Freebies and Pay What You Need
Be aware: Whereas “Pay What You Need” downloads can be found free of charge, please help the creators in case you are in a position!
Inexperienced Ronin launched Trendy AGE Core Guidelines Replace, a five-page information that updates Trendy AGE with new and non-obligatory guidelines together with character creation, core focuses, new abilities, new motion guidelines, new Stunts, and extra. Important for any Trendy AGE participant.
The OSR journey Fog Valley Retreat from Coldlight Press is for 1e AD&D, OSRIC, Pathfinder, and 5e plus any suitable techniques. The fifth to seventh stage social gathering are in a foggy valley once they stumble throughout a degenerated wreck that appears stuffed with loot to entice any adventurer.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Instructed: $2.00)
Heading over to Shadowdark for our OSR enjoyable, The Quiet Shrine from Dougal Cochrane for 4th stage characters sends the social gathering to the centuries-old and deserted dwarven shrine from Clan Hammerhand. This sacred holy place has been damaged through the years and desecrated, although a number of the wards permit Ord the Unbending, the Secret-Keeper to sleep undisturbed…till now.
- Value: Pay What You Need (Instructed: $1.99)
Over on Dungeonmasters Guild, Thomas and Rachel Kolar are again with yet one more Disney-themed Raveloft Area of Dread from their podcast Great World of Darklords. This time we hear to The Mad Titan’s Area the place the Mad Titan lives in his city-state cast right into a warfare machine working towards a dream of balancing individuals and nature. To that finish, he works towards a ritual that may destroy half the inhabitants with only a snap of the finger. “I’m inevitable.”
The primary Lightning Spherical this week is a bit distinctive because it’s all from one firm: Pinnacle Leisure. They launched an enormous variety of free one-sheet adventures for Deadlands Reloaded all free of charge.
The second Lightning Spherical can be from a single creator, Jon Love, who posted to Dungeonmasters Guild a set of expanded choices, particulars, and guidelines for the varied instruments in 5e. Every one is Pay What You Need with a steered value of $1.00.
The third Lightning Spherical this week is our common participant and GM/DM sources together with maps, character choices, magic objects, non-obligatory guidelines, and extra. All merchandise are Free or pay what you need with the steered value in parentheses:
Bundles and Gross sales
Be aware: I’ve included finish dates when listed for the next gross sales, however please be warned that these with out printed finish dates might finish out of the blue so be sure you plan purchases accordingly.
DriveThruRPG is celebrating PaizoCon 2025 with a sale on Pathfinder and Starfinder third social gathering titles. Get reductions on over six thousand titles from all kinds of creators each impartial and thru the Pathfinder Infinite licensed imprint.
- Value: 30% Off
- Finish Date: Could 26, 2025
Bundle of Holding has a pair of non-charity bundles for Shadowrun Sixth World Version. When you’re new to this version of the sport (or to the sport typically), the Sixth World Necessities bundle with the Shadowrun Core Guidelines – Berlin (that includes data on the German metropolis), No Future (the media/leisure worldbuilding ebook), and Neo-Anarchist Streetpedia (a reference ebook masking the lore and in-universe historical past of the setting). The Bonus Assortment provides on the themed growth sourcebooks (aka “core sourcebooks” that supply extra choices for particular character sorts) Firing Squad (fight/weapons), Road Wyrd (magic), Double Clutch (car/drone riggers), Krime Katalog (tools), and Gun Rack (much more weapons). Be aware: It is a returning bundle. When you’ve bought the earlier model, you’ll be able to improve yours to the latest variations (particularly from the Seattle version of the Core Guidelines to the Berlin version together with all the brand new guidelines errata) free of charge.
- Value: $17.95 (72% off) with variable-cost Stage Up choice
- Finish Date: June 2, 2025
The second Sixth World Shadows bundle rounds out your Shadowrun Sixth World library with Sixth World Companion (expanded character choices), Shoot Straight (in-universe runner recommendation ebook), Physique Store (cyberware “core sourcebook”), and Hack n Slash (decking “core sourcebook”). The Bonus Assortment provides on Shadow Solid (NPCs), Emerald Metropolis (Seattle setting ebook and plot replace), Astral Methods (metaplanes sourcebook), Null Worth (threats sourcebook), and Wild Life (critters sourcebook).
- Value: $19.95 (74% off) with variable-cost Stage Up choice
- Finish Date: June 2, 2025
Papierschnitzel has a pair of enjoyable bundles for the artful sorts who wish to make their very own terrain. The Darkish Age Fortress and Viking Village bundles with recordsdata you’ll be able to print on paper or cardstock and make your personal terrain, with the previous getting you a hold whereas the latter a whole village with a number of buildings.
- Value: Darkish Age Fortress $9.60 (38% off)
- Value: Viking Village $20.00 (34% off)
Miskatonic College, the official third-party Name of Cthulhu imprint on DriveThruRPG, has a trio of bundles. First up is Evil Little Issues Vol 1-5 that includes the primary 5 volumes of the sequence of cursed malevolent artifacts on your CoC video games.
The Illuminated Codex Keeper’s Bundle options 4 collections of books, tomes, codices, scrolls, and extra on your Investigators to stumble throughout or monitor down deliberately for the darkish secrets and techniques contained inside.
When you’re on the lookout for Name of Cthulhu situations, the Miskatonic Gold bundle has 11 starting from the Darkish Ages all the best way to the fashionable day.
