Another Fantasy Bundle - Broken Tales

Jun. 30th, 2025 07:24 pm
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This is the  Broken Tales Bundle featuring the "FRPG of grim upside-down fairy tales where villains seek redemption" and unfortunately the good guys aren't necessarily good...

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/BrokenTales

  

I'll be honest, I think that this is one of those ideas that only works well as a one-off scenario or an occasional break from a more normal style of play. Expecting every evil stepmother to be misunderstood and every downtrodden orphan to be a psychopathic killer gets old fast. But it's cheap and should give a few hours of fun if you want to give it a try.


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The His Majesty the Worm Bundle presents His Majesty the Worm, a megadungeon-crawling fantasy roleplaying game from Josh McCrowell at Rise Up Comus, plus other material including a "cozy halfling-village game" Under Hill, By Water and its travel expansion Walking Holiday, which might possibly draw some inspiration from a well-known fantasy author.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/HisMajesty



Unfortunately I've received this on a day when I'm feeling seriously tired. I've taken a look and it seems to be well-presented and reasonably coherent, but the rule book alone  is more than 400 pages and I am not going to be able to give it more than a cursory look any time soon, and a game that starts out by wanting me to buy some tarot cards to play it does not automatically get my seal of approval - I suppose the cards aren't much more expensive than a few dice at current prices, but if I bought this, intended to run it immediately, then discovered I needed cards I didn't have I'd be a little peeved.

The halfling book is mostly about trying NOT to have adventures and firmly avoiding the sort of stress that comes with strange parties of dwarves and wizards on your doorstep, and looks to be a lot of fun. The supplement is about halflings that commit the serious mistake of going out to explore beyond their village, and how to create the surrounding area and have horrible things happen there, like running short of food. Seriously, go home and smoke some pipeweed instead, at least that stuff takes a few years to kill you...

Overall this looks to be reasonable value - I suspect that if I ever wanted to run a fantasy RPG I'd be more likely to go with the halflings than the Worm, but if either appeals it's probably worth a look.

Odd Doctor Who Thought

Jun. 24th, 2025 08:48 pm
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If there was a Time Lord called "The Lawyer" would they be good or evil? What would their TARDIS look like? And what would their reaction be to The Doctor, and vice versa?

Given some of the portrayals of the Time Lord idea of justice in e.g. Trial of a Time Lord I'm not convinced that their legal system is better than e.g. the wizarding world in the Harry Potter books, which is a frighteningly low bar to fail at. Any thoughts on this?

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This is a bundle of bestiaries and sourcebooks from Cawood Publishing containing hundreds of monsters for D&D 5E with conversion advice for Old-School Essentials, Dungeon Crawl Classics, and Pathfinder.

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/CawoodMonsters

 

This isn't something I would want to use - I don't run this type of game any more, and I'm not convinced that it makes sense for characters to keep encountering monsters that nobody has ever heard of before, and have to figure out how to defeat them by trial and error. Having said that, the price isn't too bad and you're getting a lot of weird stuff to throw at players. Whether they will thank you for it may be another matter...
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This is a bundle of material for Shadowlands Raven, a gothic horror RPG from Shadowlands Games inspired by Poe and other 19th authors in that vein:

 

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/RavenGothic

 

It looks interesting, it's cheap and I think it's the first RPG I've been offered that comes in multiple languages. And there are cats and ravens, of course...
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