Cash Strapped - Drivethru Scavenger Hunt

It's Halloween season so that means the usual big sale at DrivethruRPG and their hidden free goodies throughout the OBS sites on their scavenger hunt. Below is a list compiled from this rpgnet thread from users MatchstickUK and The Fast Hero (now with updates from users Lucky and Knarf).


DrivethruRPG

1. Halloween sale page: pumpkin: 5E Halloween Mini-Dungeon: The Horror of Ochre Grove
2. All titles pumpkin: Seers and Roebuck: Dustbuster of Holding
3. My address: pumpkin: (5E) BASIC02: A Frightful Time
4. Select how I want to be contacted by publishers: Witch Hat: ETU: Brewhaha
5. Change newsletter, deal of the day and follow your faviorites settings: Witch Hat: Deep Magic: Chaos Magic for 5th Edition
6. Genre Horror: pumpkin: The Measure of a Man (Master)
7. First page: Witchhat: Castles & Crusades Night of the Sprits
8. About us: pumpkin: Doomtown Reloaded: Print & Play Demo
9. Product Reviews: Pumpkin: Mothership: Player's Survival Guide
10. Order History - Sanctuary of Belches for 5th Edition

DrivethruComics

1. Front Page - Kids on Bikes - House on Poplar Court
2. Halloween Sale Page - Unstoppable Origins #1
3. About Us - Death Vigil #1
4. My Library (All Products) - God the Dyslexic Dog Volume 1
5. Horror Genre Page - Charismagic: The Death Princess Volume 1 (Collected Edition)
6. My Address - Tales from the Evil Inc Archive: Halloween (Oct. 2013)
7. Current Newsletter - vs. Stranger Stuff: Send in the Clowns Special Edition
8. Select how I want to be contacted by publishers - Punk Mambo #1
9. Change newsletter, deal of the day and follow your favorites settings - Cradlegrave

DrivethruFiction

1. Front Page - The Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales
2. Halloween Sale Page - Outbreak: Undead 2nd Ed - Intro Manual
3. About Us - The Book of Apex: Volume 1 of Apex Magazine
4. My Library (All Products) - Cabaret of the Grotesque
5. Horror Genre Page - Royden Poole's Field Guide to the 25th Hour
6. My Address - Star Trek Adventures: Remnants
7. Current Newsletter - Achtung! Cthulhu - Fiction - The Trellborg Monstrosities
8. Change newsletter, deal of the day and follow your favorites settings - Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People
9. Contact Options - Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein

DM Guild

1. Halloween Sale Page - Songs of Aedragard
2. About Us - Circle of the Feydark 5e
3. My Library (All Products) - Curse of the Gumdrop Ooze - Revised & Expanded
4. Horror Theme Page - The Little Astralnaut
5. Current Newsletter - Dread Domain: A Cleric Archetype
6. My Address - Spooky, Scary Skeletons
7. Contact Options - Nightfall
8. Products Awaiting Review - The Tuskcracker Threat: An Orc Wereboar Cult
9. Wishlist - The Awakened One: An Otherworldly Patron for D&D 5th Edition
10. Reviews - Secrets of the Blind Palace
11. Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites - College of Silence
12. DriveThruRPG Library App Download Page SNEAKY !) - Headless In Hanneford
13. Edition > Basic/Expert - Blood in the Woods
14. Order History - Snazzlegob Flobwanger's Box of Tricksy Treats

Storytellers Vault

 

1. Halloween Sale Page - Death Vigil #1
2. My Library (Updated Only) - God the Dyslexic Dog Volume 1
3. Reviews - Legacy of Lies: A V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart
4. Game Line Vampire the Requiem - Seers & Roebuck: Dust Buster of Holding
5. Game Line Werewolf the Forsaken - When Will You Rage
6. Game Line Dark Eras - Pax Britannia: Anno Frankenstein
7. Products Awaiting Review - Reap the Whirlwind Revised (VtR 2e)
8. DriveThruRPG Library App Download Page (SNEAKY AGAIN !) - Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Player's Guide
9. Wishlist - Hearts on Trial: Changeling the Lost Second Edition Jumpstart
10. Contact Options - Charismagic: The Death Princess Volume 1 (Collected Edition)
11. Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites - Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People
12. My Address - The Shining Host
13. About Us - Bygone Bestiary
14. Order History - Yours to Keep A C20 Jumpstart

 

Cash Strapped 10/12/19

This weeks trio of links for Cash Strapped gamers is another mix of old and new.



Relics and Ruins is a newer entry into the OSR style of gaming. Mixing in some newer ideas in with the old to come up with a fast and fun game.

The Big List of RPG Plots from Cumberland Games is a classic. A must have for any GM's toolkit.

The Crisp Line is a world for use with FATE. A futuristic genepunk setting where DNA is made to be modified.



If you have any suggestions for cheap or free products to be listed in future posts just mention it in the comments section.

Please check out my other Cash Strapped posts on my blog for more free, cheap and discount resources for those gamers who don't have a lot of money to spend.

 

Cash Strapped - a trio of suggestions

This week on Cash Strapped I offer up a trio of links.  Two of which are more old school and the other to a game that has roots in both traditional and newer age style of play.

So without further ado here we go.

