"Gamers Help Haiti" - $20 donation gives you huge RPG eBook Collection

GWJ ers,

Given the present circumstances in Haiti - I thought I'd spread the word about a unique way of contributing to the relief efforts.

DriveThruRPG are offering a huge bundle of RPG eBooks for $20 - and donating the entire amount to Doctors Without Borders.

Check it out here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/rpg_ha...

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

DriveThruRPG announced a major incentive to the roleplaying gamer community today to incite donations to aid in rescue and recovery in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Called the "Gamers Helping Haiti Bundle," the product includes over a hundred products totaling over $1000.00 in retail value. For a simple donation of $20 - all of which goes to Doctors Without Borders to support their post-earthquake Haiti relief efforts - RPG fans can have this once-in-a-lifetime collection of gaming products.

Get donating!

Drive through rpg has always treated me well. Definitely going to help through this program.

Highlights of the bundle (for me, so far):

Summerland (creepy post-apocalyptic game)
Labyrinths & Lycanthropes (comical dungeoneering)
Piledrivers & Powerbombs (pro-wrestling)

Done. I also picked up the book they have on sale about the Matching Your $10 Donation system, I'm pretty sure I can use that in the L5R game I wanted to run.

"So far, gamers have donated $90,910.00 to help Haiti!"

Wow!!

Bookmarking to remind myself to donate.

You end up getting almost $1500 in pdfs back.

If anybody wants a list, let me know and I will PM it to you, so as to not stretch the page by a huge amount.

Just spotted this in Joystiq...donation sent.

Of course, I haven't actually PLAYED any PnP RPG's in years, but I always like reading the sourcebooks

Doing quite well by the looks of it as well, up to $103,920.00

Now don't get me wrong, I'm definitely loving this idea and I'm going to jump on it! However I haven't had experience with this site before, if I donate the $20 now do I have to download all the PDFs right away? Or is it a bit like Steam so I can download at my leisure? Only if it's the former, I may need to wait until monday when I'll have access to better than dial-up internet.

An amazing idea though, and a great incentive to get gamers to help out people in need.

Looks like there is a bit of a waiting list as you can't download immediately anyway, so they notify you after 24 hours that the items have been added to your account and then again 2 days after that to let you know you can now download them.

Whether it works like Steam or you have a window for downloading them or not I don't know.
Can't imagine it being too huge a download in terms of file-size though if they're all PDFs.

To the best of my knowledge, you don't need to download it all at once. You can download it at your leisure, in bits and pieces.

When I took a look, I didn't see an option for a massive, all-in-one download, but I may have missed it.

I got the impression that they're staggering peoples' access because the demand is stressing their servers. Once the purchase is on your account there, you can come back later to download (again).

This is a fantastic initiative, but I prefer to donate directly to the NGO's. I might be wrong, but I'm guessing the least money gets lost to overhead that way.

I've used DrivethruRPG before and will take part in this. Great effort already! The Serenity RPG and Summerland are thus far the "selling points" for me. Just the sheer volume of stuff should provide you with days of browsing at leisure, even if much of it isn't of direct use to you.

Just made my donation today and pretty excited about getting to start downloading some stuff in the next couple of days. I am not sure what if any of it I will ever use, but I have spent way more than 20 dollars on books I have never used, so donating to a good cause and getting something out of it in return doesn't even make me bat an eye.

I donated to this cause, wanted to follow the thread for any further tips on what is good in the pack.

Yonder wrote:

I donated to this cause, wanted to follow the thread for any further tips on what is good in the pack.

I heard Adventurer Essentials: Rope is pretty awesome.

Thanks very much for bringing this to the attention of the Goodjer community. I hate myself a little bit that it took an appeal to self-interest to get me to donate, but dayum that's a lot of RPG product.

Here is the list for those who are interested. If it is too long, let me know and I will edit it out.

