RPG Shopping? Here’s Five Things You Can Buy For $60
Here’s a list of five different things, ttrpg or otherwise, you can buy for around $59.95 or so. Oh, no reason. Just interesting, is all.
For no particular reason, here’s a list of different gaming and gaming-adjacent things you can get for the cost of a D&D book, going forward.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
For the price of a player’s handbook, you can delve into the world of Hyrule with the game that broke the mold. Now, of course, this won’t get you the newest game, Tears of the Kingdom. If you want to dive into the latest iteration of Zelda that has relit the fires of imagination (and several Koroks) you’d have to pay the price of a new digital + physical bundle.
Two Copies of Thirsty Sword Lesbians
Thirsty Sword Lesbians is a nebula-award winning ttrpg about flirting, sword-fighting, and everything in between. Where sword duels can end in kissing, where monsters can be overcome with the power of friendship, and you can get two books! That’s a total of 448 pages, full color! With a free PDF even, because Evil Hat isn’t afraid of technology. All for the price of a guide for dungeon masters.
Worlds Without Number, Stars Without Number, and Atlas of the Latter Earth
You could get the entirety of Worlds Without Number, an exhaustively written fantasy RPG that is fully compatible with its sci-fi counterpart, Stars Without Number, and the Atlas of the Latter Earth which expands and gives a setting to Worlds Without Number. If you’ve ever wanted to take a fantasy game from being knights to traveling the stars, this is one of the best ways to do it.
And all of these will presumably be compatible with the upcoming Cities Without Number as well. All for the price of a single manual full of monsters.
Blades in the Dark and Scum & Villainy
For the same price as a splatbook that includes two subclasses you’ll actually use and a bunch of stuff you still haven’t read, you can set foot into the world of games Forged in the Dark. Start with the original, Blades in the Dark which provides a gaslit, fantasy world of ghosts and criminals and bluecoats and heists.
Then take to the stars with Scum & Villainy, which casts you as a bunch of roguish scoundrels plying the interstellar lanes with high tech blasters, looking for crimes to do.
Total War: Warhammer 3
For the price of a three-book campaign setting that doesn’t even include custom rules for doing the thing in the name, you can pick up Total War: Warhammer 3 and get in on Immortal Empires, conquering all of the Old World if that strikes your fancy.
What would you buy for $60?
