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This is the  Broken Tales Bundle featuring the "FRPG of grim upside-down fairy tales where villains seek redemption" and unfortunately the good guys aren't necessarily good...

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BrokenTales

  

I'll be honest, I think that this is one of those ideas that only works well as a one-off scenario or an occasional break from a more normal style of play. Expecting every evil stepmother to be misunderstood and every downtrodden orphan to be a psychopathic killer gets old fast. But it's cheap and should give a few hours of fun if you want to give it a try.


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The His Majesty the Worm Bundle presents His Majesty the Worm, a megadungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game from Josh McCrowell at Rise Up Comus, plus other material including a "cozy halfling-village game" Under Hill, By Water and its travel expansion Walking Holiday, which might possibly draw some inspiration from a well-known fantasy author.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/HisMajesty



Unfortunately I've received this on a day when I'm feeling seriously tired. I've taken a look and it seems to be well-presented and reasonably coherent, but the rule book alone  is more than 400 pages and I am not going to be able to give it more than a cursory look any time soon, and a game that starts out by wanting me to buy some tarot cards to play it does not automatically get my seal of approval - I suppose the cards aren't much more expensive than a few dice at current prices, but if I bought this, intended to run it immediately, then discovered I needed cards I didn't have I'd be a little peeved.

The halfling book is mostly about trying NOT to have adventures and firmly avoiding the sort of stress that comes with strange parties of dwarves and wizards on your doorstep, and looks to be a lot of fun. The supplement is about halflings that commit the serious mistake of going out to explore beyond their village, and how to create the surrounding area and have horrible things happen there, like running short of food. Seriously, go home and smoke some pipeweed instead, at least that stuff takes a few years to kill you...

Overall this looks to be reasonable value - I suspect that if I ever wanted to run a fantasy RPG I'd be more likely to go with the halflings than the Worm, but if either appeals it's probably worth a look.

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This is a bundle of bestiaries and sourcebooks from Cawood Publishing containing hundreds of monsters for D&D 5E with conversion advice for Old-School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Pathfinder.

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/CawoodMonsters

 

This isn't something I would want to use - I don't run this type of game any more, and I'm not convinced that it makes sense for characters to keep encountering monsters that nobody has ever heard of before, and have to figure out how to defeat them by trial and error. Having said that, the price isn't too bad and you're getting a lot of weird stuff to throw at players. Whether they will thank you for it may be another matter...
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This is a bundle of material for Shadowlands Raven, a gothic horror RPG from Shadowlands Games inspired by Poe and other 19th authors in that vein:

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/RavenGothic

 

It looks interesting, it's cheap and I think it's the first RPG I've been offered that comes in multiple languages. And there are cats and ravens, of course...
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Another surreal RPG bundle for Troika!, the acid-fantasy RPG from Melsonian Arts Council; about half of it is new, the rest (rules etc.) has been in previous bundles.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/TroikaWarehouse



Troika is an interesting game with some very varied settings and ideas. I sometimes find the material a little difficult to read due to aggressively varied typography and violently coloured illos, but there are some fun ideas and if you're a fan of different and silly scenario ideas it's worth a look. But if you've bought any of this material before I recommend checking and deciding how much of it you want - cherry-picking may work out cheaper if you're only interested in a couple of the books.

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This is a bundle for "Coriolis - The Third Horizon" from Free League Publishing, an SF game using the Year Zero Engine rules featuring the epic three-part "Mercy of the Icons" campaign:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/CoriolisIcons




I remember this as an interesting SF setting that for once is not based exclusively on Western culture. Parts of this bundle have been in previous bundles and it may be worth checking how much you need - sometimes it can work out cheaper to cherry-pick and just buy the bits you need. I don't think that's true in this case, but I haven't checked.

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This is an offer of the 2nd edition of Green Ronin's Adventure Game Engine FRPG with supplements:

 https://bundleofholding.com/presents/FantasyAGE2E



This is a well-regarded system and the rules are easy to learn, mostly similar to the previous release and broadly compatible with other games from Green Ronin such as The Expanse. One of the supplements covers one a fun subgenre, technofantasy - adventures in a world where magic and forgotten technology are pretty much interchangeable. I'm probably not going to be playing it, since I OD'd on the genre in the seventies and eighties and got fed up with some aspects of fantasy adventuring, but it's relatively cheap and I think it's worth a look if you're interested.

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This is an offering of the game Inevitable, "doomed Arthurian Western RPG rulebook" from SoulMuppet Publishing, available for one week only.

https://bundleofholding.com/promo/list/key/KingMalavan


I'm not convinced that Arthurian mythic structures and the Wild West really go together - but there are a LOT of magical wild west game settings out there (I could mention my own Elvis: The Legendary Tours, for example) and it's probable that some people will find the idea interesting. I'll be honest, I tend to prefer something a little less doom-laden, so it probably isn't one for me. Presentation is pretty good, at a quick look I'm not sure that the rules are explained as well as I would like but I may be being unfair. It's pretty cheap and if you can avoid endless Monty Python jokes it could be worth a look.

