Low Fantasy Gaming RPG PDF is free, along with GM screen inserts. The Lulu spiral bound and softcover are at cost + $1.

Quote from: Spinachcat;1039802MAZES & MINOTAURS...and all the supplements are free!

Great game and some really well written scenarios with it like Tomb of the Bull Kingwhich is free here
http://mazesandminotaurs.free.fr/TOMB.html

Quote from: S'mon;1039809I saw the price of Savage Worlds Deluxe at Orc's Nest is still only £6.99, definitely impressive.

I agree. As non-OSR recent games go, SW is really really good value for money. Compred with say, Burning Wheel ($30) or Tenra Bansho Zero ($50).

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;1039822Colin Chapmans rather great post-apoc system Atomic Highway is free from the Drive Through (and a softcover version is 5.99$), as is the systems mutant sourcebook, Irradiated Freaks.

I hadn't heard of that one. Cheers!

Quote from: EOTB;1039830OSRIC is a free PDF and the books are printed at pretty much cost.  Don't know too many places you can get an all-in-one offset print hard bound book of close to 400 pages with tons of original art for $26.

OSRIC was one of the best things to happen to RPGs and Dragonsfoot too.

Quote from: Technomancer;1039854Hats off to Kevin Crawford, creator of Stars Without Number, for releasing the pdf for free

Absolutely! That was a great gesture.

Quote from: Armchair Gamer;1039869For Gold & Glory gives you a full 'Rules Cyclopedia' for AD&D 2nd Edition for less than $8 in B&W softcover.

Now that is an awesome bargain!

Quote from: Brad;1039952Rules Cyclopedia is $25 for a softcover print. I don't know any other rpg book you could buy with more value than that.

When one considers the comprehensiveness of the rules, that is great value for money. You could even spend $15 instead and get Dark Dungeons on Lulu. I'd go with the original however.

Quote from: Psikerlord;1039988Low Fantasy Gaming RPG PDF is free, along with GM screen inserts. The Lulu spiral bound and softcover are at cost + $1.

I bought your Middlands for LFG a few months ago and loved it. I would recommend it to anybody as great value for money and a good way to invest your time.

Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book is normally $7 (at 141 pages not sure if that qualifies as cheap or not), but has been reduced to $5.59 as part of DriveThru's May D&D Sale.

It comes with both a B&W and full color-PDF, plus six of these smaller "zine" type PDFs (20 or so pages each) with extra content like races, classes, higher level cap, monsters, magic items, rules ideas, and so on, plus a sample campaign setting.

The zine stuff was gradually added to it later, for free, and we're still adding more to it as we go and come up with more stuff.

Quote from: antiochcow;1040119Dungeons & Delvers: Black Book is normally $7 (at 141 pages not sure if that qualifies as cheap or not),

I would say so.

A few more honourable mentions

Fantastic Heroes & Witchery  PDF $7.50 for 430 pages
Lion & Dragon softback $ 15.81 for complate game and rule system
Talislanta FREE

Quote from: Mike the Mage;1040009I bought your Middlands for LFG a few months ago and loved it. I would recommend it to anybody as great value for money and a good way to invest your time.

Thanks Mike, very glad to hear that!

Hats off to therpgsite's own Rob Conley for continously putting out high quality sandbox material for almost nothing.

The Majestic Wilderlands

Blackmarsh

Wilderlands of High Fantasy

Good choice. I picked those up a few years ago.:cool:

Don't forget to pick up Fists & .45s! Its pay what you want (or nothing at all).

http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/236825/Fists-and-45s

I'm currently working on a revised edition, as well as one set in the wild west, and they will be the same. While it would be nice to make a living off of writing RPGs, but after 35 years in the hobby, I'm a realist :rolleyes:

Quote from: Nerzenjäger;1040188Hats off to therpgsite's own Rob Conley for continously putting out high quality sandbox material for almost nothing.

The Majestic Wilderlands

Blackmarsh

Wilderlands of High Fantasy

Appreciate the shout out.

Truly great material, estar. Proper props!:cool:

White Star RPG + Companion is excellent and PWYW - http://www.rpgnow.com/product/148169/White-Star-White-Box-Science-Fiction-Roleplaying-Swords--Wizardry

The Dark Albion softcover is $22. That's cheap. Much of the other stuff on this thread is undervalued, which is different. A few are probably the right price for the amateur production they are.

The point is, as nice as the free material or super-cheap material might be; if you want people to design great games there needs to be some kind of financial incentive to go to the effort of the whole production. Any book I write takes literally at least a year of my life to get made. I try to keep the books as affordable as they can reasonably be, offering softcover/hardcover options, or full-color/B&W in the case of Lords of Olympus. That's reasonable.

Asking me to spend a year of my life making an RPG and then giving it away for $2 is not.

Note that this is not a criticism of some of the books being mentioned here,  or of all the people doing the mentioning either. Rob Conley's books, for exampled, are at a reasonable price for what they are, and people pointing those out as a reasonably-priced book are not wrong. Note that his Wilderlands book is $11.99.


(note also that the Lion & Dragon softcover is $15.81, is a full RPG, and (no offense to Rob, or credit to myself, but rather to Dominique Crouzet) has vastly better production values, particularly in terms of art)

Quote from: RPGPundit;1040423The Dark Albion softcover is $22. That's cheap. Much of the other stuff on this thread is undervalued, which is different. A few are probably the right price for the amateur production they are.

The point is, as nice as the free material or super-cheap material might be; if you want people to design great games there needs to be some kind of financial incentive to go to the effort of the whole production. Any book I write takes literally at least a year of my life to get made. I try to keep the books as affordable as they can reasonably be, offering softcover/hardcover options, or full-color/B&W in the case of Lords of Olympus. That's reasonable.

Asking me to spend a year of my life making an RPG and then giving it away for $2 is not.

Well, but you are not self-published, which puts you in a different basket then most of the people posted here.

Quote from: RPGPundit;1040423The Dark Albion softcover is $22. That's cheap. Much of the other stuff on this thread is undervalued, which is different.

From the buyer perspective I'm not seeing the difference? Cheap = publisher makes profit, Undervalued = published as a loss leader?

Apart from Savage Worlds at $10, another impressively cheap product is the Pathfinder Beginner Box at around $30.