DriveThruRPG ^[1] is embracing Game Masters everywhere by putting 1,000s of titles on sale. The 2026 DTRPG GM’s Day Sale ^[2] is massive! We took a peek, and got excited that some of our favorites games, comics, and stories are on sale. Here’s a list of our recommendations! Our lists are not arranged in any particular order–we just thought you’d like our hand-picked recs that include games with GMs, games without, and games for solo play–where the GMs get to play, too.

Top 10 Games for GM’s Day Sale

1. Into the Wyrd and Wild Revised Edition ^[3]: Into the Wyrd and Wild is a supplemental book for those seeking to incorporate a weird and terrifying wilderness into their role-playing game. Players and GMs who enjoy a level of horror and prefer the sweeping, darkened landscapes of forest and mires to the well-trodden cobblestone of dungeons will love this game.

2. The World Below Core Rulebook ^[4]: The World Below is a game of adversity, heroism, terror, and awe. Your characters will overcome or be defeated by terrible beasts, environmental calamities, and Kaos storms ravaging their surroundings and the souls they encounter. They will chart their journeys, chronicle their tales, and pass their stories down to their descendants, who will, in turn, become your characters when your old ones perish or retire.

3. Witch Souls Second Edition ^[5]: Witch: Fated Souls Second Edition is a modern, dark fantasy game where you play a witch who sold their soul to a demon for power. Your soul might be lost, but there’s still hope for redemption if you can outwit your demon! This game deals with witches—known as Fated—people who sold their souls in a demonic bargain.

4. The Yellow King RPG ^[6]: Inspired by Robert W. Chambers’ influential cycle of short stories, The Yellow King RPG pits the characters against the reality-altering horror of The King in Yellow. This suppressed play, once read, invites madness. Or a visit from its titular character, an alien ruler intent on invading and remolding our world into a colony of their planet, Carcosa.

^[7]5. Through the Breach RPG ^[8]: Control your destiny.Journey back to the early 1900s, where a dimensional rift leading to the magical world of Malifaux has changed human history. Steam power and steel collide with magic and monsters in this dangerous and exciting roleplaying game. Are you brave enough to change your destiny? This second edition rulebook has been designed to be backwards compatible with all first edition Through the Breach supplements and adventures.

6. The Terror Beneath: An Investigative Roleplaying Game of Weird Folk Horror ^[9]: The Terror Beneath is an investigative roleplaying game of horrors both ancient and modern, inspired by the works of master horror author Arthur Machen and powered by the GUMSHOE system. Imagine Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. In the depths of the countryside, cults celebrate ancient rites in hidden clearings and caverns, beasts of legend emerge from their lairs to prey upon the unwary, and powerful beings of folklore and myth stir once more. In the urban sprawl of London and other cities, secret societies struggle for power and dominance, rogue alchemists pursue occult ambitions, and scientists fuse modern technology with ancient mysticism to create new horrors.

7. Our Woodland Gods RPG ^[10]: Our Woodland Gods is a guided, GM-less, RPG about animal-folk cultists seeking a new eldritch god to worship. Together, you and some friends can explore this story of escalating horror via the safe, comfortable lens of your not-quite-innocent woodland village.

8. Grim Noir RPG ^[11]: Grim Noir is a film noir RPG about occult mysteries and shady deals in dark alleys and glamorous restaurants. In Grim Noir you take on the role of a group of detectives that gather clues in order to piece together a solution to the mystery your game master has created. In Grim Noir mysteries have a supernatural or an occult twist that makes them too dangerous for the City’s regular police. But not for you. You are are a Reaper.

9. Wreck This Deck ^[12]: Wreck This Deck is a dark urban fantasy game of solo journalling, demon summoning and deck crafting. Summon and bind demons into your Demon Deck, defacing the cards as you go. Demon summoning is dangerous and you’re bound to get into some sticky situations as you play but it’s nothing you can’t handle – right?

10. Hunter The Vigil Second Edition ^[13]: FlamesRising.com contributor Monica Valentinelli was the developer for this fun, modern game! Hunter: The Vigil Second Edition is a standalone game that can be played by new or existing players. The lore has been updated to not only reflect the uptick in monsters, but also the fact that hunting monsters is not exclusive to a location, group of people, or time period. There may be more monsters than ever before, but now there are more ways to fight them, too. In Hunter: The Vigil, anyone can be a hunter — provided you are committed to the hunt. It is a game of personal horror and sacrifice that tests relationships and encourages teamwork within a cell, compact, or conspiracy.

Top 10 Comics

1. Our Brilliant Ruin: Horror at Crane Mansion ^[14]: In “Horror at Crane Mansion,” investigator for hire Elizabeth Ranseur finds herself in deep when a simple job vetting a wealthy woman’s suitors becomes a death trap. Who is a tragic victim, and who is the ruthless hunter? Created in collaboration with Studio Hermitage and in association with the TTRPG of the same name, Our Brilliant Ruin explores a gilded Edwardian setting where intricate social ties of allegiance and conflict are threatened by the presence of the Ruin—a mysterious force that turns creatures and people into horrific monsters.

