In April 2023 we revived the June 2020 Fellowship Bundle featuring Fellowship, the Apocalypse Engine RPG from Liber Gothica Games of a heroic coalition stopping a threat to the world. In Fellowship one player becomes the Overlord, bent on world destruction. The other player characters form a coalition of heroes who undertake a perilous journey to save the day.
Adapting the simple and flexible Apocalypse Engine system (also used in Dungeon World), Fellowship lets you enact your own epic adventure a la The Lord of the Rings or Avatar: The Last Airbender. As a member of the fellowship, you have a unique playbook (Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Heir, Orc, Squire, Heir, Harbinger) that defines your Moves and abilities. You play as the hero of your people, and you have full control in defining them. When you play as the Elf, you decide what Elves are, what their culture is like, what they value and desire, and their relationship with the world. When someone asks about the Elves, all eyes turn to you for the answer.
The Overlord has a special playbook with an agenda, armies, bonds, gears, foibles, and “My Only Weakness.” During play the Overlord can level up like the heroes, and gains powerful custom moves like “Fear Me,” “And in the Darkness Bind Them,” and “You’ve Met With a Terrible Fate, Haven’t You?” (which lets you curse a hero). The Book 2 expansion Inverse Fellowship (based on Liberi Gothica’s Inverse World campaign for Dungeon World) replaces the Overlord with the Horizon, for adventures of exploration in a dangerous otherworld. Fellowship Book 3: In Rebellion establishes a fascist Empire the players try to overthrow. The fourth and final volume, Generous Fellowship, adds many new rules and wrinkles.
This bargain-priced revival once again presented the 2019 Second Edition of Fellowship plus all its supplements. This lineup also included many Dungeon World playbooks that are easily compatible with Fellowship. There were three titles in this revived offer’s Starter Collection (retail value $36) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Fellowship Second Edition core rulebook (2019); Fellowship Book 2 – Inverse Fellowship; and a set of Dungeon World Alternative Playbooks with The Mage, the Priest, the Templar, and the Artificer.
Those who paid more than the threshold (average) price also got this revival’s entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $42, including Book 3 – In Rebellion; the new Fellowship Book 4 – Generous Fellowship; and four more DW playbooks: Cultist, Dashing Hero, Spellsword, and Witch.
(If you bought this Fellowship Bundle during its original June 2020 run, you also received the newly added Generous Fellowship on your Wizard’s Cabinet download page and in your linked DriveThruRPG Library. When you buy a Bundle of Holding early, you never worry about missing a title added later – even much later.)
Ten percent of each payment (after gateway fees) went to this Fellowship revival’s designated charity, Direct Relief. Direct Relief sends protective gear and critical care medications to health workers, with emergency deliveries to medical facilities across the US and to regional response agencies across the world.
