ffutures | And the bundles continue

Not sure why there have been so many recently - end of the tax year? - but here's another RPG bundle offer, this time for a system I've never come across before, Part Time Gods. This is another that will only run for a few days, until Monday next week.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/PartTimeGods

This offer launched Thursday, March 31, and runs through 11PM Eastern US time (GMT -4) Monday, April 4.

This Part-Time Gods Quick Deal offer presents Part-Time Gods, the Third Eye Games RPG about modern-day gods balancing their divine and mortal lives.

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 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.

The 2021 Second Edition of Part-Time Gods, powered by the "Chakra System" of d10 dice pools introduced in Third Eye's Ninja Crusade, explores stories about budding romances, befriending enemies, and unlocking mysteries that the universe would have preferred to keep secret. Alan Bahr of Gallant Knight Games said the Second Edition is "imbued with a sense of excitement, awareness, joy, and sheer fun one can only describe as divinely inspired."

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.

Part-Time Gods supplement Infinite Sparks The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$56. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all four titles in our Part-Time Collection as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Part-Time Gods Second Edition corebook (retail price $20) and all three 2E supplements and adventures: Mythic Echoes (retail $15), Infinite Sparks (retail $15), and the adventure Wrath of Purity (retail $6).

Basically this seems to be a superhero RPG with divinity as the source of powers, and the usual tropes of secret identities, dependent NPCs, secret wars, etc.. American Gods and the Percy Jackson books seem high on the list of things that inspired it. There seems to be an inbuilt assumption that gods can accumulate power quickly, apparently without much in the way of a religion to feed them power, which seems a little odd, but is probably necessary for a playable game - most players won't want to spend a couple of thousand years going from "local spirit in charge of rainfall along this valley" to "God of Thunder" or whatever. I've taken a look and it seems reasonably playable, but I haven't played it so there may be horrible problems I've missed - the need for vast quantities of 10-sided dice is the first one I spotted, there was a reason I've stuck with six-sided dice for my own games, and a big part of it is that they're cheap, readily available, and relatively small and light. But I digress...

It looks like you're getting a good deal for $9.95, and if this is the sort of game you want to play it's well worth a look. Recommended, but as usual I should point out that I'm not paying for this stuff and may be biased.