Gaming Sunday May 15, 2022

AS ALWAYS, CHECK PRICES BEFORE ORDERING as sales can end or prices change before I update them. Also, some sales only have so many items or keys available for purchase so the sale ends as soon as they run out of items or keys.

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Gaming Sunday Week – will be linking to individual posts to keep this post as short as possible. Seems I don’t have all of the Bundle of Holdings listed, but if you go to https://www.bundleofholding.com/, you can see the ones I missed.

No word on when this sale ends – Nightingale Publishing 100% Proceeds Go to Ukraine Humanitarian Fund – direct link: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/157169/Ukraine-Relief–TTRGP–Fiction-Bundle, but it’s for a good cause to help Ukraine Humanitarian Fund.

Axis and Allies – Zombie Edition: (Temporarily on Sale as of May 15, 2022 – Noble Knight) for the game: http://media.wizards.com/2018/ah/AAZ-Rulebook.pdf

BackerKit: https://www.backerkit.com/ (for creators and backers of projects) If you backed a project, you can find it at https://www.backerkit.com/are_you_a_backer and some of the companies allow you to pre-order even if you didn’t back a game.

It’s on e of several pledge managers used by the different crowdfunding sites. CrowdOx – https://crowdox.com/ and Pledge Manager – https://signin.pledgemanager.com are other choices made by some campaigns. Additional pledge managers include Gamefound.com – https://gamefound.com/, FluentPM.com – https://www.fluentpm.com/, and Jet Backer – https://platform.jetbacker.com/ mentioned in this post: Interesting Articles about Pledge Managers.

Bundle of Holding Bundles available (as of May 15, 2022) – NOTE: sometimes the bundle price will drop a little bit from the previous day, but usually the bundle prices tend to go up a lot more than they go down):

Bundle(s) available on Bundle of Holding:

Cypher System 10A : Newest Bundle of Holding – Cypher System 10A Bundle – May 16, 2022 (ends June 6, 2022)

Revived Nobilis and Chuubo Bundle: Newest Bundle of Holding – Revived Nobilis and Chuubo Bundle – May 11, 2022 (ends May 25, 2022)

ShadowRun Power Plays Bundle: Newest Bundle of Holding – Shadowrun Power Plays Bundle – May 3, 2022 (ends May 23, 2022)

Shadowrun Sixth World Essentials: Newest Bundle of Holding – Shadowrun Sixth World Essentials Bundle – May 2, 2022 (ends May 23, 2022)

Hero’s Journey Bundle: Newest Bundle of Holding – Hero’s Journey Bundle – May 9, 2022 (ends May 18, 2022)

Newest Bundle of Holding – Sixth World Stories 2 Quick Deal Bundle – May 4, 2022 (ends May 16, 2022)

Civilization Sales: SALE ENDED. Will keep the link up for when it comes back on sale later. Check Fanatical.com, Steam, and Humble Bundle as one of those will offer a sale that’s not listed on the Civilization website.

Sales on the Civilization website: https://civilization.com/sale/ (nothing on sale as of May 15, 2022 so you will get a 404 error when you click on the link and a sale is not active). May or may not be on sale at Fanatical.com (a few Civ 5 and Civ 6 items on sale on different days, it varies widely) or Humble Bundle, but it has been recently on sale at both and occasionally goes back on sale.

Civilization VI (aka Civ 6 or Civ VI) regular price $59.99.

Civilization VI Digital Deluxe Edition regular price $79.99

DriveThru RPG (DTRPG) and its sister sites: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/ –

They are generally daily sales on DTRPG which you can get e-mail notices if you sign up for them; same for the sister sites. They often place Deal of the Day in the top right corner of the homepage, but the link varies daily.

DTRPG links: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/ See also:

https://www.drivethrucards.com/,
https://www.drivethrucomics.com/,
https://www.drivethrufiction.com/,
https://www.dmsguild.com/,
https://www.storytellersvault.com/.
https://www.wargamevault.com/
Ulisses-Spiele: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3444/Ulisses-Spiele;
Pegasus Press (or Pegasus Digital): https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3445/Pegasus-Press.
Astral Tabletop: https://www.astraltabletop.com/partnership/

DTRPG sales: see below.

Savings on Dark Places and Demogorgons – https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/9721/Bloat-Games No word on when the sale ends; it started November 9, 2018 and still has some items on sale as of May 15, 2022.

Fanatical.com Bundles and Sales Available: https://www.fanatical.com/en/bundle – available as of May 15, 2022 – tends to vary day to day so check back every day to see what’s available. Main site: https://www.fanatical.com/.

You will need a Steam account – https://store.steampowered.com/ to access many of the games offered by Fanatical.com.

GoFundMe:

There are numerous GoFundMe, https://www.gofundme.com/, gaming opportunities out there – https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=homepage_norma/search&term=gaming although you may need to narrow it down quite a bit if you have a particular gaming interest.

