RPG: Bundle Of Holding Resistance Bundle On Brings Out the Anti-Authoritarian in All of Us
Bundle of Holding wants you to join the Resistance, with a ten-RPG bundle all about smashing the oppressive state.
There are six days left to snag the Bundle of Holding’s Resistance Bundle. This is a collection of ten different RPGs and supplements all about fighting authoritarian states and occasionally punching nazis with games like Eat the Reich. Which is great, because nazis are the ultimate badguy—you don’t have to feel any moral qualms about being a vampire at them.
But it’s not just occult WW2-era RPGs you’ll find. There’s a solid mix of sci-fi and fantasy, of gritty history and the punk energy of misspent youths. Something for just about everyone in the new bundle, which not only gets you ten titles for under $3 apiece, it benefits charity. Let’s take a look.
The Resistance Bundle – Ten Games For Under $30
There are ten titles in the bundle all in all. Each Bundle of Holding is split into two different parts—the Starter Collection and the
“Adventurer! This new Resistance Bundle presents tabletop roleplaying games about fighting authoritarian regimes and punching Nazis. For just US $12.95 you get all five complete games in our Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free ebooks, including the illuminated mecha game Apocalypse Frame; two subversive takes on Star Wars, galactic 2e and its companion game Going Rogue; Jason Morningstar’s acclaimed RPG of youth resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, Grey Ranks; and the current (1.2) edition of the punk rock game of dystopian teenaged rebellion, Misspent Youth.”
Each of these games on its own would be worth the price of admission. Apocalypse Frame is a ttrpg take on the frenetic action of an Armored Core that uses the Lumen system. If you’ve never played it you can expect to play in a game where your characters are basically just awesome at what they do. It plays fast and strong. Not that it’s a cake walk, just that character abilities feel cool—it’s why Lumen is the system of choice for a Hollow Knight adaptation. But in Apocalypse Frame you’re rebelling against an oppressive space corporation who wants you to just shut up and harvest resources. And you’re doing it in mechs.
galactic 2e and its companion going rogue use the Belonging outside of Belonging rules framework to deliver a more relationship focused take on Star Wars. And going rogue, specifically, is Rogue One and/or Andor. They’re both a ton of fun. going rogue especially is worth a try—it’s GMless, so you just need a few friends and to have recently rewatched Andor for maximum enjoyment.
And Misspent Youth is a love letter to the punk kid in all of us. Seriously, it’s one of my favorites for a short campaign. It plays extremely well with basically any group.
The Bonus Collection
Of course, for just a little more, you get the Bonus Collection, which includes five more books:
“And if you pay more than the threshold price of $27.13, you’ll level up and also get our entire Bonus Collection with five more titles worth an additional $72, including Grant Howitt’s Eat the Reich; No God’s Country, a Forged in the Dark game from A Couple of Drakes (Court of Blades); Moonpunk, which adapts real-world subversion techniques to a retrofuture Moon colony; and two expansions for Misspent Youth: the standalone companion game Fall in Love, Not in Line and Sell Out With Me.”
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The whole bundle would be worth it for Eat the Reich. Grant Howitt, whom you might recognize from Honey Heist, Bird Crimes, or possibly ORC BORG, is a renowned designer of RPGs. And in Eat the Reich you play vampire commandos with one job: drink all of Hitler’s blood. You get coffin-dropped into occupied Paris. Then you eat your way through nazi command until you get to the final boss. Good times.
Plus Fall in Love, Not in Line legitimately made me feel feelings that I wasn’t prepared to when I sat down to play with friends. The Resistance Bundle on Bundle of Holding is only around for another six days. So jump in now. Your purchase will benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization dedicated to “advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights”. Hard to go wrong with that.
Time to go rewatch Andor!
