Bundle of Holding - Metamorphosis Alpha

I picked up many Metamorphosis Alpha releases from the Goodman Games Kickstarter at NTRPG Con in one of the silent auctions this past weekend. Seriously good stuff. Also, coincidentally, much of what is in this Metamorphosis Alpha Bundle.

If I were to run some sci-fi, Metamorphosis Alpha is likely where I'd hang my hat :)

Adventurer! We've resurrected our August 2021 Metamorphosis Alpha Bundle featuring the vintage 1976 First Edition of Metamorphosis Alpha, the tabletop roleplaying game created by James M. Ward of mutants and monstrosities on a colossal generation starship. In 2290 humanity launched its first colonization ship, the Warden. A radiation storm in deep space struck and crippled the gigantic starship. The ship's human crew died – the few survivors mutated and formed primitive civilizations – tribes struggled against a world they could not comprehend. Generations later, as a human, mutant, or robot on the Warden, you fight to survive, unaware even that your irradiated world is a spaceship. Can you uncover the secrets of the Warden and steer it back on course, or will you simply try to live another day?

For just US$9.95 you get all seven titles in this revived offer's Starter Collection (retail value $42) as DRM-free ebooks, including the 2016 Goodman Games reproduction of the complete 1976 Metamorphosis Alpha 1E First Printing rulebook (originally presented as Chapter Two of Goodman's MA 1E Deluxe Collector's Edition), plus the Referee's Screen (retail $6); three MA supplements – Creatures & Gadgets, The Mutation Manual, and Warden Armory; and two adventure sourcebooks: the introductory campaign Death Ziggurat in Zero-G and Warden Adventures.

And if you pay more than the threshold price of $25.72, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Bonus Collection with six more titles worth an additional $70, including the full-length campaign adventure Doom on the Warden, the location sourcebook Epsilon City, and several more short adventures on the Warden: The Android Underlords, The Captain's Table, and Level of the Lost, along with the Book of Handouts.

 

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. The Tavern DOES NOT do "Paid For" Articles and discloses personal connections to products and creators written about when applicable.

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar

Kickstarter - Mystmoor (Horror/Fantasy Setting)

A TTRPG Fantasy Horror Campaign & Setting - System Agnostic e.g. DND 5e OSR etc. with support for EZD6 and Shadowdark

We had Bruce on the Talking Crit Livestream last night, and not only was he a great guest, but his knowledge of horror fiction and movies is second to none. I highly recommend Bruce's Mystmoor Kickstarter.

MYSTMOOR is a system-agnostic* fantasy-horror setting and campaign you can easily use with your favourite TTRPG game.  Its design gives experienced Game Masters (GMs) the flexibility to run the materials in most low-magic, medieval-fantasy settings. 

It’s packed full of plot hooks, mysteries, threats, and everything you need for a campaign. 

This content is 100% Human created with absolutely NO A.I. involvement.

Blending heroic action with horrifying mysteries, take your players on a journey that allows them to feel like heroes, but always on edge at the horrors that lurk just outside their view, lying in wait in MYSTMOOR.

MYSTMOOR is inspired by the fantastic and horror materials the author was exposed to growing up; this includes major tributes to the works of Richard Matheson, M. R. James, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, Ramsey Campbell, Bram Stoker, Sheridan Le Fanu, Dashiell Hammett and more. There are numerous tributes and homages to them as well as many classic films (Black Sunday (check out the Demonic Mask you will see floating around much of the Mystmoor art), Night Stalker, The Legend of Hell House, Night of the Eagle, Night of the Demon, Cat People, the Maltese Falcon, Tombs of the Blind Dead, Trilogy of Terror, etc.), television shows (Kolchak, Night Gallery, Twilight Zone, Space:1999, Star Trek, etc.), books (Sherlock Holmes, Conan, Cthulhu Mythos tales, etc.), comic books (Dr. Spektor, Dr. Strange, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, etc.), computer games (anyone remember Donjonquest and Brian Hammerhand?), and old-school RPG modules (Griffin Mountain, Keep on the Borderlands, etc.).  This is a passion project! 

 The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. The Tavern DOES NOT do "Paid For" Articles and discloses personal connections to products and creators written about when applicable.

