In February 2022, for just two days, we presented the Birthday Bundle 2022, a charity benefit to celebrate the ninth anniversary of the Bundle of Holding. The site launched February 20, 2013. As in years past, we brazenly asked you to pay actual money for high-quality RPGs you can download free elsewhere on the web. Why? For just a small donation, customers got convenient access to these games on their Wizard’s Cabinet download page on the Bundle site and in their linked DriveThruRPG Library — and each customer’s entire payment (after gateway fees) benefited The DOTS RPG Project, which 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.
This year’s Birthday entries were 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. There were four free games in our Starter Collection as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including FASERIP, the Immortals Companion, Micropend6, and White Lies.
This benefit offer’s Bonus Collection added six more free games and supplements, including all three Cthulhu Eternal System Reference Documents from Cthulhu Reborn Publishing (Modern Age, Jazz Age, and Victorian Era), the rules-light starfaring SFRPG Cepheus Light: Upgraded, and The Basic Fantasy Roleplaying Game Third Edition, along with its Basic Fantasy Field Guide monster manual.
