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Post by wyvern on Oct 18, 2018 6:15:51 GMT -9
OK, so the pumpkins, ghosts, witches' hats, bats and candles have gone up on several of the OBS sites today, announcing the annual Hallowe'en freebie treasure hunt. I checked the usual places from past years, and so far have accounted for seven [now eight] items* on DriveThruRPG: 1) Homepage, below the "Free Stuff" link => Fear Can't Hurt You (A Halloween Scenario), whose cost is $0 anyway. This is for the ELEMENTAL RPG. 2) The "My Library" page, lowest right => Monsters and Other Childish Things: Curriculum of Conspiracy, currently $3.44 in the 31% off OBS Hallowe'en Sale, for the One-Roll Engine system. 3) The Hallowe'en Sale homepage, right-hand side, above the "Sort by" option label => Kids on Bikes: Core Rulebook, which is $9.99 otherwise. 4) The Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites page under the "My Account" area, right-hand side, just above the "Follow Your Favorites" section => Malicious Mischief (for Shadow of the Demon Lord RPG), $1.37 also in the Hallowe'en Sale, a short item with three faerie creatures for the RPG. 5) The "About Us" page, towards the lower left => Head Shot! Zombie Apocalypse Action Roleplaying (for the Cortex RPG), which is $3.95 otherwise. 6) The Genre - Horror menu option, top right of that page => Die Laughing - Preview Edition 2 - currently $1.37 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 7) Top right of the "My Products Awaiting Review" page under "My Account" => ICONS: Casino of Corruption - $5 otherwise. 8) Top right of the "Change my addresses" page => Mystic Times: Saraahd's Secret Shrine [Adventure - Tier 1/Low Level], system agnostic, so for any RPG system, already free as a PDF. There could well be more. I found nine items here last year, but the list of places from then showed the other options to be empty this time. If you find something more, please post it here! Not sure I'll have time today to check through the possibilities on the DTFiction, DTCards and DTComics sites, also featuring similar Treasure Hunts, but in case it helps your own searching, the list of what I found last year there is on this CWF topic. Happy Halloween Hunting * [EDIT: Posting amended after Rhannon & jeffgeorge added their information.]
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Post by wyvern on Oct 18, 2018 7:15:46 GMT -9
So, I had a little more time that I'd thought, as other places I usually visit have been unexpectedly calm today online. Hence, we move on to DriveThruFiction. Seven [now eight] items* here too in what I came across. 1) Homepage sidebar, below the "Free Stuff" link => Monsters of Horror, six movie-themed monsters statted-up for 5e D&D, worth $0.99. 2) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => Delta Green: Sweetness, worth $2.06 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 3) Top right of the Genre - Horror page => Little Fears: The Wolf Pact, also on Hallowe'en Sale at $4.14. 4) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Sins of the Father at $6.89 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 5) Top right of "Products Awaiting My Review" page => Dead God Trilogy Book 1: Forsaken, worth $2.99, but, gosh, NOT in the Hallowe'en Sale! 6) Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites page, above the "Follow Your Favorites" section => The Island of Dr. Morose, $2.75 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 7) Lower left of the About Us page => The Black Spot, $2.07 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 8) Top right of the "Change my addresses" page => Don't Read This Book, which at least gives you the option, rather than paying $3.45 for it in the Hallowe'en Sale. Again, if you find more, please do say! * [EDIT: Posting amended after Rhannon & jeffgeorge added their information.]
