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Another Fantasy Bundle - Battlezoo

This is an offer for the Battlezoo Bundle, featuring Fifth Edition monsters and monster hunters from Roll for Combat. This offer helps Roll for Combat as it deals with the creditors of bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors, who have seized many publishers' unsold stock.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Battlezoo

This isn't really my sort of thing, since I don't play any relevant system, but it does suggest an often overlooked twist on fantasy monsters for anyone who needs it - hunting them down for potions ingredients and magical raw materials, rather than killing them to get past them and find treasure. Of course this probably pushes the species towards extinction, but maybe someone will write up a gamekeeper / conservation organization for this, or something like PETA or the RSPCA working to see monsters killed humanely...

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Another Games Bundle - Hearts of Wulin

This is an offer of Hearts of Wulin, featuring "the Apocalypse Engine game of Chinese wuxia melodrama."

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/HeartsOfWulin

The main game material was in a previous bundle, this bundle adds three new supplements, including one for running detective mysteries in the style of Judge Dee etc. The whole lot is very cheap, and for once I don't think it's going to be worth cherry-picking if you're even slightly interested. I should probably add that I know very little about wuxia as a genre - there may be other games out there that handle it better.

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Another GURPS Bundle - Pyramid 2

This is the second bundle of Pyramid Magazine issues I mentioned on Monday, covering the second half of Volume 3 of Pyramid (62 issues, Nov 2013 - Dec 2018)

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Pyramid2

There's not really much to add to what I said previously - you get a lot of material for a huge range of genres, and a lot of it is easily adapted to other RPGs. On Monday I think I underestimated how much these bundles are saving - if you buy the lot the cost is about 10% of what you pay for the issues individually. If you don't already own most of them it's probably worth a look.

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Two GURPS Bundles - Pyramid Magazine and GURPS 4E

Two offers for Steve Jackson Games' GURPS RPG system - The first is a new bundle of the first sixty issues of Volume 3 of Pyramid Magazine (2008-2013), the other is a repeat bundle of GURPS 4E Essentials - the rules and the most useful supplements etc.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Pyramid1

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/July2025GURPS

Pyramid magazine has always been a useful resource for GURPS, and a lot of it is readily adapted to other systems. This offer feels a little on the expensive side, but you're paying less than a dollar an issue, compared to $6 and up if you buy them individually, which is a very good deal if you don't already own a lot of them. A follow-on bundle which launches on Wednesday has a lot more issues, the remainder of Volume 3.

When the GURPS 4E bundle was last on offer I said "GURPS is probably the most popular generic RPG rules set, designed to be readily adapted to any setting. It's reasonably easy to pick up, though there are other games out there that easier to learn, and has a vast range of support material available. This Essentials offer is aimed at people who don't already own the game at all - I own most of it already in dead tree format, the exceptions are things that simply don't interest me much such as the Mass Combat supplement. If you don't already own it, and want a very adaptable rules set, it's well worth a look." I don't see any reason to change any of that