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Welcome to the TG Deals and Steals thread This is a thread where we can share discounted PDFs, free supplements, amazing deals, and limited time offers. A TG Clearing House, if you will. The world of Pen and Paper RPGs has made an explosion into the digital age with the expansion into PDF rulesets and digital stores. But you may not always have the budget. Maybe you have loans, are a college student, or are generally poor. Maybe you've already got a bookshelf of rules and don't have the cash on hand to drop on PDFs. Maybe you're just cheap. Worry not! This is the thread for you! "But I don't play RPGs, I only play miniature, war or board games." - Worry not old chum, there's deals and steals for minis, armies, board games, you name it! Every web store that sells a game has deals from time to time, and this is the place to share them. "Where can I find RPGs & PDFs?" - Ahh, there are quite a few resources out there. Drive Thru RPG - One of the main resources for PDFs of RPGs. They sometimes have exceptional deals, and you can find almost anything here. RPG Now - A PDF store that boasts many Indie RPGs. It also claims to host upwards of 2000 free products. e23 - Started by Steve Jackson Games (of GURPS fame), it is home to many PDFs, some free, most unique. It is an excellent resource to find niche games and offers great customer service. Indie Press Revolution - An RPG retailer that sells Indie published games exclusively. Apparently it allows indie publishers to sidestep the larger names' control over the market with current distribution networks. 1KM1KT - A site that aggregates free RPG documents, as well as submissions. Free RPG Compendium - A large list of free RPG resources, updated semi-regularly. The Free RPG Blog - A blog that collects free RPGs. What more could you want? There are also many games produced each month by our very own TG community. Monthly Design contests feature a plethora of great games, as well as the option to get the rules from the game maker directly. "Where can I find deals on physical stuff like minis or board games?" Boardgame Deals - A thread in SA Mart's "Coupons and Deals" section that sees regular (sometimes daily) updates with hot, limited time gaming deals. Miniature Market - An online game store with physical product. It has a Daily Deals offer on the front page that offers significant discounts off MSRP. Cool Stuff Inc. - Another online nerd store. They sell everything from Magic: the Gathering to Board games, and feature a miniature and Magic card buying program. CSI also features a Daily Deal program, accessible on their home page. You can find a list of free games and rule sets in the next post. What this thread is for
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Thank you, and have fun with your cheap rear end games! Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 02:48 on May 10, 2014 |
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I've got a bunch of free games and other things I've picked up from various sites, including some that were a little obscure (at least the way I came across them) despite how well-known the authors are. I'll wait until you've added yours though. You could link the current and previous TG contests and 1km1kt in the first post. Quality varies on 1km1kt but there are some decent games on there.
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There's also the Gamechef competition, as well as the 'free games' section of Bully Pulpit's downloads section. Here's some of what I've picked up (I've barely played any of them, haven't fully read a lot of them either, I just have a habit of saving free games I see put up online that look interesting to me): 44: A Game of Automatic Fear which is about a 50s-era robot conspiracy in the United States, the few who know about and oppose it and the people around them who're slowly being turned into machines. Apocalypse: Emergence an add-on for Apocalypse World for playing stories about the descendants of a group that locked themselves away during an apocalypse, who find themselves in a twisted post-apocalyptic world. Cthulhu Dark a very light game for Lovecraftian tales of horror. More in line with Lovecraft's actual stories than most other games that claim to present the Cthulhu Mythos. The characters follow a trail of clues leading to some kind of horrifying experience. Monsters can never be killed. There are two official add-ons: Cthulhu Dark Tales, which adds some extra rules, and Cthulhu Dark Depths, which adds a structure for the story. The author (Graham Walmsley) had a blog where he put up a slew of extra rules beyond those, but it seems to be down right now. Geiger Counter all about horror movies. You play characters who slowly discover that they're facing some kind of menace, and then slowly die until just one or two are left to overcome the menace and survive. The structure of the game is supposed to be cinematic, with a 'trailer' before the story begins, quick scenes with one player in each acting as the director who chooses the cast and sets the camera and so on. GHOST/ECHO a game for playing a stylish cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic scavenger crew trying to make their way out of a dangerous situation. Think the Matrix, but it could also be a modern-day heist or any situation with a bunch of highly-competent people in a dangerous