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A bundle of role-playing games on LGBTQ+ themes to celebrate Pride Month

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/PrideGames




I think I remember a couple of these as being in a charity bundle in support of transexual rights in Florida a couple of years ago - I'm not 100% sure since that was a very large bundle. If you bought that you may want to check before buying this one.
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This is a bundle of "system-agnostic" material for RPGs in a wide variety of genres from Sine Nomine Publishing:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Sine2025



Last time I said "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." That still applies, but if you bought this bundle in 2023 there's no need to look, you've already got all of it.
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This is an offer of Grim Hollow from Ghostfire Gaming, a "grimdark fantasy Fifth Edition setting"

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/GrimHollow



Really not my sort of thing at all, but possibly of interest to some of you.

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This is an offer of the Awfully Cheerful Engine RPG from EN Publishing, described as a cinematic pop-culture action-comedy RPG.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Cheerful



This one is interesting - the rules system is deliberately kept simple and easy to understand, using mechanics seen previously in games like the Ghostbusters RPG, and the book contains eight fairly detailed settings with adventures. Inspiration for the settings/adventures includes big city ghost-chasing, archeological adventuring, a "high school with weird science" setting, teenage mutant thingies, and so forth. It's fun and cheap, and definitely well worth a look if you like its freewheeling style of play, and it should be easy to adapt the adventures to any RPG that isn't too rules-heavy, or import adventures for other system-light games to this one. Recommended!
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This is another offer for the Old School Essentials RPG which was offered yesterday - a collection of third party adventures from other publishers, also compatible with Basic / Expert D&D.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OSETreasures2



Lots of stuff here for old-school dungeon bashing, and if that's your style of play it may be worth a look.
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This is a bundle of Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy, the complete and definitive version of the Old-School Essentials tabletop roleplaying rules set from Necrotic Gnome. Essentially, an updated and streamlined Basic D&D variant adding spells from AD&D.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/AdvancedOSE



As I seem to be saying a lot lately, this really isn't my sort of thing at all, but if it is it might be worth a look.

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"System-neutral" random tables for items etc. to be found in dungeons, wildernesses, etc. from Raging Swan Press

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/DungeonDressing




If you read these posts you probably already know that this really isn't my sort of thing. But someone out there is probably saying "Hey, just what I needed", and I think it's fair to say that you do get a LOT of random lookup tables for your money. Useful if you want to create a setting in a hurry, but I generally prefer to add my own - although sometimes this ends up a little oddly, I'm still trying to work out why one of my NPCs has a desk drawer containing "postcards and stereoscope pictures from strange places such as Lhasa, Peking, the Plateau of Leng, Boston, Boca del Infierno California, and Havana, and peculiar dice with eight, ten, and even twenty sides" since they play absolutely no part in that particular adventure. If you don't have a warped mind like mine you may find this bundle useful.

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This is a bundle of new supplements and sourcebooks for Shadowrun 6th Edition that haven't been in any bundle before:

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/SixthWorldShadows




At a quick look it's a little on the expensive side but covers a lot of ground, if you're into the system there's probably a lot that you'll want. But given the prices it's possible that it may be a better idea to buy the material as you need it, rather than getting everything at once.
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This is a repeat of the May 2022 bundle of Shadowrun Sixth World Essentials, featuring the current (2019) Sixth Edition of the cyberpunk-magic RPG.

SHADOWRUN SIXTH WORLD ESSENTIALS

   https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2025SR6Essentials




In 2022 I said "I'll be honest, I've never been a big fan of this setting - while there's a "fantasy with big guns" genre that works reasonably well in fiction, adding in all of the cyberpunk tropes means that in any given situation some of the characters will have problems bringing useful skills and abilities to bear; the worst case is a scene where only one or two characters are active, the rest are standing around waiting for their hacker / shaman / whatever to get their part of the job done. Having said that, this is a very popular system which has stayed in print for 30+ years despite changing publishers twice. If you like this sort of game, this is probably the game for you."

I really don't see any reason to change this opinion.


There may be more for this system later this week.
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DG Impossible Landscapes Quick Deal is a bundle featuring a "harrowing Delta Green campaign" from Arc Dream Publishing. It's only available until May 14th

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Impossible



Apologies this is a bit late, it came in after I'd gone to bed and I've only just seen it. It's a very good bundle - however, all of it was previously in the extra material for the September 2023 Delta Green Megabundle, so if you've got all of that you don't need to buy again.
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This is a bundle of third-party dungeon crawls from Menagerie Press for the The Arcane Library's old-school FRPG, Shadowdark. It doesn't include the Shadowdark rules, but a starter version is available free.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/MenagerieShadowdark



As I've mentioned a few times before, I don't really play this sort of game any more. At a quick look the modules are well-presented and readable, but as usual with dungeon-bashing they're mostly maps with stats and random result tables. There's not really a lot of description or characterization, or many options outside fighting and looting. That's pretty much what the Old School thing is about, of course, and if you like that sort of thing this is probably the sort of thing you like.

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This is a bundle of Against the Darkmaster from Open Ended Games, described as a "FRPG of epic adventure and heavy-metal combat" which is apparently similar to the Middle Earth Role Playing System in concept.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Darkmaster



As usual I have to admit that I no longer play old-school fantasy RPGs. At a quick look presentation is good, the rules seem to have rather a lot of tables but look playable, and it's reasonably good value. I don't personally need another fantasy RPG, since I already have several I'm not using, but it might be worth a look if you're not already locked in to another system.

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