Adventures in Filbar. A rather large collection of products for OSR style games, mostly adventures which are color coded by party level. The average cost is pretty cheap plus they have several free ones for you to look at before you invest in others.

CC1 Creature Compendium. Hey who doesn't need more monsters to throw at your players on game night?  Here is nice selection to pull from at the low cost of zero, all stated out for OSR play.

Soulbound: Dark Industrial Fantasy. A game about wielding randomly generated, arcane weapons which are bound to one's spirit. It is set in the golden age of invention, a time plagued by giant fauna and corrupted demigods. As hunters of the inhuman it is your duty to slay these beasts. 360 pages of rpg all for the price of pay what you want.



If you have any suggestions for cheap or free products to be listed in future posts just mention it in the comments section.

Please check out my other Cash Strapped posts on my blog for more free, cheap and discount resources for those gamers who don't have a lot of money to spend.

Jaded Gamer - Cortex Prime prediction

This time I'm making a prediction.

Cortex Prime is going to crash and burn in the format they are switching over too.

In a recent announcement from Cam Banks the rights to the Cortex system are being sold to Fandom which does D&D Beyond. Their plans are apparently to follow that same release format. No pdf sales but instead you use an app to access all the material. Also no mention of actual dead tree formats either. The only pdfs they are releasing is to meet the requirements of the Cortex Prime Kickstarter backers. After than anybody new will have to download an app to get access.

Didn't Iron Kingdoms try that once upon a time? If I'm not mistaken that crashed and burned as well.

I think the only reason DnD Beyond is successful is because of the sheer size of the fanbase. Cortex does not have anything near that.

Nobody wants to be restricted to access through an app program that they really don't have any control over. There are several different pdf reasons out there for a reason, because people like variety when they view things. Also they like to pull open the book without having to be connected to the internet.

They are going in the opposite direction of user friendly. It will hammer the accessibility of the system and people will go elsewhere. ALSO when you make things harder to access it just drums up more piracy of your product. Look at Palladium Books, people were pirating the hell out of their stuff when they refused to release pdfs.

Anyways once the full release via their app comes out and it's the only way to get the game it will drop in popularity like a rock. Very few new people will be coming in and those who are fans are going to drop it because of the app access. Then they will finally break down and release pdfs again just to keep the line feasible. Hopefully it will be salvageable at that point.

Cash Strapped - Gaming Aids

How about a nice little collection of various gaming aids for GM's and players alike. Just take a look at what you can use here as there might be the diamond in the rough you've been waiting for. Not so much of a theme this month but a nice bit of variety instead.

Hex Paper Generator
River Village from Iconic Maps
A Dice Rolling pdf
Your New Critical Fail Roll Chart
Dark Fantasy Religion


If you have any suggestions for cheap or free products to be listed in future posts just mention it in the comments section.

Please check out my other Cash Strapped posts on my blog for more free, cheap and discount resources for those gamers who don't have a lot of money to spend.

Jaded Gamer Diary - Consent in Gaming meltdowns

Okay it's been a really funny few days in the old online gaming communities. Monte Cook Games released a pdf called 'Consent in Gaming' and suddenly a bunch of fucking monkeys began throwing feces so fast it looked like a literal shit storm. Everybody from Tarnowski's little gathering of antisocial misfits to folks deep in the OSR movement were up in arms. I've never seen so many morons crying out how this was going to ruin gaming or that it's something the SJW folks are pushing on all of us to invade the hobby. I mean some really, REALLY, stupid shit was coming out of folks.

I never bothered reading the Consent in Gaming thing because... well because it came from Monte Cook Games and I don't ever bother to read anything they put out. But I got the general idea of it from between the screeching of angry basement boys. Really I don't see the need in using it because I do this wild crazy ass idea I call "talking to my players about the type of game I'm going to run beforehand" that has always worked really well for me.

But I did thing of an alternative that I think would work better. Instead of the players filling it out and the GM having to filter through five or six different peoples issues ON TOP of all the regular work they have to put into into a game.  Let's have the GM fill out a form which shows what kind of topics and issues will be in their game and then the players can read it and chose if they want to play or not. So the GM can run the kind of game they want and get the types of players who are okay with it while players can find the games they are suited for much easier as well.

I call this wild ass idea "Being up front with players on what your game is about".

Cash Strapped - Talislanta

Oh the classic world of Talislanta. Those of you old enough to remember probably think of the 'no elves' ads from back in the day when hearing that name. Probably one of the more unique settings of the old school era of game design. It bounced through several publishers, multiple books for it have been released and even multiple systems. A busy few decades for a RPG that never quite broke out onto the map for many gamers.

But now it's back in the hands of the original creator and he's decided to give away all the old material for free. Or you can even get Print on Demand version of the books through DrivethruRPG.

Visit the main website of www.talislanta.com for a good chunk of history and information about the game. Along with links to downloading all the books you could ever want for it.

Or go to the DrivethruRPG section for Talislanta and get the free downloads there or order physical copies of the books.



If you have any suggestions for cheap or free products to be listed in future posts just mention it in the comments section.

Please check out my other Cash Strapped posts on my blog for more free, cheap and discount resources for those gamers who don't have a lot of money to spend.