the depths. Seek the glory and freedom of the pirate life.

This Quick Deal presented both the complete Sea of Thieves core rulebook and the A Tale of Two Captains rules expansion, which includes two Voyages also released separately: Hunting the White Lady and Juliana’s Heart.

Fat Goblin Planners and Guides

This new offer presented RPG campaign aids from Fat Goblin Games. Create, organize, and amplify your play sessions with these system-free digital journals, map sheets, and record books that help you develop settings, adversaries, scenarios, and even star systems.

Pip System

The genre-bending introductory Pip System from Third Eye Games is suitable for groups of all ages. Everyone can enjoy a Pip game, regardless of age or RPG experience. On the Pip framework you can build any kind of RPG. The quarterly Pip System Primer magazine has presented resources that support Pip fantasy, noir, animal adventures, dystopian worlds, time jumpers, ghost hunting, and urban fantasy, among other genres.

Mutant Year Zero 2

This new companion to our July 2018 Mutant Year Zero Bundle added recent supplements and adventures for Mutant: Year Zero – Roleplaying at the End of Days from Free League Publishing.

Stellagama Cepheus

Stellagama Publishing produces These Stars Are Ours and other SFRPGs based on the Cepheus Engine, the leading retro-clone of Traveller. In the 23rd Century the United Terran Republic has finally gained its freedom from the gray aliens of the mighty Reticulan Empire. Explorers, star traders, and soldiers head out into the cosmos for adventure. This all-new offer included rulebooks, supplements, and adventures — everything you need for your own campaign of high-action space opera.

May 2022

Gamelords Traveller

This all-new offer presented vintage 1980s Classic Traveller supplements from two of Traveller‘s earliest third-party publishers: Gamelords Ltd and Marischal Adventures. These primordial indies published many sourcebooks and scenarios by two of Traveller‘s most prolific designers: J. Andrew Keith and William H. Keith. Though later known for Traveller landmarks like Murder on Arcturus Station, Nomads of the World Ocean, the Alien Modules, and much more, the prolific Keith brothers started by self-publishing their own short “Folio” mini-scenarios (1981-82), followed by ten impressive booklets through Gamelords (1982-84). These titles date from the time publishers printed their books on dot-matrix printers, yet this timeless material can still freshen any space-opera roleplaying campaign.

This bundle also included eight of the Keiths’ early Marischal Folio mini-scenarios and nine titles that lay neglected until 2000, when Traveller fan Paul Sanders founded a company called Cargonauts specifically to publish them. The “Lost Supplements” sold out their 500-copy run almost immediately. They’re not available on DriveThruRPG, but you can purchase them on a physical “Apocrypha 3” CD-ROM from Traveller designer Marc W. Miller at Far Future Enterprises.

Fifty-Dungeon Megabundle

This new offer gathered more than four dozen FRPG modules in the original d20 System Dungeon Crawl Classics line from Goodman Games. From 2003 to 2007 Dungeon Crawl Classics captured the Old School Revival spirit in dozens of scenarios published for Dungeons & Dragons 3.x and its successors under the Open Game License.

Cypher System 10A

This new Megabundle marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of Monte Cook Games with a giant offer of games based on the Cypher System game engine.

Ptolus Cypher

This new offer presented the 2021 versions of Monte Cook‘s famous City by the Spire, Ptolus. In the shadow of an impossibly tall stone column, the sprawling city of Ptolus sits atop ancient dungeons that draw adventurers (“delvers”) from across the land. Originally published to critical acclaim in 2006 for D&D 3.x (we presented that one in September 2014 and again in May 2016), Ptolus thrives again in new versions funded in a spectacular February 2020 Kickstarter campaign. As before, the Ptolus core campaign setting book is lavishly produced, with abundant maps and illustrations, multiple indices, heavy cross-referencing, hyperlinking and bookmarking, and quick-access summaries. With this single book, and the play aids in this bargain-priced offer, you can take starting player characters all the way to epic play — twice over.

Neon City Overdrive

Neon City Overdrive is the fast-playing cyberpunk SFRPG from Peril Planet. Lightweight, quick-playing, and amazingly adaptive — it’s based on FU: Freeform Universal RPG, with elements inspired by Fate and Blades in the Dark — Neon City Overdrive smoothly handles gritty near-future action. Whether your Trademark is Arcology Brat, Gene Farmed, Metroplexer, Joyrider, or Gutter Scum, you can be a Codeslinger, Jammer, Infiltrator, Grifter, or even a Paladin, with any kind of Skins, Cyberware, Edges, and gear you can think up. What matters is your Drive: why you keep hitting the streets, throwing yourself into danger, and pushing through the hard stuff.

Shadowrun Sixth World Essentials

This new offer presented the 2019 Sixth World edition of Shadowrun from Catalyst Game Labs. This Essentials offer included the corebook and major combat, magic, and rigger supplements — everything you need to start exploring the Awakened World of 2080.

Shadowrun Power Plays

This new offer, a companion to Shadowrun Sixth World Essentials, added recent sourcebooks and campaign adventures that push the Awakened World in new directions, drive nation-states to near-collapse, and change the very nature of magic in 2081.

Sixth World Stories 2

This all-new Quick Deal presented 11 ebooks of recent Shadowrun fiction — seven novels and four novellas written by many of the Catalyst line’s leading authors.

The Hero’s Journey

The Hero’s Journey from Barrel Rider Games takes its inspiration from timeless folklore. Designed by James M. Spahn (White Star), The Hero’s Journey arose from the Old School Revival tradition (based on Swords & Wizardry) and, now enhanced in its 2019 Second Edition, incorporates modern design elements that help create wondrous tales of danger and magic, faerie and friendship.

April 2022

HOSTILE

This all-new offer presented HOSTILE, the SFRPG of deep-space horror from Zozer Games. Based on the Cepheus Engine rules (the leading retro-clone of Classic Traveller), HOSTILE is a gritty retro-future setting inspired by movies like Outland, Blade Runner, and Alien — a universe of harsh planets and toxic atmospheres — claustrophobic space freighters and brutal industrial colonies — ancient horrors entombed on icy moons — killer ETs, perfectly evolved to survive at any cost. Whether you’re a combat-weary veteran or a miner on a grungy corporate star tug in the Extraction Zones, HOSTILE pits you against deadly hazards in an unforgiving void where no one can hear you scream.

dicegeeks Random Tables

Longtime gamemaster Matt Davids runs a podcast (supported by a Patreon campaign), posts interviews with RPG creators, maintains a reference list of RPG System Reference Documents, and designed a post-apocalyptic game, Anarchy, based on the OpenD6 System. For several years Matt has busily populated entire books of percentile tables designed to spark creative ideas and help desperate gamemasters whose players suddenly decide to investigate some random name dropped in passing. This new Quick Deal gathered many of Matt’s bestselling collections from dicegeeks.

Arkadia

Arkadia is a 5E fantasy campaign setting from Arcana Games inspired by mythic Greece. Strongly funded in an August 2018 Kickstarter campaign, Arkadia reimagines the glories of ancient Athens, Troy, and Sparta for Fifth Edition D&D. Play a Scyllaean elf, volcano dwarf, satyr, siren, gorgon, harpy, or centaur — become a gladiator, Amazon, hoplite warrior, seer of Fate, scion of a demigod, or servant of a dead Titan — venture across Hyperium, Kryta, and Illyria to fight hydras, krakens, cyclopes, undead pharaohs, and sphynxes — gain treasures like orichalcum weapons, ambrosia, Nemean pelts, Hyperion’s javelin, and the Armor of the Colossus. Don a heroic panoply of bronze, take a trident or sarisa, board your trireme, and set forth on the path of heroes.

Old-School Essentials Treasures

This new offer gathered third-party supplements and scenarios for third-party supplements and scenarios for Necrotic Gnome’s Old-School Essentials, published under Necrotic’s royalty-free Third-Party License.

Sly Flourish

Since 2009 the Lazy DM, Mike Shea, has published books, articles, and videos that help gamemasters run great tabletop roleplaying games. With the core doctrine of “prepare what matters to our game,” the Sly Flourish books detail eight steps to help DMs quickly conjure exactly what they need at the table, with a focus on staying flexible and being able to improvise as the story expands. And the Fantastic Adventures series takes that wisdom from the table to the page, with scenarios, lairs, and locations you can easily drop into any fantasy campaign. This new offer presented the Lazy Dungeon Master and Fantastic Adventures lines.

Conan Careers

This new companion to our July 2019 Conan Essentials added recent sourcebooks for Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, the 2d20-based sword-and-sorcery FRPG from Modiphius Entertainment.

Greg Stolze fiction

Best known for his contributions to many RPGs (Delta Green, Unknown Armies, Godlike, A Dirty World, Wild Talents, Better Angels, Reign), Greg Stolze has also written stories for White Wolf, Pelgrane Press, Evil Hat Productions, Ghostwoods Books, and, above all, as a pioneer of crowdfunded self-publishing. This offer presented six of Greg’s novels and three story collections. You can also find plenty of Greg’s stories as free downloads on his Fiction Library page.

Etherscope

This all-new Quick Deal presented Etherscope, the alt-history Victorian cyberpunk RPG from Goodman Games. Ninety years after British engineers discovered Etherspace, punk Scope riders have jumped from the rails of Prime Reality into this new frontier. Fight evil industrialists and Etherspace demons — raid Lemurian ruins from before the Earth-Wrack — or join the Revolution against corrupt rulers in the Great Metropolis. Jack in and scope up with this original 2005 Open Game License take on the d20 Modern rules.

March 2022

Part-Time Gods

Inspired by American Gods, The Almighty Johnsons, Thor comics, and the Percy Jackson novel series, among other divine deliverances, Part-Time Gods lets you create your own modern-day gods and tell dramatic stories about the people, groups, and places that keep them tied to their humanity. Keeping a job is hard when unstoppable Outsider monsters are hunting you — rival gods attack your Territory in complete disregard for your sister’s wedding — somebody asks you to dive headfirst into a hidden portal to lost worlds with untold dangers in a quest for a mythic artifact, but you still haven’t made this month’s rent. These are the times you’re glad you have a pantheon of friends.

Tianxia

Tianxia: Blood, Silk & Jade from Vigilance Press casts you as one of the wuxia, the kung-fu masters of the fantastical empire of Shenzhou. Wandering the Jade Road and Silk River in the wild and dangerous border provinces, you use your Chi powers to cultivate fighting techniques and stunts that bring to life the epic dramas of Chinese film and literature.

Equinox

Equinox is a fantasy setting from Vagrant Workshop of magic and mysticism in a war-ravaged dark future. Equinox conjures a Sol System thousands of years from now, long after humanity “managed to tame the Mayan-predicted mystic cycles that brought magic to their homeworld and colonies.” In the Great Netherwar, demons from beyond the Veil attacked and destroyed Earth. Now, a century later, humanity has constructed the great Gateway Station, a giant ring structure that tames the shattered remains of Earth. The Earth Belt is a portal to astral space and the far-flung worlds of the Consortium. Beyond the Belt, Sol is a lawless place, a hive of misfits, lowlifes, refugees, pirates, and mystics. You are one of these restless outcast “Vagrants” who seek freedom in the void.

Bulldogs!

Bulldogs! is the Galileo Games high-action space opera Fate Core RPG that kicks ass. Indentured to TransGalaxy PGC, you and your fellow hapless scoundrels deliver high-risk cargo across the Frontier Zone, from the Devalkamanchan Republic to the pleasure satellite of Apollonia. Can you avoid border crossings, weapons regulations, the Fallon Syndicate, and Squishy’s Scrap Yard long enough reach the end of your contract, or will you be another casualty of the space-lanes?

Night Shade Best SF

This all-new fiction offer presented The Best Science Fiction of the Year series and other anthologies edited by Neil Clarke for Night Shade Books.

Masks: A New Generation

Masks: A New Generation adapts the Apocalypse Engine rules for stories about young superheroes — their battles, interpersonal drama, youthful angst, and dazzling bravery — in the vein of Young Justice and Teen Titans. Your team of young supers must forge your own path amid the pressures of a world telling you what to do and who to be, and kick some butt along the way. This new offer presented the complete Masks: A New Generation core rulebook (previously in our September 2017 Apocalypse Engine 2), plus the Masks Phone Edition, along with all three Masks supplements: Unbound, Halcyon City Herald Collection, and Secrets of AEGIS.

February 2022

Torg Eternity Cosms

This new companion to our September 2019 Torg Eternity Essentials added lots of material for three “cosms” (parallel realities) — the Living Land, Nile Empire, and Aysle settings publisher Ulisses Spiele funded in three Kickstarter campaigns. Each of Ulisses Spiele’s cosm crowdfunding campaigns funded an identical slate of support titles for that cosm: a sourcebook, a long campaign adventure, a Delphi Missions collection of short adventures, a GM Screen and collection of player character Archetypes, two full-color map packs, and a GM Pack with Threat Cards for the Drama Deck, artwork, “Threat Blips” (virtual tabletop tokens), and a bookmark.

The Elephant & Macaw Banner

This all-new offer presented The Elephant & Macaw Banner RPG of adventure in a fantastic 16th-Century Brazil from Porcupine Publishing. Set in early colonial Brazil in 1576, Christopher Kastensmidt’s Elephant & Macaw Banner fiction series (2015-2018) chronicles the adventures of the Dutchman Gerard van Oost and the Yoruba Oludara in well-researched novelettes based on Brazilian history and folklore. In this licensed EAMB RPG your characters — adventurers from any of a dozen indigenous cultures, as well as recent arrivals from Europe and Africa — explore the Royal Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro and protect its many peoples from threats both human and supernatural. This distinct and flavorful South American fantasy world has muskets, magic, and many, many monsters. It’s a Brazilian Witcher.

Fiasco 2020

This all-new offer presented the 2020 card-based version of Fiasco, Jason Morningstar‘s cinematic game of powerful ambition and poor impulse control from Bully Pulpit Games. Funded in a big August 2019 Kickstarter campaign, the new Fiasco plays more smoothly and intuitively than ever, so your hapless characters’ stupid plans collide with reality faster and harder.

Birthday 2022

To mark the ninth anniversary of the debut of the Bundle of Holding (February 20, 2013), we once more assembled a collection of top-quality free RPGs and audaciously asked customers to pay money for them. Why? It was a charity offer benefiting the The DOTS RPG Project, which makes tabletop RPGs accessible to visually impaired players and other people with disabilities. This year’s Birthday entries were top-quality open-source renditions of classic RPG systems like D&D, Traveller, Marvel Super Heroes, the original West End Games Star Wars RPG, and Call of Cthulhu.

Bundle for Two 3

This all-new offer presented our third collection of two-player RPGs. Games in our previous two-player offers were often intimate duets ideal for a loving Valentine experience with your significant other. This time we had — let’s see — Dirty Pair planetary mayhem, detective vs. murderer, city and dungeon generators, British folk horror, and, uhhh, necromancy. And — and! — games about repressed romantic attraction. Try them for an unusual date night.

  • Beak, Feather, & Bone, Ex Novo, and Ex Umbra, map-based tools for building ready-to-play cities and dungeons
  • Dead Friend: A Game of Necromancy
  • Double or Nothing, about a pair of agents who get involved in ridiculous over-the-top disasters and shoot, kick, and flirt their way out — with (ahem) collateral damage along the way
  • English Eerie, a game of English folk horror in the mode of M.R. James and Algernon Blackwood
  • One More Thing, about a quirky TV detective and a murderer in a contest of wits a la Columbo
  • Prism, about relationships and conflict resolution set in an aquatic word with its own deities, ethical cultures, and unique families
  • Star Crossed, a game of forbidden love that uses a tumbling-block tower to build repressed attraction
  • Codex – Love 2, the May 2018 issue (#20) of Gauntlet Publishing’s Codex magazine, the second issue based around the theme “Love”

January 2022

Baker Street

This new offer presented the Victorian investigative RPG Baker Street: Roleplaying in the World of Sherlock Holmes from Fearlight Games. Sherlock Holmes is missing and presumed dead. In the Great Detective’s absence, the stoic Dr. Watson asks intrepid investigators to take his cases. Foggy streets and crime most foul await.

Suspense Radio

This was our second offer of MP3 audio files of vintage Old-Time Radio (OTR) crime dramas from the Golden Age of Radio, 1939-51. These dozens of half-hour episodes, all remastered and re-engineered by publisher Nathan and Evan to sound crisp and new, are sold through DriveThruRPG’s sister site, DriveThruFiction. This time we presented 40 episodes from the popular 1940s and 1950s radio series Suspense, Crime Classics, The Weird Circle, Escape!, Night Beat, and Dangerous Assignment.

You can hear thousands of complete low-fidelity episodes from hundreds of OTR series at the Internet Archive and on fan sites like Old Time Radio Downloads and Old Radio World.

Palladium Fantasy 2E

This new companion to our August 2017 Palladium FRPG 1E Bundle presented the 1996 Second Edition of The Palladium Role-Playing Game, Kevin Siembieda‘s long-lived FRPG from Palladium Books.

Mörk Borg Compatible

This new offer featured English-language third-party supplements and adventures for the heavy-metal artpunk FRPG of miserable heretics in a bleak and doomed world, Mörk Borg from Free League Publishing. All these titles require the Mörk Bork core rulebook.

Sigil Stone OSR

This new collection featured Five Torches Deep and Vagabonds of Dyfed — two FRPGs from Sigil Stone Publishing that combine Old School Revival ideals with the best of modern D&D Fifth Edition-compatible and Apocalypse Engine rules.

December 2021

HERO 5E Megabundle

This new offer presented a colossal array of rulebooks and supplements that use the 2004 Fifth Revised Edition (“FRED”) of the all-encompassing HERO System from Hero Games. We presented HERO 5E in seven previous offers but never managed to encompass the whole voluminous line. This new Megabundle filled the gaps, adding the Star and Pulp Hero 5E lines, Ninja and Post-Apocalyptic Hero, and a few key supplements we never found room for — all told, 6,800 pages of HERO material. Of 35 titles in this offer, 16 were new to the Bundle of Holding.

Two Champions 5E Megabundles

These two companions to the giant HERO System 5E Megabundle added almost the entire Champions Fifth Edition product line. Together the three Megabundles gathered 82 titles — 14,573 pages! — supporting the 2004 Fifth Revised Edition (“FRED”) of the all-encompassing HERO System from Hero Games.

The amazing Champions 5E Megabundle gathered all the super powers, gadgets, and character books you need for slam-bang four-color superhero action — 4,400 pages of indomitable Champions 5E campaign material, including the 215-page Champions 5E genre book, UNTIL Superpowers Database I and II, Gadgets and Gear, Champions Battlegrounds, Everyman, Teen Champions, eight villain books — Book of the Destroyer, Book of the Machine, Conquerors Killers & Crooks, Cops Crews and Cabals, Evil Unleashed, Villains Vandals and Vermin, Villainy Amok, and VIPER: Coils of the Serpent — and eight Ultimate character archetype supplements: Brick, Energy Projector, Martial Artist 5E, Mentalist 5E, Metamorph, Mystic, Speedster, and Vehicle.

The companion offer, Champions 5E Universe Mega, ranged across the flavorful and intriguing Champions Universe setting and into its far future. It had nearly 3,400 pages of galaxy-spanning 5E material, including both Champions Universe guides, Millennium City, Champions Worldwide, Champions of the North 5E, UNTIL: Defenders of Freedom, and Stronghold 5E (plus The Stronghold Files); the Dark Champions 5E line (the corebook plus Hudson City, its Map, the Predators enemies book, and Dark Champions: The Animated Series); four sourcebooks of mystic superhero magic (The Mystic World, Arcane Adversaries, Demon: Servants of Darkness, and the Mystic Menaces Fun Pack); the city guide Vibora Bay; Galactic Champions; Hidden Lands; and Monster Island.

Forged in the Dark

This new offer presented standalone indie RPGs that use the Forged in the Dark rules introduced in John Harper’s Blades in the Dark.

November 2021

Indie Cornucopia 9

This was our ninth annual offer, keyed to the American Thanksgiving holiday, of top-quality small-press RPGs.

Liminal

This all-new offer presented Liminal, Paul Mitchener’s modern fantasy RPG set on the borders of the everyday and magical worlds in the United Kingdom.

Wyrd Breach

This big new offer featured Through the Breach, the beautiful Wyrd Games Lovecraftian-Wild West-steampunk RPG based on the Malifaux miniatures game.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 8

This was the eighth all-new installment in our series of gamemastering ebooks and world creation tools — the Bundle site’s most popular group of offers.