2. Helm Graycastle Book 1 ^[15]: The last dragon prince has been abducted—kept prisoner by an unknown threat: AZTEC MEXICA! Helm Greycastle and his outsider comrades are here to save the prince—but are recruited by a resistance plotting to overthrow Montezuma.Will Greycastle help save the people of MEXICA or save the dragon prince and flee? BONUS! HELM GREYCASTLE includes 5E-compatible adventures, monsters, and more!

3. The Saga of the Fire Wolf ^[16]: The Fire Wolf is on the run, carrying a relic of tremendous power. Alone and outnumbered, she is caught in a storm and driven ashore on a strange island by the Norns, forced to face a destiny that she struggles to comprehend. There her fate becomes intertwined to that of a fallen hero, a legendary warband with questionable motives and a king and queen hell bent to conquer a blood-soaked throne. Will Loki’s luck be enough to get the Fire Wolf off the island alive, or will she drastically change the lives of everyone she meets?

4. Where’s My Shoggoth? ^[17]: Your tentacled friend has gone missing. What can you do? Go looking for him, of course! Travel from the deepest cellars to the highest spires of a sprawling mansion. Search the grounds from the forest to the lake.?? On the way you’ll meet monsters and demigods, aliens and Old Ones, and all manner of other creatures from the Cthulhu mythos. Surely something, somewhere, has seen your shoggoth?

5. Barbaric Volume 1: Murderable Offenses ^[18]: Owen the Barbarian has been cursed to do good with what remains of his life. His bloodthirsty weapon, Axe, has become his moral compass with a drinking problem. Together they wander the realm, foredoomed to help any who seek assistance. But there is one thing Owen hates more than a life with rules: Witches. Welcome to the skull-cracking, blood-splattering, mayhem-loving comic brave enough to ask: How can a man sworn to do good do so much violence? Hah! F***ing with you. It’s just BARBARIC.

6. Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo, Book 1: The Road to Epoli ^[19]: Rickety Stitch and the Gelatinous Goo is a young adult fantasy, graphic novel series by Ben Costa and James Parks set in the Land of Eem! Meet Rickety Stitch-a walking, talking, singing skeleton bard. He’s the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. Rickety’s only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard’s tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem. His sidekick and sole friend is the gelatinous Goo, who Rickety alone can understand. Together they set out in search of Rickety’s past, with abundant humor and danger galore.

^[20]7. Quests Aside Volume 1 ^[21]: A humorous, high fantasy cheers, Quests Aside is a rollicking adventure where Dungeons & Dragons meets It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia! Welcome to Quests Aside known to all, both far and wide! A skeleton, an apprentice mage, and an exiled princess walk into a bar… for another shift at Quests Aside, the local watering hole run by once legendary, now retired, adventurer Barrow. When the King privately explains that he plans to shut the place down, Barrow must find a way to hold onto his business, the friendships, and the family he’s built around it.

8. Scarlet’s Field Guide to Cryptids & Other Creatures ^[22]: Scarlet’s Field Guide to Cryptids & Other Creatures is a collection of short stories in field journal format from Scarlet’s point of view as she travels around the world encountering and tracking cryptids and discovering other creatures for the first time. Scarlet is on a mission to track her archenemy, the werewolves, while she continues to search for answers in her mother’s death. The book collects stories and eyewitness accounts of 30 cryptids and creatures and artwork from eighteen artists including Scarlet Huntress creator Sean Forney.

9. Hellboy: The Art of Hellboy ^[23]: Love Hellboy? This new book features never seen before art, unused and unfinished covers, and drawing upon ten years of sketchbooks, The Art of Hellboy provides the ultimate inside look at Mignola’s design, storytelling, and color work. Page after page of rarely seen art reveals the labor involved in creating one of comics’ most acclaimed books.

10. 2000 AD Encyclopedia ^[24]: Meticulously researched and compiled for comics fans everywhere, the 2000 AD Encyclopedia is the essential fact compendium to the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic! What are the essential Judge Dredd stories? In which progs did The Ballad of Halo Jones run? What year was the first appearance of Nemesis the Warlock? Just who are the Thrillsuckers? Look no further, Earthlets! Every strip and major character from 2000 AD’s trailblazing 45 year history is catalogued and detailed, accompanied by stunning artwork and illustrations. With this show-stopping collection, must-read characters and storylines from across the cosmos are at your fingertips!