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Post by wyvern on Oct 18, 2018 8:00:08 GMT -9
And so to round things off, DriveThru Cards & Comics. Worth checking guys, as the options for what's where seem pretty random this year (see below)! DTCards: 1) Homepage, below the "Free Stuff" icon link => Meadowshire Coloring Book, worth $2. 2) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => Heroes of the Mists (a D&D 5e expansion for the Curse of Strahd Ravenloft setting), worth $3. 3) Top right the the Theme - Horror page => Tales from the Evil Inc Archive: Halloween (Oct. 2013), worth $1.99. 4) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Contamination 1: The Onset, $2.06 in the Hallowe'en Sale (though marked as just an ePub file only, there IS a PDF version available in the downloads links as well). 5) Top right of "Products Awaiting My Review" page => Shadowman (2018) #1, $2.99 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 6) Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites page, above the "Follow Your Favorites" section => Create your own Image Zombies Clipart, worth $1.49. 7) Lower left of the About Us page => something of a shock this, an actual CARD GAME from DT CARDS, Fearless Vampire Hunters: A Card Game for 3-6 Players, worth all of $0.45 thanks to the 31% Hallowe'en Sale discount otherwise... 8) Top right of the "Change my addresses" page => Letters from the Dark Side, well Luke at that... Hallowe'en Sale price is otherwise $0.68. DTComics (again, there's one ePub-only file which actually does have a PDF option as well): 1) Homepage, below the "Free Stuff" icon link => Children of the Night, 65 monsters newly updated for the D&D 5e Ravenloft setting, worth $3. 2) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => Southern Monsters, free via the Treasure Hunt link, but reduced to $0.68 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 3) Top right of the Genre - Horror page => the Reviresco paper model Ghost Car, worth $3. 4) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Adam 2.0: Black Swan #01, reduced to $2.75 by the 31% Hallowe'en Sale promotion. 5) Top right of "Products Awaiting My Review" page => Chick'n Butt (chicken butt), another card game, worth $4.99. 6) Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites page, above the "Follow Your Favorites" section => www.drivethrucomics.com/product/127491/The-King-in-Yellow The King In Yellow, worth $0.68, reduced in Ye Olde Hallowe'ene Sale-e. 7) Lower left of the About Us page => 'Til Undeath Do Us Part, worth $2.06 via the Hallowe'en Sale. 8) Top right of the "Change my addresses" page => Jawbone Grief: The Demon and the Dead #1 (One Shot), already a freebie anyway. Didn't check RPGNow, as they had only the same stuff as DTRPG last year, but perhaps you know differently for this time? [See my fresh posting below now for the RPGNow details.] [EDIT: Posting amended after Rhannon & jeffgeorge added their information.]
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Post by Rhannon on Oct 18, 2018 11:31:29 GMT -9
Thank you very much, wyvern! ;-)
UPDATES:
1 - DriveThruRPG ------ RPGNow
Same position but four are different.
There are "Sins of the Father", 5E Holiday Mini-Dungeon (bundle), Whispers of the Dead and Halloween Horror.
2 - There are 8 spots for all. All the same.
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Post by jeffgeorge on Oct 18, 2018 14:00:52 GMT -9
I found one more on DTRPG, wyvern . On the Account page, click "Change my address." The jack-o-lantern at the top right gives you "Mystic Times: Saraahd's Secret Shrine", a low-level adventure for Pathfinder and D&D. Update:Actually, there's one on the Change Address page on all the sites: DTFiction: "Don't Read This Book," an anthology compiled by Chuck Wendig and including a story by Robin Laws, among others. DTCards: "Letters from the Dark Side," a short-story anthology. DTComics: "Jawbone Grief: The Demon and the Dead," an indie comic. There's also one on that page on RPGNow, but I forgot to write down what it was.
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Post by wyvern on Oct 19, 2018 3:46:02 GMT -9
Thanks very much for your updates Rhannon & jeffgeorge . I've amended my earlier posts above now to include all eight links for those who want to try before they (in this case don't need to) buy. The following is the equivalent information from RPGNow: 1) Homepage, below the "Free Stuff" icon link => Sins of the Father, a 7-player LARP adventure, worth $2.07 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 2) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => the Kids on Bikes: Core Rulebook again (as on DTRPG, unsurprising as the RPGNow Halloween Sale banner link goes to DTRPG). 3) Top right of the Genre - Horror page => 5E Holiday Mini-Dungeon (bundle), worth $9.99 (and for this price they couldn't have packaged them as a single zip file for download?). 4) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Whispers of the Dead, the background stories to seven undead, suitable for any RPG system, already down to $1.37 thanks to the Hallowe'en Sale. 5) Top right of "Products Awaiting My Review" page => The Stuff of Nightmares (Level 18 PCs) for high-level D&D-type RPGs, worth $3.44 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 6) Newsletters and Follow Your Favorites page, above the "Follow Your Favorites" section => Halloween Horror, worth $4.80 again in the Hallowe'en Sale. This is a Choasium product for their Basic Roleplaying/Call of Cthulhu system. 7) Lower left of the About Us page => Head Shot! Zombie Apocalypse Action Roleplaying as also on DTRPG. 8) Top right of the "Change my addresses" page => Weresheep, suitable for Pathfinder and other OSR-style RPG systems, worth $1.37 at its sale-reduced price. Keep hunting folks, just in case there's more! I'm off to trawl through the 10,660 items in the Hallowe'en Sale - lucky it lasts almost another fortnight...
