Another RPG Bundle - Indie Treasure Trove 2022

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Another bundle of indie games from a wide variety of small-press sources. These are usually interesting and cover a wide range of genres - in this case SF, fantasy, "magitech", duelling fops, etc.:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Trove2022

This all-new Indie Treasure Trove 2022 offer gathers a wide range of recent small-press RPGs. The Treasure Trove series started in 2013, the Bundle of Holding's first year. Though we haven't presented one in a while, we retain a sentimental affection for the Troves. The first installment was the eighth offer we ever presented, and the first to make a real splash. It marked the turning point for the Bundle operation, both as a business and in its connection to the gaming community. As always, we present this new installment in the same spirit.

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 Treasure Trove offer's 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$101. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all five complete games in our Starter Collection (retail value $43) as DRM-free ebooks:

• Girl Underground by Lauren McManamon and Jesse Ross (Hedgemaze Press): A low-prep Apocalypse Engine RPG of a young girl and her Companions travelling a semi-sinister Wonderland.
• Hunt the Wicked by Ben Dutter (Sigil Stone Publishing): Galactic bounty hunters keep the peace to protect humanity from extinction.
• Mage to Order by Joie Martin (Drowning Moon Studios): The Municipal Order of Technomantic Engineers keeps the lights on in the magitech city of Thelema.
• Save the Universe by Don Bisdorf: Create a galactic menace and the heroes that defeat it in this simple, story-focused space opera.
• The Spider and the City by Thomas Manuel: A solitaire journaling game of a criminal mastermind in a city wracked by rebellion.

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $19.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with five more games worth an additional $58:

• Dueling Fops of Vindamere by Greg Stolze (Crankshaft Constellation): Boast, show off, wager, conspire, fight, elope, wed, rise in society, and boast some more in a scandal-plagued city. Cool your ardor, swain!
• .dungeon (or, as we call it below, "dotdungeon") by Batts: This tabletop RPG casts you as Players in an online fantasy game. Wait, what?
• Over Arms by Cory Burns (Rookie Jet Studio): Awaken your psychic Anima and learn to understand its abilities and purpose in this rules-light RPG based on Japanese manga and videogames.
• The Well by Peter Schaefer (Shoeless Pete Games): In this "dungeon climb" you head upward through a miles-deep shaft to fight undead and loot abandoned tunnels.
• Wicked & Graceful by Rose Bailey (Fantasy Heartbreaker): In the waning days of the Atlantean Empire, you work (or not) to avert the coming Fall. The prequel to Bright & Terrible.

This looks to be an interesting selection - I think that the one that interested me most was Girl Underground, which sends a young girl on a quest inspired by Alice, Labyrinth, and other sources, with all of the players taking turns to play her or the creatures she meets. Duelling Fops of Vindamere is a fun system for players who want to play irresponsible idiots with swords. Mage to Order's version of magitech reminded me of the novel Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove. And so forth. All of them are well worth a look and I recommend this one - but as usual have to point out that I get freebies if I want them, if you don't you may prefer to go for individual titles rather than these bundles.

Comments

[original_aj]

I can see my friends enjoying Duelling Fops - we are a C16th school of defence after all - but I doubt I'd run any of the others. Given it's only $7 more for the bundle than the one game I might get it anyway, on the off chance I do use one of the others. Hmm. Decisions, decisions! ;)

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They are all interesting, in my opinion, but the usual disclaimer applies.

[original_aj]

I've gone for the bundle, on the basis that I can afford it and it's in a good cause. Duelling Fops will be a good "we can't play the planned game" fallback. Not looked at the others yet.