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Two RPG bundles - Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
Legacy: Life Among the Ruins
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Legacy2022
This revived September 2019 Legacy Bundle once again presents Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, the Powered by the Apocalypse SFRPG about building a new world in the ruins of the future. This revival has a new companion: Legacy New Worlds, with recent supplements.
Legacy is about the survivors of a reality-twisting apocalypse, the families they form, and the new world they create as the ages turn. Each generation, new threats and opportunities emerge, and a hero rises from each family to deal with them. Legacy takes inspiration from the post-apocalyptic wastelands of Fallout, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., A Canticle for Leibowitz, and Mad Max, as well as the epoch-spanning gameplay of Civilization and other 4X games. You'll use imaginative worldbuilding tools to create your own unique post-apocalyptic landscape, home to scattered families of survivors. Your ancestors survived catastrophe thanks to luck, preparation, or pure grit. Now it's time to leave your shelter and start rebuilding the world.
Each player controls a family, a group of survivors brought together by blood, hardship, or a shared philosophy. Your Family playbook (The Enclave of Bygone Lore, Brotherhood of Gilded Merchants, Tyrant Kings, and more) lets you customize their lifestyle (Nomadic, Dispersed, or Settled), statistics (Reach, Grasp, Tech, and Mood), guiding philosophies, traditions, and special Moves. You also start with Surpluses (such as weaponry or land) that show the family's particular strengths, and Needs (such as medicine or leadership) that define what they lack. These tag-based resources describe your Family situation and give you clear goals.
With each generation, you create new characters and alter the families. Character stats are Steel, Sway, Force, and Lore, with playbooks including the Hunter, Envoy, Seeker, Sentinel, and many more. The dual-playbook system means it's easy to switch from guiding a wide-ranging spy network to exploring an ancient ruin with a few allies. Once you're done telling the story of a particular age, you move the clock as far forward as the group likes – a decade, a generation, even a century. During the time skip, your family may enjoy good fortune or suffer trials, and new threats and opportunities emerge. As generations pass and your family evolves into each new epoch, you create lasting changes in the world. What stories will you tell?
Legacy's 2018 Second Edition, funded in a July 2017 Kickstarter campaign, produced many inventive "Worlds of Legacy" system hacks, where you rebuild, or retool, civilizations in alternate settings: a starship, a magical land facing the end of time, a distant world just after planetfall, even a Material dimension frantically trying to evolve new species from Primal Planar energies. This revived September 2019 Legacy: Life Among the Ruins Bundle presents .PDF ebooks of the complete Legacy 2E rulebook, lots of Worlds, and an art book, plus a soundtrack, all for a bargain price. If you're new to the game, start here.
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 these two Legacy offers' pandemic-related 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.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived offer is US$81. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all three titles in this revival's Core Collection (retail value $41) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Legacy: Life Among the Ruins Second Edition rulebook (retail price $21), The Art of Legacy: Life Among the Ruins (retail $13), and the Sounds of the Wasteland soundtrack (retail $7) of atmospheric ambient sounds.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $17.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Worlds Collection with four more titles worth an additional $40, including Generation Ship, Primal Pathways, Godsend, and Worldfall.
Legacy: New Worlds
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2ndLegacy
This is one of two offers in progress that feature Legacy: Life Among the Ruins, the (post-) Apocalypse Engine RPG of building a new world from UFO Press. The companion revival from September 2019, Legacy, has the core rulebook and early supplements; if you're new to the game, start there. This new Legacy New Worlds Bundle adds recent supplements. 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 these two Legacy offers' pandemic-related 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.
The total retail value of the titles in this offer is US$62.50. Customers who pay just US$14.95 get all seven supplements in this offer's Expanded Legacy (retail value $62.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including The Engine of Life (retail price $12.50), End Game (retail $12.50), Wasteland Almanac (retail $5); three bloodsoaked gothic action supplements in the Rhapsody of Blood series – Rhapsody of Blood (retail $10), Choir of Souls (retail $5), and Terra Incognita (retail price $5) – and the standalone RPG based on Legacy, Free From the Yoke (retail $12.50).
Last time I said "I wasn't particularly interested when I first looked at this because there are a lot of post-apocalypse survivalist RPGs out there, but this one seems to be different, with more of an emphasis on reconstruction (or construction) and long-term goals, with plots spanning decades and generations rather than a series of firefights. Some of the books remind me of god-game computer and board games, with rivals trying to create or destroy civilizations, others are more conventional roleplaying. There's some very nice art, and even a collection of soundtracks! Given the price I'm definitely recommending this one, it looks like it can be a lot of fun if you like the idea of a long-term campaign."
The new material looks good, and should help with long-term campaigns and variants.