Top 10 Game-Related Aids

1. Forbidden Tales anthology ^[25]: More than 20 tales of terror await you in this collection of short stories from the world of Forbidden Psalm, Last War, Dread Nights, KillSampleProcess, Endless Horrors and Hope is for the Dead. Written and curated by Will RD the creator of Forbidden Psalm and all its sister games. Includes a choose-your-own-path solo play adventure.

2. HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness for Beginning Readers ^[26]: H.P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness for Beginning Readers is a 142 page retelling of the original story of Mythos horror from 1936. Re-written by genius poet-artist R.J. Ivankovic in rhyming verse, and accompanied by beautiful child-friendly and whimsical art on each page, this book is suitable for readers and collectors of all ages.

3. Don’t Read This Book ^[27]: Down a lonely alleyway, under a starless sky, lies a city that never was, yet is: the Mad City, where nightmares walk the streets, and a good night’s sleep can get you killed. Here, then, is a book from that place. Within these recovered pages are the tales of the Awake, insomniacs who’ve walked those perilous streets, bringing a bit of the power of dream with them to fight back the night—always at a terrible cost. For many, it will not end well. For a few, they might just become heroes—or at least find their way back home.

4. The Thrill of Dracula ^[28]: In The Thrill of Dracula, Kenneth Hite takes apart Dracula — the novel, the movies, the myth, even the history — into his component pieces: characters, tropes, symbols, story beats, effects. With those pieces, Ken shows you how to build new yet mythic stories about the King of the Vampires or about your own creatures of the night, tuned for thriller adventure, cosmic horror, or even intense personal drama. From the first medieval atrocity stories about Vlad the Impaler to Bram Stoker’s immortal novel to the most recent Universal blockbusters,The Thrill of Dracula zooms through centuries of blood, bats, and – ballet? — to bring you the most complete look at the Count’s story ever!

^[29]5. Welcome to Arkham ^[30]: Welcome to Arkham invites you to venture deeper than ever before into this legend-haunted city, inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos and made famous by the Arkham Horror series of tabletop games. Welcome to Arkham is a complete guide to the city of Arkham and the neighboring towns of Dunwich, Innsmouth and Kingsport, detailing 115 fabled locations and featuring more than 500 illustrations. Walk the streets of Arkham, ride the Essex County Express, hitch a ride to Innsmouth (and pray you can find a way out), or take a ferry down the Miskatonic River, and read between the lines to discover what other mysteries lurk deeper still in the pages of this tattered old book.

6. Hubris ^[31]: Hubris: A Magazine by Mad Scientists, for Mad Scientists is a full-color parody magazine featuring written works (reviews, interviews, tutorials tips, articles, ads, etc) and artwork. Works are fictional and created as in-universe pieces, where the contributors and target audience are mad scientists, as in real-world trade magazines.

7. Little Fears: The Wolf Pact ^[32]: Eleven-year old Nate Torrance is alone. His best friend, Darren, no longer talks to him. His mom works all the time. His dad lives out of state and never calls. He’s pretty much given up on the whole idea of “friendship” until an encounter with a monster gives him a common bond with Jennifer Mills, the new girl in his class. When Darren’s little sister, Lindsay, is abducted, the two set out to save her—and discover an unexpected truth behind the monster they’re hunting and the place where all monsters live: Closetland. This 40,000-word novel is based on the critically-acclaimed Little Fears Nightmare Edition tabletop roleplaying game.

8. Zombocalypse Now ^[33]: In Zombopocalypse Now, you’re a stuffed bunny and it’s the end of the world. Between you and safety are forty or fifty ­zombies gorging ­themselves on the flesh of the living. If you disguise yourself as one of them and try to sneak past the feeding frenzy, turn to page 183. If you grab a tire iron, flip out and get medieval on their undead asses, turn to page 11. Zombocalypse Now is a comedy/horror ­reimagining of the choose-your-own-ending books you grew up with. You’ll be confronted with undead hordes, ­internet ­dating, improper police procedure, and the very real ­danger that you’ll lose your grip on reality and wind up stark raving mad.

9. Vampires: A Hunter’s Guide ^[34]: Vampires: A Hunter’s Guide contains all the information necessary to recognize and combat the growing vampire threat. After exploring the origins of these dark and terrible creatures, it examines the numerous vampire species and subspecies that exist around the world today. Focusing on the hunters’ weapons, tactics and skillsets, this book provides information on identifying and eliminating vampires, noting the best practices from the secretive, powerful and dedicated hunters from around the world, and throughout the ages. With full-color illustrations of predator and prey, this is the ultimate resource in the fight to save humanity from the vampires.

10. The World of the Witcher ^[35]: Dive deep into the world of monster hunters, as the prominent characters from the universe take you on a guided tour of the fascinating dark fantasy adventure that is The Witcher.This gorgeous, illustrated volume contains in-depth knowledge about the locales, the deadly beasts that inhabit them, and the lethal weapons used to put them down–a perfect companion to The Witcher RPG!




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