Open Ended Games has joined forces with Bundle of Holding to offer a money saving deal on the Against the Darkmaster roleplaying game. You can jump aboard for $7.95 to score the corebook and two other PDFs. Get all twelve PDFs for the current threshold price of $18.86. These savings run through May 26th.
About the bundle:
Adventurer! This new Against the Darkmaster Bundle presents Against the Darkmaster, the tabletop fantasy roleplaying game from Open Ended Games of epic adventure and heavy-metal combat. Funded in an October 2019 Kickstarter campaign, Against the Darkmaster (abbreviated VsD for “versus Darkmaster”) adapts old-school percentile systems (specifically, Middle-Earth Role-Playing) to support grand sagas in the style of Tolkien, The Wheel of Time, Labyrinth, and Dragonslayer – stories of a fellowship of heroes standing together against overwhelming evil.
Using rules aimed at creating epic quests, with detailed travel mechanics for long overland adventures, you’ll travel to distant lands, face terrible dangers, uncover ancient items of power, and gather the armies of the world under your banner to defeat an ultimate menace. What menace, specifically? That’s up to your group of players: You launch your VsD campaign by rolling on or choosing from several charts that collectively define a dreadful and immensely powerful being who seeks to plunge the world into darkness. The rulebook describes three examples: the Horned King of Annwn, the Witch-Queen of Despair, and the Blood Lord of War. Whether an eldritch horror or a devious warmaster, a tempter or sower of discord, a herald of Death or Fimbulwinter – the Weaver of Lies, the God of Entropy, the Unborn Spirit – whatever his nature and epithet, the Darkmaster commands ruinous powers, hordes of servants, and corrupting magic. He has no game statistics and cannot be directly fought. But a prophecy tells of this entity’s downfall, if the heroes can find the Coveted Artifact that is his bane.
This new Against the Darkmaster Bundle presents much of the line – everything you need for a full-scale campaign of good against evil, of courage and sacrifice, and a struggle that will transform the world – for an unbeatable bargain price. (The bundle is bargain-priced, not the transformation of the world.) For just US$7.95 you get all three titles in our Starter Collection (retail value $33.50) as DRM-free ebooks, including the complete 574-page Against the Darkmaster Core Rules (previously in our November 2021 Cornucopia 9) plus the short introductory adventure Heartbane and the GM Screen.
And if you pay more than the threshold price of $18.86, you’ll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with nine more titles worth an additional $57, including the 355-page rules expansion Secrets of the Golden Throne; two full-length adventures – The Silence of Dawnfell and Legacy of Blood; and six sets of printable Core Spell Cards for easy reference, keyed to the spellcasting classes: Animist, Champion, Common & Kin, Dabbler, and Wizard, plus the new spells from Secrets of the Golden Throne.