Dork Covenant
MonkeyGod Presents: Frost & Fur
MonkeyGod Presents: From Stone to Steel
Roma Imperious
Squirrel Attack! Operation: Get Mr. Jones' Nuts
Serenity Role Playing Game
Seven Leagues roleplaying game of Faerie
C&C Shadows of the Halfling Hall
17 Plants
17 Rogue Feats
Privateers and Pirates
NEO MONKS: The Dragonlord
Bits of Darkness: Dungeons
Unorthodox Sorcerers
17 Bard Spells
More Mighty Than Steel
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Lucky Bastard
Dept. 7 Technology Update: AAP/CPR Med Kit
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Bar Room Berserker
Tales of Wyn D'mere Role Playing Game!
Valherjar: The Chosen Slain Core Rulebook
Barbarians Versus
WorldWorksGames / UrbanMayhem: Streets of Mayhem
BASH! Basic Action Super Heroes!
Objective Interim Modern Combat System
17 Magic Shields
NEO RANGERS: The Spider King
Gravitic Thrust Vehicles
Damnation Decade
WorldWorksGames / DungeonLinX: Dragon God
The Veggie Patch
Adventurer Essentials: Holy Water
Modern Dispatch (#104): Line Zero
17 Monk Feats
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: Gravity Slinger
Castlemourn Campaign Setting
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: NeoWitch Guardian
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: The Prince of Doggs
Classic Spycraft: Spycraft Espionage Handbook
Classic Spycraft: Shadowforce Archer Worldbook
Spycraft: Shadowforce Archer Worldbook Conversion
43 Space Opera Adventure Seeds - Space Opera Support #6
Destinations: Spaceport Trident Vespa
Adventurer Essentials: Rope
17 Archer Feats
Fantasy Firearms
Character, Hero
Blood Games II
QAGS Second Edition
Pimp My Paladin
Turris Lemurum : Tower of Ghosts
Dark Raiders of Misty Ridge
The Lazy GM: Lizardfolk
FDG0034 Earth Drill
Bits of Magicka: Pocket Items
Beast Hunters
Shaolin Squirrels : Nuts of Fury
Divine_Homelands.pdf
Piledrivers and Powerbombs: Chokeslam of Darkness Edition
Quirin Encounter #3: Healing Device
Quirin Encounter #3: Healing Device_text-only
Behind the Monsters: Skeleton
Dept. 7 Adv. Class Update: The Innocent
The Book of Dumb Tables
Advanced Fleet Designs: Titan Class Scout
Behind the Spells: Sanctuary
Spirit of the Season Upgraded Interior
Spirit of the Season Upgraded Cover
Future Firearms Pack One
Treasure Chests: Volume 2
RGG 1710 -- Colonial Gothic: Secrets
Trail of Cthulhu Player's Guide
Albenistan: Election Day
Modern Dispatch 120: Cyber-state Avatar Toolkit
Divine Quests.pdf
Three Sixteen
The Squared Circle:Wrestling RPG
Quirin Maps #14: Bandit's Territory - PDF
Quirin Maps #14: Bandit's Territory - Image Files
EET21100-Ladys-Rock.pdf
Slivers of Dawn
Items Evolved Rituals
Cortex System Role Playing Game
Kids, Castles & Caves
Karma Roleplaying System Core Rules Book
Karma Roleplaying System Core Rules Book
Demimonde
One Shot Adventures! Days of Knights
OSRPG CCG Card Template 1
API-Corebook 3EG001
Wayfarers
Diana: Warrior Princess
Zombacalypse (SGG 5004)
Book of Races
Tendril's Oak Inn
Arms and Armor
For the Love of Dungeons
Shrouded Agendas for D&D 4E: The Purifiers
A101.5 London Fires.pdf
Fantasy Women Clipart JPEG 7
API Canada PDF
Breath Life Into #1
Thousand Suns: Transmissions from Piper
Counter Collection 4th Edition Paragon 1
Best of The Rifter
MARS: Savage Worlds Edition
Full-color Map of MARS
Qalidar
API-DemonPack01
The Fate of Inglemia - Superlink Edition
The Lunar Scrolls
The Lunar Scrolls - Printer Friendly B&W
The Lunar Scrolls - Power Cards
Forlakh's Tower
API Demon Codex: Lochs
DRAGONSHIRE: City Interiors
Brandy's by the Bay
Mini Nuclear Plant
Mini Nuclear Plant
Mini Nuclear Plant
Mini Nuclear Plant
COPPER DRAGON: Basic Dungeons 1 5 downloads remaining
Earth Space Marines
WorldWorksGames / Deadly Encounters Combo
WorldWorksGames / Wormhole
WorldWorksGames / Uncharted Space: Sathrican Homeworld
Specail Vehicles
Chronica Feudalis
Strike Force 7 - Savaged!
Labyrinths & Lycanthropes
Ephemeris: A Science Fiction Role Playing Game
Thousand Suns: Foundation Transmissions
Interface Zero: Modern20 edition
poker playing cards 1.pdf
BoAMPDF.pdf
BoAMPrintFriendlyPDF.pdf
4WF001-ConditionCards.pdf
kiddy counters.pdf
HMP1005-The_Dream_Healers - Pathfinder.pdf
Open Game Table v1a.pdf
NoDignityinDeath.zip
Code2.PDF
charactersheet.pdf
Magpie 2- Cheat Sheets.pdf
printeroptimized.pdf
errata.pdf
ARC2003.pdf
Thrilling Tales 2nd Edition (Savage Worlds)
eCollapse.pdf
90 Phenomena in the City of Copenhagen.pdf
Creatures of the Wastelands: The Thrasher Gang
2009 Skirmisher Catalog
Creatures of the Wastelands: Habitats Hi-Res
Creatures of the Wastelands: Habitats Lo-Res
Creatures of the Wastelands: Habitats Hi-Res Cover
Creatures of the Wastelands: Habitats Lo-Res Cover
2009 Skirmisher Catalog
Creatures of the Wastelands: A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations (Revised Edition) Hi-Res Cover
Creatures of the Wastelands: A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations (Revised Edition) Lo-Res Cover
Creatures of the Wastelands: A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations (Revised Edition) Lo-Res
Creatures of the Wastelands: A Menagerie of Mutants and Mutations (Revised Edition) Hi-Res
2009 Skirmisher Catalog
Torn Apart - Maschine Zeit - MAP00012.pdf
Summerland Revised and Expanded edition small.pdf
FDG0076 Copperhead Fighter.zip
KQ11-Fall09.pdf
FDG0075.zip
theblackbook.pdf
Zombie Bytes Anthology.pdf
Book of the Faithful - Power of Prayer
Dragon_sLair.pdf
The Dragon\'s Lair.zip
www.StoryWeaver.com_Blood_Of_The_Inn...
www.StoryWeaver.com_Blood of the Innocent_Battlemaps_Tokens.pdf
Reign of Discordia (Traveller Edition)
Reign of Discordia (Traveller Edition)
Wydraz_Megacity_Maps01.pdf
selfishsuccubus.pdf
FDG0078Ruins.zip
stolenblood0-noprotection.pdf
Threat Record Vol. I, Issue #2
Genius Guide to Loot 4 Less #1.pdf
Shambles.zip
d66 Ship Names 2
pph1.pdf
ppv1.pdf
NMP001 Color Landscape Retail Opt.pdf
NMP001 Portrait BW Printer Friendly Opt.pdf
The Black Spot.pdf
MADS RPG.pdf
pdfafterpeak.pdf
Scenes of Space Hex Map
Class options volume II: Paladins Prevail!
D7ACU SLAM Soldier.pdf
apocrypha.pdf
thebookofthedead.pdf
S7S_Rugged_Adventures.pdf
S7S_The_Lunar_Scrolls_Preview-crescent_striker_toc.pdf
S7S_Huxtropy_preview.pdf
Troll_Tales-Covered.pdf
Wyrd_of_Questhaven_PFRPG.pdf
Vampire_Castle_Lieberman.mp3
issue1.pdf
Degenerate_Seaside_Town_Steckler.mp3
Otherworld_Ollsin.mp3
Zombie_Apocalypse_Trapp.mp3
KP001s Situation Report!
Full Light Full Steam
mc_arytis.pdf
mc_arytis_printfriendly.pdf
SCARE-2.pdf
Police_Precinct_Matzzie.mp3