Traveller Imperium Tour

This new offer presented Traveller First Edition rulebooks plus many sourcebooks and adventures that tour the 11,000 worlds and the 1,100-year history of Traveller‘s sprawling galactic empire, the Third Imperium.

October 2021

Shotguns & Sorcery

Shotguns & Sorcery is a fantasy-noir setting created by novelist and game designer Matt Forbeck. Dragon City is a sprawling mountain city ruled by a monstrous Dragon Emperor who protects the people from ravenous hordes of zombies outside its walls.

Bundle of Tentacles 6

This was our sixth all-new offer of standalone RPGs and scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, and other RPGs inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. The lineup included several titles from Australian publisher Cthulhu Reborn. For more than a decade Dean Engelhardt at Cthulhu Reborn has produced high-quality free scenarios, prop and handout packs, and graphics templates. In August 2020 Cthulhu Reborn published its standalone Lovecraftian survival-horror RPG Apocthulhu, followed in December by a System Reference Document (based on the SRDs for Mongoose’s Legend and Arc Dream’s Delta Green RPG) that opens the familiar percentile-based ruleset under the OGL.

0one Horror Maps

This all-new offer presented blueprints and floorplans of terrifying locations from 0one Games.

The Cthulhu Hack

This all-new offer presented The Cthulhu Hack from Just Crunch Games. This simple and accessible standalone investigative RPG, based on David Black’s minimalist fantasy game The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple mechanics and just two basic resources — Flashlights (for spotting things, recalling facts, and research) and Smokes (for eavesdropping, fast talk, coercion, and bribery) — The Cthulhu Hack elegantly supports published scenarios and campaigns for any Cthulhoid RPG. Learn the whole system in 20 minutes, teach it to your players in five minutes more, and in another five their characters will be ready for a slow spiral into self-destruction.

September 2021

5E Platinum Showcase

This all-new offer gathered bestselling indie supplements for D&D Fifth Edition. Almost all these top-quality third-party supplements achieved DriveThruRPG’s “Platinum” sales rank or higher — that is, of the tens of thousands of products DriveThru sells, these titles rank in the top 1.44%.

Mutant Crawl Classics

This all-new offer presented the gonzo-apocalypse RPG of technology and triumph in a devastated future, Mutant Crawl Classics from Goodman Games. Whether you’re a mutant, a seeker, a robot-killer, or a stoic shaman guarding forgotten ancient sciences, there are treasures to be won in the taboo lands and the radburned ruins of the Ancients. Based on Goodman’s Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Mutant Crawl Classics is a standalone game in the tradition of Gamma World and Metamorphosis Alpha.

Mutants Power-Up

This small but mighty new offer, a sidekick to our revived January 2019 Mutants & Masterminds 3E Earth-Prime Bundle, added three recent M&M supplements from Green Ronin Publishing: the M&M 3E Deluxe Gamemaster’s Guide, the Superteam Handbook, and the Time Traveler’s Codex (plus the free Codex overflow booklet All Time, No Space).

Numenera Discovery

This new offer presented the updated and expanded 2018 version of Numenera, the science-fantasy RPG from Monte Cook Games of wonder and weirdness in the far future. The Numenera Discovery corebook and its companion rulebook Numenera Destiny were both funded in a spectacular US$845K September 2017 Kickstarter campaign.

August 2021

City of Mist

City of Mist is a comic-book epic-myth neo-noir detective RPG from Son of Oak Game Studio about ordinary people with legendary powers in a mystery-shrouded metropolis. Using a skillfully enhanced Apocalypse Engine, City of Mist combines the super-detective mood of Daredevil and Jessica Jones with mythic themes out of the Fables comics and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

Shadowrun Sixth World Stories

This all-new offer presented the 2019 Sixth Edition rulebook, the 2020 Beginner Box, and recent fiction for Shadowrun, Sixth World Edition, the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Catalyst Game Labs.

Metamorphosis Alpha 1E

This all-new offer from Goodman Games featured the 1976 First Edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, the vintage SFRPG of mutants and monstrosities in gonzo post-apocalypse adventures on a colossal generation starship.

12 Doctors

This offer, a follow-up to our December 2018 Doctor Who RPG Bundle, presented a dozen Doctor Sourcebooks for Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s official Doctor Who: The Roleplaying Game. This all-new companion (hah!) included The First Doctor Sourcebook, as well as the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Doctor Sourcebooks.

July 2021

Fate Worlds and Toolkits

This giant offer gathered all the Fate rulebooks and Toolkits, Fate of Cthulhu and other standalone RPGs, and 45 wide-ranging Worlds of Adventure from Evil Hat Productions.

Warlock!

This all-new offer featured Warlock!, the old-school FRPG from Fire Ruby Designs inspired by the early days of British roleplaying. Ready your warhammer for rules-lite adventure in the dark yet wondrous spirit of early Games Workshop and the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Designed by Greg Saunders (Golgotha, Summerland, Exilium), Warlock! offers career-based characters, concise rules, and a unified 1d20+skill mechanic that adapts easily to published grim-and-perilous adventures and helps you create your own new stories.

Fragged Aeternum

This new companion to our January 2019 Fragged Bundle added recent settings and adventures for Fragged Empire, the tactical RPG of exploration and rebuilding in “post-post-apocalyptic” adventures.

Zobeck 5E

This all-new offer presented sourcebooks and adventures set in the Free City of Zobeck from Kobold Press for D&D Fifth Edition. (We presented the 2012 Pathfinder version of two of these books in our July 2013 Bundle of Zobeck. These are the conversions for D&D 5E.)

June 2021

The Yellow King RPG

This new offer presented the surreal supernatural game from Pelgrane Press, The Yellow King Roleplaying Game. Designed by Robin D. Laws (Cthulhu Confidential, The Esoterrorists), the brain-bending YKRPG uses the fast-playing “Quickshock” GUMSHOE system. Investigate the malign influence of Carcosa in mysteries of reality-changing horror across four different timelines inspired by the famous horror stories of Robert W. Chambers collected in The King in Yellow.

Tunnels & Trolls 2

This new offer presented nearly two dozen solitaire and gamemastered adventures for the venerable FRPG Tunnels & Trolls.

Black Scrolls Map-Tiles

This all-new offer presented beautiful full-color digital battlemat tiles for any medieval FRPG. Created by Hungarian graphic artist Antal Kéninger of Black Scrolls Games and funded in a November 2017 Kickstarter campaign, the mix-and-match tiles in the Cities of the Black Scrolls series depict medieval city and village buildings, castle and fortress walls, inns and arenas, cathedral aisles and dungeon crypts. Print these modular .PDFs and assemble them into gorgeous battle sites for your game table, or import the digital .JPG and .PNG images into your favorite virtual tabletop.

Dark Places & Demogorgons

Dark Places & Demogorgons is the 2017 tabletop horror roleplaying game of 1980s monster-of-the-week weirdness a la The Goonies, E.T., Weird Science, and Buffy. Amid sinister events in tiny Jeffersontown, Kentucky, your intrepid teen investigators — nerds, jocks, geeks, goths, punks, hoods, and the occasional teen wolf — face supernatural perils, meddlesome adults, clueless cops, and the horrifying ordeals of adolescence. Demogorgons uses the Survive This! rules system, a fast-playing fusion of Old School Revival spirit with modern rules inspired by D&D Fifth Edition. This all-new offer presented most of the DP&D game line along with its companion Survive RPG of gritty street-level superheroics, Vigilante City.

(Runehammer Games has adapted Vigilante City for its Index Card RPG system, and we presented that version in our March 2021 Index Card RPG Bundle. This Dark Places offer presented the original Survive This version.)

May 2021

Mongoose Traveller 2E

This was one of two all-new offers that presented the 2020 Second Edition Traveller game line from Mongoose Publishing. This offer had the Traveller 2E Starter Set and key supplements — everything you need to play any science fiction RPG campaign, from desperate battles across the stars against evil empires, through free traders operating on both sides of the law, to mercenary companies desperate to find their next ticket.

Traveller Pirates of Drinax

This all-new offer presented one of the most acclaimed campaigns in Traveller history: The Pirates of Drinax. In the Trojan Reach star sector, the backwater world of Drinax once ruled an empire. Now King Oleb XVI enlists you as privateers to prey on ‘illegal’ trade in his vanished kingdom, to fund his ambitions to restore Drinax to glory. Will you help, and if so, how? All paths are open in this massive ten-part epic by Gareth Hanrahan (Eyes of the Stone Thief, The Dracula Dossier, The Darkening of Mirkwood). All these supplements and adventures require the Mongoose Publishing Traveller 2E core rulebook or the Traveller Second Edition Starter Set.

Mythras Settings

This new offer presented recent campaign worlds and supplements for Mythras, the RuneQuest-based FRPG by The Design Mechanism.

BattleTech: A Time of War

This new offer presented the 2013 BattleTech: A Time of War roleplaying rules from Catalyst Game Labs. Choose your life in the stellar empires of the far future — pilot, spy, mercenary, merchant, scientist, scout, renegade — and join the centuries-spanning conflicts of the Clans, Inner Sphere, and Periphery. With the AToW rulebook and its Companion expansion, you’ll explore the rich BattleTech setting and, if you also enjoy the BT board games, lend new dimension to your tactical encounters. How will you become a legend?

Legendary Planet

The Legendary Planet Adventure Path, a spectacular eight-part sword-and-planet fantasy campaign from Legendary Games, takes your characters through alien gateways across the multiverse to exotic worlds, and from 1st to 20th level and beyond. From the backwoods of a fantasy world to the farthest reaches of the cosmos — from grungy desert planets to waterworlds — from fascist dieselpunk asteroid mines to a Dyson sphere a hundred million miles across — sword-swingers and spell-slingers work with scoundrels and seekers to unravel cryptic alliances bent on universal domination, or annihilation. This all-new offer provided the complete Legendary Planet line in dual versions for both D&D Fifth Edition and Pathfinder First Edition. This list starts with links to the 5E versions on DriveThruRPG:

And here are links to the Pathfinder versions of the same books:

April 2021

Dusk City Outlaws

Dusk City Outlaws is a fantasy heist RPG from Scratchpad Publishing about criminal cartel capers in the sprawling metropolis of New Dunhaven. Inspired by books, TV shows, and movies like The Lies of Locke Lamora, Leverage, and Ocean’s Eleven, Dusk City Outlaws casts players as a crew of thieves, con artists, and assassins, drawn from the eight colorful cartels that rule the city’s criminal underworld. The players take a Job, devise a plan, do the legwork, pull off the Job, and then survive long enough to get paid. The streamlined DCO rules use a sleek narrative dice system that makes the game easy to start playing on a moment’s notice.

Dungeon Crawl Classics

This all-new offer presented the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games. Not exactly a retro-clone but suffused with old-timey brio, DCC RPG glories in its own loopy and lurid, giddy and gaudy aesthetic. In all its heady adventures it’s easy to stay focused on DCC RPG‘s goal: “Adventure as 1974 intended you to.”

DCC Lankhmar

Lankhmar: the City of Seven-Score Thousand Smokes and twice as many thieves, including Fritz Leiber‘s most famous creations, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. This all-new offer presented the Dungeon Crawl Classics Lankhmar setting from Goodman Games.

Mike Resnick novels

This all-new fiction offer presented a dozen space opera and steampunk fantasy ebook novels by Mike Resnick published by Pyr Books. Mike Resnick (1942-2020) wrote more than 70 wide-ranging science fiction novels and hundreds of short stories that won many awards.

See Amazon’s Mike Resnick page for many more novels by this prolific writer. (Note: These are Amazon affiliate links to the Kindle editions. If you purchase these ebooks through Amazon, the Bundle of Holding receives a small cut of the payment at no extra cost to you.)

Chivalry and Sorcery

This all-new offer presented the venerable Chivalry and Sorcery in its new Fifth Edition from Brittannia Game Designs. Long respected for historical accuracy — even in its depiction of arcane magick — C&S authentically conjures the glories of Europe’s Middle Ages: courtly grandeur, tournaments and jousts, fantastic beasts of myth and folklore, and diverse visitors and cultural influences from faraway lands. The 2020 Fifth Edition refines and streamlines the rules to embody a complete experience of every major period of Europe’s Middle Ages. (This C&S rules set is its own Fifth Edition, not a supplement for D&D Fifth Edition.)

March 2021

Coriolis-Loop 2

This new companion to our November 2018 Coriolis & Tales From the Loop Bundle added recent supplements and scenarios for the Coriolis – The Third Horizon and Tales From the Loop RPGs from Free League Publishing.

Hyperborea

This all-new offer presented the Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea sword-and-sorcery FRPG from North Wind Adventures.

Hardboiled Radio

This was an unusual offer of MP3 audio files of vintage Old-Time Radio (OTR) crime dramas from the Golden Age of Radio, 1939-51. These dozens of half-hour episodes, all remastered and re-engineered by publisher Nathan and Evan to sound crisp and new, are sold through DriveThruRPG’s sister site, DriveThruFiction.

You can hear thousands of complete low-fidelity episodes from hundreds of OTR series at the Internet Archive and on fan sites like Old Time Radio Downloads and Old Radio World.

GUMSHOE 3

This was our third offer featuring RPGs of mystery and detection that use the GUMSHOE system designed by Robin D. Laws and published by Pelgrane Press. This new offer presented recent standalone games such as the entire TimeWatch product line and Kenneth Hite’s The Fall of Delta Green.

Index Card RPG

Index Card RPG is a light but complete D20 roll-over rules system from Runehammer Games with simple character creation, fast-playing combat, and all the timers, targets, monsters, and miniatures you need to play right away. ICRPG is a toolset of do-it-yourself techniques to streamline any game. It’s a mentality, a philosophy. Watch Dave Thaumavore’s video reviews of much of the Index Card line, and check Die Heart’s big list of Index Card RPG resources.

February 2021

HERO System 6E and Champions 6E

These two giant offers featured the 2009 Sixth Edition of the HERO System from Hero Games. The matchless flexibility of the HERO System lets you create any character, super power, spell, equipment, vehicle, or headquarters you can imagine, and the 6E version is the most detailed and comprehensive ever.

The HERO System sprang from Champions, and The Super Roleplaying Game has always been its flagship. The Sixth Edition Champions line updates decades of published supplements and sourcebooks, and adds new material adapted from the Champions Online MMO.

Birthday 2021

To mark the eighth anniversary of the debut of the Bundle of Holding (February 20, 2013), we once more assembled a collection of top-quality free RPGs and audaciously asked customers to pay money for them. Why? It was a charity offer benefiting the the RPG Creators Relief Fund. The RCRF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity founded to provide financial assistance to tabletop roleplaying creators suffering hardship due to medical emergencies, natural disasters, and other catastrophic situations.

Old School Cool

This all-new collection featured stylish and inventive new takes on the Old School Revival spirit of roleplaying’s earliest days.

Atomic Robo

This new offer presented the Eisner Award-nominated Atomic Robo comic series from Tesladyne LLC, plus the 2014 Fate-based Atomic Robo RPG from Evil Hat Productions. In 1923 Nikola Tesla unveils a robot with automatic intelligence: Atomic Robo! Granted full American citizenship in 1938 after a secret military operation, Robo founds Tesladyne, a two-fisted think tank that explores the fringes of scientific inquiry. After decades of high-octane, full-contact hypothesis testing at the edge of human knowledge, Robo and the Action Scientists of Tesladyne are the go-to defense force against the unexplained: giant monsters, walking pyramids, underground cities, trans-dimensional vampires, and one particularly annoying dinosaur. Atomic Robo reads like the Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Buckaroo Banzai, and Rocketeer movies crammed into a robot who wears pants. Jump in anywhere — each graphic album is a self-contained story, so you can read them in any order.

Some of these albums are available through Amazon (affiliate links below).

January 2021

Palladium Mutants and Ninjas

This new offer presented the After the Bomb® and Ninjas & Superspies™ RPG lines from Palladium Books. Many of these books were written by the late Erick Wucjik (Amber Diceless Roleplaying), and they remain some of the finest works Palladium has published.

Forbidden Lands

Forbidden Lands from Free League Publishing (Alien, Vaesen, Coriolis) is an open-world survival FRPG built on the “Year Zero” rules engine (Mutant: Year Zero, Tales From the Loop). You’re not heroes sent on missions dictated by others — instead, you are raiders and rogues bent on making your own mark on a cursed world. The game plays as an Old School hexcrawl. Scattered all across the map are adventure sites, exciting location-based scenarios characters can interact with in many different ways. You can visit all sites independently and in any order. By building the campaign incrementally using the modular adventure sites, the Gamemaster need never lead the characters by the nose, and can always make sure they don’t miss the story. You’ll discover lost tombs, fight terrible monsters, wander the wild lands and — if you live long enough — build your own stronghold.

Glen Cook

You may best know fantasy and sf novelist Glen Cook for his Chronicles of the Black Company, dark military fantasies about an elite medieval mercenary unit. But aside from the Black Company and his other popular sequence, the Garrett P.I. hardboiled detective fantasies, Cook has written dozens of other fantasies and space operas in four different series or as free-standing narratives. This all-new offer of ebook novels presented Cook’s entire nine-book Dread Empire series (1979-2012) as well as his Darkwar and Starfishers trilogies and five standalone novels published by Night Shade Books. (Amazon affiliate links below.)

Troika!

This all-new offer presented Troika! from Melsonian Arts Council. You are a wizard, a warrior, or maybe a macrame owl, dimension-hopping in your golden barge among the crystal spheres strung like pearls across the hump-backed sky. The simple Troika! rules, inspired by the 1980s Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, let beginners and jaded roleplayers alike go wild in crazed cross-planar pursuits. Whether you’re pruning a Floral God, infiltrating the Palace of Tigers, or helping His Moist Magnificence, the slug monarch King Juniper Jupiter Lexx-Hafwall IV, Troika! lets you trip the light fantastic, or maybe just trip out, in visionary adventures fueled by hallucinatory creativity.

John Carter of Mars

This all-new offer presented the licensed John Carter of Mars RPG line from Modiphius Entertainment based on the Martian planetary romances of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Explore the wonders of Barsoom as pilots, warriors, scientists, or one of the terrifying green Tharks. Experience a dying world of dry ocean beds where giant four-armed barbarians rule, of crumbling cities home to an advanced but decaying civilization, of strange beasts and savage combat, where love, honor, and loyalty become the stuff of adventure.

Jackie’s Dreaming

This all-new offer presented White Wolf’s Changeling: The Dreaming Storyteller game in its lavish 2017 20th Anniversary Edition from Onyx Path Publishing. Changeling is a modern-day fantasy roleplaying game of fae wonder and imagination, of keeping beautiful dreams alive in the Gothic-Punk World of Darkness. Many of Changeling‘s dreams were first imagined by the late Jackie Cassada, a prolific writer for multiple White Wolf game lines in collaboration with her partner of 57 years, Nicky Rea. In December 2020 Jackie died of COVID-19. Nicky faced enormous medical bills, so Onyx Path kindly contributed this Changeling 20A benefit. All money from this offer (after payment gateway fees) went to help Nicky through a tough time.

December 2020

Blades in the Dark

This new offer presented Blades in the Dark from One Seven Design Studio, along with five standalone Forged in the Dark spinoff games based on the Forged System Reference Document. Strongly funded in a March 2015 Kickstarter campaign, Blades is one of the most acclaimed and influential RPGs of the past decade. In the night-shrouded city of Doskvol, your crew of scoundrels pulls heists and settles scores to rise through the underworld hierarchy. There are chases, bloody skirmishes, occult mysteries, dangerous bargains, and riches to be had — if you’re bold enough to seize them. Blades designer John Harper (Agon, Lady Blackbird) fine-tunes the Apocalypse Engine system, adding rules for clocks, stress, and Devil’s Bargains that ensure fast play and suspenseful choices.

The Expanse RPG and Modern AGE

This all-new offer presented two contemporary and science fiction RPGs that use the Adventure Game Engine (AGE) from Green Ronin Publishing: Modern AGE, for high-power action from the Industrial Revolution onward (2018), and The Expanse Roleplaying Game (2019), based on James S. A. Corey’s mega-popular The Expanse science fiction novels of diplomacy, discovery, and danger in the future Solar System.