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Post by iemcd on Oct 19, 2018 4:44:54 GMT -9
There is also one on the "My Order History" page.
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Post by wyvern on Oct 19, 2018 6:08:55 GMT -9
Well spotted iemcd ! Details: DTRPG's My Orders page => The Demonic Interference at New Ritupis Church a scenario for D&D-type RPGs, Sale price currently $2.59. RPGNow's My Orders page => Eldritch Fauna, strange animals for general RPG use, $0.52 in the Hallowe'en Sale. DTFiction's My Orders page => Lights Out - Book 1, Sale reduced price is currently $1.37. DTCards' My Orders page => Bats in Your Belfry the card game, presently available for $2.06 otherwise. DTComics' My Order page => Ghostly Tides #1, an opportoonity to let ye aall taalk lyke a pyraate, ah-haar! Otherwise available for $0.68 at present.
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Post by aleks on Oct 22, 2018 1:02:07 GMT -9
Thank you all!
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Post by wyvern on Oct 26, 2018 6:00:29 GMT -9
Yesterday's DTRPG Newsletter announced the addition of more Hallowe'en Freebies to two other of the OBS sites, DM's Guild (D&D products) and Storyteller's Vault (White Wolf items in the "Vampire the Masquerade" et al. line). I've had a hunt round today, and found the following items. DM's Guild: 1) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => Seasonal Surprises Vol 1, priced at $4.99 otherwise. 2) Top right of the Theme - Horror page => The Haunt, worth $3.42 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 3) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Monsters of Horror (already available via DTFiction). 4) Lower right of the "My Wishlist" page => A Night of Masks and Monsters (A Requiem of Wings #1), a PWYW one-shot adventure for level 3 characters. 5) Contact Options page above the Publisher Contact Options list (via the "Select how I wish to be contacted by publishers" link) => We Eat in the Dark, worth $1.35 via the Hallowe'en Sale. 6) Privacy Policy page, top right => Heroes of the Mists (already available from DTCards). 7) Lower left sidebar column of the "Our Latest Newsletter" page => Festivals, Feasts & Fairs worth $2.95. 8) Top right of the "Product Reviews" page => Children of the Night (already available via DTCards). Couldn't find a ninth icon option here, but I may just not have tried the right places. Storyteller's Vault (where I found just seven icons): 1) Halloween Sale page, right side, above the products listing => New Blood for Vampire Dark Ages, priced at $4.80 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 2) Top right of the Game Line - Werewolf the Apocalypse page => Rage Warriors of the Apocalypse, worth $6.20 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 3) Top right of the Game Line - Mage the Ascension page => The Fragile Path: Testaments of the First Cabal, currently $5.51 in the Hallowe'en Sale. 4) Lowest right of the "My Library" page => Beckett’s Vampire Folio 1: Carna’s ReBellion, currently down to just $0.68 in the 31% off Hallowe'en Sale. 5) Lower right of the "My Wishlist" page => Demon Translation Guide, at the Sale price of $3.44 otherwise. 6) Privacy Policy page, top right => another copy of Beckett’s Vampire Folio 1: Carna’s ReBellion, should you wish one. 7) Top right of the "Product Reviews" page => Mage Translation Guide, currently priced at $3.44 thanks to the ongoing Sale. As usual, if anyone find any more of these, please let the rest of us know!
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