Another RPG Bundle Offer - Bundle of Tentacles 6

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If it's October it must be horror, and this time it's an all-new collection of games and supplements based on the Cthulhu mythos:



Bundle of Tentacles 6

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Tentacles6

This Bundle of Tentacles 6, part of the Bundle of Holding's annual "October Horrors" series, is the site's sixth all-new offer of standalone RPGs and scenarios for Call of Cthulhu, Trail of Cthulhu, and other RPGs inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos. Contributors to this offer include Pelgrane Press, Gallant Knight Games, Bayt al Azif magazine, and 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. This offer includes the Apocthulhu rulebook, its new campaign sourcebook Terrible New Worlds, and its SRD, as well as the many titles in Cthulhu Reborn's Convicts & Cthulhu line of historical scenarios.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. Like all Bundle of Holding titles, these ebooks have NO DRM (Digital Restrictions Management), and our customers are entitled to move them freely among all their devices. (By publisher request, the DriveThruRPG versions of some of these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to this offer's pandemic-related charity,Direct Relief. Direct Relief gets 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.

The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$107. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all four titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $40) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 330-page Apocthulhu rulebook from Cthulhu Reborn (retail price $23) of post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian survival horror (plus the Apocthulhu Quickstart and the free Apocthulhu System Reference Document); the first two issues of the new Mythos magazine to watch, Bayt al Azif (total retail $12 -- issue 1, issue 2); and Cthulhu Reborn's historical sourcebook of penal-colony Australia, Convicts & Cthulhu (retail $5), plus all its many "Tickets of Leave" supplements collected in The Misery Archive.

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $67, including the minimalist Tiny Cthulhu from Gallant Knight Games (retail $18) based on Tiny Dungeon; Kenneth Hite's Hideous Creatures (retail $25), a huge bestiary for Trail of Cthulhu; the new Apocthulhu campaign sourcebook Terrible New Worlds (retail $20), with four more post-apocalypse settings; and the Tiny Cthulhu scenario Sister of Yhanith'lei.

As I've said on previous occasions, too much Call of Cthulhu in the eighties and nineties left me a bit "monstered out" but this looks like quite a good deal, with some interesting ideas on settings and themes that may be worth trying. It's also starting off pretty cheaply, which can't really be bad. And looking at the Apocetuhulhu rules for about five minutes gave me one fun idea for a campaign (which I'll pass on since I probably won't run it myself) - The Postman with a Cthulhoid apocalypse as background instead of nuclear war.