place who've been screwed over (by chance, by supposed allies, by customers). Ia: A game of dark worship (second file here) a short, simple game about cultists trying to bring about the Awakening of dark Things that are not of this world. In Dark Trees for Lynchian horror/drama stories about people related to some kind of crime and their personal problems coming back to haunt them. Left Coast a game about sci-fi and fantasy writers living on the West coast of the US in the 60s and 70s, or more specifically about their attempts to balance their family and professional lives while reality seems to slowly come apart around them (at least, a previous draft had that element, I haven't read this one). Metrofinal this world has been dealt a mortal blow and now eight bodhisattvas and saints are searching for the ones who will make the next world. Their quest is imagined as a busy day on the Transantiago metro, going from one station to the next as the world gradually unravels into the surreal. Metropole Luxury Coffin you play as the down-and-out semi-permanent inhabitants of a cramped coffin hotel, who band together with others to form tribes based on passing fashions as you scrounge together enough money to get you and your friends out of there (or make it a proper home). Otherkind a fantasy game about creatures reacting to the spread of industry and weaponry among humans. I think the dice system was the basis for Psy*Run and GHOST/ECHO, and later Apocalypse World. Schizonauts a kind of espionage/psychological thriller game about government agents undergoing memory drug treatments to assume the minds of the key suspects in the theft of the keys to the supercomputer that keeps the economy going. It's basically a game about creating characters, by Fred Hicks. Silence Keeps Me A Victim an exploration of child abuse through the dreams of an abused child. There's a pretty interesting discussion here on the Walking Eye podcast about the game. The Scenario and The Wanderer two different games, one a kind of swords-and-sorcery game and the other for playing out a movie of one continuous shot. Until We Sink a slightly surreal game where you play the last people on a Pacific resort island that's slowly sinking into the ocean, who've just found one of the guests dead at the bottom of a cliff. The game's played out through the evening conversations the characters have on the deck of the resort's hotel as they discuss the events of the day (and previous days) until the island sinks. Viewscream a game designed for play over the internet by live video transmission. The default setting has the players be the surviving crew of a spaceship, trying to escape with their lives and also keep their dark secrets hidden. There are a couple of versions floating around and I'm not sure which is the latest. Wild Strawberries a game about a miserable, lonely person on a semi-dreamlike journey to (possibly) reconnect with society. UnCO3 fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Apr 21, 2013 |
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Retail Me Not provides a list of coupons and discount codes available for DriveThruRPG, rated on how well they work. I haven't personally used any of the codes, but it's a useful aggregator for finding deals.
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Bundle of Holding is a collection of DRM-free eBooks written by numerous game authors, and you can put some or all of your payment to charity.quote:Our collection includes recent novels and stories by Matt Forbeck (Brave New World), Chuck Wendig (Hunter: The Vigil), Jenna Moran (Nobilis, Exalted), Stephen D. Sullivan (D&D/AD&D, Chill), Rafael Chandler (Scorn, Spite), Sarah Newton (Mindjammer, Legends of Anglerre), Derek Pearcy (In Nomine), and Aaron Rosenberg (Asylum, Spookshow).
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Margaret Weis Publishing's licensing of Smallville and Supernatural has run out, and as such DriveThruRPG and RPGNow are featuring a sale on their core books and resources. All Smallville products as well as the Smallville Core Book have undergone drastic price cuts, and can be had for less than half the original asking price. The same goes for Supernatural. These sales will end February 28th, so if you ever wanted to be young Clark Kent, the stars are right, deep in the heart of Kansas.
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I nominate Ghost Lines which can be found here. It's done by the same people who did GHOST/ECHO and it's a hack of Apocalypse World. The gist is that in some dystopian steampunk nightmare world, electricity attracts ghosts and your job is to keep the lightning monorails connecting the big cities running and ghost-free using your 'lightning hook'. If you don't die screaming and actually live to retire, you'll die alone in the gutter unless you've managed to put enough money aside over the course of your career, during which you also accumulate scars and horror. It's awesome.
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Lord Frisk posted:[*] Labyrinth Lord - Another old school Hack and Slash, available in .zip format. Note: Labyrinth Lord is a retroclone of the Basic/Expert ("B/X") version of D&D by Tom Moldvay. It's worth mentioning that they also have "Mutant Future," a retroclone of Gamma World--not of any particular edition, but slightly modified so that it plays well with Labyrinth Lord stuff.
