Today, Free League Publishing announced Dragonbane: Trudvang, a massive game world and setting for the multiple award-winning Dragonbane fantasy tabletop roleplaying game. Trudvang is a world of shadowed woods and fathomless mists, of dreadful beasts and unsung heroes, of wrathful gods and endless mystery – deeply original but with strong roots in Nordic mythology. Dragonbane: Trudvang, produced by Free League under license from CMON, is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026, and prospective backers can sign up to follow the project here.
The campaign will offer no less than four masterfully illustrated hardback volumes in Swedish and English:
The campaign will offer no less than four masterfully illustrated hardback volumes in Swedish and English:
- World Book: A deep dive into Trudvang's history, peoples, and regions – from Stormlands to Westmark, from Soj to the Great Ice Plains, richly illustrated.
- Book of Heroes: New Trudvang professions, skills, heroic abilities, and magic – wielded by vitner weavers and dimwalkers.
- Jorgi's Bestiary: The classic monster manual for Trudvang returns, featuring beasts from braskelwurm and draugr to hrimtursir and yggdras, all adapted for Dragonbane.
- The Black Sun: A legendary four-part epic campaign in Trudvang, revised and published in English for the first time.
Note that players will need the Dragonbane Core Set or separate Rulebook to play Dragonbane: Trudvang.
The Trudvang brand and its original content was 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 took a life of its own in the separate Trudvang Chronicles RPG and the board game Trudvang Legends by CMON. The art of Dragonbane: Trudvang will mainly be drawn from over two decades of amazing Trudvang illustrations by masters like Paul Bonner and Alvaro Tapia. Paul Bonner has also created the new cover art for the Dragonbane: Trudvang World Book, and Francesca Baerald has drawn a new world map of Trudvang.
The work of writing, editing, and adapting Trudvang to the current version of Dragonbane will be spearheaded by Magnus Seter, a veteran RPG writer (Cyberpunk 2020, Mutant Chronicles, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane) who also worked on Trudvang in its early days. "When we heard that Free League had licensed Trudvang from CMON, and that Magnus Seter would be leading the work on this new edition, we were naturally delighted. Most of all because the world gets to live on – but also because Trudvang has, in many ways, found its way home again," says Theodore Bergqvist in the preface to the new edition.
The work of writing, editing, and adapting Trudvang to the current version of Dragonbane will be spearheaded by Magnus Seter, a veteran RPG writer (Cyberpunk 2020, Mutant Chronicles, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane) who also worked on Trudvang in its early days. "When we heard that Free League had licensed Trudvang from CMON, and that Magnus Seter would be leading the work on this new edition, we were naturally delighted. Most of all because the world gets to live on – but also because Trudvang has, in many ways, found its way home again," says Theodore Bergqvist in the preface to the new edition.
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Map of Trudvang by Francesca Baerald
Dragonbane: Trudvang Announcement Trailer
More information about Dragonbane: Trudvang will be revealed by Free League in the coming weeks and months leading up to the Kickstarter launch. To keep up to date with Free League Publishing, be sure to follow them on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and visit their official website at freeleaguepublishing.com. Free League is one of the most funded RPG publishers on Kickstarter, raising over $12M across 41 successful campaigns, including The One Ring™, ALIEN The Roleplaying Game, Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game, Dragonbane, Coriolis: The Great Dark, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Forbidden Lands, and Tales From the Loop RPG.
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Cover art by Paul Bonner for Dragonbane: Trudvang World Book
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About Dragonbane
Released in 2023, Dragonbane is a classic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game full of magic, mystery, and adventure. It is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast and furious play, with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run. This “mirth and mayhem” game style leaves room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for the adventurers. Dragonbane is a translation of Drakar och Demoner, Scandinavia’s first and biggest tabletop RPG, originally launched in 1982. The new and reimagined edition has one foot firmly planted in the heritage of decades of Swedish gaming and the other in the modern and innovative game design for which Free League Publishing is known worldwide. Players worldwide are invited to design and publish their own supplements for Dragonbane, using the third-party license for the game.Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIE Awards 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 our original sci-fi RPG Coriolis: The Great Dark, the fast and fun 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 winner 2022), 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) 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 science fiction RPG Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy games Into the Odd Remastered and Black Powder and Brimstone, 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 Roleplaying Game. 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.