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Another two bundles - Shadow of the Demon Lord
Shadow of the Demon Lord
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2023DemonLord
This is one of two revivals in progress featuring Shadow of the Demon Lord, Robert J. Schwalb's FRPG of grim heroism against a cosmic destroyer. This May 2017 Shadow of the Demon Lord Bundle once again presents (for the fourth time!) the core rulebook and essential early supplements; if you're new to the game, start here. The companion revival from October 2020, Demon Lord Legacies, adds dozens of supplements and rules expansions.
These two revivals promote the imminent launch of Rob Schwalb's long-awaited Shadow of the Weird Wizard Kickstarter campaign, which funds a standalone FRPG of exotic fantasy using a new version of the Demon Lord rules. The Weird Wizard campaign launches Tuesday, August 8.
In the fast-playing, low-prep Shadow of the Demon Lord, desperate heroes battle strange magic, unhinged cultists, and roaming mobs of undead while humanity's last great empire slides toward oblivion. If you love Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, the Ravenloft and Midnight settings, Joe Abercrombie's The First Law novels, or heavy metal music, get this revived collection of DRM-free .PDF ebooks and confront the Void That Hungers – or, as star designer Kenneth Hite describes it, "Pure Spikey Caustic Red-Hot Squirming Deliquescing Rugose Gonna-Bite-Your-Fingers-Off Horned Fetid Monstrous EVIL." The original run prompted glowing writeups like The Dread Gazebo's "10 Great Reasons Why You Should Give Shadow of the Demon Lord a Try," and extravagant praise on Reddit's /r/rpg subreddit and the RPG.net forums.
Each time we've run this Demon Lord offer, a bunch of customers would buy just the Starter Collection, then email us asking to upgrade their purchase to the complete lineup. Now customers can upgrade right on their Wizard's Cabinet download page on the Bundle site. Customers can try a small taste of the Demon Lord (eww!), and if they like the flavor, they can get the rest of the offer friction-free.
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 these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) of these two Shadow of the Demon Lord revivals goes to the charity designated by Demon Lord designer Rob Schwalb, the Wildlife Conservation Society. The Wildlife Conservation Society's goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 15 priority regions, home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity. WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived Shadow of the Demon Lord Bundle is US$92. Customers who pay just US$7.95 get all five titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $41) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 278-page Shadow of the Demon Lord corebook, the Demon Lord's Companion, the Uncertain Faith sourcebook of divine magic, and the fine introductory adventure Dark Deeds in Last Hope.
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $17.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with six more delicious gobbets of evil worth an additional $51. What's in these sourcebooks? The titles speak for themselves: Hunger in the Void, Tombs of the Desolation, A Glorious Death, Terrible Beauty, and Exquisite Agony. Plus, Tales of the Demon Lord is a collection of 11 low-prep adventures across the Northern Reach, and the Demon Lord Screen gives you all the charts you need.
Demon Lord Legacies
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Legacies2023
This October 2020 Demon Lord Legacies Bundle is one of two revivals in progress featuring Shadow of the Demon Lord, the dark fantasy RPG from Schwalb Entertainment of grim heroism against a cosmic destroyer. The main offer, Shadow of the Demon Lord from May 2017, revives (for a fourth time!) the original bundle with the core rulebook and essential supplements; if you're new to the game, start there. Then return here for this companion revival that adds many supplements both large and small, including the key rules expansion Occult Philosophy. These two revivals promote the imminent launch of Rob Schwalb's long-awaited Shadow of the Weird Wizard Kickstarter campaign, which funds a standalone FRPG of exotic fantasy using a new version of the Demon Lord rules. The Weird Wizard campaign launches Tuesday, August 8.
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 these files are inobtrusively watermarked.)
Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) of these two Shadow of the Demon Lord revivals goes to the charity designated by Demon Lord designer Rob Schwalb, the Wildlife Conservation Society. The Wildlife Conservation Society's goal is to conserve the world's largest wild places in 15 priority regions, home to more than 50% of the world's biodiversity. WCS saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.
The total retail value of the titles in this revived Demon Lord Legacies Bundle is US$134.50. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all twenty-six titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $61.50) as DRM-free ebooks:
- Five Legacies of Shadow (total retail price $20) that reveal forgotten terrors back to wreak havoc in the land of Rûl: Black Sun Dawn, Curse of the Spider Wood, In the Emperor's Secret Service, Men of Gog, and Scions of the Betrayer
- Four Paths of Shadow character supplements (total retail $14.50) for warrior, priest, magician, and rogue: Bred for Battle, Called to Serve, In Pursuit of Power, and Natural Born Scoundrels
- No less than 17 Poisoned Pages rules expansions (total retail $27) that let you play gnomes, werewolves, centaurs, and fungus-people, and teach you new ways to get corrupted or go insane
Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with twenty-three more titles worth an additional $73, including the 200-page spellbook Occult Philosophy (retail $20); the complete campaign Queen of Gold: Tales of the Pirate Isles (retail $8); and nearly two dozen Monstrous Pages (total retail $45), a bestiary series with indicative titles like Wretched and Unclean, Foulest Reptiles, Noisome Beasts, and Horrific Parasites.
Last time around I said:
"This is a system I don't know, and probably won't be playing - I'm not really into "Dark Fantasy" or any of the things they mention in the "if you love xxx you'll love this..." bit, and suspect it isn't really my sort of setting... ...I think it looks like a reasonable deal, but I'm not going to be delving into it to see if I'm right or wrong. For this one you're on your own..." and "This one really isn't for me - the "if you like those you'll like this" is a list of some of my least favourite RPGs and settings, since I'm not a big fan of grimdark or chaos spiky bits. But if this is the sort of thing you like, it may be of interest."
I don't really see any reason to change that.