Savage Rifts

We presented Rifts® for Savage Worlds, the Pinnacle Entertainment adaptation for the fast-furious-fun Savage Worlds Adventure Edition (SWADE) rules of Kevin Siembieda’s Rifts® RPG from Palladium Books. Funded in a spectacular April 2016 Kickstarter campaign, Savage Rifts® enlists you in the Tomorrow Legion for a campaign of railgun-shredding, mega-powered magic-flinging adventure across a future Earth shattered by otherworldly invasions.

Savage Explorer Essentials

Pinnacle Entertainment published Savage Worlds Explorer’s Edition (SWEX) in 2007. The Bundle of Holding has presented many SWEX campaign settings, including Deadlands Reloaded, Rippers, East Texas University, The Last Parsec, Solomon Kane, Weird War I and II, Flash Gordon, and more. This offer gathered all the SWEX rules companions for fantasy, horror, science fiction, and superheroics, along with some of the earliest and best-loved settings like 50 Fathoms.

Spire

This new offer presented Spire, the urban industrial fantasy-punk RPG co-designed by Grant Howitt (Goblin Quest, Honey Heist, Crash Pandas). In a mile-tall city of a thousand gods, you’re a dark elf who has joined the Ministry resistance movement to overthrow your cruel high-elf overlords. Subvert, intrigue, and fight your way from the subterranean levels of Derelictus and Red Row up to the frozen reaches of Amaranth and New Heaven, in a superbly imaginative weird-fantasy setting funded in a July 2017 Kickstarter campaign.

November 2020

Indie Cornucopia 8

In time for the American Thanksgiving holiday, we launched our all-new eighth annual collection of top-quality small-press RPGs.

Symbaroum Settings

This new companion to our August 2018 Symbaroum Bundle added recent sourcebooks and adventures for Symbaroum, the dark fantasy RPG from Free League Publishing. Most of these extended explorations of the primeval dark forest of Davokar were funded in Kickstarter campaigns in March 2017 (Karvosti), October 2017 (Monster Codex), April 2018 (Yndaros), and March 2019 (Symbar). These location sourcebooks continue the epic Throne of Thorns campaign begun in the rulebook and the early supplement Thistle Hold.

Starfinder Empires

This new offer presented third-party supplements compatible with Paizo Publishing’s Starfinder space-fantasy RPG. Starfinder launches the Pathfinder rules system into a high-energy universe of futuristic fantasy adventure. Paizo’s corebook takes a straight-faced approach closer to Star Frontiers than Gamma World, with envoy characters, mechanics, technomancers, solarians — humans, androids, reptilians, ratfolk, bugfolk — system-spanning megacorporations, space stations five miles wide, Death’s Head Necrogliders, and entire worlds run by Cthulhoid cults. These third-party supplements from Rogue Genius Games, Legendary Games, and Fat Goblin Games expand the game in all directions, with guides to stellar piracy, robot companions, owning your own star system, celebrity careers, gigantic mantis shrimp, and mutated weregorilla criminal mastermind Tarq Grazza.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 7

This all-new offer was the seventh in our annual (well, mostly) series of gamemastering texts.

October 2020

Kult: Divinity Lost

This all-new offer presented the entire product line to date from the 2018 Helmgast edition of the acclaimed RPG of contemporary Gnostic horror, Kult. The world around us is a lie, and humanity is trapped in Illusion. By discovering the truth about our prison, our captors, our hidden past, and our Shadow selves, player characters hope to awaken from their induced sleep and take control of a stolen destiny. Funded in a February 2016 Kickstarter campaign, the new Kult: Divinity Lost updates the original 1991 Kult to the present with an entirely new rules set Powered by the Apocalypse. But just as before, death in Kult is only the beginning. Escape your nightmares, strike bargains with demons, and try to stay alive in a world full of pain.

Demon Lord Legacies

This all-new companion to our May 2017 Shadow of the Demon Lord offer added dozens of recent supplements for Shadow of the Demon Lord, the dark fantasy RPG from Schwalb Entertainment of grim heroism against a cosmic destroyer.

Girl Genius

We presented the first 13 graphic albums collecting the popular Studio Foglio gaslight-fantasy webcomic Girl Genius, along with other effervescences from Phil Foglio (What’s New with Phil & Dixie?, MythAdventures, and many more). Girl Genius is an ongoing “gaslamp fantasy” webcomic by Phil and Kaja Foglio. In an alternate Europe in the throes of Industrial Revolution, the monstrously inventive mad scientists called Sparks develop new and interesting ways to smash each other’s castles. Agatha Heterodyne, a hapless student at Transylvania Polygnostic University, discovers her own Spark. As she obsessively pursues her monstrous heritage and birthright, all Europa watches carefully, for fear Agatha may become a monster herself.

September 2020

HERO System magazines

This Hero Magazines Bundle marked the debut in .PDF of two long-running hobby periodicals devoted to Champions, The Super Roleplaying Game and the universal HERO System rules set from Hero Games. This offer presented new, previously unpublished .PDF image scans of Adventurers Club magazine (27 issues, 1983-1995) and hundreds of articles from the APAzine Haymaker (1992-2014). Along with Digital Hero (also included in this offer), these magazines supported five different editions of Champions and the HERO System across 25 years. For customers who didn’t have them all to hand, this offer added every Champions rulebook from 1E (1981) through the Fifth Revised Edition (“FRED,” 2005). This whole Heroic mountain comprised almost exactly 8,000 pages.

TinyD6 Worlds

This all-new companion to our July 2019 Tiny Dungeon offer added recent standalone rulebooks and supplements that use the easy and streamlined TinyD6 rules from Gallant Knight Games.

Epic Isometric Maps

This all-new offer presented digital map and art packs for virtual tabletop RPGs from the Epic Isometric line created by Australian artist Alex Drummond and published by WarDrumRPG. Hand-drawn in a consistent three-quarter perspective, these graphics files are transparent monochrome .PNGs compatible with all photo-editing programs and virtual tabletops like Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, MapTool, Astral, Foundry VTT, and others. Color these images or import them as-is to your preferred platform, and use them to create your own adventures.

Fudge

This new offer featured the rules-light game engine Fudge and many of the RPGs that use it. Fudge, the precursor of Fate, is a customizable toolkit that supports every setting you can imagine. Its word-based trait scale and simple action resolution make it ideal for novices and flexible enough to satisfy experienced roleplayers. Just Fudge It!

Fudge RPGs use Fudge Dice, available from Grey Ghost Press, from Evil Hat Productions (as “Fate Dice”), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link).

August 2020

WFRP 1E Sorcery

This new companion to our December 2018 WFRP 1E Bundle added more supplements from the 1990s Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay First Edition line, including Realms of Sorcery and the Doomstones campaign (1990).

Goodman 5E Fantasy

This all-new offer presented the complete Fifth Edition Fantasy line of Dungeons & Dragons 5E adventures from Goodman Games. Written for character levels from 1 to 12 and playable in one or a few sessions, these 17 standalone modules fit easily into any ongoing campaign using the world’s most popular roleplaying game. Each scenario includes new races, backgrounds, monsters, spells, and magical items.

Cthulhu Invictus

During the late Age of the Antonines (AD 145), as the Roman Empire reached its peak, dark forces were at work. Ancient wizards sought ways to cheat death, explorers stumbled on the remnants of alien civilizations, and foul cults practiced unholy rites. But there was hope. From the benches of the Senate to the arches of the Colosseum, from Rome’s steamy bathhouses to legionary camps in border provinces, some heroes and heroines were willing to risk their lives to protect humanity. With torch, sword, and mystic arts they battled to preserve the Empire for one more day. Cthulhu Invictus, a setting for Call of Cthulhu set in ancient Rome, started as a humble Chaosium monograph (2004), then grew to an official CoC setting (2009). In February 2017 designer Oscar Rios Kickstarted an updated Cthulhu Invictus for the CoC Seventh Edition rules. The greatly expanded Invictus 7E sourcebook won the 2019 Silver ENnie for Best Supplement.

This all-new offer presented most of the Invictus line, including the complete 197-page Cthulhu Invictus setting book for Call of Cthulhu 7E; the scenario collections De Horrore Cosmico and Fronti Nulla Fides (“no faith in appearances”); Heroes and Heroines of the Shadow War, a big book of pregenerated ready-to-play investigators from all classes and backgrounds in ancient Rome; and two fiction anthologies, plus extra material originally created for the Invictus Kickstarter campaign. These titles aren’t available in .PDF on DriveThruRPG, but you can purchase them from the Golden Goblin Press online store.

Note: You’ll need the free Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Quick-Start Rules or the CoC 7E Keeper’s Rulebook from Chaosium, Inc. to use this Cthulhu Invictus material.

Space: 1889 Odysseys

This all-new companion to our March 2017 Space: 1889 Clockwork Bundle added the original 1990s GDW Space: 1889 line, together with recent sourcebooks and adventures for the Clockwork Publishing version based on the Ubiquity rules system.

July 2020

Old School Gold

This all-new collection presented top-selling rulebooks, campaign settings, and scenarios that build on the Old School Revival spirit of tabletop roleplaying’s earliest days.

The Savage World of Flash Gordon

This offer presented The Savage World of Flash Gordon Roleplaying Game™, the campaign setting of raygun-and-rocketship pulp action using the fast-furious-fun Savage Worlds rules from Pinnacle Entertainment. The rogue planet of Mongo suffers under the sadistic tyrant Ming the Merciless. But revolutionaries — hawkmen of Sky City, ice giants of Naquk, water-breathing Coralians — defy his reign of terror. At their side fights heroic Earthman Flash Gordon.

And as we often do with these Savage Worlds offers, we included the Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer’s Edition rulebook required for play.

Shadowrun 5E Lethal Streets

This all-new companion to our February 2019 Shadowrun 5E Essentials Bundle added a wide selection of rules expansions and setting sourcebooks for the 2013 Fifth Edition of Shadowrun from Catalyst Game Labs.

June 2020

Invisible Sun

Invisible Sun is Monte Cook’s surreal modern-fantasy RPG from Monte Cook Games. Leave this world of Shadow to become a vislae (a student of magic), walking the Path of Suns to discover the deepest secrets of reality itself. Funded in a spectacular August 2016 Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, Invisible Sun debuted as an unprecedented physical Black Cube (retail price US$250) packed with rulebooks, game components, and play aids. This offer presented the follow-up Digital Black Cube (retail $99) along with much of the Invisible Sun support line.

  • The immense Invisible Sun Digital Black Cube with .PDFs of all the written components of the Black Cube: four corebooks, seven print-and-cut decks of cards, handouts, props, an art book, maps, pregenerated characters, and more (plus Monte Cook Games’ free Consent in Gaming pamphlet)
  • Secrets of Silent Streets: An in-depth tour of Satyrine, the conflict-ridden city at the heart of the Invisible Sun setting.
  • Book M: New forte, long-form magic, and character and house secrets, plus 200 new cards for spells, incantations, ephemera, and objects of power.
  • Teratology: Hundreds of creatures, spirits, and other entities that inhabit the realms of Invisible Sun, plus new locations and insights to the Path of Suns.
  • Enchiridion of the Path: Notes, maps, journal clippings, and tons of other print-and-play handouts for your table.
  • Invisible Sun Prop-Crafting Kit: Make your own menus, handbills, tickets, brochures, and business cards to convey official letters, secret messages, or hidden clues.

Fellowship

This all-new offer presented the 2019 Second Edition of Fellowship, the Apocalypse Engine FRPG from Liberi Gothica Games. (We presented Fellowship First Edition in the November 2016 Indie Cornucopia 4.) In Fellowship one player is the Overlord, a maniacal being who has become a Threat to the World. A character like everyone else, the Overlord controls the forces of evil in service to a master plan. The other players form a coalition of heroes to stop the Overlord. The Overlord plays by rules different from the other players, and makes sure saving the world is an epic challenge for everyone. Fellowship focuses on the journey you take and the communities you meet as you strive to save the day. This offer also included many popular Dungeon World playbooks.

Dark Eye Kingdoms

This all-new companion to our January 2018 The Dark Eye Bundle added new English-language expansions and regional sourcebooks for Germany’s leading FRPG, The Dark Eye — specifically the Warring Kingdoms campaign setting funded by publisher Ulisses Spiele in a June 2017 Kickstarter campaign.

Legendary Ultimate 5E

This all-new offer presented the Legendary Games Ultimate Plug-Ins line of campaign sourcebooks for Fifth Edition. These 5E expansions let your player character leave the dungeon and found (or conquer) your own kingdom. Tame the wilderness to establish new cities, and fill them with loyal citizens and monuments to your realm’s glory. Engage in diplomacy, trade, espionage, and everything a ruler must manage to keep a nation prosperous and happy. Construct towering fortresses both magical and mundane — navigate the hazards of sea battles and court intrigues — build relationships that last a lifetime.

May 2020

Fate of the Norns

Fate of the Norns: Ragnarok is Pendelhaven’s FRPG of epic Viking action in the Twilight of the Gods. The sun and moon have disappeared, devoured by the wolves Skoll and Hati. Fimbulwinter envelops the worlds of the cosmic tree Yggdrasil. In this Age of the Sword, new heroes arise who command the power to shape the outcome of Ragnarok. The innovative and well-tested Runic Game System in Fate of the Norns governs your character’s destiny using, not dice, but Futhark rune stones. And Fate of the Norns is a mythic journey for both your character and you yourself: When your character dies, the Valkyries may carry him or her away to Valhalla — and you, the player, gain access to new game features to bestow on your next character.

Apocalypse Engine 4

This was our all-new fourth offer of indie RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse — that is, based on Vincent Baker’s landmark game Apocalypse World.

April 2020

Cthulhu Confidential

This comprehensive collection presented the GUMSHOE One-2-One game lines from Pelgrane Press. One-2-One is a fast-paced head-to-head version of the popular GUMSHOE system by Robin D. Laws. Guided by a Game Moderator (GM), you become the sole protagonist in suspenseful investigative adventures — noir nightscapes right out of the Cthulhu Mythos and superspy espionage.

Star Trek Adventures

This all-new collection featured the licensed 2d20 SFRPG from Modiphius Entertainment, Star Trek Adventures.

Godbound

This all-new offer presented Godbound, the Sine Nomine FRPG, designed by Kevin Crawford (Stars Without Number), of divine heroes forging a new world from the ruins of the old. In Godbound you play demigods in a crumbling world. In ancient times the kingdoms of humanity stormed Heaven and fought through angelic armies to the Throne of God Himself — only to find the Throne empty. The mortal kingdoms decided to make gods of their own. Each Made God that attempted to sit on the Throne was reduced to ash. As abominable titans waged the Last War, reality crumbled in a universal Shattering. Now, in the Uncreated Night, new divinities have arisen. Some mortals, seemingly at random, have become bound to the Words of Creation that give control of the fabric of reality. Will the Godbound save the world from destruction, or hasten its demise?

March 2020

Dungeons on Demand

Dan Coleman’s Dungeons on Demand are instant 5E dungeons you can drop into your campaign. Each dungeon is designed for four- or five-player parties of specified levels and can be played through in one or two sessions. This offer presented a complete sequence of 21 modules that can take player characters from level 1 to 20.

Solo Games

This new offer presented solitaire roleplaying, board, and miniatures games — a timely idea as the world entered lockdown to slow the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

We also included a free game, one of the best solitaire RPGs ever: Shawn Tomkin’s Ironsworn.

Blue Rose

Green Ronin Publishing’s Blue Rose Second Edition is an AGE-system RPG of romantic fantasy. Tell stories of heroic envoys of the Sovereign’s Finest as they protect their homeland of Aldea from threats like the shadowy Kingdom of Kern and the fanatical Theocracy of Jarzon, as well as monsters and artifacts from the cruel reign of the Sorcerer Kings. Aided by the rhydan, their psychic animal allies, the champions of the Kingdom of the Blue Rose safeguard the light of the world against the Shadow.

Knights of the Dinner Table – More Trouble

This all-new companion to our May 2018 Knights of the Dinner Bundle added more collections featuring the long-running gaming comic series Knights of the Dinner Table by Jolly R. Blackburn from Kenzer and Company.

February 2020

Necrotic Gnome

Eww! This all-new offer presented the Old-School Essentials retro-clone FRPG and its Dolmenwood campaign setting from the colorfully named publisher Necrotic Gnome. Funded in an April 2019 Kickstarter campaign, Old-School Essentials (formerly B/X Essentials) emphasizes clarity, layout, and ease of use at your table. And Dolmenwood is a flavorful and delightfully creepy weird-fantasy forest steeped in occult energies, riddled with fungus, and haunted by fairies both wicked and kind.

2020 Birthday Bundle

We marked the site’s seventh anniversary with this new charity collection. Our generous customers paid money for games you can otherwise download free elsewhere on the web (links below) — all to help The DOTS RPG Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2017, makes roleplaying games accessible to visually impaired players and other people with disabilities. DOTS has created 3D-printable Braille polyedral dice and Fate dice models, transcribes rulebooks in Braille, and works with publishers to address screen-reader accessibility.

Judge Dredd and More

This new companion to our March 2018 WOIN OLD and NEW Bundle added the Judge Dredd & the Worlds of 2000 AD licensed RPG powered by WOIN, the What’s OLD is NEW set of crunchy, tactial RPG system toolkits from EN Publishing.

January 2020

Classic Hits

This collection gathered many top-quality indie RPGs originally presented in half a dozen Bundle offers in 2013 and 2014.

Stygian Fox Cthulhu

This all-new offer presented recent Call of Cthulhu sourcebooks, investigations, and play aids from Stygian Fox Publishing. These fiercely imaginative (and uncomfortable) scenarios of realistic horror range beyond the Cthulhu Mythos and across many times and locales.

Rifts Minion War

This new companion to our July 2017 Rifts® Essentials presented the Palladium Books Megaversal crossover saga of demonic annihilation on Rifts Earth and beyond. The sequence in order:

December 2019

City Designer

This all-new companion to our April 2018 Campaign Cartographer Bundle added the City Designer 3 expansion and many maps, floorplans, and style packs for Campaign Cartographer 3+ from ProFantasy Software.

Infinity RPG

Based on Corvus Belli’s popular Infinity miniatures skirmish game, the Infinity RPG from Modiphius Entertainment casts you as Bureau Noir law enforcement agents undertaking missions on a dozen worlds in the style of Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell. Track pirates amid the shattered planetoids of Human Edge; delve the oceans of Varuna; duck gunfire in the twisted emerald jungles of Paradiso; pursue rogue AIs through Nomad motherships. Meanwhile, from beyond the Human Sphere, the alien Combined Army has invaded, threatening to destroy humanity.

13th Age Adventures

This new companion to our December 2015 13th Age Bundle added recent 13th Age supplements from Pelgrane Press, including all three collections of Battle Scenes connected to the 13 icons of the Dragon Empire.

November 2019

Indie Cornucopia 7

This seventh annual collection of top-quality small-press RPGs gathered one of the strongest lineups in the Cornucopia’s (or, indeed, the entire Bundle site’s) history.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 6

This was the sixth all-new installment in our annual series of gamemastering texts and world creation tools — the Bundle site’s most successful sequence of offers.

Bundle of Fate 5

This was our fifth collection of campaign settings that use the popular Fate roleplaying rules. In contrast with past offers, all the titles in this collection came from Evil Hat Productions. The fountainhead of Fate, Evil Hat launched the system in 2003 as a collection of house rules for FUDGE, then used it to underpin Spirit of the Century (2006) and many subsequent games.

Fate RPGs use Fudge Dice, available from Evil Hat Productions (as “Fate Dice”), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link).

Necropolis 2350

Necropolis 2350 is the campaign setting of grimdark 24th-Century horror from Triple Ace Games for Savage Worlds. On Salus, humanity’s last habitable world, knights of the Third Reformation Church and soldiers of the Union of Corporations battle an onslaught by the undead Rephaim. Take the roles of Impalers, Incinerators, Preachers, and Templars in a desperate struggle against extinction. This offer helped Triple Ace’s prolific Creative Director and Necropolis 2350 designer Paul “Wiggy” Wade-Williams (Hellfrost, Slipstream, 50 Fathoms, and many more) after he had a serious stroke in October 2019.

AdventureAWeek.com

Our first-ever offer of titles for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition came from the AdventureAWeek.com line published by AAW Games. AAW’s long-running subscription plan has produced hundreds of titles for 5E and Pathfinder/Starfinder.

October 2019

Cities of Cthulhu

This new companion to our May 2014 Trail of Cthulhu Bundle added recent supplements and scenarios of urban Mythos horror for Trail of Cthulhu, the bestselling RPG of occult investigations using the GUMSHOE system from Pelgrane Press.

