Today, Free League Publishing announced that it has expanded its third-party open game license program to cover five its five core original RPGs – Dragonbane, Forbidden Lands, Symbaroum, Coriolis: The Great Dark, and Coriolis – The Third Horizon – while also adding support for a wide range of additional languages.
With this update, creators around the world can publish third-party supplements for these games not only in English but also in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, and more.
Originally introduced as a third-party open license for the acclaimed Dragonbane RPG, the program triggered a wave of creator releases worldwide and was later expanded to Coriolis: The Great Dark. Today, it enables community-driven content creation across Free League’s game lines. All five licenses are royalty-free and irrevocable, allowing creators to publish under the terms of the license.
“Roleplaying is a uniquely creative hobby. As publishers of roleplaying games, we know that the real magic happens in the imagination of the players. We can’t wait to see what stories and worlds our great community will create using these licenses,” says Free League co-founder Tomas Härenstam.
Full details and direct links to each license are available here and third-party logos (available in multiple languages) can be found here.
With this update, creators around the world can publish third-party supplements for these games not only in English but also in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, and more.
Originally introduced as a third-party open license for the acclaimed Dragonbane RPG, the program triggered a wave of creator releases worldwide and was later expanded to Coriolis: The Great Dark. Today, it enables community-driven content creation across Free League’s game lines. All five licenses are royalty-free and irrevocable, allowing creators to publish under the terms of the license.
“Roleplaying is a uniquely creative hobby. As publishers of roleplaying games, we know that the real magic happens in the imagination of the players. We can’t wait to see what stories and worlds our great community will create using these licenses,” says Free League co-founder Tomas Härenstam.
Full details and direct links to each license are available here and third-party logos (available in multiple languages) can be found here.
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Gold ENNIE Award winner 2024
“Dragonbane is now my go-to fantasy TTRPG.”
Pop Geeks
“Classic fantasy fun in a modern shell.”
Tabletop Magazine
“This feels like the kind of game that you play when you may have forgotten why you enjoy fantasy roleplaying, just to remind yourself of some of the wonders of adventuring.”
Gnome Stew
“Dragonbane is now my go-to fantasy TTRPG.”
Pop Geeks
“Classic fantasy fun in a modern shell.”
Tabletop Magazine
“This feels like the kind of game that you play when you may have forgotten why you enjoy fantasy roleplaying, just to remind yourself of some of the wonders of adventuring.”
Gnome Stew
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, Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying, and The Electric State Roleplaying Game.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, The Labyrinth, and Swedish Machines – Sunset at Zero Dawn 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.