{"id":58734,"date":"2025-06-03T20:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=58734"},"modified":"2025-06-03T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T00:22:03","slug":"award-winning-dragonbane-rpg-grows-with-two-new-expansions-arkand-the-book-of-magic-kickstarter-live-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=58734","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Dragonbane RPG Grows with Two New Expansions: Arkand &#038; the Book of Magic Kickstarter, Live Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Explore the City of Waves and Flames, and delve deep into tomes of magic within the universally acclaimed world of Dragonbane<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stockholm, Sweden (June 3, 2025) <\/strong>| Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=e8ab5b7a05&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Free League Publishing<\/a> is placing not one, but two beautifully illustrated and finely crafted expansions for the multiple award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=1b87db8f23&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\"><em>Dragonbane<\/em> RPG<\/a> on Kickstarter: <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=69eeec5bf1&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\"><em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames<\/em> and the <em>Book of Magic<\/em><\/a>. The Kickstarter opens with a series of exciting stretch goals, ranging from a beautiful, foldable map of the city of Arkand to a high-quality plastic miniature of Master Akelius, a mysterious and remarkable new character featured in <em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DB_Arkand_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-58699\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DB_Arkand_cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DB_Arkand_cover-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DB_Arkand_cover-116x150.jpg 116w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/DB_Arkand_cover.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>As an exclusive offering in this campaign, there will be special limited-edition versions of both <em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames<\/em> and the <em>Book of Magic<\/em>, with deluxe faux leather covers and gold foil stamping. Backers who support the Kickstarter campaign at any pledge level that begets physical rewards within the first 48 hours will receive an early pledge bonus: a 216mm x 279mm print of the cover art of their choosing: either <em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames<\/em> or <em>the Book of Magic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Check out the trailer for <em>Arkand <\/em>and <em>Book of Magic<\/em>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=dcfdc44672&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Youtube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=a3ba6000c1&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames<\/em> Key Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>A rich, bustling setting:<\/strong> Over a dozen adventure sites spread across five districts, along with a number of campaign seeds, and even more adventure sites available to be unlocked as stretch goals in this Kickstarter.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Danger and intrigue:<\/strong> The player characters will experience a fierce power struggle in the city\u2019s underworld, take on the role of demon hunters, and uncover secrets about Arkand\u2019s storied past that could change the city forever.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Award-winning creativity:<\/strong> <em>Arkand \u2013 City of Waves and Flames <\/em>is written by Johan Sj\u00f6berg and illustrated by Johan Egerkrans and David Brasgalla. If unlocked as a stretch goal, this book will also include a large separate 432 x 558mm full-color map drawn by Francesca Baerald.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Book of Magic<\/em> Key Features<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>More magic:<\/strong> The <em>Book of Magic<\/em> adds at least five new schools of magic to your <em>Dragonbane <\/em>game, including harmonism, demonology, necromancy, witchcraft, and illusionism \u2013 as well as new spells for the existing schools of general magic, animism, elementalism, and mentalism.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>More spells:<\/strong> All featured schools of magic come with a wide range of spells, which now come in five ranks. Each school is also described with information about their practitioners, station and reputation in the world, and what kind of spiritus familarius their members typically summon.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>More award-winning creativity: <\/strong>The <em>Book of Magic<\/em> is written by Mattias Johnsson Haake and Mattias Lilja (creators of <em>Symbaroum<\/em>) with Tomas H\u00e4renstam (<em>Dragonbane <\/em>Core Set) as co-writer and editor, and illustrated by Johan Egerkrans and David Brasgalla.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To keep up to date with Free League Publishing, be sure to follow them on <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=f8104853b3&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">X (Twitter)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=187e1a19e7&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=2d706862f3&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=7abf2ea549&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">YouTube<\/a>, and visit their official website at <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=2dfd75ad9d&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">freeleaguepublishing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>About <em>Dragonbane<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Released in 2023, <em>Dragonbane <\/em>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 \u201cmirth and mayhem\u201d game style leaves room for laughs at the table, while still offering brutal challenges for the adventurers.<\/p>\n<h3>About Free League Publishing<\/h3>\n<p>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, and 2024, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore the City of Waves and Flames, and delve deep into tomes of magic within the universally acclaimed world of Dragonbane Stockholm, Sweden (June 3, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[378,4736,3930,3521,3542],"class_list":["post-58734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-rpg-news","tag-classic-fantasy","tag-dragonbane","tag-free-league-publishing","tag-headline","tag-kickstarter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}