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Halloween Jack posted:Note: Labyrinth Lord is a retroclone of the Basic/Expert ("B/X") version of D&D by Tom Moldvay. It's worth mentioning that they also have "Mutant Future," a retroclone of Gamma World--not of any particular edition, but slightly modified so that it plays well with Labyrinth Lord stuff. I'm gonna throw that in the post, if you don't mind. Any idea where the Mutant Future rules are hosted? e: speaking of post apocalypse, I added the fan made Fallout rpg. Mutant Future rules appear to be working. Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Feb 27, 2013 |
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This retailer is clearancing all their miniatures game stuff, crazy crazy good deals on FoW, Warhammer Fantasy, Reaper Minis and Warmachine/Hordes, in most cases 50-60% off. They even have some out of print stuff for good prices (Valten! Valten on Foot!). http://shop.silverspringhobby.com/
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From DTrpg this week:
As always, there's limited time deals going on at DTrpg in The Drunken Goblin's Sales Page, but as of this writing, it's only floor plans. The line up always changes, so consider bookmarking it to find great deals and steals!
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For the next 9 or so days DTRPG is running a GMs Day Sale, which is pretty much 25% off everything that opted in. If you are just browsing, the "A"s start on page 36. (My lists start around page 10, or just click that, if I was advertising, which I'm totally not)
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Time for another Free RPG update. Hulks & Horrors - Built on the skeleton of old school D&D, Hulks & Horrors shifts the experience to outer space! Full, free rules provide monsters, ships, classes, and crews. You can construct your own star cruiser as well as your own lurking horrors. If you need a setting for your space opera and also love D&D, then this is the product for you. And as always, a bunch of discounted crap!
Stay tuned for a future shill of discounted stuff!
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Tonight at midnight, the Third Annual Wayne Foundation Charity Pack is going on sale. Short form: You get just over $200 worth of gaming content (core books, supplements, maps, art, and ebooks) for $25, and all the profit goes to the Wayne Foundation to help them combat child slavery and exploitation worldwide. Package includes: quote:Chaotic Shiney Productions For those of you who read all that and care about Evil Mastermind's recommendations, BareBones is a great sort-of-retroclone where classes are treated as skills, Something Went Wrong is good for those of you who like Fiasco-style games, the Toys For The Sandbox stuff is great self-contained locations for any fantasy game, Hero Kids is a game designed to be played with kids and has been getting a ton of good press, and Misspent Youth is Hunger Games/Battle Royale the RPG (and I'm about a year behind on reviewing it for the FATAL thread).
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Free RPG Day is June 15, which is still a ways off but definitely worth planning for. There's going to be a bunch of Pathfinder stuff, an unnanounced FFG thing, an Onyx Path Vampire: the Requiem* quickstart, and a few other things both neat and embarrassing. Interestingly enough, nothing from WotC. So volunteer to run something now so obnoxious Pathfinder guys in the next room can chase all your players away! Like they did last year! *It says Requiem, but Onyx Path is the oWoD team so take that for what it's worth...
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moths posted:*It says Requiem, but Onyx Path is the oWoD team so take that for what it's worth... Not true. Onyx Path has the license to create oWoD, nWoD, and Exalted books. Also Trinity Universe and Scion, but we bought those outright rather than licensing them from CCP/WW. CCP's focused on making MMOs, so if it would have been a White Wolf tabletop game*, it's created by Onyx Path. The quickstart is for Vampire: The Requiem, to show off the new material coming in Blood & Smoke: The Strix Chronicle. * Someone else does LARP books.
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There's a really good TableTop Day Free Bundle on DriveThru. A few complete games, and some demos.quote:Altus Adventum Primer
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There's Old School Hack as well. It's a fairly rules-light, lighthearted system that's easy to pick up and run with and focuses more on cinematic, over-the-top combat and adventure than detailed strategic play. It works pretty well for a variety of systems, since the rules are pretty flexible. It's in Beta, but there's a lot of support and it's free.
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For a limited time, Michtim:Fuzzy Adventures RPG is free until TableTop Day. That link puts it right in your cart.
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I encourage everyone to check out DTRPGs International Tabletop Day bundle that Evil Mastermind has written up. Lots of cool stuff to get new players into gaming. Also up on the discount block
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Thought Hammer is having a massive clearance sale, with nearly any physical product you can think of up for sale with massive discounts. Some notable items include:
Everything is discounted, and probably limited stock. There is 70 pages of stuff to look through, but I have no idea how long this clearance sale will last. This is a great chance to get board games and physical gaming paraphernalia that you can't just download. Dr. Lunchables fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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What's going on with this Tabletop Day? Is there free stuff or just a bunch of demos?
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moths posted:What's going on with this Tabletop Day? Is there free stuff or just a bunch of demos? It's mostly demos and quickstarts, but there are a few exceptions. Leverage, Little Fears, Parsely #1, Station Zero, and Esoterrorists are all available for free as part of the package, and are not free to download quickstarts. Mostly the package is set up to be introductory games and rules lite versions, so you can pick and choose which ones work best for you and your friends. I grabbed the package for Little Fears alone.