Clockwork & Cthulhu

Clockwork & Chivalry from Cakebread & Walton takes you to the English Civil War of 1645, but fought with witchcraft and basilisks, with Francis Bacon’s alchemy and Oliver Cromwell’s war machines. And in the horror campaign supplement Clockwork & Cthulhu and the standalone companion game Dark Streets, the stars align for the return of the Old Gods — the creatures of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Using the percentile-based Renaissance System adapted from OpenQuest (itself derived from Mongoose Publishing’s RuneQuest), these RPG ebooks transport Investigators and historical game fans to a wild and Sanity-draining past-that-never-was.

Deadlands: Hell on Earth

Hell on Earth is the standalone 1998 sequel to Deadlands: The Weird West from Pinnacle Entertainment. In the centuries after Deadlands Classic‘s alternate history of 1876, horrific other-dimensional entities called the Reckoners fomented warfare and destruction across the American West and the world. In 2081 a devastating Last War released evil spirits and arcane energy, making the entire world a Deadland — but the Reckoners’s own machinations trapped them here on the toxic, irradiated Earth. Now, in 2094, the heroes of the Wasted West try to reclaim the land and destroy the Reckoners.

Delta Green Operations

This new companion to our July 2018 Delta Green RPG offer added recent supplements and scenarios from Arc Dream Publishing for the modern-day Cthulhu Mythos conspiracy-horror standalone RPG Delta Green.

September 2019

Traveller4

Marc Miller’s Traveller was the 1996 Fourth Edition of Traveller. Originally published in 1996-97 by Imperium Games, the T4 line is set in “Milieu 0,” the earliest years of the Third Imperium interstellar empire. This all-new offer presented the best books in the line — everything you need to venture out from Core Sector in your scout ship (or your battle squadron) to recontact the Pocket Empires lost in the Long Night.

Savage Battlefield

This collection of Savage Worlds campaign settings from Battlefield Press helped Battlefield owner Jonathan Thompson and his family after an arsonist burned their house.

Old School Revival 6

This was the sixth installment in our annual (well, mostly) celebration of the Old School Revival and the spirit of roleplaying’s earliest days.

Torg Eternity

The 2018 Eternity edition of Torg, the multi-genre adventure RPG originally published in 1990 by West End Games (and presented in two past Bundle offers, January and March 2015), was funded in a spectacular May 2017 Kickstarter campaign by Ulisses Spiele. This all-new offer presented everything you need to reboot the Possibility Wars using the revised rules and updated cosms.

Legacy: Life Among the Ruins

Legacy: Life Among the Ruins is a post-apocalypse Apocalypse Engine SFRPG by Jay Iles, published by UFO Press and distributed by Modiphius Entertainment. You’re rebuilding a new world in the ruins of the future, and controlling both a family and its individual members across generations. As your story skips forward decades or centuries, your actions change the world, and your family adapts to survive.

August 2019

Goodman Gems

Goodman Games publishes a stellar series of entertaining and inspirational system-neutral supplements that have become works of the Old School Revival. The venerable Dungeon Alphabet, its companion The Monster Alphabet, and other Goodman titles help OSR gamemasters rethink their games at a fundamental level.

Mythras Worlds

This new companion to our April 2018 Mythras Core Bundle added recent sourcebooks and scenarios for the d100-based FRPG (previously published as RuneQuest 6) from The Design Mechanism.

War on Everything!

This was a collection of print-and-play science fiction board wargames that let you battle on Earth and in space. Each of these small games includes just 100-200 counters, so you can assemble them in less than an hour. Most of them are for one or two players, and a game lasts two hours or less.

Darkfast Dungeons and Save the Day

This collection featured designer-artist David Okum‘s fast-playing dungeon-crawl boardgame Darkfast Dungeons, its compatible Save the Day superhero RPG, and tons of paper minis from Okumarts Games. The Okumarts Games YouTube channel has Actual Play videos and crafting tips.

July 2019

ArM5 World of Magic

This new companion to our August 2014 Ars Magica 5 Bundle added world-spanning Ars Magica supplements and sourcebooks that ranged far beyond Mythic Europe. With this, our fourth ArM5 companion offer (after More Magic, Wizards & Power, and Mythic Europe), we completed our presentation of the entire Atlas Games ArM Fifth Edition line.

Mekton

This offer presented the 1994 Zeta edition of Mekton, Mike Pondsmith‘s anime-mecha RPG from R. Talsorian Games. Mekton conjures worlds of Macross-style high adventure and Gundam-like mechanized combat in a far future where science fiction meets Japanese anime. At stake: the survival of entire civilizations, entrusted to the skilled few who can master the giant robotic war machines of this future age.

Savage Heroes

This collection presented no less than four complete product lines for Savage Worlds from Pinnacle Entertainment, based on the long-running comics Fear Agent™, The Goon™, and The Sixth Gun®, and on Robert E. Howard’s pulp wanderer Solomon Kane.

And as we often do with these Savage Worlds offers, we included the Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer’s Edition rulebook.

Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of

Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of from Modiphius Entertainment is the 2d20 RPG based on the legendary sword-and-sorcery creations of Robert E. Howard.

Tiny Dungeon

Funded in a September 2017 Kickstarter campaign, the Tiny Dungeon RPG uses the streamlined, minimalist TinyD6 universal system from Gallant Knight Games for a fast-playing fantasy game that’s easy to learn and teach, and ideal for convention games, one-shots, and novice roleplayers. Player characters — heroic adventurers, daring treasure hunters, imperious magicians, and more — have statistics that fit on a 3×5″ notecard. Designer Alan Bahr has adapted the TinyD6 rules for standalone games in other genres. This offer presented the current editions of Tiny Dungeon, Wastelands, Frontiers, and Mecha (tiny, uhhh, giant robots?), along with a tiny boatload of freebies.

June 2019

Paranoia RED Clearance

The revamped 2016 edition of the classic satirical SFRPG Paranoia was funded in a tremendous October 2014 Kickstarter campaign from Mongoose Publishing. The card-based Paranoia RED Clearance Edition has all-new rules, many devious setting updates, and enhanced backstabbing techniques to test on your fellow Troubleshooters. Everything is different, but everything is still perfect. Your friend The Computer says so.

More Fighting Fantasy

Advanced Fighting Fantasy is the Arion Games RPG based on the bestselling Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone. This new companion to our March 2017 Advanced Fighting Fantasy Bundle added recent supplements and adventures, three of which debuted in this offer.

Tékumel

Tékumel is an astonishing science fantasy campaign setting. In the roleplaying hobby, home to the Forgotten Realms, Hârn, Glorantha, Jorune, and other detailed settings (to say nothing of Middle-earth), Tékumel has no parallel. Tékumel is the tabletop peer of computer games like Dwarf Fortress and EVE Online — not so much a pastime as a field of study, a lifestyle. Its lore beggars comparison. The setting mixes influences from Mesoamerica, Moghul India, Egypt, China, and Arab cultures to create a setting that is exotic, bizarre, intensely flavored, and incomparably intricate.

The Mutant Epoch

This offer presented William McAusland’s gonzo post-apocalyptic RPG The Mutant Epoch from Outland Arts. In the twisted future of 24th-Century America, engineered humans form “dig teams” with Aberrationist mutants, free-willed android mercenaries, and self-aware robots to uncover relic treasures in Ancient ruins. Through force of arms these excavators survive against barbaric skullocks, warmorts, moaners, reptili, and bipedal rats. Grab your gasmask, knee pads, crossbow, and junk armor, and answer the pleas of hard-pressed humanity in a world of post-apocalypse adventure.

May 2019

Fantasy Hero 4E and 5E

This double offer presented the HERO System Fourth and Fifth Edition Fantasy Hero lines from Hero Games, 1990-2009. The HERO System underpins Champions, The Super Roleplaying Game. These endlessly flexible rules work equally well with every kind of fantasy: high, low, urban, sword and sorcery, and everything you can imagine.

Corporation

Corporation is the Brutal Games SFRPG about corporate war in a future dystopia. Centuries from now, five monolithic Corporations dominate the world. From grimy alleys to trading floors to sumptuous hotels, biomechanically augmented Agents travel the world’s Spire cities on clandestine missions. Their enemies: rival Agents, war machines, corporate telepaths, Shi Yukiro assassins, and the augmentation addicts of the Cult of Machina. Corporation‘s simple and versatile rules let superhuman Agents mow down opponents in high-caliber gunfights right out of The Fifth Element, Equilibrium, Ghost in the Shell, and The Matrix.

The World’s Largest Bundle

Yeah, that’s right! We called this collection “The World’s Largest Bundle” because it featured The World’s Largest Dungeon and World’s Largest City, two massive d20 System supplements from Alderac Entertainment, along with many other Alderac d20 System sourcebooks and adventures.

The Last Parsec

This space opera campaign setting for Pinnacle Entertainment‘s Savage Worlds is a loving homage to TSR’s Star Frontiers. Player characters can be humans, cat people, walking plants, precognitive Serrans (space elves), dome-headed robots, four-armed Kalian swordsmen, or any of five more races, zooming all over the universe together as bounty hunters, explorers, merchants, security, diplomats, mercenaries, salvagers, entertainers, surveyors, scientists, engineers, or spies.

…And the Savage Worlds Deluxe Explorer’s Edition rulebook.

Seven Worlds

Seven Worlds by Luis Enrique Torres is a space opera setting with a hard-sf flavor for Pinnacle Entertainment‘s Savage Worlds. Its world-shattering campaign across seven star systems is an epic on the scale of Battlestar Galactica or The Expanse. Trying to avert the fall of Humanity, you’ll traverse known space from edge to edge and beyond. View and navigate the setting’s 3D digital starmap, coded in VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language), as a free download from SevenWorldsRPG.com. (Requires the Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition rulebook and the Savage Worlds Science Fiction Companion, not included in this offer.).

April 2019

Neoclassical Geek Revival

This collection featured an offbeat Old School-inspired FRPG by Canadian designer Zzarchov Kowolski. Like Dungeon World after it, Neoclassical Geek Revival (“Geek,” not “Greek”!) uses modern mechanics to conjure the Old School vibe in highly individual ways. One of Zzarchov’s players, Dan D., analyzed NGR‘s many original features in a blog post on I Failed My Save.

Fiasco and More

This collection featured Fiasco, its Companion and lots of playsets, and many live-action freeform games by Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar (Night Witches, Durance) published by Bully Pulpit Games. Fiasco (2009) throws you into cinematic tales of small-time capers gone calamitously wrong. It’s like making your own Coen brothers movie, in about the same time it’d take to watch one. You engineer and play out schemes marked by big dreams and flawed execution. Things won’t go well, to put it mildly, and in the end everything will burn in a glorious bonfire of jealousy and recrimination.

And as a convenience to this offer’s customers, Fiasco designer Jason Morningstar curated Jason’s Favorite Fiascos, a custom collection of seven free playsets that haven’t yet been reprinted anywhere (and aren’t on DriveThruRPG).

By the way, check out the Bully Pulpit Games Fiasco page with lots of linked reviews and Actual Play recordings, and FiascoPlaysets.com.

A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying

A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying is the official RPG from Green Ronin Publishing based on the bestselling fantasy epic A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin that inspired the Game of Thrones TV series. Designed by Robert J. Schwalb (Shadow of the Demon Lord), SIFRP focuses not just on characters but on noble houses that wage war and stage intrigues in the great game where you win or you die.

Rifts Phase World

This new collection featured Phase World,® the standalone Rifts® sub-setting of high-spirited space opera adventure across the Three Galaxies and their transdimensional high-tech nexus, Phase World. Here you may meet Oni Ninja of the Bushi Federation, Gun Brothers from the Consortium of Civilized Worlds, nefarious arms merchant Naruni Enterprises, Solar Leeches, Void Zombies, superheroic Cosmo-Knights, and the ancient, enigmatic Prometheans.

EABA

The universal RPG system EABA (“End-All, Be-All”), designed by Greg Porter (Corps, TimeLords), represents the “Simulationist” school of RPG design, which aims for accurate, fine-grained modeling of a campaign universe that operates sensibly. With EABA‘s scaling rules you can build anything from a zipgun to a battleship, and run any kind of conflict from a schoolyard fight to a superhero slugfest. The campaign settings in this collection ranged from steampunk to space opera, all using the same coherent, deeply thought-out system.

  • The complete EABA v2.01 core rulebook
  • Stuff!, the comprehensive equipment construction supplement that lets you build anything from a penknife to an orbital bombardment platform
  • Aethos: Hard-sf space opera, espionage, and political aboard a colossal alien worldship
  • Agency and Agency 1957: Modern magickal intrigue in a campaign where only you are Real, and everyone else is just Scenery
  • Eschaton, a superheroic setting that’s more realistic than most in assessing the effects of superhumans on society
  • grep: A post-scarcity nanotech setting
  • Verne (a steampunk-Martian-dinosaur extravaganza) and the Verne Maps set of beautiful Victorian-era maps

When we revived this EABA Bundle in February 2021, BTRC kindly added two more titles to the lineup: the conspiracy-minded campaign setting CORPS v3.0 and the desperate “pre-apocalypse” campaign Interregnum.

Yeld

This collection, launched on short notice in April 2019, featured The Magical Land of Yeld based on the Modest Medusa webcomic by artist-designer Jake Richmond. On April Fool’s Day the universe played an unfunny prank by destroying Jake’s computer. To help him replace it, we quickly prepared this bargain-priced offer with the Yeld rulebook and supplements, three Modest Medusa comics collections, and several of Jake’s RPGs from past Bundle offers.

March 2019

More Stars Without Number

This new collection was our second offer featuring Stars Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing by Kevin Crawford (Godbound). SWN is a leading SFRPG for devotees of the Old School Revival and “sandbox” roleplaying. Forget pre-packaged, pre-digested plotlines that put the players on railroad tracks. In a sandbox game, the setting is wide open for adventure in all directions. The Gamemaster presents situations, not storylines — problems, not plots. The player characters can go where they will, do as they wish, forging their own career. And the best game for sandbox-style starfaring is Stars Without Number.

Lone Wolf Adventure Game

This collection presented the complete Lone Wolf Adventure Game line from Cubicle 7 Entertainment — the licensed game based on the bestselling Lone Wolf gamebook series by the late Joe Dever (1956-2016). The Lone Wolf books introduced a generation of British teens and tweens to fantasy gaming. This fine introductory game, especially suited for novices and young players, makes you a Kai Lord warrior-monk in the Realm of Sommerlund, defending the world of Magnamund against your evil counterparts, the Darklords.

Castle Oldskull

This collection featured the voluminous nuts-and-bolts old-sku– er, Old School fantasy RPG supplements by designer-novelist Kent David Kelly in the Castle Oldskull line from Wonderland Imprints.

Publisher Wonderland Imprints also sells an Excel spreadsheet plug-in, Oldskull Dungeon Tools.

February 2019

Mutant Darkness

This all-new collection of supplements and sourcebooks for the Mutant Chronicles dieselpunk techno-fantasy RPG of future darkness from Modiphius Entertainment, with the Dark Eden and Dark Legion campaigns and the rest of the line, was a companion to the revived June 2017 Mutant Chronicles Bundle.

2019 Birthday Bundle

We marked the site’s sixth anniversary (20 February 2019) with this charity collection that benefited the RPG Creators Relief Fund. Our kindly customers paid money for games you can otherwise download free elsewhere on the web (links below) — all to help the RCRF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization founded to provide financial assistance to tabletop roleplaying game creators suffering hardship due to medical emergencies, natural disasters, and other catastrophic situations.

We also included John Harper’s elegant one-page Star-Trekkian game Lasers & Feelings, along with nine hacks adapting the rules to many genres:

Ironclaw/Jadeclaw

This comprehensive collection featured the RPGs of anthropomorphic fantasy from Sanguine Games, Ironclaw and its standalone companion game Jadeclaw.

Bundle for Two 2

This was our second Valentine’s Day collection of two-player RPGs, following the original February 2017 Bundle for Two.

Shadowrun 5E

These two all-new collections featured the 2013 Fifth Edition of Shadowrun, the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Catalyst Game Labs.

January 2019

M&M Earth-Prime

This collection targeted players new to The World’s Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game, Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition from Green Ronin Publishing.

And though we had no room for it in this offer, you might also explore the Emerald City campaign setting, a nice companion to Freedom City.

Fragged Empire and Fragged Kingdom

This collection featured Fragged Empire, the tactical RPG of exploration and rebuilding in “post-post-apocalyptic” adventures. In the far future you are a genetically engineered remnant, emerging from genocidal war to reclaim a lost empire. Some worlds have fallen to barbarism; some retain technology so advanced it seems magical. You stand at the dawn of a new civilization, a time of opportunity and danger.

Trinity 1E

This all-new collection presented the 1997 First Edition of Trinity, the Trinity Universe Storyteller System SFRPG originally published by White Wolf. Trinity is getting a second edition from Onyx Path Publishing under the game’s original title, Æon.

Aberrant

This collection, a companion to the Trinity 1E Bundle, featured Aberrant, the 1999 Storyteller System game of super-powered paranormals in the Trinity Universe. Set ten years after radiation from the exploding Galatea satellite triggered bizarre powers in a small fraction of Earth’s population, Aberrant (1999) chronicles the struggles of these “novas” and their quest to fit into — or forever change — human society.

0one Dungeons

This all-new collection, a follow-up to our popular January 2018 0one Blueprints offer, presented a sprawling range of labyrinthine megadungeon blueprint .PDFs from 0one Games.

December 2018

Second Breach

This all-new collection of Through the Breach RPG supplements and “Penny Dreadful” scenarios accompanied a revival of the December 2016 Through the Breach Bundle featuring the Wyrd Miniatures Lovecraftian-Wild West-steampunk RPG based on the Malifaux miniatures game.

And for that revival of the original Through the Breach offer, we updated the core Through the Breach rulebook to its comprehensive 420-page Second Edition (2017) — and all purchasers of the original December 2016 run also received the new addition on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page. When you buy a Bundle of Holding, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.

Doctor Who RPG

This all-new collection presented the 2015 “Twelfth Doctor” edition of the official Doctor Who Roleplaying Game from Cubicle 7 Entertainment that spans all time and space.

When we revived this offer in August 2021, we added two more supplements: The Time Traveller’s Companion and Defending the Earth: The UNIT Sourcebook. And, as always, every customer who purchased this offer during its earlier December 2018 run also received both new additions. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.

Adventures in Middle-earth

The Fellowship of the Ring returned with this all-new collection featuring Adventures in Middle-earth, the official Open Game License RPG from Cubicle 7 Entertainment, based on The One Ring Roleplaying Game, that brings JRR Tolkien’s Middle-earth setting to your Fifth Edition games. (If you saw our previous offers of The One Ring RPG, note that much of this Adventures material is attentively converted from previously published TOR products.)

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 1E

This all-new collection featured the First Edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay and its legendary Enemy Within scenarios, five books that together make one of the greatest campaigns in fantasy roleplaying history.

Cyberpunk Boost

This all-new collection, a companion to our June 2017 Cyberpunk 2020 Bundle, presented the Cyberpunk V3.0 (Third Edition) rulebook, the Cybergeneration standalone companion game, and many Cyberpunk 2020 supplements and adventures not included in the first offer.

November 2018

Coriolis & Tales From the Loop

This all-new collection featured two English-language RPG lines from the Swedish company Free League Publishing that use the “Year Zero” rules system introduced in Mutant: Year Zero. Coriolis is a stylish space-opera SFRPG that’s been called “Arabian Nights in space.” Tales From the Loop involves 1980s kids on bikes investigating mad-science mysteries right in your home town.

Indie Cornucopia 6

Our sixth annual collection celebrating the American Thanksgiving holiday presented another top-quality collection of small-press RPGs.

Early Champions and Hero System

This huge double offer presented, for the first time anywhere, .PDFs of Hero Games rulebooks, supplements and adventures for the first three editions (1981-87) of Champions, The Super Roleplaying Game and its standalone companion games Espionage!/Danger International, Fantasy Hero, and Justice Inc.

Early Champions

Early Hero System

Bundle of Fate 4

Our fourth collection of games based on the Fate rules system.

By the way, Fate RPGs use Fudge Dice, available from Evil Hat Productions (as “Fate Dice”), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link).

