Another revived bundle - Godbound

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This is a repeat of a game about heroes ascending to godhood, based on the "Old School Revival" basic D&D clone rules:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023Godbound

This revived April 2020 Godbound Bundle offer once again presents Godbound, the Sine Nomine FRPG, designed by Kevin Crawford (Stars Without Number), of divine heroes forging a new world from the ruins of the old. In Godbound you play demigods in a dying world. In ancient times the kingdoms of humanity stormed Heaven and fought through angelic armies to the Throne of God Himself – only to find the Throne empty. The mortal kingdoms decided to make gods of their own. Each Made God that attempted to sit on the Throne was reduced to ash. As abominable titans waged the Last War, reality crumbled in a universal Shattering. Now, in the Uncreated Night, new divinities have arisen. Some mortals, seemingly at random, have become bound to the Words of Creation that give control of the fabric of reality. Will the Godbound save the world from destruction, or hasten its demise?

Funded in a March 2016 Kickstarter campaign, Godbound is an Old School take on the themes of White Wolf's Exalted. The game uses straightforward B/X retroclone rules with the power settings turned waaay up. One of Godbound's prime selling points is its system-neutral gamemastering tools, a la Stars Without Number and Kevin Crawford's other games, that help you create high-impact adversaries and challenges for any kind of game.

This revival helps promote the Kickstarter campaign in progress for Godbound designer Kevin Crawford's new cyberpunk SFRPG, Cities Without Number, which promises more of the GMing tools that make his games widely popular.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. All the books in this offer are also provided in ePub format (for the Nook, Kobo Reader, and most other ereaders), and all the books except Lexicon of the Throne are provided in Kindle (.mobi) format. 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.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) of this Godbound revival goes to the charity designated by Kevin Crawford, Benzie Food Partners, a nonprofit Feeding America food bank serving Kevin's home county in Honor, Michigan.

The total retail value of the titles in this revived April 2020 Godbound Bundle is US$63. Customers who pay just US$5.95 get both titles in this revival's Starter Collection (retail value $25) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 241-page Godbound Deluxe Edition core rulebook (retail price $20) and the introductory adventure Ten Buried Blades (retail $5).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $15.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with four more titles worth an additional $38, including the key supplements Lexicon of the Throne (retail $10), Sixteen Sorrows (retail $8), and Ancalia: The Broken Towers (retail $10), plus the full-length adventure Storms of Yizhao (retail price $5).

Godbound resources

• Godbound subreddit
• The four-year, 5,000-post RPG.net forum thread "[Sine Nomine] Godbound" and its follow-up, "Godbound [Second Thread]: More Words, More Problems"
• Godbound on TVTropes

Last time I said "This one probably isn't for me, I'm more a fan of games where the characters are more or less human, but it might be fun if you like the idea of getting ridiculously powerful and smiting your enemies, and as usual you're getting a lot for your money and supporting a worthwhile cause."  I don't see any reason to change that.