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I got the download thing from DriveThru, what I meant to ask is if there is any reason to endure the Cards Against Humanity people by taking a trip to my LGS on a weekend.
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Ahh. Well, it appears there will be swag and free promo stuff distributed to participating locations, but my FLGS isn't doing this, so I don't have concrete answers on what's available. It appears to be parallel to free rpg day, from a marketing standpoint, with little emphasis on the "free" part. Since this is the first time it's been put on, it may be worth it just to see what your FLGS is doing with the opportunity (provided they are participating).
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Thought Hammer has Dreadfleet on clearance for under $70. This is a great deal.
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Up on the DTRPG chopping block this week
I'm also gonna push this Thought Hammer clearance sale again. There is over 70 pages of content with amazing deals on all types of games. Over 2000 products up for sale, all of them heavily discounted. It's a great way to take a gamble on games you haven't heard of. What's Jewish Fluxx? I havent the foggiest, but maybe you could pick up some tchatchkes and become a maven on the subject.
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Lord Frisk posted:[*]City of Clocks - This splat is systemless and can be stuck in any game. If you're at a crossroads in your game, maybe it's time to steer the players to the City of Clocks, where political intrigue, warring factions, and good old fashioned backstabbing abound. Half price![/list] I actually know the guy who wrote this. He's a cool dude and you should give him your money.
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Army of Darkness RPG - To celebrate the new release of the remake of the Campbell/Raimi cult classic (Evil Dead), Eden Studios had substantially dropped the price on this core book. If you haven't seen the original Evil Dead movies, you really need to check them out. Army of Darkness provides a world rife with plot hooks, dirty, poo poo-caked men, and one lone badass with a Delta 88, a chainsaw hand, and a boomstick  . If you ever wanted to tear rear end through a medieval country side in an Oldsmobile during the day and spend the night in a castle with wenches, using your old MSU chemistry books to make gunpowder, man, this is the game for you. Blast a witch in half with a ridiculous shotgun at a supermarket, then tell all those shoppers to "Hail to the King, baby."This sucker is marked down to  from forty! 75% off! Deals like this don't come along every decade.
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Free RPG product of the week: Duty Unto Death, an adventure for Green Ronin's Dragon Age RPG system. This product was run on Wil Wheaton's Tabletop show, and is a full adventure with characters and handouts, and is fully compatible with the quick start rules. Discounted Stuff:
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Back again with some deals and steals for all you TG browsers. Free RPG stuff: Fiasco: Hard Time Blues If you ever needed to take your Fiasco game to prison, why pay for the privilege? Hard Time Blues is a Fiasco accessory where players plot and scheme to get out of hard time the easy way. Shower scenes included! Discounted Stuff:Expedition to Undermountain - A d20/3.5 "SuperAdventure", the story takes you beneath the city of Waterdeep in 224 pages. If you want some WotC fluff for cheap, now's a good time to buy. $17.49
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As some of you know, Margaret Weis Productions' license with Marvel is coming to an end. Actually, only about a day is left on the current license. As such, DTrpg is selling all Marvel Heroic Roleplaying PDFs at a discount. You can buy the core book for and fill your HDD with fluff for next to nothing. This was an ambitious product full of great art, and a game of the likes we may not see for a while. If you've ever wanted to play a table full of superheroes, this is your opportunity. But you need to act fast (Quicksilver fast) if you want to take advantage of this deal, 'cause it's only around for a day.
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There are definitely other deals here, but I just got Imperial Histories 1, Book of Air, and Book of Earth for 50% off from Sci-Fi City, which appears to have quite a few good deals otherwise. If shopping there, I'd price-match with Amazon Marketplace, of course (some of their books are less through it) and bear in mind you have to order a lot ($100) to get free shipping.  Shipping was very prompt; I got my package by the end of the week when ordering by Monday for both my orders via media mail, and it was well-packed inside bubble wrap and styro.
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Lord Frisk posted:As some of you know, Margaret Weis Productions' license with Marvel is coming to an end. Actually, only about a day is left on the current license. As such, DTrpg is selling all Marvel Heroic Roleplaying PDFs at a discount. You can buy the core book for There's no discount. Those are the same prices they've always charged. That said, there's no waiting around for a bigger discount.
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My mistake. Thanks for the heads up!
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I just need the core book and I've got everything I need to play, right?
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moths posted:I just need the core book and I've got everything I need to play, right? Yep.
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