October 2018

Bundle of Tentacles 5

Our fifth all-new collection of Cthulhu Mythos-related RPG scenarios included titles from Stygian Fox Publishing, Arc Dream Publishing, and Black Armada, as well as a 19th-Century lecture on medieval and Renaissance libraries. (The applicability of historical details about 14th-Century scriptorium shelves to a Call of Cthulhu campaign is left as an exercise to the Keeper.)

Demon Lord Victims

Alongside a revival of our May 2017 Shadow of the Demon Lord Bundle, we presented this all-new companion collection of recent supplements and sourcebooks that explore the Lands in Shadow.

Leagues of Gothic Horror

The Leagues of Gothic Horror setting presents occult Victorian and Lovecraftian adventures for the Leagues of Adventure RPG from Triple Ace Games. In occult mysteries using the Ubiquity rules system, globetrotting members of the Leagues of Adventure chase restless spirits in haunted houses, shapeshifters in deep forests, and mummies in fog-shrouded streets.

We had no room in the lineup for the Guide to Vampires (nor the core setting book’s
Appendix 2: Guide to Vampires nor the Guide to the Walking Dead, but check those out too.

Palladium Horror

This second installment in 2018’s “October Horrors” sequence featured an all-new collection of fright-filled RPGs from Palladium Books.

Weird Wars

Our 2018 “October Horrors” sequence lurched into view with two all-new collections featuring the Weird War I and Weird War II settings for Savage Worlds and the d20 System from Pinnacle Entertainment. The Weird War I collection, funded in a successful February 2016 Kickstarter campaign:

Weird War II debuted in 2000 during the d20 System boom. Pinnacle later released a WWII setting book and one scenario for the Savage Worlds line, as well as a miniatures scenario for its Savage Showdown skirmish game. Our Weird War II Bundle presented the Savage Worlds titles in its Starter Collection and the older d20 titles in its Bonus Collection.

September 2018

Tunnels & Trolls

This offer presented the vintage Flying Buffalo FRPG Tunnels & Trolls — the second fantasy RPG ever published — in its 2015 Deluxe version, plus a slew of solitaire and gamemastered adventures. Since its original publication in 1975, Tunnels & Trolls has stayed continuously in print, has never changed publishers or designers, and has remained rules-compatible across many editions — an unequalled longevity record.

When we revived this T&T offer in June 2020, Flying Buffalo kindly added two new titles: Elven Lords Deluxe and Vault of K’Horror. As usual, all customers who bought this offer during its earlier September 2018 run automatically received these new additions on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in their DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.

Nobilis and Chuubo

This collection featured two landmark indie RPGs by star designer Jenna Moran (Exalted, Weapons of the Gods). Among 2,600 rules sets in RPG.net’s comprehensive Game Index, Jenna’s Nobilis, the diceless RPG of demigodlike Powers (think Sandman‘s The Endless or Piers Anthony’s Incarnations of Immortality), ranks #1. And Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine adapts the Nobilis system for a warm-hearted RPG of heroic innocents in the style of Miyazaki films like Spirited Away and shows like Adventure Time.

Pendragon Arthurian Lands

This collection featured vintage 1990s location sourcebooks and scenarios for King Arthur Pendragon, Greg Stafford’s masterful game of knights seeking glory across the British Isles and beyond.

GDW 2300 AD

This all-new collection featured the original 1986-88 version of the Game Designers’ Workshop near-future SFRPG 2300 AD. (Mongoose Publishing resurrected this line in 2012, and we presented that version in our June 2014 Mongoose 2300 AD Bundle.)

August 2018

Beasts & Barbarians

The Barbarian Kings returned with this all-new collection featuring the 2017 Steel Edition of Beasts & Barbarians, the sword-and-sorcery campaign setting from GRAmel Publishing for Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds RPG.

Deathwatch

We presented two all-new collections that, between them, gathered the entire RPG line for Deathwatch, the Ulisses North America RPG (originally published by Fantasy Flight Games) about elite Space Marine Kill-teams safeguarding humanity against vile xenos (aliens), heretics, and daemons in the grim dark future of Warhammer 40,000. In loyal service to the Emperor, you undertake deadly missions in the Jericho Reach, a region of the Imperium on the brink of annihilation.

OneDice

OneDice is the fast, flexible universal rules system from Cakebread & Walton (Renaissance). Using only a single six-sided die, OneDice lets you play any kind of campaign in any genre, and you can be up and running in minutes. It’s also a great introductory game for novices. This offer presented a large range of standalone OneDice rulebooks for many genres.

Symbaroum

Symbaroum is the dark-fantasy RPG from the Swedish game studio Järnringen, known for the post-apocalyptic Mutant: Heirs of Doom and the arabesque space opera Coriolis. Symbaroum is a gorgeous, detailed sandbox setting in the primeval forest of Davokar, a rich and mysterious world of horror, beauty, and marvels. This English-language collection treated players to unnerving hikes through ancient ruins, journeys on pitch-black waters under starless skies, and confrontations with barbarian chieftains and raging abominations.

For a great selection of Symbaroum resources, check The Iron Pact.

July 2018

Rifts® World Books

We revived a streamlined version of our July 2017 Rifts® RPG offer as “Rifts Essentials,” and along with it we presented this all-new companion collection of Rifts supplements and sourcebooks that ranged across the setting’s transformed North America.

Mutant: Year Zero

This collection presented the latest version of the Swedish post-apocalypse SFRPG Mutant, first published in 1984. Developed by the Free League design team (Tales From the Loop, Coriolis) and co-published in English by Modiphius Entertainment, Mutant: Year Zero – Roleplaying at the End of Days casts you as one of The People, heavily mutated humans sheltering in The Ark, an isolated settlement in the dawnworld. You’ll search the Zone for food, artifacts, other mutants, and knowledge — especially about The People’s own origin.

Ponyfinder

The Champions of Everglow emerged from their fey realm with this collection featuring the Ponyfinder campaign setting from Silver Games LLC for D&D 5E and Pathfinder. Everglow is a world of magic and mystery, where the fey are in control and humanoid races are secondary. Foremost of the fey are Ponykind, who rallied behind their Queen to form the greatest empire Everglow has ever seen. Ponyfinder gives you everything you need to play four-footed player characters in Everglow or import pony PCs into your existing campaign.

ArM5 Mythic Europe

The Hermetic Magi returned yet again with this all-new collection of sourcebooks for Ars Magica Fifth Edition, the landmark Atlas Games RPG by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen. This offer focused on Mythic Europe, the magical medieval homeland of the Order of Hermes. (Note: The Ars Magica line is sold through Warehouse 23.)

June 2018

Super-Powered by M&M 3E

This collection of superheroic supplements from Misfit Studios, Rogue Genius Games, and Vigilance Press supported the Third Edition of Mutants & Masterminds, The World’s Greatest Superhero RPG, under Green Ronin Publishing‘s Super-Powered by M&M Trademark License.

Get the free eight-page M&M 3E Quickstart rules at the Green Ronin website.

Eclipse Phase 2

Proxies from Firewall returned with this all-new collection featuring Eclipse Phase, the SFRPG of transhumanist survival from Posthuman Studios. We presented this new offer as a companion to a resleeving (revival) of the June 2014 Eclipse Phase Essentials. These newer supplements — funded in part by Posthuman’s successful April 2013 Transhuman Player’s Guide Kickstarter campaign — push your campaign to the Outer Reaches of the Solar System and beyond.

Delta Green 2

This all-new collection featured Arc Dream Publishing‘s spectacular modern-day Cthulhu Mythos conspiracy-horror RPG, Delta Green. In both its original version as a Call of Cthulhu campaign setting (previously presented in our March 2014 Delta Green Bundle) and in this standalone incarnation funded in a smash September 2015 Kickstarter campaign, DG‘s compelling mix of conspiracies, UFOs, intelligence tactics, and Mythos terror has brought it unsurpassed praise.

In October 2019 our Delta Green Operations companion offer added many scenarios and play aids, including Agent Dossiers, The Last Equation, Lover in the Ice, Sweetness, and The Way It Went Down. That offer also presented the complete four-part DG campaign Future/Perfect Part 1, Part 2, and (debuting in that offer) both Part 3 and Part 4.

Apocalypse Engine 3

The Masters of Ceremonies returned with this new collection of RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse — that is, based on Vincent Baker’s landmark RPG Apocalypse World. Many of the games this time came from the prolific Magpie Games.

And we rounded out the collection with two fine non-Magpie games:

Dungeon World 3

For a third time the Dungeoneers brought forth from the underworld a new treasure chest of top-quality supplements and adventures for Dungeon World, the Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG from Sage Kobold Press.

May 2018

GUMSHOE 2

The Private Investigators shuffled back out of the shadows with more mystery and investigative scenarios for the GUMSHOE System by Robin D. Laws from Pelgrane Press. This all-new offer accompanied the second resurrection of our September 2013 Bundle of GUMSHOE, which included the Night’s Black Agents, Ashen Stars, and Mutant City Blues rulebooks.

Mindjammer

This collection featured Mindjammer, Sarah Newton’s transhuman SFRPG from Mindjammer Press, co-published by Modiphius Entertainment. In the New Commonality of Humankind — a hyperadvanced far future of realistic aliens, lost colony worlds, and the vast Mindscape shared consciousness — Mindjammer lets you play hardened mercs, cunning corpocrats, culture agents and memetic engineers, aliens and para-human hominids, scouts and socialites, uplifted animals, androids, and even sentient starships. The Second Age of Space in the 17th Millennium is the stage for transcendent cutting-edge space opera in the tradition of Iain M. Banks, Cordwainer Smith, Alistair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, and Vernor Vinge.

Knights of the Dinner Table

This big collection presented over 1,600 pages of the long-running Knights of the Dinner Table comic series by Jolly R. Blackburn from Kenzer and Company.

April 2018

Clement Sector

The Gypsy Knights arrived from the Conduit wormhole with a broad survey of the Clement Sector, the science fiction setting from Gypsy Knights Games. The Clement Sector line uses Gypsy Knights’ version of the Cepheus Engine, an Open Game License version derived from the Traveller System Reference Document, based in turn on the 2008 First Edition of Mongoose Publishing’s Traveller. These sourcebooks and adventures adapt easily to Traveller or any proto-Traveller campaign.

Mythras

The Design Mechanics, who brought us a RuneQuest Sixth Edition offer in 2014, returned with an all-new collection featuring Mythras, the revamped and rebranded edition of RQ6 — one of the greatest fantasy RPGs ever — from The Design Mechanism.

Hero Kids

The Kids of Rivenshore discovered this big collection featuring Hero Kids, the fast and fun introductory RPG perfect for kids aged 4 to 10. Complete in just 50 pages, Hero Kids has simple rules that use only six-sided dice, an opposed-dice system that keeps everyone in the game, and play times of an hour or so.

When we revived this offer in February 2020 we added two Hard adventures (Reign of the Dragon and Darkness Neath Rivenshore) and two new card sets (Hero Cards VI and Hero Advancement Cards). (If you had already purchased this offer, during either this revival or its original April 2018 run, you received all these new titles automatically on your Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in your DriveThruRPG Library.)

Feng Shui 2

The Dragons returned with this new collection featuring the 2015 Second Edition of Hong Kong movie action RPG Feng Shui from Atlas Games. Designed by Robin D. Laws (Cthulhu Confidential, Hillfolk, GUMSHOE), Feng Shui hits you with ancient sorcerers, transformed animals, control-freak Shaolin monks, and cyborg apes. Armed with the secrets of feng shui, they aim to conquer the past, present, and future. Only you have the guts, guns, and flying feet to stop them.

March 2018

Deadlands Reloaded

The Rail Barons brought us these two collections featuring Deadlands Reloaded, Pinnacle Entertainment‘s update of its classic Weird West tabletop roleplaying game Deadlands for the Savage Worlds system.

Deadlands Reloaded: This offer presented the core rulebooks and key supplements. If you’re new to Deadlands, start here.

Also check these free files on DriveThruRPG: Design Diary 1,Deadlands Memories by Matt Forbeck, and the “Perilous Parcels” One-Sheets Ruckus at Worm Creek and Salt o’ the Earth (both of these fit well with All the Purty Little Horses)

Deadlands Servitors: The Weird West of the alternate 1880s is blighted by the Reckoners, four otherwordly entities: Famine, War, Pestilence, and Death. Their Servitors on Earth — the Reverend Ezekiah Grimme, Susquehanna shaman Raven, mad scientist Darius Hellstromme, and the undead assassin called Stone — work to make the American frontier a Deadland. The posse of player characters can face down and drive out these evil minions of apocalypse (they can try, anyway) in four immense “Plot Point Campaigns” that stretch across the Weird West. Any one of these campaigns can keep your posse busy for eight months to a year. This offer included all four.

What’s O.L.D. is N.E.W.

ENworld contributed this strong collection featuring EN Publishing’s What’s O.L.D. is N.E.W., a system of three crunchy, tactical, toolkit-oriented RPGs designed by Russ “Morrus” Morrissey: O.L.D. (medieval fantasy), N.O.W. (’80s action heroes), and N.E.W. (far-future science fiction). Using the extensive tools in each book, you can easily create your own races, lifepath careers, planets, freeform spell-paths, starships, strongholds, martial arts, and monsters. Focus on one genre, or mix-and-match them to create urban fantasy, cyberpunk, or spells-in-space. Hack the system, mold it to your setting, and — because the free WOIN Rules Reference Document is designated Open Game Content — even publish your creations free or for profit.

Jovian Chronicles

This collection featured the Dream Pod 9 SFRPG of a Solar System on the brink of war, Jovian Chronicles.

For the September 2020 resurrection of this offer we added three new titles: the First Edition Jovian Chronicles Rulebook; Ships of the Fleet Vol 4 – Venus Fleet; and The Art of Jovian Chronicles Volume 2. As usual, all previous purchasers of the original March 2018 run also received the newly added titles on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in their DriveThruRPG Library.

7th Sea 2E

The Explorer’s Society brought us this collection featuring the 2016 Second Edition of game designer John Wick‘s swashbuckling FRPG 7th Sea. The February 2016 7th Sea 2E Kickstarter campaign broke all roleplaying records.

John Wick Presents

Award-winning game designer John Wick (7th Sea, Legend of the Five Rings) brought us this collection of his many diverse indie RPGs. This offer ran as a companion to our 7th Sea 2E Bundle.

February 2018

Dragon Age and Fantasy AGE

The Grey Wardens discovered this collection featuring the two Adventure Game Engine (AGE) fantasy tabletop roleplaying games from Green Ronin Publishing, Dragon Age and Fantasy AGE. Along with these simple and fast-playing AGE games, this offer presented the campaign settings Thedas (from the BioWare Dragon Age computer game) and Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana, seen in a Geek & Sundry video series hosted by TableTop star Wil Wheaton.

Traveller: The New Era

The Far Futurists returned from the shattered wreckage of the Third Imperium with this collection featuring Traveller: The New Era, GDW’s 1992 version of the star-spanning science-fiction tabletop roleplaying game of collapse and renewal in a fallen galactic empire. The corrupt Third Imperium fell to civil war and the artificially intelligent Virus. Now vigorous survivors are forging a better, more vibrant history across ten thousand worlds. In the New Era, the future starts now.

Heroes Unlimited

The Sentinels of Liberty and Justice delivered this collection featuring Heroes Unlimited, the Palladium Books RPG of superheroic action by Kevin Siembieda.

January 2018

The Dark Eye

The Dragon Egg Academy prepared this collection featuring the English-language edition from Ulisses Spiele North America of the leading German RPG of heroic fantasy, The Dark Eye.

When we revived this Dark Eye Bundle in June 2020, publisher Ulisses Spiele kindly added the Deluxe Character Sheets pack to the Player Collection. And, as usual, everyone who purchased this offer during its original January 2018 run also received the newly added title automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in their DriveThruRPG Library.

0one Blueprints

The Blue Printers drew up this giant collection featuring RPG maps and bestselling blueprints from 0one Games. You may have seen 0one’s fine work on the massive Great City Campaign Setting we presented in July 2017. These state-of-the-art interactive .PDF blueprints enhance any medieval fantasy campaign with beautifully drafted castles, crypts, taverns, dockyards, towers, islands, pirate lairs, drow strongholds, Wild West frontier towns, and even Jules Verne’s Nautilus submarine.

0one Games publishes a huge line of blueprints. We had no room to include (for instance) the Domain of Blood, Harker Asylum, or Heavenring Village boxed sets nor the Lost City and Vampire Castle blueprints, and that’s just for starters — check them out!

Hellfrost Atlas

The Triple Aces returned with a second collection featuring Hellfrost, the frozen epic fantasy setting from Triple Ace Games for Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds. Several of these titles were funded in Triple Ace’s July 2014 Kickstarter campaign.

Chronicles of Darkness

The Tenebrous Chroniclers brought us this collection featuring the 2004 First Edition World of Darkness rulebook (later rechristened the Chronicles of Darkness) and its blue-book support line from White Wolf Game Studio.

Get a free preview of the Chronicles of Darkness rules and an introductory scenario in A Nightmare at Hill Manor. The Character Pad is also free.

December 2017

Dark Heresy 1E

From the 41st Millennium the Inquisition delivered two collections featuring the 2008 First Edition of Dark Heresy, the first RPG set in the grim, dark future of Warhammer 40,000.

Cypher System

The Invisible Sun manifested this all-new collection featuring the Cypher System universal rules set from Monte Cook Games — — the system that underpins Numenera and The Strange.

You might also like the Gods of the Fall adventure Breath of God and the Predation scenario Age of Crest and Bone. These weren’t part of this offer.

One Ring Journeys (formerly The One Ring 2)

This companion added supplements for The One Ring Roleplaying Game from Cubicle 7 Entertainment.

When we revived this One Ring Journeys offer in December 2019, we shuffled the lineup, moving the original offer’s Bonus Collection into the Starter Collection and adding three recent releases: Bree, The Laughter of Dragons, and Oaths of the Riddermark.

The Dracula Dossier

The shadowy supervisors of Project Edom revealed this comprehensive collection featuring The Dracula Dossier. Funded by a spectacular November 2014 Kickstarter campaign, The Dracula Dossier is an epic improvisational horror-espionage campaign for star designer Kenneth Hite‘s Night’s Black Agents, the GUMSHOE game of burned spies vs. vampires from Pelgrane Press. Ben Riggs at Geek & Sundry called The Dracula Dossier the greatest RPG campaign of all time.

Pelgrane Press has a great eyes-only page of Dracula Dossier resources.

November 2017

Indie Cornucopia 5

The Fellowship of the Horn returned with our fifth annual collection of top-quality small-press RPGs.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 5

The Master Planners returned yet again with our fifth annual collection of gamemastering aids. The Toolkits are the Bundle of Holding’s most successful series, and this fifth offer was far and away the most successful Toolkit to date.

Double Castles & Crusades

The Troll Lords returned with Castles & Crusades Essentials, a newly revised, revamped, and expanded edition of our February 2016 offer featuring Castles & Crusades, the old-school-new-rules FRPG from Troll Lord Games. This new version added several key supplements — and everyone who bought the offer during its original 2016 run also received the new additions automatically. The Trolls also brought us an all-new companion offer, the Castles & Crusades Bundle 2, with major supplements and adventures.

Castles & Crusades Essentials

Castles & Crusades 2

Old School Revival 5

Rising ever higher in level, the Stalwart Revivalists delivered from the Outer Planes our fifth annual hoard of games, campaign settings, and modules celebrating the Old School Revival.

October 2017

Esteren 2

Our fellowship of Magientists returned with this all-new collection featuring the French medieval gothic-horror RPG Shadows of Esteren. This offer marked the public debut of the long-awaited Esteren Book 3, Dearg. (Note that most of the titles in this offer aren’t available on DriveThruRPG.)

  • Shadows of Esteren Book 3: Dearg was funded in a spectacular October 2016 Kickstarter campaign.
  • This offer included Occultism, the sourcebook and adventure of esoteric mysticism in the Tri-Kazel Peninsula.
  • Cartography of Tri-Kazel: A collection of beautiful full-color maps and heraldic arms.
  • RISE and Dearg soundtracks: Agate RPG releases soundtrack albums of atmospheric music for Esteren play sessions. You can hear all the Esteren albums on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
  • Esteren Culinary Journey: Unlocked as a US$100,000 stretch goal in the December 2014 Occultism Kickstarter campaign, these recipes for a complete three-course dinner of Tri-Kazelian cuisine were designed by French chef Thibaud Villanova of Gastronogeek.

