Pre-Orders Open for Hands of the White Wizard and Trials of Saruman for Free League Publishing’s Middle-earth Roleplaying Games
| Free League Publishing today announced Hands of the White Wizard, a new adventure anthology for the award-winning second edition of The One Ring™ roleplaying game, and Trials of Saruman, its 5E counterpart for The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying. Both expansions are now available for pre-order in the Free League webshop, including a complete PDF featuring six thrilling adventures, lore, and artwork, months ahead of the retail launch.
“He is great among the Wise. He is the chief of my order and the head of the Council. His knowledge is deep, but his pride has grown with it, and he takes ill any meddling.”
Set between 2965 and the opening moves of the War of the Ring, these adventures invite players to serve, observe, or challenge Saruman the White at the height of his wisdom and the edge of his corruption. Once a counselor to kings and master of Ring-lore, Saruman now rules from Isengard, a bastion of knowledge and power where the first cracks of pride begin to show. The treason of Isengard has not yet begun, but its seeds are sown. The question is whether his downfall is inevitable or if the courage of heroes can still change his fate and the fate of Middle-earth itself.
Hands of the White Wizard & Trials of Saruman Key Features:
- Serve or Spy: Decide whether your heroes will aid the White Wizard or uncover the secrets he keeps.
- Six Adventures Across an Era: Follow Saruman’s path from counselor and scholar to would-be tyrant, spanning the years 2965 to the War of the Ring.
- Lore of Isengard: Discover new allies, foes, and mysteries within Orthanc and the valley of Nan Curunír.
- A Turning Point in the Third Age: Shape one of Tolkien’s most pivotal stories, or watch it unfold as history intended.
Alongside Hands of the White Wizard, Free League today also announced Hobbit™ Tales, an expansion letting players experience the adventures Hobbits get up to (when they cannot avoid it!).
Explore the Shire with a thorough description of its four farthings and five exciting ready-to-play adventures, fully playable also by taking on the roles of some Hobbits whose descendants will go on to do extraordinary things, such as Primula and Rory Brandybuck, Paladin Took, and Bilbo Baggins himself!
Note that the material in Hobbit™ Tales has been published previously in the first starter set for the second edition of The One Ring™ and is already available for The Lord of the Rings™Roleplaying in the Shire™ Adventures compendium.
The One Ring™ Roleplaying Game
The One Ring™ is the official tabletop roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, designed by Francesco Nepitello and Marco Maggi and published by Free League in partnership with Sophisticated Games and Middle-earth Enterprises. Created specifically to evoke the atmosphere of The Hobbit™ and The Lord of the Rings™, the game contains rules for creating heroes and sending them off on adventures in a land threatened by the growing Shadow.
The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E
The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying is a brand new adaptation of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien using the rules for 5E. Based on the second edition of The One Ring™ roleplaying game, it contains everything you need to create exciting adventures.
A full press kit for Hands of the White Wizard, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/LotR-Hands-of-the-White-Wizard
A full press kit for Trials of Saruman 5E, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/TLOR-Trials-of-Saruman
A full press kit for The One Ring™, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/The-One-Ring-Press-Kit.
A full press kit for The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying™, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/LotR-5E-Press-Kit.
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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. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, and 2025, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our game portfolio includes Coriolis: The Great Dark, the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE Award winner 2022) as well as the expansion Moria™ – Through the Doors of Durin (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2025 and one Silver ENNIE Award 2025), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE Award 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) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate ’80s Tales from the Loop (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 blue-collar science fiction game Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and The Electric State RPG.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.
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