Tag: bundle of holding

New Bundles of Holding: GURPS Traveller/GURPS Traveller Imperial Survey.

Full disclosure: I doubt that I will ever buy into a GURPS Bundle of Holding, largely because I have a ludicrous number of GURPS books in my physical library. And I mean ludicrous.   It’s kind of alarming, really.

Anyway,  Bundle of Holding is doing both GURPS Traveller and GURPS Traveller Imperial Survey.  It is an official ‘alternate history’ of the main Traveller line; basically, somebody blew up a shuttle at the right time and the entire civil war / collapse of interstellar society never actually happened. I seem to recall this bothering some people at the time, but I don’t feel that I’m sufficiently aware of the Traveller universe to be able to have a meaningful opinion on that controversy.  Suffice it to say that it’s quite a good – and nicely supported – game line; well worth checking out.

Also, they included GURPS Traveller: Starports, and damn but I miss John M. Ford.  He was one of the best of us.

Bundle of Holding: The Laundry, redux.

Reader of mine passed this along: Bundle of Holding is doing the Laundry RPG offer, again. This is the “British civil service dealing with the Mythos” RPG that’s based off of Charlie Stross’s horror/fantasy series; and the only reason why I haven’t gotten it is because these days I order the physical books directly from the publisher.  But the game looks very good and it certainly reads as very funny, so check it out.

Ooh, Castle Falkenstein is on Bundle of Holding.

I personally don’t need it…

…because I was lucky enough to track down a complete physical set of the game line in the 1990s. A combination of ample discretionary cash and ready access to NYC’s gaming stores allowed me to devote resources to find some of the more esoteric stuff, which Castle Falkenstein certainly is. Castle Falkenstein is… it is the distillation of all that is romantic and fun about steampunk. It is a 19th century world where historical and fictional figures meet all the time and have adventures together, set in a backdrop of magic, zeppelins, and dramatic reveals. And, oh, yes: the game uses playing cards, because while ladies and gentlemen might readily amuse themselves by pretending to be cowboys or mages for an evening, they will most certainly not use dice to do it.

I love the Castle Falkenstein setting dearly. And, not to brag (I totally mean to brag) I also have a playtester’s credit for the GURPS edition of it. So while I don’t need these PDFs, there are worse ways to burn through twenty bucks than to get the complete game line…

Last day on the All Flesh Must Be Eaten Bundle of Holding.

AFMBE is zombie apocalypse roleplaying, and it’s pretty fun.  I actually had an idea for a submitted Deadworld for it half sketched out in my brain… right up to the point that I realized that a) I was probably too-obviously using the world from 28 Days Later (great zombie flick) and b) the background flatly contradicted what happened in 28 Weeks Later (which was… not as a good as the first one).  At any rate, check it out.

The One-Roll Engine Bundle of Holding.

I was alerted by Constant Reader prayerborne here that the RPG PDF Bundle of Holding site was doing One-Roll Engine, so I checked it out and picked it up. I have the print versions of Godlike (WWII supers roleplaying) and Wild Talents (supers roleplaying), wanted the PDFs, and was happy to pick up Better Angels and eCollapse and a couple of other items. I like ORE – it’s straightforward, and doesn’t try to force itself to be comprehensive – and the flavor-text writing is good. Check it out.

Rejoice, Citizen! The Paranoia Bundle of Holding is now available for voluntary enjoyment!

The Paranoia Bundle of Holding is one set of RPG PDFs that I will pick up… next week, when the cash flow, well, flows.  For those who don’t know: Paranoia is a RPG about bureaucracy, paranoia (obviously), satire, humor, and tactical nuclear grenades.  It is so notoriously lethal that every player starts with six clones, on the perfectly correct assumption that they’ll be needed to get the character through a single adventure.  It’s hysterical, it’s iconic, and it’s the latest version, which corrected a heck of a lot of problems from the latest vers-

:ZAP!:

:thud:

Citizens are reminded that all rumors of an immediately previous edition of Paranoia are treasonous Communist propaganda, and punishable by summary execution.  The Computer has ensured that the perfection of Paranoia has been steadily improved; please report all rumors of previous editions to Internal Security for investigation and brainscrub.

Have a nice day.

Two days left on the Deadlands Bundle of Holding.

Deadlands is, for those who don’t know it, Weird West horror (with a side order of steampunk) roleplaying.  So if you’ve ever wanted to play an undead Texas Ranger who clawed yourself out of the grave in order to find and send on to Perdition the no-account bushwhackers who put you there… well, maybe you already have the books.  But, as usual, having the PDFs at essentially 10 – 20% normal price is a pretty dang good deal.  A bunch of these I didn’t have already, even in print.

Check it out.

I have been remiss about the Trail of Cthulhu Bundle of Holding.

The only reason I haven’t bought that particular collection of roleplaying game e-books is because I already own it all. Except maybe the music.  The important thing, though, is that all of the Trail of Cthulhu books listed there are excellent and they’re based around a rules-set that revolves around investigation and mystery solving the same way that other games revolve around combat. Worth your time to pick up on the cheap.