With only two days remaining, the Dragonbane: Trudvang Kickstarter from Free League Publishing has surpassed $1,000,000 in pledges, far exceeding its initial funding goal of $26,720. Built on the award-winning Dragonbane system and developed under license from CMON, the stand-alone Nordic fantasy tabletop roleplaying game invites players to explore the mythical world of Trudvang through four beautifully illustrated volumes. The campaign reached full funding within four minutes of launch, raising more than $100,000 in less than 20 minutes.
Check out the Dragonbane: Trudvang Kickstarter here.
Several stretch goals have already been unlocked during the campaign, including:
- Printed map of the Trudvang region
- Custom dice and cards
- Cardboard standee set
- Illustrated Gamemaster Screen
- Digital art book
- Two Collector’s Edition ribbons
- Solo mode gameplay rules
- Bonus monster: Orkhir
- Additional playable kin including Wildfolk, Zvorda, and Talviakka Frost Elves
- Bonus PDF adventure: The Secret of the Winter Woods
One stretch goal remains within reach: a physical printed version of The Secret of the Winter Woods adventure. Four illustrated volumes bring the world of Trudvang to life: the Dragonbane: Trudvang Core Rulebook, covering characters, professions, heroic abilities, and magic; The World of Trudvang, exploring the realm’s lands, history, and faiths; Jorgi’s Bestiary, featuring the strange and dangerous creatures that inhabit the setting; and The Saga of the Black Star, a revised four-part campaign published in English for the first time. The Dragonbane: Trudvang campaign is live now on Kickstarter and runs until March 19 at 4:00 PM EDT / 1:00 PM PDT / 9:00 PM CET.
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 took a life of its own in the separate Trudvang Chronicles RPG and the board game Trudvang Legends by CMON.
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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, 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.