Humble Bundle Bundles Available (as of May 15, 2022) – https://www.humblebundle.com/ (20 bundles available – can vary from day to day) also check on Humble Bundle’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/humblebundle/ as they are good about adding sale items that aren’t part of the highlighted bundles. The good news is you have this option if you don’t like the nonprofit chosen by the organizer: ” If you would like to support a different charity, select a new one from our database of thousands.”

Latest Humble Bundle offerings (in order by newest added):

New Weekly Sale: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/?hmb_source=humble_home&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_twos_tile_index_1 (not an affiliate link). Many games to choose from.

Civilization VI Deluxe: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sid-meiers-civilization-6-digital-deluxe regular price $79.99.

Civilization VI: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sid-meiers-civilization-6 regular price $59.99.

Civilization IV: The Complete Edition: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sid-meiers-civilization-iv-complete-edition regular price $29.99.

Civilization III Complete: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/sid-meiers-civilization-iii-complete regular price $4.99.

Many of the other Sid Meier’s Civilization – https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&search=meiers%20civilization

Other Humble Bundle Links (way too many to list all of them; some of these can change daily so I will highlight only a few and may include some that aren’t on sale):

On Sale (you can filter it a number of different ways, including Top Discounts, Bestselling, Alphabetically, Release Date, New Releases, Genres, Platform, DRM): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=discount&filter=onsale

Sid Meier’s Civilization (ranging from Civilization III to VI and a few others); some on sale at the moment on Humble Bundle, also available at Fanatical.com https://www.fanatical.com/en/search?search=meier%20civilization), but I like the Civ series of games): https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&search=sid%20meier%20civilization&genre=Strategy. It is sometimes on sale through the Civilization Sale website: https://civilization.com/sale/

Indiegogo Projects: mostly Gaming related: https://www.indiegogo.com/ Try https://www.indiegogo.com/explore/all?project_type=all&project_timing=all&sort=trending&q=gaming and narrow down as needed.

Indiegogo Products on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Launchpad-Collection-Indiegogo/b?node=12034484011&tag=indiegogo-20 (not an affiliate link)

Kickstarter Projects – Gaming Related for the most part, but will include non-gaming related items at times (frequently, shipping costs are NOT included if you back a project – so factor those into your budget): https://www.kickstarter.com/

Kickstarter Newest Campaigns: https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/newest?ref=discovery_overlay.

Noble Knight Sales:

Current Sale: https://www.nobleknight.com/ may vary from day to day; some items still available as of November 1, 2020 – https://www.nobleknight.com/Featured

Patreon Projects: https://www.patreon.com/

Not too many at present listed below. Too many possibilities, but if you search on Patreon, you may find one or more projects that appeals to you, be it gaming or non-gaming.

Dyson Logos: https://www.patreon.com/dysonlogos. Dyson Logos is creating Hand-Drawn Maps for Fantasy RPGs. You can also find stuff on Dyson’s blog: https://dysonlogos.blog/.

Johnn Four: https://www.patreon.com/johnnfour

Here’s a gaming creator who’s on Patreon, Liz Danforth – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Danforth, that works with both The Fantasy Trip and Tunnels and Trolls: https://www.patreon.com/posts/artists-20361636. She has a blog under the Blog Section below.

Death Wears Bunny Slippers (DWBS): https://www.patreon.com/dwbs. Occasional F-bombs and other profanity in the videos. Not exactly gaming related, but how many people can say they own an old nuclear missile silo? I mention DWBS on occasion as he’s an interesting guy and it’s on my Bucket List to own an old missile silo if I ever get the chance. If nothing else, I hope to visit his silo one day.

Esoteric Order of Roleplayers – https://www.patreon.com/esotericrp

The Esoteric Order of Roleplayers is an actual-play RPG podcast wherein a bunch of friends gather together every week to play role-playing games from off the beaten path. Many RPG actual-play ‘casts focus on D&D or Pathfinder; if you’re curious about a different sort of game, come here for a listen!

James Edgar Skye: https://www.patreon.com/JamesEdgarSkye (see GoFundMe for his Bipolar Blog under GoFundMe)

Morrus: https://www.patreon.com/1pa

WASD20: https://www.patreon.com/wasd20.

Blogs – mostly Gaming related:

Atroll’s Entertainment (Ken St. Andre’s Blog): https://atroll.wordpress.com/

The Board Dame: https://theboarddame.com/

Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls blog: https://deluxetunnelsandtrolls.wordpress.com/

Gregorius21778 gaming blog: https://gregorius21778.wordpress.com/

James Edgar Skye Bipolar Blog: https://thebipolarwriter.blog/

Liz Danforth’s blog: http://www.lizdanforth.com/ – same Liz Danforth as under the Patreon section above.

Mike Hobbs’ game blog: https://meeples.wordpress.com/2016/03/21/mike-hobbs-gaming-blog/

No Rerolls: https://norerolls.co.uk/