Rippers

The Order of St. George emerged from hiding with this collection featuring Rippers, the high-action campaign of Victorian-era monster-hunting for the Savage Worlds rules system from Pinnacle Entertainment. Fog-filled horror in the gothic style of the Penny Dreadful TV series and the 2004 film Van Helsing, Rippers Resurrected strode into the gaslight in a triumphant October 2015 Kickstarter campaign.

We added the Savage Worlds Deluxe Edition and the Horror Companion, both presented in several previous offers.

World War Cthulhu

The Maddened Scholars escaped the sanitarium with this collection featuring World War Cthulhu, Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s line of Call of Cthulhu supplements and scenarios in which brave agents of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service face Lovecraftian terrors — and humanity’s own darkest impulses — against a backdrop of 20th-Century conflict. In World War II, the Special Operations Executive fights a two-front war against both Axis and Mythos. In the 1960s and ’70s, as the Cold War threatens nuclear destruction, Section 46 continues a personal battle against the insidious influence of a much older enemy.

Demon: The Descent

To kick off this year’s “October Horrors” sequence of horror and suspense RPG offers, the Free Agency brought us this collection featuring Demon: The Descent, the Chronicles of Darkness game from Onyx Path Publishing of Unchained techgnostic renegades against the God-Machine.

September 2017

Maelstrom

The Fighting Fantasists returned with a new offer from Arion Games featuring Maelstrom, Alexander Scott’s 1984 FRPG of 16th-Century Tudor magick and danger. Originally published by Puffin Books under the Adventure Gamebooks banner (alongside the famous Fighting Fantasy series), Maelstrom introduced a generation of British youth to roleplaying. Two brand-new Maelstrom titles (Gothic and North Yorkshire Moors) debuted in this comprehensive collection.

When we revived this Maelstrom offer in March 2020, Arion Games kindly added Maelstrom Rome, a complete standalone game that adapts the Maelstrom rules to the early Roman Empire. And as always, customers who previously purchased this offer during its original September 2017 run automatically received Maelstrom Rome on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in their DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.)

Bundle of Lamentations 2

The Necropoli Centauri Voyagers returned with this new collection featuring Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Weird Fantasy Roleplaying. The original Bundle of Lamentations was our best seller of 2016, so we mustered our courage to present a range of new and classic scenarios — some even raunchier than those in the first offer. It paid off, because this Bundle of Lamentations 2 became the best-selling offer in Bundle history. Caution: Age 18 and over. Some of these books are potentially very offensive to — well, potentially just about anyone.

GURPS Traveller Wars

The Far Futurists returned with this all-new offer, presented as a companion to the revived July 2016 GURPS Traveller Essentials; this Wars offer included the military and mercenary supplements. These two offers, together with the July 2016 Imperial Survey, collectively presented the entire GURPS Traveller line for the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games. These titles aren’t available on DriveThruRPG but on the SJG ebook sales site, Warehouse 23.

Apocalypse Engine 2

The Masters of Ceremonies returned with this all-new second collection (a follow-up to our September 2015 offer) of great RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse — that is, based on Vincent Baker’s fantastically original 2010 RPG Apocalypse World.

August 2017

Werewolf 20A

The Thirteen Tribes, newly up-to-date (with cellphones and everything), brought us this large collection featuring the Werewolf 20th Anniversary Edition line from Onyx Path Publishing — the 2012 edition that marked two decades since the 1992 publication of White Wolf Game Studio‘s Werewolf: The Apocalypse.

Ars Magica 5 – Wizards & Power

The Hermetic Magi returned yet again with this all-new collection of supplements for Ars Magica Fifth Edition, the landmark Atlas Games RPG of medieval myth and magic by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen. This offer focused on the sources of magic and the various Tribunals of the Order of Hermes. (Note: The Ars Magica line is sold through Warehouse 23.)

BASH!

The Basic Heroes brought us this collection featuring the light and simple BASH! (Basic Action Super Heroes) RPG from Basic Action Games.

Palladium Fantasy

Palladium Books contributed this large collection featuring the 1984 Revised Edition of Kevin Siembieda‘s Palladium Role-Playing Game.

July 2017

Numenera 2 – Ninth World Discovery

The Order of Truth’s Aeon Priests returned with this all-new collection of recent supplements for the far-future science-fantasy RPG Numenera from Monte Cook Games. This sequel offer ran in parallel with a revival of our original May 2014 Numenera bundle, which includes the core rulebook and early supplements. Many of these new books were funded through MCG’s spectacular August 2015 Into the Ninth World Kickstarter campaign.

Rifts®

Palladium Books contributed this collection featuring Rifts,® Kevin Siembieda‘s RPG of dimension-spanning adventure across a future Earth transformed by countless invading realities.

Flying Buffalo Catalyst

The Urban Explorers returned from dusty archives with the first .PDF copies ever of the popular CityBook series from Flying Buffalo. This collection included all seven CityBooks and other supplements in Buffalo’s popular Catalyst series of generic play aids for fantasy adventures. The CityBooks present dozens of individual shops, establishments, and characters, generically written to be compatible with any fantasy RPG and to fit smoothly in any urban fantasy setting. Originally published from 1982 to 1997, the CityBooks featured contributions by leading designers including Larry DiTillio, Liz Danforth, Michael A. Stackpole, Dave Arneson, Jennell Jaquays, Greg Gorden, and many more.

When we resurrected this Catalyst Bundle in August 2019, we added two titles that hadn’t yet been scanned in 2017. The City of the Gods Map Pack is a Catalyst location sourcebook for a mystical realm where all the gods of Earth reside: Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Celtic, Asian, and many other pantheons. Mugshots No. 1 – The Case of the Pacific Clipper is a high-flying pulp-era solo adventure for Mercenaries, Spies, & Private Eyes written by Dungeons & Dragons co-designer Dave Arneson. All previous purchasers of this Catalyst Bundle’s original July 2017 run also received the new additions automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet page. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.

0one’s Great City

The Urban Explorers uncovered this collection featuring the massive Great City Campaign Setting from 0one Games. Twice conquered by a distant empire, ruled by the incompetent son of a cruel emperor, the Great City faces upheaval. As its political factions scheme, and its monsters hunt from underground lairs, the city waits for heroes to guide its destiny. With 0one’s near-systemless campaign guides, lightly ornamented with OGL/Pathfinder statistics, and its beautiful maps and bestselling blueprints (as state-of-the-art interactive .PDFs), you can easily add the Great City to any FRPG campaign.

Colonial Gothic

The Founders brought us this collection featuring Colonial Gothic, the RPG of supernatural flintlock-horror on the 18th-Century American frontier from Rogue Games.

When we resurrected this offer in July 2018, we added these new supplements and adventures — and, as always, all previous purchasers of the original July 2017 offer also received the newly added books automatically:

For the July 2019 revival of this offer, Colonial Gothic designer Richard Iorio II kindly added his new RPG of childhood innocence, Fairyland — and all previous purchasers of this offer in its two previous runs also received the new addition on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page.

June 2017

Mutant Chronicles

The Factions, the megacorporate nation-states of the Solar System, brought us this collection featuring the 2015 Third Edition of Mutant Chronicles, the dieselpunk techno-fantasy RPG of future darkness from Modiphius Entertainment. With its fast-playing, cinematic “2d20” system designed by Jay Little (Star Wars: Edge of the Empire), Mutant Chronicles 3E is a thrill ride across a Solar System beset by corporate intrigue and the invasion of a terrible alien force.

Pendragon 2 – Estates and Uther

The Knights of the Round Table returned with this all-new collection of King Arthur Pendragon supplements chronicling the era of Uther, legendary king of Logres and father of King Arthur (AD 480-484). (See the Pendragon article A Chronology for the Uther Period, a free excerpt from The Book of Uther in this offer.)

This new offer ran as a companion to the second revival of our June 2014 Pendragon offer. Thanks to the generosity of publisher Nocturnal Media, every purchaser of the original Pendragon offer, whether its first run or later revivals, also automatically received the new King Arthur Pendragon Edition 5.2 core rulebook free.

Cyberpunk 2020

The Edgerunners ducked in from the mean streets of Night City with this huge collection featuring the 1993 Second Edition of Mike Pondsmith‘s classic tabletop roleplaying game of the dark future, Cyberpunk 2020 from R. Talsorian Games.

Anime Blast

The Enthused Otaku returned with this all-new collection of RPGs inspired by Japanese anime and manga.

May 2017

Fat Dragon 2

The Fat Dragons returned with an all-new collection of papercraft fold-cut-glue terrain models for fantasy roleplaying and miniatures games from Fat Dragon Games.

Malifaux

The Fated returned with a follow-up to the December 2016 Through the Breach RPG offer featuring Malifaux, the 32mm miniatures skirmish game from Wyrd Miniatures that inspired the RPG.

Shadow of the Demon Lord

The Unholy Champions brought us this collection featuring Shadow of the Demon Lord, Robert J. Schwalb‘s dark fantasy RPG of grim heroism against a cosmic destroyer.

Fading Suns 2

The Noble Houses returned, quite soon after our first Fading Suns offer (January 2017), with this all-new sequel collection featuring more of the Ulisses Spiele RPG line chronicling humanity’s destiny among the flickering stars of the sixth millennium, Fading Suns.

Vampire 20th Anniversary

The Camarilla emerged from the shadows with this all-new collection featuring the 20th Anniversary Edition (2011) from Onyx Path Publishing that celebrates the 1991 publication of White Wolf Game Studio’s original Storyteller game, Vampire: the Masquerade.

April 2017

East Texas University

The Faculty Committee approved this syllabus featuring East Texas University, Pinnacle Entertainment‘s Savage Worlds campaign setting of academic horror in the small, haunted town of Pinebox, Texas created by the 12 to Midnight design studio.

We also included an ETU Welcome Kit of free downloads from the Pinnacle website with the short “One Sheet” adventures Brewhaha, Jack’s Back, Maggie’s Ghost, Redneckromancer, Scavenger Hunt, and Shock Jock.

Champions Fourth Edition

The Systematic Heroes brought us two massive collections that presented the entire Fourth Edition run (1989-2001) of Champions, The Super Roleplaying Game. These two spectacular offers, the largest in Bundle of Holding history — a total of 65 books — gathered all the superhero rulebooks, supplements, sourcebooks, and adventures for “The Big Blue Book,” one of the most acclaimed editions of the venerable HERO System. Many titles appeared in .PDF in these offers for the first time anywhere, thanks to the superheroic scanning powers of Jason Walters at Hero Games.

Champions 4E Essentials

The Champions 4E Essentials bundle presented the rulebooks and major supplements. In particular, the Essentials offer’s Core Collection was a jaw-dropper. With just these books, Champions Gamemasters have run campaigns lasting decades:

The Champions 4E Essentials Bonus Collection added many important rulebooks and sourcebooks. (Where versions of these books exist for different editions of the HERO System, the ones in this offer were all for Fourth Edition.)

Champions 4E Universe

The companion Champions 4E Universe offer included the rest of the Fourth Edition line — no less than thirty-seven supplements and adventures. Look at everything in the Starter Collection:

The Champions 4E Universe Bonus Collection had a big nine-volume assortment of Dark Champions books and the single most highly regarded supplement in the 4E line —

We posted a question-and-answer list about these two offers: “Questions about the Champions Fourth Edition Bundles.”

Heavy Gear

The Black Talons brought us this collection featuring the 2003 Third Edition of Dream Pod 9‘s Heavy Gear SFRPG about mech combat on the distant world of Terra Nova in the 62nd Century. This offer featured the Silhouette CORE Deluxe Edition rulebook that drives the 3E system, plus a generous range of 3E supplements and all five Storyline books — the narrative supplements that Heavy Gear fans call “metaplot done right.”

March 2017

Advanced Fighting Fantasy

Our fellowship of Page Turners brought us this collection featuring the Arion Games tabletop FRPG line based on the 1980s Fighting Fantasy gamebook series by Steve Jackson (UK) and Ian Livingstone. NOW TURN OVER:

Traveller20

The Far Futurists brought us this collection featuring Traveller20, QuikLink Interactive’s D20 System adaptation of Marc W. Miller’s classic Traveller SFRPG. Almost all this material also works with the Classic Traveller rules.

Referee’s Collection

When we resurrected this offer in March 2019, we added the full-length T20 adventure Objects of the Mind — and all previous customers, including purchasers of the original March 2017 run, received the newly added book automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later — even much later.

Changeling: The Lost

The True Fae journeyed from Arcadia with this comprehensive collection featuring White Wolf’s Storytelling game of beautiful madness in the Chronicles of Darkness, Changeling: The Lost.

Space: 1889 (Ubiquity)

The intrepid Ethernauts dismounted their Edisonian flyers to proudly deliver this collection featuring the 2014 Clockwork Publishing edition of the classic proto-steampunk SFRPG Space: 1889. Originally published by GDW (1988), Space: 1889 lets your ether flyer explore the swamps of Venus and the ancient canals of Mars in civilized adventures out of Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and H. Rider Haggard. This Clockwork edition, funded by a successful July 2013 Kickstarter campaign, uses the Ubiquity system created for Hollow Earth Expedition (featured in our December 2015 Ubiquity Bundle).

(Note: The titles in this offer aren’t from the original GDW line. Scanned .PDFs of all the original GDW Space: 1889 roleplaying books are sold by Heliograph, Inc.)

February 2017

Classic BattleTech

The Successor States brought us this collection featuring Classic BattleTech, the 2006 edition of the Catalyst Game Labs SFRPG of mechs and MechWarriors. BattleTech‘s setting has a long history; this offer emphasized the Clan Invasion, AD 3060, though many of these supplements are set earlier in the timeline.

Advanced Adventures

The aptly named fellowship of Advanced Adventurers brought us a large collection of Old School modules in the long-running Advanced Adventures series from Expeditious Retreat Press. Advanced Adventures are nominally designed for OSRIC, the free AD&D 1E retro-clone.

By the way, check out “There and Back Again: The Construction of Nostalgia in Advanced Adventures” (Darren Allan Crouse, Department of Popular Culture, Brock University, Ontario) (2011): “There and Back Again: The Construction of Nostalgia in Advanced Adventures is a scholarly look at one aspect of tabletop roleplaying culture. It was written by Darren Allan Crouse, and supervised by Dr. Greg Gillespie, in the Department of Popular Culture at Brock University in Ontario. In the study, Crouse discusses the construction of nostalgia in the art of Expeditious Retreat Press’ Advanced Adventures line. He challenges traditional academic understandings of nostalgia as simple escapism. Crouse argues that, while the Advanced Adventures pay homage to the history of RPGs, the series is an expression of an emerging old-school gaming subculture who use nostalgia in new and creative ways — while charting new directions for their hobby.”

Bundle for Two

The Ardent Suitors eagerly brought forth this Valentine’s Day collection of two-player RPGs.

When we revived this Bundle for Two in February 2020, Berengad Games kindly let us replace the 2007 first edition of Beast Hunters with the revised and expanded Bloodcarved Edition (2019). And, of course, everyone who purchased this offer during its original February 2017 run also received the updated version.

January 2017

Fading Suns

The Noble Houses brought us this big collection featuring most of the important books for Fading Suns, Holistic Design’s star-spanning science fiction RPG of darkening skies in the sixth millennium.

Hunter: The Vigil

The Keepers brought us this comprehensive collection featuring White Wolf’s Storytelling game Hunter: The Vigil, about mortals in desperate combat against the shadowy entities of the Chronicles of Darkness. This offer included almost the entire Vigil product line.

We also included the Free RPG Day introductory adventure A Nightmare at Hill Manor, which includes the essential World of Darkness systems you need to play Hunter: The Vigil.

Elven Papercraft

The Hungarian model masters at Lord Zsezse Works brought us this collection of .PDF print-and-assemble papercraft models funded by their successful June 2014 Elven Papercraft Kickstarter campaign.

Check out the free accessories at the Lord Zsezse Works website.

December 2016

Family-Friendly RPGs 2

Our Friends and Family brought us a second collection (sequel to the successful December 2013 original) of RPGs that parents can play with their kids, or kids can play with each other.

Cubicle 7 Worlds

This, the richest offer in the site’s history, included the entire Qin: The Warring States, Yggdrasill, Keltia, and Kuro product lines from Cubicle 7 Entertainment — a total retail value of US$233.

Cthulhu Britannica

The Maddened Scholars brought us this eldritch collection of Call of Cthulhu adventures from Cubicle 7 Entertainment that bring the Mythos to the British Isles.

For the October 2017 revival of this Cthulhu Britannica offer we added two new titles: Shadows Over Scotland and Avalon – The County of Somerset. As always, all previous purchasers, including those who bought the bundle during its original December 2016 run, received the new additions automatically.

Through the Breach

The Fated brought us this collection featuring Through the Breach, the Wyrd Miniatures Lovecraftian-Wild West-steampunk RPG based on the Malifaux miniatures game.

(Wyrd’s “Penny Dreadful” adventures aren’t related to the Penny Dreadful TV series, but take their name from the late 19th-Century precursors of the pulps, the “penny dreadfuls.”)

The Through the Breach RPG and the Malifaux miniatures game both use the Wyrd Miniatures Arcane Fate Deck, but you can easily use an ordinary 54-card poker deck instead.

Valiant Universe

For our first-ever team-up of RPGs and comics, The Valiant brought us this huge collection featuring the Catalyst Game Labs RPG Valiant Universe and the Valiant Entertainment comics line that inspired it. This offer’s designated charity was The Hero Initiative, which supports veteran comics creators in time of need.

By the way, also check out Catalyst’s free Harbinger Wars Quick Start Supplementals for its Valiant Universe RPG, which weren’t part of this offer:

November 2016

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 4

The Master Planners returned with a fourth annual collection of gamemastering texts and play aids that help you create worlds and run exciting play sessions.

Indie Cornucopia 4

The Fellowship of the Horn returned with this fourth annual spectacular offering of small-press RPGs and ebooks.

Buffy-Angel

The Scooby Gang brought us this collection featuring the licensed Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel RPGs from Eden Studios.

Old School Revival 4

The Stalwart Revivalists brought forth from the dungeon our fourth princely treasure hoard of games, campaign settings, and modules celebrating the Old School Revival.

October 2016

Bundle of Tentacles 4

The Maddened Scholars returned with a fourth collection of scenarios and play aids for Call of Cthulhu inspired by HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

Trail of Cthulhu 2

The Deranged Pursuers escaped the sanatorium with this new collection featuring the Pelgrane Press GUMSHOE System investigative RPG based on Call of Cthulhu. As a companion to this offer, we revived (for a second time) the original April 2014 Trail of Cthulhu Bundle.

Bundle of Zombies

The Desperate Survivors couldn’t forestall the arrival of this gore-soaked collection of RPGs about the walking dead.

Bundle of Nerves 4

The Dark Thinkers returned with our fourth annual collection of horror and dark-fantasy RPGs.

Penumbra 2

The Eclipse Followers returned with a second collection of OGL fantasy supplements from the Atlas Games Penumbra line.

September 2016

Steam-Powered Bundle

The Gutter Runners brought us this all-new collection of steampunk RPGs in many settings and genres — a boon companion to the Victoriana Bundle we resurrected from May 2015.

Iron Kingdoms

Our fellowship of Bold Privateers brought forth this offer featuring Iron Kingdoms, the Full Metal Fantasy tabletop RPG from Privateer Press set in the world of the popular WARMACHINE miniatures game. On the continent of Immoren, magic meets machinery in an ongoing industrial revolution. The vigorous Kingdoms, having overthrown the conquering Orgoth, now use arcane mechanika to fight out ancient grudges. Beasts and cults rule the wilderness, and necromancers call forth the dead. To survive in these soot-covered cities, you’ll need brains, brawn, a loaded pistol, and a touch of alchemy.

Indie Treasure Trove 4

For a fourth straight year our Gumptious Vanguard presented its annual collection of top-quality small press RPGs.

Dragon Warriors

The Serpent Kings ordained this collection featuring the classic 1986 British FRPG of epic heroism in the Lands of Legend, Dragon Warriors.

August 2016

Mutants & Masterminds 3E Power Boost

The Emerald Heroes returned with two collections featuring the 2011 Third Edition of Steve Kenson‘s Mutants & Masterminds, the World’s Greatest Superhero RPG from Green Ronin Publishing. The first offer revived our March 2014 M&M 3E offer. This second, all-new collection presented many recent supplements that can lift an M&M campaign into the cosmos and beyond.

