Bundle of Holding to support Direct Relief: The GameMaster's Apprentice!

Click for the Bundle of Holding offer page—which also includes the Fantasy and Weird Horror decks, not pictured here!

You may already be well aware of the Bundle of Holding, but just in case, they are a website which in their own words “presents time-limited, bargain-priced collections of DRM-free tabletop roleplaying game ebooks by leading designers. Support indie publishing, help charity, and get top-quality RPGs!”

And for the next few weeks, one of their offers is The GameMaster’s Apprentice Deck Bundle! Click the link to check it out now!

Get literally millions of characters, story events, and more, for a steal! The deal comes in two packages: A base offer for $7.95 that includes three decks and a special sneak preview of the upcoming Cyberpunk Deck, and a Leveled Up offer that adds five additional decks and starts at $17.95, but which will rise over time with the average donation. Act now to score 8 decks (normally $80.00) for less than $20!

This is a little coincidentally-well-timed, since the GMA: Base Deck, the original genre-neutral version, has just achieved Adamantine Bestseller status on DriveThru, so consider this a bit of a celebration, as well as an opportunity to support pandemic recovery through Direct Relief, a charity which will receive about 10% of all sales (after gateway fees).

The GameMaster's Apprentice: Cyberpunk Deck!

The Promo image for the GMA 2.0 Cyberpunk campaign, showing an augmented person overlaid with holographic images.

I'm really excited to say we're FINALLY ready to launch the next GameMaster's Apprentice Kickstarter in the next few days (I'll repost the live link in this thread when we launch, to avoid duplicating), which is for a Cyberpunk theme deck--and also to completely replace and update a number of the randomizers on the cards!

Check out the pre-launch (or later, the launched) campaign here!

An image of the Cyberpunk GMA card, with callouts describing the 13 major randomizers; Beta only, not final!

The biggest changes are:

• Changing the yes/no oracle to include "Yes, but..." and "No, but" by adding "Yes?/No?" results. I'm also changing the balance of answers, so there are more YES!/NO! results, so the ratios provide fewer basic Yes/No and more complex answers.

• Replacing the Elements and Norse Runes with random icons for visual interpretations.

• Adding descriptive character traits and goals/"stakes" to the text on the bottom of the cards.

• Probably replacing the 'tag symbols' with map-generation content, including dungeon geomorphs.

GMA Fantasy Deck Kickstarting August 8-September 4!

I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I am under no delusions about the size of my blog's readership... 

I'm running a new Kickstarter! As of posting, we have funded, and now are expanding the community reward (a Deck of Many Things-/Wild Surge Table-esque list of random magical effects) with each new backer!

From a design standpoint, I think this is my favorite deck. Thanks to the inestimable Max Johnson's excellent graphic and technical design work, I was able to include a new field: a set of 120 fantasy images, one on each card. Several backers of the first Kickstarter mentioned that they would have appreciated something like this, based on their use of Rory's Story Cubes, so now there are 20d6 worth of images!

The images themselves are drawn from the excellent resources at www.game-icons.net, which are CC-licensed; for the full credits of the ones I used here, check out the Quickstart Guide via the KS page!