Bundle of Holding - Mutant Crawl Classics

I love Mutant Crawl Classics. I try to play it at least once a year at various gaming conventions - it's a damn blast to play. It's Gamma World on steroids!

Adventurer! We've resurrected our September 2021 Mutant Crawl Classics Bundle featuring the post-apocalyptic science-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game of technology and triumph in a devastated future, Mutant Crawl Classics from Goodman Games. Whether you're a mutant, a seeker, a robot-killer, or a stoic shaman guarding forgotten ancient sciences, there are treasures to be won in the taboo lands and the ruins of the Ancients. Based on Goodman's Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG, Mutant Crawl Classics is a standalone game in the tradition of Gamma World and Metamorphosis Alpha. You have a new chance to activate your artifact and go adventuring like it's 1978.

For just US$7.95 you get all three titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $38) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete Mutant Crawl Classics RPG core rulebook along with the Judge's Screen and the introductory adventure Hive of the Overmind.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $18.54, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with seven more titles worth an additional $49, including the supplement The Data Orb of Metakind (published as MCC adventure #8) and six full-length adventures that take your characters from zero-level nobodies to level 5: Seeking the Post-Humans, A Fallen Star For All, Incursion of the Ultradimension, The Evil of the Ancients, Blessings of the Vile Brotherhood, and The Apocalypse Ark.

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Free Traveller - Traveller Starter Pack

As far as I can tell, the Traveller Starter Pack is only available on the Mongoose Publishing website. Similar to the Traveller: Merchant's Edition ($1.00 in PDF at DTRPG), it contains much of the same information except for class-related information.

Note, if you only want Traveller: Explorer Edition, it is available for $1.00 at DTRPG. The Starter Pack includes Explorer Edition AND two adventures for free. The adventures are free at DTRPG.

Note: The Explorer Edition includes rules for Scouts and Scientists.

This package of free PDFs is an introduction to the game for newcomers that provides all of the tools you need to kick off a campaign that will take you across the stars. Adventure and wonder await in classic tales of science fiction.

This free bundle includes...

Traveller Explorer's Edition: All core rules for Traveller are in this book, plus a universe creation system that allows Referees to create new star systems on the fly for their Travellers to visit and explore…

Death Station: An orbiting laboratory ship has gone silent, and the Travellers are hired by a local company to find out what has happened. However, they will soon discover that they are not alone...

Stranded: A remastering of a classic Traveller adventure, the Travellers find themselves marooned on a glacier with nothing more than the contents of their survival kits. They must master the wilderness and find civilization without the technological tools they are used to.

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Traveller: Merchant's Edition ($1.00)

There is a lot to be said about offering free or hugely discounted rules to encourage players to try new rulesets (although there is also an argument that giving rules away for FREE makes some folks think they are worthless)

The Traveller: Merchant's Edition isn't free, but it is only a single buck. Not bad for a major RPG ruleset from one of the larger publishers.

Traveller is the science fiction roleplaying game of the far future. The Traveller Merchant’s Edition is an introduction to the game for newcomers that provides all of the tools you need to create adventures or even an entire campaign. Create bold exploratory traders and merchant princes who travel into the unknown aboard their trusty Type-A2 Far Trader, a rugged merchant ship perfect for frontier space.

Dock your ship at advanced starports, visit strange worlds, encounter alien beings and animals, and make a fortune as you cross the galaxy.

The universe awaits. Welcome to Traveller!

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Deal of the Day - FlexTale Solo Image Oracle Omnibus (system-neutral)

I know it says "Solo" on the tin, but the FlexTale Solo Image Oracle Omnibus is an excellent tool to spur the thought process for the harried DM. It should be in every DM's toolkit at 4 bucks for the FlexTale Solo Image Oracle Omnibus PDF (instead of the standard 19.99). The sale price will be valid until late tomorrow morning (around 11 AM ET).

The FlexTale Solo Image Oracle is an innovative creative tool for solo adventurers to generate dynamic, intriguing answers to questions about your campaign and the adventures that take place within it.

A simple roll of 3d6 is all you need to generate over 5,400 answers and pieces of creative content for any campaign setting, any situation, and any level of skill as a G/DM.

Omnibus

This book is the Omnibus edition of the Solo Image Oracle.  It assembles the contents of the previously-published six individual volumes.  Each of those Volumes contains 36 images; this Omnibus contains all 216 images.

Digital Resource Companion

You also get a Microsoft Excel file containing all 5,400 creative elements for all 216 images.  This is the same content that's presented in the book, just in a format that some might enjoy using more than a PDF.  You are welcome to extend, amend, or otherwise use this tool for your own personal gaming experience.

Immediately Useful

Download this book, open it up to a random page, and pick any part of that page.  This book was designed so that whatever you end up pointing at, you should be able to use it in your campaign, whether you're a veteran DM of 30+ years running a published campaign for a dozen players, or a brand-new player giving solo play a try.

What is This Thing?

An Oracle is a tool to provide an answer.  Usually, this is in the context of a solo adventure, where you as the adventurer need to rely upon some external source of truth to keep things unpredictable and interesting.  Solo Oracle tools abound, and are quite popular--it's probably safe to say that nearly every single solo adventurer uses at least one Oracle tool.

The Solo Image Oracle takes this a step further.  (It wouldn't be a FlexTale book if it didn't take things an order of magnitude further!)

Three dice is all it takes: Roll one six-sided die to pick which image palette you use.  Then, roll 2d6, and pick an image randomly from that grid of 36 abstract icons.  You can use that simple image as a point of inspiration on its own; this approach is very similar to Rory's Story Cubes, another popular resource for solo gamers.

A Step Further in Creative Inspiration

But the FlexTale difference amplifies the utility and power of this book as an Oracle: each of those images gets its own full page.

Each of those 216 images gets over 25 different elements: specific answers to questions, creative directions, entire quest snippets, magic items, random encounters, and much, much more.

All in all, two simple dice can drive over 5,400 dynamic and creative sources of inspiration for any campaign setting.

System-Neutral, Zero-Prep

This is a common objective in FlexTale books, and I'm thrilled to say that this book was designed from the start to satisfy these as requirements, even moreso than any other book before it in the FlexTale line.

The Solo Image Oracle provides visual and text inspiration.  As a result, it's system neutral, and can be easily used in any tabletop roleplaying game, though the particular answers in many cases are fantasy-oriented.  For those who use 5E, Pathfinder, Pathfinder Second Edition, OSR, or DCC systems, there is an extensive 9-page description of how to use specific rules language across those systems.

The whole point of this book is that it requires no preparation to use.  You can, quite literally, flip to a page completely at random, and point to a place on that page, and derive inspiration for your solo adventure cotntent.

Any Gaming Table

Although the Solo Image Oracle was designed from the ground up to be a tool to empower solo gamers, it's also an immensely powerful tool for a traditional gaming table.  A time-pressed or creatively stymied G/DM can use this book exactly like a solo gamer would, and find creative drivers just as naturally and quickly.

 

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