{"id":56311,"date":"2023-04-01T22:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56311"},"modified":"2023-04-01T22:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T02:02:55","slug":"free-league-officially-releases-two-new-open-game-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=56311","title":{"rendered":"Free League Officially Releases Two New Open Game Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free Tabletop License (FTL) for the Year Zero Engine and a Third-Party License for the Upcoming Fantasy RPG Dragonbane<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Stockholm, Sweden (March 28, 2023)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Free League Publishing<\/a> today officially released its two new open game licenses for community creators: a Free Tabletop License (FTL) for the Year Zero Engine and a third-party license for its upcoming fantasy RPG Dragonbane<\/em>. The Year Zero Engine FTL comes with an updated Standard Reference Document (SRD). All three documents are now available for creators to use.<\/p>\n

Both new community content licenses are royalty-free and irrevocable, meaning that they can be updated but creators will always be able to use any published version.<\/p>\n

The work on these new licenses was initiated in 2022, but was intensified during the debates in early 2023\u00a0around\u00a0Wizards of the Coasts’ OGL v1.0, on which the previous Year Zero Engine (YZE) license was based. The two new licenses are completely independent, developed by Free League and the US law firm\u00a0Nolan Heimann.<\/p>\n

The new Year Zero Engine FTL is designed to be fair and easy to understand and use for community creators. It gives all creators an irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free right to use the Year Zero Engine Standard Reference Document (YZE SRD) and freely publish their own roleplaying material based on it.\u00a0The YZE FTL can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alongside the new YZE FTL, the YZE SRD itself has been given a massive overhaul and update, based on the developments of the Year Zero Engine in recent years. The new SRD adds rules for chases, vehicles, travel, and magic, and introduces the new “step dice” version of YZE found in\u00a0Twilight: 2000<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Blade Runner RPG<\/em>. The new YZE SRD (version 1.0)\u00a0can be acccessed\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Year Zero Engine (YZE) in various iterations has been used in most Free League RPGs in recent years, including\u00a0Mutant: Year Zero, Coriolis, Tales From the Loop, Forbidden Lands, ALIEN, Vaesen, Blade Runner RPG<\/em>, and the upcoming\u00a0The Walking Dead Universe RPG<\/em>. The YZE is an accessible, fast and adaptable rules framework that encourages story-focused and player-driven playstyles.<\/p>\n

Dragonbane <\/em>Third-Party License<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Free League today also officially released a third-party license for the upcoming\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>RPG, which was successfully funded on\u00a0Kickstarter<\/a>\u00a0last year.\u00a0This license allows creators to freely publish RPG supplements explicitly compatible with\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>and the original Swedish game\u00a0Drakar och Demoner.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>third-party license (version 1.0) can be found\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0(English)\u00a0and here<\/a>\u00a0(Swedish). It lets creators\u00a0place the\u00a0A\u00a0Supplement for Dragonbane<\/em>\u00a0logo (above and\u00a0here<\/a>, Swedish version\u00a0here<\/a>) on the front cover.\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>is a translation of Free League’s new edition of Scandinavia’s first and biggest tabletop RPG\u00a0Drakar och Demoner.<\/em><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>license is intended for third-party supplements for the game, not new standalone games, and thus does not have an SRD. This license is similar to the\u00a0Free League Workshop<\/a>\u00a0community content program on DriveThruRPG, but allows creators to freely choose where to share or sell\u00a0Dragonbane\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Drakar och Demoner\u00a0<\/em>modules and without paying any royalties.<\/p>\n

To keep up to date with Free League Publishing, be sure to follow them on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>, and visit their official website at\u00a0freeleaguepublishing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

About Free League Publishing<\/strong>
\nFree League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fans’ Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES two years in a row and Publisher of the Year in the first ever Tabletop Awards 2022, we have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.<\/p>\n

Our upcoming games include the\u00a0The Walking Dead Universe RPG<\/em>, Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Miniatures Game,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Dragonbane<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Our current game portfolio includes the official\u00a0Blade Runner RPG,\u00a0The One Ring™ 2nd Edition\u00a0<\/em>(Gold ENNIE for Best Interior Art 2022),\u00a0<\/em>the official\u00a0ALIEN RPG<\/em>\u00a0(Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game\u00a0Vaesen<\/em>\u00a0(winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG\u00a0M\u00d6RK BORG (<\/em>winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate ’80s\u00a0Tales From the Loop RPG<\/em>\u00a0(winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy\u00a0Forbidden Lands\u00a0<\/em>(winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the post-apocalyptic\u00a0Mutant: Year Zero\u00a0<\/em>(Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis – The Third Horizon<\/em>\u00a0(Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and\u00a0Death in Space,<\/em>\u00a0the dark fantasy game\u00a0Symbaroum<\/em>, the weird-fantasy game\u00a0Into the Odd Remastered,<\/em>\u00a0CY_BORG,<\/em>\u00a0and the new edition of the RPG classic\u00a0Twilight: 2000<\/em>\u00a0(Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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