Halloween is soon upon us, a time for your most fantastical dreams and harrowing nightmares to come to life. Free League Publishing has brewed a cauldron throughout the year, full of twisted treats and dark delights, perfect for haunting the tabletop this spooky season. Do you dare to delve into this dangerous and deadly collection of games and expansions?
GAMES
The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game – Coming Soon
The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E
PIRATE BORG
ART BOOK
The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft/Baranger
EXPANSIONS
Symbaroum – Davokar Awakens
Vaesen RPG – The Lost Mountain Saga
Forbidden Lands – Book of Beasts & The Bloodmarch
The Walking Dead Universe RPG
Fight the dead. Fear the living.
Release: November 2023
Explore the unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world of the dead, where you must learn to survive. Together. In The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, you will play as people struggling to survive in a hostile world. Exceptional challenges can appear from anywhere – from the lack of essential supplies, from conflicts brewing within the group, from hidden construction flaws in your safe haven, or from approaching walkers hungering for your flesh.
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The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E
“This is the Master-ring, the One Ring to rule them all.”
Released: May 2023
Together, you are entering the Lone-lands of Eriador. It is here that the One Ring lies, a seed of the past that will one day lead the world to open war against the returning Shadow. The Enemy is moving, and smoke issues once more from Mount Doom, in the land of Mordor…
This year, Middle-earth has opened for new players with the release of The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying – the 5E adaptation of the multiple award-winning The One Ring™ RPG that is set in the world of The Lord of the Rings™ by J.R.R. Tolkien
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PIRATE BORG
Released: September 2023
PIRATE BORG is a scurvy ridden, rules light, art heavy RPG based on MÖRK BORG. A game about being a greedy, filthy scoundrel. No prey, no pay. Find a ship. Recruit some crew. Raid, pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer your weasley black guts out. Get a bigger ship. Kill some things. Upgrade your ship. Sneak into a fort. Raid a port. Acquire treasure. Bury said treasure. Become infamous. Search for someone else’s treasure. Flee in terror from unfathomable creatures from the deep. Drink all of the rum. Die on the high seas. Roll a new character and do it all again… For dead men tell no tales, better get a live one as fast as you can.
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The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft/Baranger
Release: October 2023
Enter the desolate, decrepit Massachusetts village of Dunwich. Brace thyself, for a tale of dark rituals, witchcraft and the looming shadow of the Old Ones. The Dunwich Horror is a true classic of American horror and a dark tale of powers from beyond our world. The upcoming edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic story The Dunwich Horror is illustrated by the acclaimed artist François Baranger.
Free League has previously published Baranger’s illustrated editions of the Lovecraft horror classics The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness.
Vaesen: The Lost Mountain Saga
Release: October 2023
Explore ancient myths and old Nordic folk tales, get entangled in social intrigue, and encounter unspeakable horrors in every shadow as you travel across the Mythic North as you strive to uncover the truth. The Lost Mountain Saga for the multiple ENNIE-awarded Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying is an epic campaign of five haunting Mysteries. Brace yourself for there are strange things lurking in the dark.
Symbaroum: Davokar Awakens
Released: October 2023
The darkness that for centuries has been fettered by the roots of the woods breaks free and spreads in all directions; the living are faced with a seemingly hopeless fight against a never-ending flood of merciless enemies. But is all hope lost?
The time has finally come to explore the anticipated expansion Davokar Awakens for the acclaimed dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum, in which the fate of the world will be decided. Davokar Awakens is the final chapter in the epic Chronicle of the Throne of Thorns.
Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts & The Bloodmarch
Released: June 2023
Be on your guard, for monsters and demons are flooding the lands in the two major expansions for the multiple award-winning RPG Forbidden Lands. Book of Beasts is a bestiary you can play, beautifully illustrated and filled to the brim with murderous monsters and lethal encounters.
The Bloodmarch is a campaign where a vulcanic region is rapidly changing due to demonic vegetation spreading across the land. Most see this red curse as a threat to all that is good, while others view it as a good thing – or at least a necessary evil needed to reach other goals…
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About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include Dragonbane, PIRATE BORG, The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame.
Our current game portfolio includes the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate ’80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).
