A Legend Returns – Free League Announces Dragonbane: Trudvang

Stockholm, Sweden (October 20, 2025) | Today, Free League Publishing announced Dragonbane: Trudvang, a massive game world and setting for the multiple award-winning Dragonbane fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.

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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 Norse and Viking mythology.

Watch the Dragonbane: Trudvang Announced trailer: ‍YouTube | Download

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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 or English:

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• World Book: This richly illustrated book takes a deep dive into Trudvang's history, peoples, and regions — from Stormlands to Westmark, from Soj to the Great Ice Plains.
  
• 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, adapted for Dragonbane.
  
• The Black Sun: A legendary four-part epic campaign in Trudvang, revised and published in English for the first time.

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.

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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: TrudvangWorld Book, and Francesca Baerald has drawn a new world map of Trudvang.

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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,” said Theodore Bergqvist, co-founder of Riotminds in the preface to the new edition.

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A press kit for Dragonbane, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/Dragonbane-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.

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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.

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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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