Three days remain for the Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game crowdfunding campaignon Kickstarter. The highly anticipated RPG Coriolis: The Great Dark is the second edition of Coriolis – The Third Horizon, Free League Publishing‘s first science fiction roleplaying game. The RPG was funded in just 7 minutes and has raised close to $600 000 USD when three days remain of the campaign.
Explore the game in the Coriolis: The Great Dark RPG Quickstart that has been added to the campaign page and to DriveThruRPG to give all brave space adventurers a chance to try out the game for free.
Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving, and pulp archeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark invites you to join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of the Lost Horizon.
Explore Coriolis: The Great Dark Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter
All backers will get the PDF versions of the game months ahead of the official release.
The Kickstarter campaign has unlocked 12 stretch goals so far, including Solo Mode, a full-color map of the Lost Horizon and a Greatship Map, custom dice, Alchemy Virtual Tabletop Module, Initiative Cards, Blueprint for the Grasshopper Shuttle and Terrain Rover, an extra Archetype: Esotheric, a digital art book, and a soundtrack with ambient music. The stretch goals Map of the Charted Sphere, Armor and Weapon Cards, and the Explorer’s Cookbook still remain to be unlocked.
A boxed campaign set entitled The Flowers of Algorab is also part of the Kickstarter and will be delivered alongside the core game.
THE GAME WORLD
Coriolis: The Great Dark launches you into a desolate part of space – The Lost Horizon. Here, a fledgling human civilization who fled war tries to stake out a new life in a harsh environment.
You live in the meandering asteroid-metropolis of Ship City and you are employed by the Explorers Guild to undertake dangerous expeditions. In Ship City, you will take on missions and investigations to help your guild and build your crew’s reputation with the other major players of the city – the Navigators, the Machinists, and the Gardeners.
Delving into the ruins on desolated moons or other star systems in search of resources and artifacts will bring out the best of you and your crew. Together, you will need to overcome physical obstacles, face creatures from the Dark and endure the ubiquitous Blight.
YEAR ZERO ENGINE
The rules of Coriolis: The Great Dark are based on the latest iteration of the acclaimed Year Zero Engine, used in award-winning games such as ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game, Tales From the Loop RPG, and The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, but specifically tailored for this new game.
Coriolis: The Great Dark is the second edition of Coriolis – The Third Horizon. The rules have been updated and further developed, the setting is new and advances the timeline of the universe.
THIRD-PARTY LICENCE
As part of the release, Free League will create a new free and open license for third-party content for Coriolis: The Great Dark. The previous game, Coriolis – The Third Horizon, will not be developed further, and the old books will not be reprinted. However, an Open License will be created so that fans of the previous game will be able to create and publish new modules. Using these licenses, all creators will have an irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free right to freely create, produce and sell content and expansions for both games and their settings.
More details will be shared via Free League’s social media accounts in the weeks leading up to launch. Follow them on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and visit their official website at freeleaguepublishing.com to stay updated.
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 Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame and The Electric State Roleplaying Game.
Our current game portfolio includes the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, the fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the MÖRK BORG spin-off RPG PIRATE BORG, 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).