haven't heard anything back from them yet (purchased on Saturday).

Going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're swamped dealing with a backlog of orders at the moment.

Another one I'm quite enjoying reading is Chronica Feudalis, which looks to be straight medieval historical roleplaying. The game is amusingly written as a found text, allegedly from a monastery of the time. So far this conceit has been more fun than annoying. The game itself looks pretty good - fairly simple rules, with a version of the FATE system's aspect mechanics.

I did get a notification that they've received the Paypal donation, but haven't heard anything since. It's been three days, but with some 6500+ orders to sort, I imagine it might take them a while.

Either DrivethruRPG is a much bigger business than I imagined or a much, much larger part of its customers are taking part than I imagined. Either way, very cool. I don't mind waiting, it's not like I'm in a hurry to get books I hadn't planned on getting anyway.

jlaakso wrote:

I did get a notification that they've received the Paypal donation, but haven't heard anything since. It's been three days, but with some 6500+ orders to sort, I imagine it might take them a while.

Either DrivethruRPG is a much bigger business than I imagined or a much, much larger part of its customers are taking part than I imagined. Either way, very cool. I don't mind waiting, it's not like I'm in a hurry to get books I hadn't planned on getting anyway.

I am guessing that most of the people taking part in this have never purchased from them before. Heck, if I am any indication most people have never even heard of these guys before.

mail turned up this morning...downloading stuff now

....one at a time.

This might take a while

Yea this download one at a time thing, oh my. On the other hand, awesome deal, awesome cause. I can't seem to find, is there a time limit on these downloads?

No time limit - they'll stay on your account forever (some publishers may limit the number of downloads, but I only noticed one of those in the bundle).

My downloads "arrived" today, I am happy to report. Leafing through Serenity and Summerland right now.

Purchased the bundle this morning. Would I be correct in assuming it will take a few days before they're ready?

Bookmarking thread. I'll get this when I get home.

Trachalio wrote:

Purchased the bundle this morning. Would I be correct in assuming it will take a few days before they're ready?

Yes, took 3 or 4 days for me to get the download links.

stevenmack wrote:
Trachalio wrote:

Purchased the bundle this morning. Would I be correct in assuming it will take a few days before they're ready?

Yes, took 3 or 4 days for me to get the download links.

Cool. Gives me more time with Mass Effect 2 before I get sucked into DnD again