from Free League Publishing.
Free League Publishing has officially launched the Kickstarter campaign for Dragonbane: Trudvang, a stand-alone tabletop role-playing game set in the mythic world of Trudvang. The campaign reached full funding within four minutes of launch, surpassing its initial goal of 25,000 USD and climbing past 150,000 USD within the first 30 minutes.
Developed under license from CMON and built on Free League’s award-winning Dragonbane fantasy RPG system, Dragonbane: Trudvang brings players into a richly imagined world inspired by Nordic mythology. The project introduces four masterfully illustrated hardback volumes that present the setting in depth, offering players a realm of shadowed forests, wrathful gods, ancient mysteries, and dreadful beasts.
A few months after the Kickstarter concludes, backers will receive early access to Beta PDFs of all four books. This allows players to begin exploring Trudvang and running adventures well ahead of the official release.
Early backers who pledge for a physical reward within the first 48 hours of launch will receive an exclusive bonus art print featuring new Core Rulebook cover art by legendary fantasy artist Paul Bonner. The bonus applies to pledge tiers that include physical rewards.
Across four beautifully crafted volumes, players can journey through the realm of Dragonbane: Trudvang and uncover its many secrets, including:
- Dragonbane: Trudvang Core Rulebook: A complete ruleset built on the award-winning Dragonbane system, introducing new kin such as Stormlander humans and Korpikalli elves, additional professions and lifepaths, ranked heroic abilities, and unique magic wielded by vitner weavers and dimwalkers
- The World of Trudvang: A richly illustrated deep dive into the realm’s history, lands, and faiths, spanning the Stormlands and Westmark to Soj and the Great Ice Plains
- Jorgi’s Bestiary: The classic monster compendium returns, featuring legendary creatures such as brotbeast, byse, hrimtursir, and the ancient yggdras, all fully adapted for Dragonbane
- The Saga of the Black Star: A revised four-part epic campaign published in English for the first time, sending heroes across Trudvang to confront a looming cosmic threat.
The Kickstarter campaign also features a high-quality cloth map of Trudvang illustrated by fantasy artist Francesca Baerald. The map is available as a separate add-on or included in select bundles. Collector’s Editions of all four books are being offered exclusively through the campaign and will not be printed again.
The Trudvang brand and its original content were created by Theodore Bergqvist and Magnus Malmberg of Riotminds as a campaign world for their Swedish edition of Dragonbane, Drakar och Demoner, in the early 2000s. Trudvang later expanded into the separate Trudvang Chronicles RPG and the board game Trudvang Legends by CMON.
The adaptation of Trudvang to the current version of Dragonbane is being spearheaded by Magnus Seter, a veteran RPG writer whose credits include Cyberpunk 2020, Mutant Chronicles, Forbidden Lands, and Dragonbane. Seter also worked on Trudvang in its early days.
In the preface to the new edition, Theodore Bergqvist expressed enthusiasm for the project, noting that Trudvang has, in many ways, found its way home again under Free League’s stewardship.
Dragonbane: Trudvang is slated for release in 2027.
Fear not, we will be coming back to the Kickstarter in the days and weeks to come as well as previews as soon as they become available.
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