Tribe 8

The Eighth Tribe of the Fallen brought us this collection featuring Tribe 8, Dream Pod 9‘s post-apocalyptic fantasy of spirituality and horror in a world gone terribly wrong.

Shadowrun 3E

The Street Legends returned with two all-new offers featuring the 1998 Third Edition of Shadowrun, the cyberpunk-fantasy RPG from Catalyst Game Labs.

The Shadowrun 3E Essentials offer, the starting point for every runner’s career, included the Shadowrun 3E main rulebook (plus the free Shadowrun 3E Quick Start Rules) and all the important supplements:

The companion Shadowrun 3E Sprawl Guide presented setting supplements and adventures about the Sixth World of 2060:

Fat Dragon Terrain Sets

The Fat Dragons brought us these full-color .PDFs of print-and-fold paper terrain models for roleplaying adventures and 28mm-scale miniatures games from Fat Dragon Games. This offer worked well with our August 2016 Osprey Wargames Bundle of rulebooks for 28mm miniatures games.

Osprey Wargames

The Seahawks returned with this collection featuring the Osprey Wargames line of rulebooks for 28mm-scale tabletop miniatures games from the military history experts at Osprey Publishing. This offer ran together with our Fat Dragon Terrain Sets collection of .PDFs of print-and-fold paper terrain models for roleplaying adventures and 28mm-scale miniatures games.

Deadlands Noir

The Private Detectives returned with this collection featuring Pinnacle Entertainment’s Deadlands Noir hardboiled fantasy setting for Savage Worlds that pushes the Deadlands: Weird West setting 50 years forward to the shadowed streets of 1935 New Orleans.

July 2016

Bundle of Lamentations

The Necropoli Centauri Voyagers brought us this collection featuring the weird-fantasy RPG Lamentations of the Flame Princess. With a heavy-metal attitude and explicit non-work-safe illustrations, LotFP presents a sinister and horrific twist on fantasy gaming.

The Weird Starter Collection included the Lamentations of the Flame Princess Rules & Magic Full Version corebook and the introductory adventure Tower of the Stargazer; The Seclusium of Orphone by D. Vincent Baker (Apocalypse World); Thulian Echoes and The Pale Lady, both by Zzarchov Kowolski; The Idea From Space by Simon Carryer (On Mighty Thews); Tales of the Scarecrow by James Raggi; and A Single, Small Cut by Michael Curtis (Stonehell Dungeon).

The Historic Bonus Collection, showing LotFP‘s many unsettling takes on world history, included World of the Lost, The Magnificent Joop van Ooms, The Cursed Château, England Upturn’d, Scenic Dunnsmouth, Forgive Us, and The Squid, the Cabal, and the Old Man.

Daring Tales

The Triple Aces returned with a new collection featuring the Daring Tales series of heroic RPG adventures across many ages and genres from Triple Ace Games for Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds.

GURPS Traveller

The Far Futurists returned with two collections featuring the classic Traveller SFRPG in its version for GURPS, the Generic Universal RolePlaying System from Steve Jackson Games. These titles aren’t available on DriveThruRPG but on the SJG ebook sales site, Warehouse 23.

(As a courtesy to our customers, these offers included the free 32-page GURPS LITE Third Edition rules booklet. To fully use these Traveller books in a GURPS campaign, you’ll also need the complete GURPS corebook (Third Edition or later) and GURPS Space, which weren’t included in these offers. As sourcebooks, the titles in these offers work fine with any SF campaign.)

Our GURPS Traveller Essentials offer included the core Second Edition rulebook and the major supplements:

The companion offer, GURPS Traveller Imperial Survey, presented Far Trader, all four Alien Races guides, and the entire Planetary Survey series:

We also presented four sets of Traveller Deck Plans, which debuted in .PDF in these offers and aren’t available at Warehouse 23. These offers included Deck Plan 1: Beowulf-Class Trader, 2: Modular Cutter, 3: Empress Marava-Class Far Trader, and 5: Sulieman-Class Scout/Courier.

June 2016

Mongoose Legend

This collection featured Legend, the Mongoose Publishing FRPG based on RuneQuest. In 2006 Mongoose released a licensed edition of RuneQuest, and followed it in 2010 with a new edition by longtime RQ stalwarts Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash. After its RQ license lapsed in 2011, Mongoose refashioned the system as Legend. This version still works with all of Mongoose’s previous RuneQuest II books, such as Elric of Melnibone, Deus Vult, and Wraith Recon.

The Starter Collection included the Legend core rulebook, the Arms of Legend equipment book, and three Arcania of Legend magic books: Blood Magic Elementalism, and Spirit Magic. The Bonus Collection added the two bestiaries, Monsters of Legend 1 and Monsters 2; the four historical sourcebooks Gladiators of Legend, Pirates of Legend, Samurai of Legend, and Vikings of Legend; and the complete sourcebook of a dark elven stronghold, Sheoloth, the Sprawling City.

ICONS

Our Fair City’s leading supergroup, The Phalanx, brought us this collection featuring ICONS, the fast-playing superpowered RPG by Steve Kenson, designer of Mutants & Masterminds.

Exalted 1E

The Celestial Incarnae brought us two collections featuring the 2001 First Edition of Exalted, White Wolf’s Storyteller game of mythic high fantasy. The Exalted 1E Glorious Core Bundle‘s “Heroism-Encouraging Player’s Collection included the Exalted First Edition core rulebook, Players Guide, and The Book of 3 Circles magic book. The Core offer’s “Wise-Eyed Storyteller’s Collection added Dragon-Blooded First Edition, Storyteller’s Companion, Games of Divinity, Scavenger Sons, Creatures of the Wyld, Savage Seas, and The Making of Exalted (artbook).

The Exalted 1E Irresistible Setting Bundle presented supplements about the game’s setting, Creation. The “Eight Directions Starter Collection” included The Outcaste, Bastions of the North, Cult of the Illuminated, Kingdom of Halta, and the free introductory adventure The Tomb of Five Corners. The “All-Encompassing Savant’s Bonus Collection” added Manacle & Coin, Blood and Salt, Houses of the Bull God, Ruins of Rathess, and Time of Tumult.

May 2016

Pulp Adventure

The Undauntables brought us this two-fisted collection of high-spirit, high-action RPGs set in the 1930s and beyond.

Blue Planet

The Incorporate States journeyed from Poseidon in the Lambda Serpentis System with this comprehensive collection featuring Blue Planet, the 1997 science-fiction tabletop roleplaying game from Biohazard Games about colonizing the ocean world of Poseidon, AD 2199. With its accurate depictions of an alien planet’s geography, climate, and ecosystem, Blue Planet sets the standard for “hard” (scientifically accurate) sf roleplaying. This offer presented both editions of the Blue Planet rules (Biohazard, 1997, and Fantasy Flight Games, 2000) and all the major supplements.

Malhavoc Arcana

The Delver’s Guild excavated this all-new collection featuring Numenera designer Monte Cook‘s Arcana Evolved, his 2005 “variant player’s handbook” for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5, along with the rest of the AE line and many other Malhavoc supplements.

Castle Falkenstein

The Sorcerous Orders of New Europa brought us this collection featuring Castle Falkenstein, R. Talsorian’s 1994 steampunk-science-magick RPG of high adventure where the forces of wizardry fight on the gaslit streets of a neo-Victorian New Europa.

When we revived this offer in February 2020, R. Talsorian Games kindly added three newly acquired Castle Falkenstein supplements originally published by Fat Goblin Games. Customers who bought this offer during its original run also received the newly added titles — Curious Creatures, Firearms & Margarine, and Variations on the Great Game.

Brave New World

Delta Prime brought us this collection featuring Matt Forbeck’s dystopian RPG of superpowered heroes in the fascist America of 1999.

April 2016

Mongoose Traveller

The Far Futurists returned with the First Edition (2008) of the Mongoose Publishing version of Traveller.

Dungeon Crawlers

The Labyrinthine Delvers unearthed this collection featuring the original D20 Dungeon Crawl Classics tabletop fantasy roleplaying modules from Goodman Games. Since 2003 the Dungeon Crawl Classics line has captured the Old School spirit in over 60 adventures published for Dungeons & Dragons 3.x and its successors under the Open Gaming License. In 2012 Goodman published a free-standing DCC RPG. This offer gathered many of the best DCC modules from 2003-07, arranging them to ramp smoothly from 1st to 15th level. They all work great with D&D 3.5, Pathfinder, and their descendants.

Rocket Age

The Rocket Rangers zoomed in from the Outer Planets to deliver this large collection featuring Cubicle 7 Entertainment’s Rocket Age, the radium-powered retro-SF RPG of planetary romance in the style of Burroughs, Brackett, and Flash Gordon.

March 2016

HackMaster

The Knights of the Dinner Table brought us this collection featuring the parody-turned real FRPG HackMaster from Kenzer and Company, made popular in Jolly Blackburn‘s long-running gaming comic Knights of the Dinner Table.

As a convenience to our customers, we also included “Player’s Resources” and “GM’s Resources” archives of free downloads from the Kenzer and Company website.

OpenQuest

Our fellowship of Open-Minded Questers brought us this collection featuring the comprehensive OpenQuest OGL-licensed tabletop roleplaying rules system from D101 Games inspired by RuneQuest. Easy to learn and fast-playing, OpenQuest extends the original percentile-based fantasy system (made popular in Call of Cthulhu and many other RPGs) to support modern-day and science fiction settings.

PARANOIA Classic

Your friend The Computer authorized this collection of brand-new .PDF scans of the original 1980s West End Games line featuring PARANOIA, the SFRPG of a darkly satirical future, and the early adventures that made the game great. These titles will be made available outside this offer after appropriate review by The Computer’s loyal servants in Central Processing Unit, Technical Services, Internal Security, and other service groups not available at your clearance.

  • PARANOIA First Edition (1984) and the 1E GM Screen and insert booklet
  • The Acute Paranoia rules supplement
  • All the classic 1E adventures: Vapors Don’t Shoot Back, The YELLOW Clearance Black Box Blues, Send in the Clones, Orcbusters, HIL Sector Blues, and Clones in Space
  • PARANOIA 2nd Edition (1987), including The Compleat Troubleshooter, and the 2E Excessory Pack
  • The best adventures from the 2E era: Alpha Complexities, The People’s Glorious Revolutionary Adventure, and the Form Pack

Land of Fire

The Followers of Suleiman brought us this collection featuring the Arabian Nights-style fantasy setting from Triple Ace Games for Pinnacle Entertainment’s Savage Worlds. This offer followed our September 2015 Hellfrost Bundle, set in the same world.

We collected nearly two dozen Land of Fire Realm Guides in “Tours” grouped by subject:

February 2016

Ars Magica 5E — More Magic

The Hermetic Magi returned yet again, and their Creo Corpus spell not only resurrected (for a second time!) our August 2014 Ars Magica Fifth Edition Bundle from Atlas Games — they also provided this all-new companion offer of high-power ArM5 supplements. The entire Ars Magica line is available at Warehouse 23.

Castles & Crusades

The Troll Lords provided this collection featuring the old-school-new-rules fantasy RPG from Troll Lord Games, Castles & Crusades.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse

The Caern Guardians arrived from the Umbra with two offers, running in parallel, featuring the Revised Edition (from 2000) of White Wolf’s Storytelling game of savage horror, Werewolf: The Apocalypse. Between them, these two offers presented the core rulebook and 18 major supplements. The consolidated lineup:

Osprey Adventures 2

The Seahawks returned with this all-new collection of beautiful full-color volumes in the “Osprey Adventures” series from Osprey Publishing. This sequel to our August 2015 offer presented more explorations of myths and legends, secret histories, and aliens — many written by leading designers in the tabletop roleplaying field.

January 2016

Ultimate Champions

The Systematic Heroes returned with this collection of the “Ultimate” character archetype books for Champions and the HERO System. This was half of a double offer; the companion offer was a revival of our September 2014 Champions Fifth Edition collection.

Swords and Sorcerers

The Barbarian Kings rode in from exotic desert lands with this collection of action-fantasy RPGs inspired by the tales of Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Michael Moorcock, and other swords-and-sorcery masters.

Nest of Spies

Our stealthy team of Covert Operatives returned to uncover this highly classified new collection of spy and espionage RPGs. In terms of design approaches, this was by far the most diverse collection we’ve ever presented — Old School Revival alongside Story Now, White Wolf’s Storyteller system, and a retro-clone of the Victory Games classic James Bond 007.

Dungeon World 2

The Dungeoneers returned with this new offer, a sequel to our hit December 2014 collection, presenting top-quality third-party supplements for Dungeon World, the Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG.

December 2015

Traveller LBBs

We presented a big double offer of the canonical Traveller Little Black Books from the 1970s and ’80s. Half-size manuals with elegant black covers, the LBBs established Traveller as the leading science fiction RPG. To this day, these books represent, in the minds of many old-school roleplayers, the true-blue (true-black?) Traveller experience. Together these two revived offers gathered the entire LBB line — more than 50 books.

1. LBB-1

The first bundle had all eight rulebooks plus major supplements and several adventures. If you’re new to Traveller — yes, even now there are new-made roleplayers who haven’t yet encountered Traveller — start here.

2. LBB-2

This companion offer rounded out the Imperial Library of LBBs.

Mage: The Ascension

The 1995 2nd Edition of White Wolf’s Classic World of Darkness Storyteller game about reality on the brink.

13th Age

Our fellowship of Iconic Champions brought us this collection featuring the bestselling fantasy RPG 13th Age from Pelgrane Press, created by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, lead designers of the 3rd and 4th Editions of D&D.

This offer also included the 2014 Free RPG Day adventure Make Your Own Luck. For the May 2017 revival of this 13th Age offer, we added one new title: Summoning Spells, a 13th Age Monthly installment. All previous purchasers of the original December 2015 run also received the new addition.

Ubiquity

The Omnipresent Ones manifested this wide-ranging and comprehensive collection featuring RPGs that use the Ubiquity rules system introduced in Hollow Earth Expedition.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 3

The Master Planners returned with this third installment in a popular annual series presenting collections of gamemastering resources. These ebooks help you create and run your own roleplaying campaign.

November 2015

Indie Cornucopia 3

The Fellowship of the Horn returned with our third annual collection of recent top-shelf small-press tabletop RPGs:

Bundle of Fate 3

The Fated Fellowship returned with our third annual collection of RPGs that use the ever-popular Fate system.

As a convenience, we also included the Fate Core and Face Accelerated rulebooks from Evil Hat Productions.

Old School Revival 3

Our fellowship of Neoclassicists pushed the boundaries to bring us this collection of games and modules that adapt the old-school approach to genres beyond traditional fantasy settings.

The Esoterrorists

The elite investigators of Ordo Veritatis broke cover long enough to provide this collection featuring the Pelgrane Press RPG by Robin D. Laws (Feng Shui, HeroQuest, Hillfolk) about defending reality against occult terrorists. The Esoterrorists introduced the GUMSHOE System (seen in Trail of Cthulhu, Night’s Black Agents, and many other RPGs of detection and mystery), featured in our September 2013 Bundle of GUMSHOE.

October 2015

Bundle of Tentacles 3

Yet again the intrepid Mad Scholars escaped the sanatorium to bring us this third annual collection of mind-wrenching games, supplements, and scenarios inspired by HP Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos:

Bundle of Nerves 3

The Nerve Wrackers returned with our third annual collection of horror RPGs, this time featuring the Savage Worlds rulebook and Horror Companion plus two SW campaign settings, as well as several other terrifying games:

The Strange Bundle

The Estate Operatives emerged from the Chaosphere with these beautiful rulebooks and supplements featuring the recursion-spanning Cypher System RPG The Strange from Monte Cook Games.

The One Ring Roleplaying Game

The Fellowship of the Ring brought us this collection featuring the official RPG from Cubicle 7 Entertainment based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien:

Indie Treasure Trove 3

Our Gumptious Vanguard returned yet again with this all-new third annual fall collection of top-quality indie RPGs:

September 2015

Aces & Eights

The fine folks from Judas Crossing moseyed into town with this big collection featuring the lavish Old West roleplaying game from Kenzer & Company.

Hellfrost

The Triple Aces and prolific designer Paul “Wiggy” Wade-Williams provided this cool — no, bone-chillingly cold — collection for Savage Worlds featuring epic fantasy adventure in the icebound world of Rassilon.

In January 2018, when we revived this offer as “Hellfrost Essentials,” we revamped the lineup and added these supplements — and, as always, all previous purchasers of the original run received the new additions automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page:

  • Legendary Endeavors
  • Matters of Faith
  • The new edition of the Hellfrost Gamemaster Screen and its new Journeys insert booklet — both of them debuted in this offer and are available in .PDF nowhere else

Asia Fantastic

The Clan of the Glorious Blades presented this collection of RPGs and supplements set in ancient China and modern Tibet. The offer included the entire Qin: The Warring States product line from Cubicle 7 Entertainment. Tibet: The Roleplaying Game (Vajra Enterprises) was sold in .PDF for the first time anywhere in this offer, and isn’t available anywhere else.

Apocalypse Engine

The Masters of Ceremonies provided this spectacular collection of great RPGs Powered by the Apocalypse — that is, based on the rules engine introduced in the fantastically original Apocalypse World by D. Vincent Baker.

August 2015

Osprey Adventures

Leading military history publisher Osprey Publishing provided this collection of beautifully illustrated treatises on myth and legend, fantastic lands and races, and alternate histories.

Bundle of the Ages 2

Our fellowship of Sedulous Historians returned with an all-new offering of alternate-historical and fantasy RPGs inspired by historical settings. With the inclusion of the classic SFRPG Timemaster (originally published by Pacesetter Ltd in 1984), customers got a way to link all these eras in one sprawling campaign.

July 2015

Midgard

The Rampant Roach fellowship returned with this new collection featuring Midgard, the Kobold Press dark fantasy setting inspired by traditional European legends and folklore. To learn more, check the free Midgard Preview.

Frog God’s Lost Lands

The Tsathogga Cultists summoned this collection of Old School Revival FRPG adventures for Pathfinder, all set in the Lost Lands published by Frog God Games, heir to the legacy of OSR publisher Necromancer Games. (Frog God publishes its Lost Lands adventures for both Pathfinder and for the OSR OD&D retro-clone Swords & Wizardry. All the titles in this offer were the Pathfinder versions.)

Fantasy Frontiers

Our fellowship of Hinterlanders brought us this collection featuring exotic settings and colorful eras for fantasy roleplaying.

Millennium’s End

BlackEagle Operative Branch brought us Charles Ryan’s 1993 technothriller RPG of paramilitary adventure.
Star designer Kenneth Hite described this collection as “1,200+ pages of badass Nineties Night’s Black Agents supplements cunningly disguised as a game that came out two decades earlier.”

June 2015

Traveller Little Black Books

The Far Futurists returned from the Spinward Marches yet again with a third collection featuring classic Traveller. This time we presented all the half-size, black-covered rulebooks from 1978-83 — the “Little Black Books” that established Traveller as the hobby’s canonical SFRPG. This large collection, from Traveller designer Marc W. Miller at Far Future Enterprises, enjoyed greater success than both our previous classic Traveller offers put together.

Pathfinder New Paths

Our fellowship of Visionary Voyagers brought us this collection of innovative third-party FRPG supplements for Pathfinder and other OGL-type FRPGs. This offer was curated by Owen K.C. Stephens, longtime Pathfinder developer for Green Ronin Publishing and owner of Rogue Genius Games.

Deadly Games

Our fellowship of Private Detectives returned with this hardboiled collection of indie RPGs inspired by crime novels and film noir stories about tough crooks and the tougher people who hunt them.

Freeport

The Sea Lords brought us this collection, an all-inclusive ticket to Freeport, the original D20/OGL pirate-horror-fantasy City of Adventure from Green Ronin Publishing.

May 2015

Shadowrun Fourth Edition

Our fellowship of Street Legends hacked into JackPoint and uploaded these Shadowrun Fourth Edition ebooks from Catalyst Game Labs:

Victoriana

The Gutter Runners crept from the foggy London alleys with this collection featuring the Cubicle 7 Entertainment RPG of Victorian high adventure, gothic fantasy magic, and steampunk engineering.

