This Saturday, June 18th, is the day, so mark your calendars. The goal of Free RPG Day is to inspire gamers to branch out and try something new, or for first-timers to dip their toes into the water. Along those lines, the majority of products being given away are quickstart modules that can be used to get a feel for a new system. Keep this in mind when you head to your local shop this weekend, and check out the offerings from those smaller companies you've never heard of.

There are even a few neat accessories included in the giveaways, such as different types of dice and a dice tower, as well as an alternate rules sheet for a board game, The Settlers of Catan. Here's the full list of products you can expect to find, courtesy of the official Free RPG Day website:

• Amarillo Design Bureau
  Sample (1 per box), Prime Directive Adventure "Starship Aldo" (both d20 & GURPS)
• BlackWyrm Games
  Sample (1 per box), XDM Adventure: "Laser Squid Nemesis"
• Blue Panther
  Sample (1 per box), Dice Tower
• Chessex
  Silver (4 per box), Commerative Dice For Store Owner
• Eden Studios
  Silver (5 per box), All Flesh Must Be Eaten Quickstart & Adventure
• Exile Game Studios
  Bronze (3 per box) ,Hollow Earth Expedition Quickstart & Adventure
• Fantasy Flight Games
  Gold (10 per box), Black Crusade Quickstart and Adventure

• Flying Buffalo
  Sample (1 per box), Tunnels & Trolls Solo Adventure, "Rescue Mission"
• Goodman Games
  Silver (5 per box), DCC RPG Quickstart

• Green Ronin
  Gold (10 per box), DragonAge Quickstart

• Paizo
  Platinum (15 per box), "We Be Goblins!" Pathfinder Adventure
• Paradigm Concepts
  Bronze (3 per box), Arcanis RPG Quickstart & Adventure
• Pinnacle
  Bronze (3 per box), Savage Worlds Quickstart & Adventure, titled "The Wild Hunt"
• Q-Workshop
  Silver (5 per box), Unique Elven-themed Dice
• Stone Tablet Games
  Bronze (3 per box), Aspect Quickstart Adventure
• Troll Lord Games
  Sample (1 per box), Castles & Crusades Quickstart and Adventure
• Valkyrie Games
  Sample (1 per box), Stellar Horizons Quickstart
• White Wolf Publishing
  Gold (10 per box), World of Darkness Quickstart
• Wizards of the Coast
  Platinum (15 per box), "Domain of Dread: Histhaven" D&D 4th Edition Supplement to the box set "The Shadowfell: Gloomwrought and Beyond"
• Mayfair
  Free Bonus Item, Settlers of Catan: Catanimal Variant rules (single page paper insert)

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