Another RPG Bundle - Sine Nomine

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A collection of rule books and "system neutral" settings by Kevin Crawford from Sine Nomine Publishing

Sine Nomine

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SineNomine

This new Sine Nomine Corebooks Bundle presents the complete Deluxe Editions of Worlds Without Number and Stars Without Number, along with Wolves of God, Silent Legions, and other standalone RPG rulebooks by acclaimed designer Kevin Crawford of Sine Nomine Publishing.

In 2010, while working at a research library, Kevin Crawford wanted to improve his skills with Adobe InDesign. Having seen Albert Rakowski's Terminal Space, an SFRPG based on white-box D&D, Kevin decided to write his own RPG as a working text – a setting-agnostic SFRPG based on Moldvay B/X D&D and Traveller. (Moldvay Basic is "the Raspberry Pi of the game hacking world," he said in an August 2017 Reddit r/rpg AMA. "You can stick a huge number of adaptations or mods onto it, and it'll still work.") In December 2010 Kevin posted Stars Without Number: Free Edition on RPGnow (later DriveThruRPG). "Things got out of hand quickly," he says laconically.

In his 13-year hand-over-hand climb up the cliff face of RPG publishing, Kevin has highlighted a path to success that is simple but by no means easy: Identify an unusual niche (in his case, system-independent sandbox gaming tools); produce with what he calls "bibliomanic intensity"; and distribute a generous free version of the rulebook that lures customers to the backlist. Kevin has run 12 Kickstarter campaigns with a Vulcan clarity of purpose. First he finishes and lays out the book completely, leaving space for art; then, and only then, he launches the campaign; he avoids stretch goals and delivers early. "I wrote, laid out, produced, and published every one of those games and supplements myself, learning more with every new book," he said on the February 2014 Scarlet Heroes Kickstarter campaign page. "There are certainly finer game authors and more elegant publishers, but I execute like a Jacobin – because getting a job done on time and to spec is its own special sort of beauty."

From seven past offers (mostly 2013-2017, with two as recent as the past year) this offer assembles seven complete Sine Nomine rulebooks that deploy a huge array of system-independent sandbox gaming tools. Easily generate kingdoms and AIs, planets and pantheons, cults and factions, monsters and mechs, dungeons and starships, and tons more. These tools can ease creation for even the most experienced GM – and these games make a great gift for a roleplayer new to the Sine Nomine catalogue.

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.

Ten percent of each purchase (after gateway fees) goes to the charity designated by Sine Nomine owner Kevin Crawford, Benzie Food Partners, a food bank serving Kevin's home county in Honor, Michigan.

The total retail value of the titles in this Sine Nomine Corebooks Bundle is US$125. Customers who pay just US$12.95 get all three complete rulebooks in our Starter Collection (retail value $50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the Deluxe version of Stars Without Number: Revised Edition (retail price $20), the post-apocalypse SWN spinoff Other Dust (retail $20, plus the free supplements Grandfather's Rain, Cult of the Still Lady, and Cult of the Wraith), and the African fantasy Spears of the Dawn (retail $10). As a convenience, we also include the free version of Kevin's latest work, the cyberpunk game Cities Without Number.

Those who pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, also get our entire Bonus Collection with four more rulebooks worth an additional $75, including the complete Worlds Without Number: Deluxe Edition (retail $20), Wolves of God: Adventures in Dark Ages England (retail $20), the one-on-one FRPG toolkit Scarlet Heroes (retail $15), and the horror RPG Silent Legions (retail $20).

All of these rulebooks except Cities Without Number have appeared in one or another of seven past Bundle offers: Stars Without Number (Oct 2013), Fantasy Frontiers (July 2015), Nerves 3 (Oct 2015), Bundle for Two 1 (Feb 2017), More SWN (March 2019), Cornucopia 2022 (Nov 2022), or Non-OGL Fantasy (Jan 2023).

There's some good stuff in here, but a lot of it has been in previous bundles - if you've bought many of them it may be a good idea to cost out whether it will be cheaper to buy the remaining things that you want piecemeal, rather than getting the whole bundle.