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Through Wednesday, May 20 we present the Critical Kit Solos Bundle featuring Be Like a Cat, Be Like a Crow, and other one- and two-player RPGs from designer Tim Roberts at UK games publisher Critical Kit Ltd. Prowl alleys and rooftops as a feisty feline to expand your territory in a modern city, deep space, ancient Egypt, or the Metaverse. Be a streetwise crow or jackdaw doing, uh, corvid-y things in high fantasy, gothic, steampunk, or cyberpunk settings. Game sessions can be as short or as long as you want them to be. Be Like a Cat also includes side-by-side and gamemastered two-player modes.

Funded in Kickstarter campaigns in October 2021 and April 2023, the Critical Kit RPGs have become some of the bestselling solo games on DriveThruRPG. All you need is a pen and paper, two six-sided dice, and imagination. Roll to generate locations and encounters using d66 prompt tables, then record your actions and outcomes in a journal. Think of it as creative writing with rules and strategy.

Pay just US$12.95 to get all eight titles in our Kit Solos Collection (retail value $55.50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including the complete Be Like a Cat and Be Like a Crow rulebooks, along with a whole murder of Crow expansions – Crowthulhu, The Feathers of Fjorgyn, A Fistful of Feathers, Korvus, and Tales From the Crow's Nest – plus D666, a Solo Dungeon Building RPG.

This all-new Critical Kit Solos offer hits a FRAP (Frenetic Random Activity Period), gets the midnight crazies, and zooms away Wednesday, May 20.

   https://bundleofholding.com/presents/KitSolos

Through Monday, June 1 we present two offers featuring complete .PDF graphic albums of the Atomic Robo comic series from Tesladyne LLC, plus the 2014 Atomic Robo RPG from Evil Hat Productions. Start with the revived February 2021 Atomic Robo Bundle, then continue your Action Science research with its all-new companion, Atomic Robo New Era.

In 1923 Nikola Tesla unveils a robot with automatic intelligence: Atomic Robo! Granted full American citizenship in 1938 after a secret military operation, Robo founds Tesladyne, a two-fisted think tank that explores the fringes of scientific inquiry. After decades of high-octane, full-contact hypothesis testing at the edge of human knowledge, Robo and the Action Scientists of Tesladyne are the go-to defense force against the unexplained.

Created in 2007 by Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener, Atomic Robo has been online since 2015 at atomic-robo.com. There's giant monsters, rogue agencies, underground cities, trans-dimensional vampires, one particularly annoying dinosaur, and explosions – lots of explosions. Atomic Robo reads like the Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Buckaroo Banzai, and Rocketeer movies crammed into a robot who wears pants.

[Note: These albums are presented as downloadable digital .PDFs, not hardcopies. Many of our offers are hosted on DriveThruRPG or DriveThruComics, but these Atomic Robo albums aren't available on DriveThru.]

1. ATOMIC ROBO [from Feb 2021]

If you're new to the series, this February 2021 Atomic Robo Bundle is an ideal starting point. Jump in anywhere – each graphic album in this offer is a self-contained story, so you can read them in any order.

Pay just US$12.95 to get all seven titles in this revived offer's Robo-Starter Collection (retail value $70) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including Evil Hat's complete 322-page Atomic Robo RPG rulebook based on Fate Core; three Atomic Robo graphic albums (Atomic Robo and Other Strangeness, The Ghost of Station X, and The Shadow From Beyond Time); Action Science resources like the Tesladyne Field Manual and FM-Ultra Field Manual; and behold the pulpy fruit of a vastly superior reptilian intelligence in Dr. Dinosaur's Time Travel Guide!

And if you pay more than the threshold (average) price, which is set at $24.95 to start, you'll level up and also get this revival's entire Robo-Bonus Collection with seven more titles worth an additional $68, including the Atomic Robo RPG supplement Majestic 12; four more Atomic Robo graphic albums (The Ring of Fire, The Savage Sword of Dr. Dinosaur, The Spectre of Tomorrow, and The Temple of Od); and two collections of the Robo companion comic Real Science Adventures: Flying She-Devils of the Pacific and The Nicodemus Job.

   https://bundleofholding.com/presents/2026RoboR2

2. ATOMIC ROBO NEW ERA [all-new]

Though you can start almost anywhere with the Real Action Science adventures of Atomic Robo, you'll find it easiest to start with the nine albums above. Then move on to this all-new Atomic Robo New Era companion, with eight more albums of Robo's continuing adventures for an unbeatable bargain price.

Pay just $17.95 to get this offer's complete Robo-New Collection (retail value $80), including Agents of C.H.A.N.G.E., Dawn of a New Era, The Deadly Art of Science, Dogs of War, Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne, Flying She-Devils of the Pacific, Knights of the Golden Circle, and The Vengeful Dead, along with three free Tesladyne LLC publications from the Atomic Robo creators: The Art and Process of Atomic Robo and Brian Clevinger's mini-RPGs 8-Bit Theater and Troubleshooter.

   https://bundleofholding.com/presents/RoboNewEra

Science needs blood. Your blood! Join the prestigious and highly fatal ranks of the Action Scientists with this revived February 2021 Atomic Robo Bundle and its all-new companion, Atomic Robo New Era. Both offers end, though you'll probably survive, maybe, Monday, June 1.

Useful Robo-links

• Atomic Robo timeline
• Atomic Robo storylines (Wikipedia)
• Atomic Robo reading order in the atomic-robo.com archives

Through Monday, May 25 we present The Other Side OSR Bundle featuring sourcebooks of magical witchery from The Other Side Publishing for Old School Revival systems like Shadowdark, Old-School Essentials, Swords & Wizardry, and other B/X-style Basic-era retroclones. Designed by Timothy Brannan, these bewitching supplements craft powerful character classes and hundreds of spells, monsters, and treasures for your old-school campaigns. Tim draws on classical and pagan sources to conjure ready-to-play backgrounds, heritages, familiars, cults and covens, invocations and curses, charms and talismans, house spirits, siren songs, places of power, and – of course! – brooms.

Although they reference historical occult traditions of deviltry and black magic (and, full disclosure, one back cover headline reads "EVIL!"), these high-crunch, nuts-and-bolts supplements from The Other Side aren't likely to revive the 1980s Satanic Panic. But the ritual powers in these books may evoke gasps from players and gamemasters alike: A Green Witch and a druid can awaken (animate) a forest; three Daughters of Darkness together can restore life to a vampire; three classical witches can summon a titan to destroy a city. Dozens of monsters, like bog crones, troll hags, demodands, flying heads, many types of lilim (children of Lilith), and the impundulu (lightning bird), present both immediate threats and adventure hooks. Call forth these figures from The Other Side to hold your gaming table spellbound.

Pay just US$7.95 to get all eleven complete old-school supplements in our Witchery Collection (retail value $64.50) as DRM-free .PDF ebooks, including The Left Hand Path, The Children of the Gods (and its spinoff book Cult of Diana), The Craft of the Wise, The Daughters of Darkness, The Green Witch, The Warlock, The Winter Witch, and the Shadowdark supplement The Witch: Book of Shadows, along with Monster Mash and Monster Mash II: A Midsummer Night's Dream, two books of playable werewolves, vampires, ghosts, golems, hobgoblins, bugbears, centaurs, and many other monstrous character classes.

Get this Other Side OSR offer before it starts the long journey into darkness Monday, May 25.

   https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OtherSide