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar 

Humble Bundle - Maps Extravaganza Revisited

Campaign Cartographer is pretty much the go-to mapping program for RPGs, and the Maps Extravaganza Revisited Bundle is an amazing value for CC3+.

Design maps for your own tabletop campaigns, fantasy settings, and more! This bundle includes everything you need to create stunning, print-worthy works of art that will bring your worlds to life. Get powerful software like Campaign Cartographer 3+ (including a Lifetime License), City Designer 3, Dungeon Designer 3, Tome of Ultimate Mapping, and more. Unlock a treasury that will take your tabletop games and fantasy stories to the next level, and help support Save the Children with your purchase.

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. The Tavern DOES NOT do "Paid For" Articles and discloses personal connections to products and creators written about when applicable.

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar

Bundle of Holding - Operation Unfathomable

I have half of the stuff in the Operation Unfathonable Bundle in print, and I'm snagging this for the stuff I'm missing :)

Adventurer! This new Operation Unfathomable Bundle features Operation Unfathomable, the gonzo fantasy roleplaying campaign setting by Jason Sholtis for Old School Revival tabletop retro-clones. (This offer also includes a version for the Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG from Goodman Games.) The Sorcerer-King's son stole a powerful relic, the Nul Rod, and fled into the Unfathomable Underworld, a subterranean wilderness of unsurpassed strangeness and peril. Your fledgling 1st-level adventurers pursue him into a vast and incomparably bizarre cavern-world of civilized fungoids, bat-winged dwarves, two-headed giant ape mummies guarding franchise temples, decapitante soldiers, psychephages, death-ray revolvers, the ruins of the now-extinct Genocide Beetle civilization, the Fizzy Drink of Ocular Autonomy ("causes eyeballs to leave their moorings and levitate freely"), and Shaggath-Ka the Worm Sultan. In most circumstances, fragile beginning characters would be doomed. But explorers with good sense (and a willingness to hide) can hope to gain great treasure and speedy advancement.

This new offer brings you the entire Operation Unfathomable line for an unbeatable bargain price. For just US$14.95 you get all six titles in our Unfathomable Collection (retail value $69) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete the complete 108-page Operation Unfathomable core campaign book, plus the Player's Guide; the sequel setting Odious Uplands and its free Map Pack; the complete conversion for Dungeon Crawl Classics, Completely Unfathomable; and both volumes of Jason Sholtis's brilliant D12 tables, The Dungeon Dozen Volume 1 [previously in our November 2014 Worldbuilder's Toolkit 2] and Volume 2.

 

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. The Tavern DOES NOT do "Paid For" Articles and discloses personal connections to products and creators written about when applicable.

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar

Humble Bundle - Stories from the World of Warhammer 2024 from Black Library

I'm a huge fan of Warhammer Fantasy fiction. My old gaming group loves the Warhammer 40k setting for fiction. Two great settings, all in one huge Warhammer Fiction Bundle.

The Tavern is supported by readers like you. The easiest way to support The Tavern is to shop via our affiliate links. The Tavern DOES NOT do "Paid For" Articles and discloses personal connections to products and creators written about when applicable.

DTRPG, Amazon, and Humble Bundle are affiliate programs that support The Tavern.  You can catch the daily Tavern Chat cast on Anchor, YouTube,  or wherever you listen to your podcast collection. - Tenkar

NTRPG Con - Day 4 - Con Wrap Up

All good things must come to an end, and NTRPG Con 2024 is no different. Sure, a handful of games are still running, but the dealer's room is mostly packed up, if not totally.

Yesterday was the Awards Ceremony and the Main Auction. ShadowDark won the Three Castles Award this year. Above is Kelsey with the first of the new Three Castles Awards designed by TSR alumni Diesel. Note, that Kelsey and Diesel have agreed to come on the Talking Crit Livestream with me and Bad Mike later this summer. Oh, and also James Raggi, Chris Clark, Ben Burns, and one or two others that Bad Mike and I currently are holding up our sleeves. It's going to be a great summer :)

Thanks to all the supporters of The Tavern that I had the amazing opportunity to speak with over the last few days. Your support means more than I can ever put into words.