Over on Dungeonmsaters Guild, in case you’ve picked up the printed journey Vecna: Eye of Smash and wish to run it on a VTT, then Heroic Maps will help you out with this bundle of all their maps for each single encounter prepared for Roll20, Fantasy Grounds, Foundry, or D&D Past Maps.
Wizards of the Coast put collectively two bundles for Eberron beginning with the 4e Journey in Eberron bundle that includes the 4 books for the setting printed for that version.
For D&D 3.5, the Places of Eberron bundle options 5 sourcebooks masking areas all throughout the setting together with The 5 Nations, Secrets and techniques of Xen’Drik, Metropolis of Stormreach, Secrets and techniques of Sarlona, and Metropolis of Towers.
Why the Eberron sale? I can solely assume it’s due to the upcoming Eberron: Forge of the Artificer which you’ll pre-order on Roll20 for a bonus of as much as $120 of additional Roll20 rewards. Why “as much as”? As a result of every bonus is just accessible for a restricted time, so the earlier you pre-order, the extra bonuses you unlock over time!
- Value: $19.99 (with $120 of bonus materials)
We’ve bought a number of bundles added for Roll20 and Demiplane the place you get PDF, VTT recordsdata, and Nexus entry for every.
Charity Bundles and Gross sales
As soon as once more, I am beginning off with my GoFundMe for medical payments. From late October to mid November, I used to be hospitalized with kidney failure and contaminated wounds in my decrease legs. My insurance coverage has totally kicked in and I don’t have to fret about any new payments or transportation prices. Nonetheless, over the previous months, I’ve racked up a LOT of bank card debt paying for medical transport to get me to my appointments together with stuff like shopping for groceries and paying payments. I even have a stack of past-due medical payments about an inch thick I really want to begin making a dent in. Any provide help to can provide so I will pay down these excessive curiosity playing cards might be an enormous help.
- Charity: Darryl Mott’s medical payments (all proceeds)
The household of recreation designer and artist Rick Hershey have been in a automobile accident brought on by one other driver. All 4 of his kids plus his daughter’s boyfriend suffered intensive accidents. The Hershey Household Restoration Bundle is right here to assist with the lengthy street to restoration with an enormous collection of RPG titles together with adventures, random tables, new lessons, new monsters, new magic objects, and a complete lot extra for a wide range of techniques together with 5e, Pathfinder, generic system-neutral choices, and extra.
- Value: $50.00 (86% off)
- Charity: Hershey Household (all proceeds)
The Crips for eSims for Gaza Bundle on Itch.io is usually a online game bundle with over 200 titles from over 170 builders, but additionally consists of many TTRPG titles as properly together with Wizards, FIST: Extremely Version, Emiror, Fedoras and Emotions, Killotine, The Mech Has a Ghost in It, and dozens extra indie titles from all kinds of genres and playstyles.
- Value: $16.00
- Charity: Crips for eSims for Gaza (all proceeds)
- Finish Date: Could 19, 2025 FINAL DAYS!!
Over on Humble Bundle, Paizo has the Pathfinder Second Version Asian Fantasy Bundle. This bundle has 4 tiers. The primary tier will get you 9 titles together with the Pathfinder 2nd Version Newbie Field together with a number of play aids and maps. The second tier provides on 19 extra objects together with the Pathfinder 2nd Version Participant Core, GM Core, Bestiary 1-3, extra maps, and much more sourcebooks and aids. The third tier kicks it as much as a complete of 42 objects together with the Fists of the Ruby Phoenix journey path, setting ebook, pawns, battle playing cards, and extra plus the Tian Xia World Information, Pathfinder Monster Core, Darkish Archive, and extra. The highest tier provides on a coupon for a 100% low cost on the bodily hardcover of the Participant Core restricted version sketch cowl – you don’t pay for the ebook, however you continue to pay all commonplace delivery prices.
- Value: $5/$15/$30/$45 (93% off at high tier)
- Charity: Cease AAPI Hate (user-defined, default 5%)
- Finish Date: Could 22, 2025
We bought but one other one other extension of the Map Making Mega Bundle, which is again once more with a brand new model of the map-making software program assortment. The bottom stage offers you a style of what you can also make with the map units Castles! and Cities! plus units of symbols and tokens. The second tier provides on the highly effective Marketing campaign Cartographer 3+ to make your personal world maps together with extra symbols, map collections, and different instruments for a grand complete of eight objects. The highest tier is the place the “mega” comes from including one other thirty-one objects to the bundle together with lifetime licenses for Dungeon Designer 3, Metropolis Designer 3, Fractal Terrains 3, Views 3 (for isometric maps), Cosmographer 3, Character Artist 3, Dioramas 3, and extra image units, tokens, supply maps, and different belongings and guides for making your personal maps. And for you aspiring recreation designers, you should use these in your business merchandise.
- Value: $1/$15/$30 (98% off at high tier)
- Charity: Save the Youngsters (user-defined, default 5%)
- Finish Date: Could 22, 2025
That’s all for this week! If of any bundles or gross sales beginning quickly, please contact me on the EN World Discord, tag me on Bluesky , or ship me a message right here on EN World. Low cost percentages have been rounded to the closest complete quantity and are based mostly on the usual retail value offered by the positioning. Be aware: Hyperlinks to Amazon, Humble Retailer, Humble Bundle, Miniature Market, Fantasy Grounds, and/or DriveThruRPG might comprise affiliate hyperlinks with the proceeds going to the creator of this column.