April 2015

Penumbra

Our fellowship of Eclipse Followers brought us this collection of OGL fantasy supplements from the Atlas Games Penumbra line:

Champions Universe

Our fellowship of Systematic Heroes returned with another super-sized collection of Champions Universe RPG books from Hero Games, plus the gigantic Hero System 5th Revised Edition (“FRED”). This offer repeated only three titles from our earlier Champions offers in November 2013 and September 2014: the FRED rulebook, the Hero System Resource Kit, and Champions Universe.

Indie Spring Festival

Our fellowship of Fertile Talents brought us this refreshing collection of small-press RPGs by star designers.

Bundle of Laughs

Just in time for April Fool’s Day, our fellowship of Court Jesters brought us this collection of fun and funny RPGs. No fooling!

March 2015

MegaTraveller

Our fellowship of Far Futurists returned with a new collection featuring GDW’s 1987 space-opera SFRPG MegaTraveller, set in the remnants of the Shattered Imperium.

As a convenience to our customers, we also included the free Official Guide to MegaTraveller from Far Future Enterprises.

For this offer’s revival in April 2020 we added two issues of the 1990s Digest Group Publications magazine MegaTraveller Journal: MTJ issue 3 and MTJ issue 4.

Bundle of Laundry

Our fellowship from Her Majesty’s Occult Service brought us this collection featuring the licensed Laundry RPG from Cubicle 7 Entertainment, based on The Laundry Files novels and stories by Charles Stross about a modern counter-occult espionage agency. Laundry agents fight Cthulhu Mythos horrors and bureaucratic supervisors.

Torg 2

The Storm Knights returned with another huge collection featuring the classic 1990s multi-genre tabletop roleplaying game of the Possibility War in the Near Now. By getting this collection together with our January 2015 Torg Bundle, customers received all the cosm (location) sourcebooks and important supplements for the entire Torg line.

February 2015

Hillfolk

This collection featured the Pelgrane Press DramaSystem RPG of epic interpersonal conflict by Robin D. Laws.

We also presented, for the first time anywhere since the October 2012 Hillfolk Kickstarter campaign, a collection of Hillfolk musical tracks composed by James Semple and Marie-Anne Fischer.

The IGDN Bundle

A fellowship of small-press publishers in the Indie Game Developer Network brought us this collection of choice small-press RPGs:

Vampire: The Masquerade

The Camarilla sired this amazing collection featuring the 1992 2nd Edition of White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade and many of its finest supplements.

January 2015

Unisystem

Our fellowship of Carellians brought us this collection featuring C.J. Carella‘s light, low-crunch, fast-playing Unisystem from Eden Studios.

Designers, Dragons, and More

Our fellowship of Archival Researchers brought us this collection of ebooks presenting the history and highlights of the roleplaying game hobby.

Torg

The Storm Knights brought us this huge collection featuring the classic 1990s multi-genre tabletop roleplaying game of Storm Knights fighting the Possibility War in the Near Now.

December 2014

Razor Coast

The Freebooters from Frog God Games brought us this collection featuring their Pathfinder pirate-fantasy campaign setting of dark heroic swashbuckling and terror in the Age of Sail.

Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition

Following our successful April 2014 offer of the current 3rd Edition of Green Ronin’s bestselling superhero RPG, the Heroes of Freedom delivered this colossal collection featuring Mutants & Masterminds 2nd Edition (2005) and many choice supplements.

Dungeon World

From the deepest depths, the Dungeoneers brought this fine collection featuring Sage Kobold’s bestselling Apocalypse Engine fantasy RPG plus a full line of supplements and adventures:

November 2014

Indie Cornucopia 2

Another spectacular Cornucopia offer from the Fellowship of the New Horn:

Bundle of Fate 2

The Fated Fellowship returned with an all-new collection of leading RPGs that use the popular and fast-growing Fate rules system:

Old School Revival 2

Our fellowship of Neoclassicists brought us this all-new collection of old-style tabletop fantasy roleplaying games, supplements, and modules. This offer centered on the D&D B/X retro-clone Labyrinth Lord (Goblinoid Games) and its Advanced Edition Companion for AD&D 1e retro-goodness.

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit 2

Our fellowship of Master Planners brought us this all-new collection of top-quality texts that help you explore your campaign world’s history, set up its cities and castles, dress it with decoration and detail, and create compelling stories.

October 2014

Bundle of Tentacles 2

The Mad Scholars risked their sanity to bring us this collection of Cthulhu Mythos-saturated titles:

Bundle of Nerves 2

Our fellowship of Dark Thinkers delivered, with shaking hands, this all-new collection of small-press indie horror RPGs, a sequel to the October 2013 Bundle of Nerves:

All Flesh Must Be Eaten

The Toughened Survivors scrounged up this gore-soaked collection featuring the wide-ranging zombie survival horror RPG from Eden Studios:

Dark Conspiracy

The Minion Hunters brought us this collection of the comprehensive 1997 2nd Edition of GDW’s dark-fantasy RPG of ancient monsters vs. modern firepower:

This offer also presented the first nine issues of the Dark Conspiracy fanzine Demonground, available as free downloads from the Demonground website.

Stone Skin Press

The New Heroes presented this comprehensive collection of stories and fables from Robin D. Laws and friends, published by Stone Skin Press:

For the November 2017 resurrection of this offer we added Swords v. Cthulhu — and all previous purchasers of the original October 2014 run received the new addition automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page.

September 2014

Indie Treasure Trove 2

Our second Gumptious Vanguard fellowship brought us this all-new collection of top-quality small-press RPGs, the sequel to our September 2013 Indie Treasure Trove offer.

Rite Pathfinder

The Jade Oath fellowship provided this collection of Pathfinder supplements from Rite Publishing:

Ptolus & Malhavoc

The Delver’s Guild presented this lavish collection spotlighting Monte Cook’s colossal Ptolus city sourcebook and his OGL rulebooks from Malhavoc Press:

Champions Fifth Edition

The Systematic Heroes, who brought us the November 2013 Hero System Bundle, returned with this super-powered assortment of Hero Games Champions Universe campaign books — and “FRED”!

August 2014

Ars Magica Fifth Edition

Our fellowship of Hermetic Magi conjured this mytho-historic Ars Magica Fifth Edition collection from Atlas Games. Atlas Games sells all these titles through Warehouse 23:

GUMSHOE Music

Media composer James Semple provided these music soundtracks, commissioned by Pelgrane Press as mood-enhancing accompaniments to tabletop roleplaying sessions of its RPGs using the GUMSHOE System by Robin D. Laws.

James Semple has written about RPG theme tunes. In this informative Farsight Blogger interview from December 2012, James tells about his inspirations and his approach to composition.

Starter Traveller

Our fellowship of Far Futurists returned with a new collection of 1980s GDW Traveller titles, all different from our February 2014 Classic Traveller offer. This collection spotlighted the 1983 introductory boxed set:

Scion

Our semi-divine fellowship of Mystical Guides summoned this comprehensive collection featuring Onyx Path Publishing‘s Scion RPGs of god-born mortals embroiled in a modern war against the Titans.

July 2014

One-Roll Engine

Our fellowship of Wild Talents presented a diverse collection of Arc Dream Publishing superheroic settings that use the One-Roll Engine rules system:

The Indie Initiative

The star designers in our fellowship of Groundbreakers provided this top-notch collection of the indie games that helped shape modern roleplaying:

Pathfinder Player Options

The Kobold Scouts uncovered this colossal collection of ebook .PDFs from the Kobold Press Player Options series for Pathfinder:

June 2014

Scarred Lands

The Avatars of the Gods delivered to us, as by divine sending, this comprehensive collection featuring the post-apocalyptic fantasy d20 System campaign set in a world warped by a war of gods and titans.

Mongoose Traveller and 2300AD

The fellowship of Frontier Colonists brought us this offer featuring 2300AD, the 2012 Mongoose Publishing update by Colin Dunn of the classic GDW game of humanity’s first steps to the stars — and the bundle included not only most of the 2300AD line, but also the complete Mongoose Traveller rulebook.

PARANOIA XP

Attention, citizen! This PARANOIA Bundle offered loyal citizens everything necessary (as determined by Central Processing Unit directive) to become a Troubleshooter hunting traitors in Alpha Complex in service to The Computer.

  • PARANOIA: The 2004 Mongoose “XP” edition (“Service Pack 1,” with errata corrected) of the classic 1984 SFRPG of light-hearted backstabbing in a future underground city ruled by an insane Computer.
  • Flashbacks: This must-have 256-page mission collection presents classic 1980s PARANOIA missions updated for the 2004 edition. Learn why Vapors Don’t Shoot Back, which citizens get The YELLOW Clearance Black Box Blues, when to Send in the Clones, and what to do when Something Falls Off.
  • Extreme PARANOIA: A huge rules supplement for playing characters of all security clearances from ORANGE through VIOLET.
  • The Traitor’s Manual: A comprehensive guide to secret societies like the First Church of Christ-Computer Programmer, Psion, the Sierra Club, and of course, honest-to-Lenin Communists.
  • Service, Service!: Secrets and missions concerning the eight fractious service groups of Alpha Complex.
  • The Mutant Experience: New mutant powers like Speed and Creeping Madness, mutagens for giving the gift that keeps on giving (treason), and special equipment just for filthy muties.
  • Criminal Histories: This character-creation rules supplement helps your Troubleshooters uncover all kinds of treason in their past — their own and each other’s.
  • STUFF: The Alpha Complex auction site, C-bay, offers a ton of new gear, from weapons and ordnance (Lazookas, NuFlesh First Aid Pistols) to Malfeasance Control Devices (Say-No-Evil Speech Censors, Cellophane Jumpsuits).
  • STUFF 2 – The Gray Subnets: A big book of hugely illegal equipment.
  • GM Screen and Mission Blender: These charts let you generate an entire mission, from briefing to debriefing and terminations, with a mere 60 or 70 die rolls.
  • Crash Priority: Five new missions ranging from “Guard this invisible, undetectable train” to “Serve beverages to death-row traitors.”
  • WMD: A collection of four Straight-style missions, including the incredible “Hunger” by Dan Curtis Johnson.

Eclipse Phase

Agents of the Firewall brought us this choice collection featuring the RPG of transhuman conspiracy and horror from Posthuman Studios.

When we revived this offer in June 2018 (as “Eclipse Phase Essentials”), we added several new titles — and, as usual, all previous purchasers of the offer during its first two runs received the new additions automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page.

King Arthur Pendragon

The Knights of the Round Table brought us this collection featuring Greg Stafford’s classic Arthurian RPG from Nocturnal Media:

May 2014

Deadlands Classic

The surviving Rail Barons of the Great Rail Wars brought us this collection of the original 1996 Weird West RPG. All the titles in our collection are sold online by Pinnacle Entertainment, both in its online store and through DriveThruRPG:

Numenera

The Order of Truth’s Aeon Priests brought us this comprehensive collection featuring Monte Cook’s spectacular science fantasy RPG Numenera:

Trail of Cthulhu

The fellowship of Deranged Pursuers sells Trail of Cthulhu and subscriptions to Kenneth Hite’s monthly effusion Ken Writes About Stuff, as well as many other GUMSHOE System RPGs, through the Pelgrane Press Online Store and through our friends at DriveThruRPG:

April 2014

Spirit of the Century

Our fellowship of Two-Fisted Adventurers sells the entire Spirit of the Century line, including the RPG, supplements, and fiction, both at the Evil Hat Productions store and through DriveThruRPG:

The Pulp Hall of Fame by Jess Nevins debuted in this bundle.

Mutants & Masterminds

The fellowship of Emerald Heroes showed bravery and power in this collection featuring the Mutants & Masterminds Third Edition superhero RPG from Green Ronin Publishing:

Check the Mutants & Masterminds website for news and lots of free downloads.

Delta Green

Our team of Covert Operatives brought us this collection featuring Pagan Publishing’s spectacular setting of modern-day Mythos conspiracy:

March 2014

Fantastic Valor

The fellowship of The Undaunted brought us this collection of RPGs featuring heroic action in exotic settings.

Ars Magica 4E

The Ars Magica Fourth Edition supplements brought to us by the fellowship of Hermetic Magi are sold in .PDF at Warehouse 23:

Find more resources on the Atlas Games Ars Magica Fourth Edition page and on the Project Redcap wiki.

February 2014

Classic Traveller

Traveller designer Marc Miller sells most of the line at his site, Far Future Enterprises, and of course on DriveThruRPG:

And among the galaxy of Traveller resources on the web, you might start with Traveller Downport, TravellerBibliography.org, and Joshua Bell’s amazing interactive Traveller Map.

American Freeform

Our fellowship of Free Spirits brought us an acclaimed collection featuring cutting-edge live RPGs. Some of the games in this offer appeared here for the first time anywhere and are not yet published.

  • Meguey Baker, 1001 Nights (the Bundle of Holding version included 12 new larp characters, not yet published elsewhere)
  • Emily Care Boss, Remodel (not yet published)
  • Josh T. Jordan, Doll
  • Shoshana Kessock, Service (not yet published)
  • Jason Morningstar, Out of Dodge (not yet published) and The Climb
  • Lizzie Stark, Pocket Guide to American Freeform

This offer’s “Freeform Sampler” sub-collection presented many free or cheap games. Most are available online:

RuneQuest 6

Our fellowship of Design Mechanics brought us an authoritative edition of the classic fantasy RPG RuneQuest from The Design Mechanism — later republished as Mythras.

You can find more bargain-priced RuneQuest supplements (many are just US$1 apiece!) at DriveThruRPG. And by the way, this online RQ6 Encounter Generator is pretty handy.

January 2014

The Dying Earth

The fellowship of the 21st Aeon brought us the Dying Earth roleplaying rulebooks and an exhaustive line of supplements from Pelgrane Press:

When we revived this offer in November 2017, Pelgrane Press generously filled out the lineup with the rest of The Dying Earth RPG line — and all previous purchasers of this offer (renamed “Dying Earth Compleat”) in its two previous runs received the newly added books automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page.

Over the Edge

This comprehensive collection featured Jonathan Tweet’s Over the Edge, the RPG of surreal danger. Atlas Games sells all the titles in this collection in .PDF through e23, operated by Steve Jackson Games:

December 2013

Super Asian Bundle Blast

The fellowship of Enthused Otaku, which contributed this collection of Asian and Asian-inspired RPGs, sells most of its games online:

Family-Friendly RPGs

The good parents and supportive allies of the Family and Friends fellowship sell all the titles in this bundle online:

November 2013

Indie Cornucopia

The Fellowship of the Horn brought us this large and impressive lineup:

Worldbuilder’s Toolkit

The vastly experienced gamemasters of the Great Constructors fellowship sell their top-quality guides to creating your own campaign setting:

Fantasy Tracks

Professional sound designer Wes Otis provided a generous collection of audio environmental background loops designed to enhance tabletop RPG sessions. Wes sells dozens of different tracks at the Plate Mail Games website and through RPGnow.

Hero System

Hero Games sells this collection’s Hero System titles through online retail sites such as DriveThruRPG:

Old School Revival

Thanks to the spirited work of The Stalwart Revivalists, the Old School Revival fantasy roleplaying games, supplements, and modules from our large collection are available across the web:

This bundle also included an “OSR Toolkit” of (mostly) free resources from around the web, such as the free no-art versions of Labyrinth Lord and Lamentations of the Flame Princess; Philotomy’s OD&D Musings; Quick Primer for Old-School Gaming; the first issue of Dyson’s Dodecahedron; and .PDFs of graph paper. We forget where we found the graph paper.

October 2013

Bundle of Tentacles

The designers of The Maddened Investigators fellowship sell their Mythos-blighted imaginings at retail:

Nightmare Alley

Down mean streets the fellowship of The Night Walkers went — but before they went, they offered a fine collection of traditional horror RPGs:

Bundle of Nerves

The jumpy fellowship called The Nerve Wrackers sells terrifying RPGs on the web:

Stars Without Number

This was our first offer featuring Stars Without Number from Sine Nomine Publishing by Kevin Crawford (Godbound). SWN is a leading SFRPG for devotees of the Old School Revival and “sandbox” roleplaying. Forget pre-packaged, pre-digested plotlines that put the players on railroad tracks. In a sandbox game, the setting is wide open for adventure in all directions. The Gamemaster presents situations, not storylines — problems, not plots. The player characters can go where they will, do as they wish, forging their own career. And the best game for sandbox-style starfaring is Stars Without Number.

  • Stars Without Number Classic: The complete 253-page First Edition rulebook (2011), including all bonus content
  • Three campaign sourcebooks: Suns of Gold (merchants and far-flung trade), Skyward Steel (space naval warfare), and Darkness Visible (spacefaring espionage)
  • Engines of Babylon (vehicles and low-tech system spaceships) and Relics of the Lost (long-dead technology from the Second Wave of human colonization)
  • Hard Light: The first SWN adventure setting. In the radioactive glare of a red giant star, explore the hard-bitten mining outpost of Brightside and ancient asteroid Sky Tombs.

Unknown Armies

The fellowship of The Invisible Clergy brought us this collection featuring the much-honored Unknown Armies rulebook and several excellent supplements from Atlas Games. Buy the .PDF ebooks of Unknown Armies and the supplements Break Today, One Shots, Statosphere, To Go, and Weep at e23, run by Steve Jackson Games. For free Unknown Armies downloads, visit the Atlas Games website, the official UA website at John Scott Tynes’s home page, and the extensive UArchive repository of fan material.

Feng Shui‘s Golden Comeback

The fellowship of The Dragons is the Feng Shui team at Atlas Games. At e23 you can buy .PDFs of the Feng Shui rulebook, Golden Comeback, Blowing Up Hong Kong, In Your Face Again, and Friends of the Dragon.

September 2013

Bundle of GUMSHOE

The fellowship of the Private Detectives offered a collection of RPGs and scenarios of mystery and detection based on the GUMSHOE System by Robin D. Laws and published by Pelgrane Press. DriveThruRPG sells Ashen Stars, Dead Rock Seven, Fear Itself, Hard Helix, Mutant City Blues, Night’s Black Agents, See Page XX Vol 1, and The Zalozhniy Quartet.

For this offer’s May 2018 resurrection we added Kenneth Hite’s Moon Dust Men, about the secret Project Moon Dust, established in 1953 by President Eisenhower to locate, contain, and coordinate everything known about the alien presence on Earth. And, as usual, all previous purchasers of the offer during its first two runs received the new addition automatically on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page.

Bundle of Fate

The RPG designers and publishers in the Fated Fellowship are active on the web:

All Fate-system RPGs use Fudge Dice, available from Evil Hat Productions (as “Fate Dice”), at hobby gaming stores, or from Amazon (affiliate link).

Indie Treasure Trove

The indie RPG designers in the Gumptious Vanguard fellowship are active on the web:

Earlier in 2013

Bundle of Holding 5 (August 2013)

Most of the designers-turned-novelists in the Sagacious Chroniclers fellowship are online:

Bundle of the Ages (August 2013)

The Sedulous Historians sell their historical and historical-fantasy RPGs online:

Bundle of Zobeck (July 2013)

The fellowship of the Rampant Roach, AKA Wolfgang Baur and the good folks at Kobold Press, provided this outstanding set of Pathfinder fantasy RPG supplements featuring the world of Midgard and its atmospheric Free City of Zobeck:

Bundle of Holding 4 (June 2013)

Many of the fine indie RPG designers in the fellowship of Independent Luminaries are active online:

Bundle of Holding 3 (June 2013)

Here are links to the writers in the Adventurous Scribes fellowship:

Bundle of Holding 2 (May 2013)

All the indie RPG designers from the fellowship of Valiant Successors run their own companies:

  • Emily Care Boss, at her company Black & Green Games, sells both other games in the same series as Shooting the Moon, “Three Quick Games About the Human Heart”: Breaking the Ice and Under My Skin.
  • Evil Hat Productions, publisher of Paul Tevis’s A Penny For My Thoughts, sells Spirit of the Century and many other top-notch RPGs.
  • Danielle Lewon (Kagematsu) runs Cream Alien Games.
  • Avery Alder (Monsterhearts) operates Buried Without Ceremony, selling other games of fear and inner turmoil like Perfect Unrevised, Ribbon Drive, and The Quiet Year.
  • Jason Morningstar (Grey Ranks) sells many other RPGs, including his bestselling Fiasco, at Bully Pulpit Games.
  • Brad Murray and C. W. “Toph” Marshall (Hollowpoint) run VSCA Publishing, makers of Diaspora.

The original Bundle of Holding (February-March 2013)

Here are links to the RPG designers-turned-novelists we revere as the Illustrious Forebears:

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