Another RPG Bundle - Palladium Apocalypse

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More for Halloween, future horror RPGs from Palladium Games

Palladium Apocalypse

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/PalladiumApoc

This new Palladium Apocalypse Bundle, part of the Bundle of Holding site's annual "October Horrors" sequence, presents standalone horror RPGs of dark ruined futures from Palladium Books. Whether you play genetically engineered rebels hunted by the insane Artificial Intelligence N.E.X.U.S. in Splicers, the human resistance fighting alien Bug invaders in Systems Failure, or the hapless survivors of the zombie apocalypse where the Dead Reign, all the standalone RPGs and supplements in this bargain-priced collection work well with every game based on Palladium's Megaversal rules system.

We provide each title complete in .PDF. These .PDF ebooks are pristine image scans of the original hardcopies, with crisp OCRed text and beautiful crystal-clear artwork. 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) goes to this Palladium Apocalypse offer's designated 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 Palladium Apocalypse Bundle is US$147. Customers who pay just US$9.95 get all three complete games in our Starter Collection (retail value $47) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Splicers core rulebook (retail price $16), Systems Failure (retail $15), and the Dead Reign corebook (retail $16).

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $27.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with eight supplements worth an additional $100, including all seven Dead Reign sourcebooks – 1: Civilization Gone (retail $10), 2: Dark Places (retail $10), 3: Endless Dead (retail $12.50), 4: Fear the Reaper (retail $8), 5: Graveyard Earth (retail $10), 6: Hell Followed (retail $15), and 7: In the Face of Death (retail $15) – as well as the Splicers sourcebook I Am Legion (retail $20).

(The Dead Reign corebook and its first two sourcebooks were previously in the October 2018 Palladium Horror Bundle. The total retail value of these three titles is $36.)

I'm not a huge fan of Palladium's games and these are unfortunately good examples of the reasons why - text-dense, complex combat rules, and very few depictions of women that aren't victims, sexualized, or both. Having said that, there are a few interesting ideas here - I'm just not convinced that there's enough to justify buying the bundle.