{"id":59048,"date":"2025-10-20T20:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=59048"},"modified":"2025-10-20T20:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T00:09:43","slug":"a-legend-returns-free-league-announces-dragonbane-trudvang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/?p=59048","title":{"rendered":"A Legend Returns \u2013 Free League Announces Dragonbane: Trudvang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The iconic world of deep forests and endless mystery returns to its roots as a massive setting for the award-winning Dragonbane RPG<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stockholm, Sweden (October 20, 2025)<\/strong> | Today, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=78c3edfc66&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Free League Publishing<\/a> announced <em>Dragonbane: Trudvang<\/em>, a massive game world and setting for the multiple award-winning <em>Dragonbane <\/em>fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trudvang <\/em>is a world of shadowed woods and fathomless mists\u2026 of dreadful beasts and unsung heroes\u2026 of wrathful gods and endless mystery \u2014 deeply original but with strong roots in Norse and Viking mythology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Watch the<em> Dragonbane: Trudvang Announced\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>trailer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=0dfcba6b3b&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=f819e1a00a&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trudvang-Book-of-Heroes-cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-59049\" src=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trudvang-Book-of-Heroes-cover-1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trudvang-Book-of-Heroes-cover-1-232x300.jpg 232w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trudvang-Book-of-Heroes-cover-1-116x150.jpg 116w, http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trudvang-Book-of-Heroes-cover-1.jpg 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Dragonbane: Trudvang,\u00a0<\/em>produced by Free League under license from CMON<em>,\u00a0<\/em>is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026, and prospective backers can sign up to follow the project <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=8f225b9f73&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">here<\/a><\/strong>. The campaign will offer no less than four masterfully illustrated hardback volumes in Swedish or English:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>World Book: <\/strong>This richly illustrated book takes a deep dive into <em>Trudvang<\/em>&#8216;s history, peoples, and regions \u2014 from <em>Stormlands <\/em>to <em>Westmark<\/em>, from <em>Soj <\/em>to the <em>Great Ice Plains<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Book of Heroes:<\/strong> New <em>Trudvang <\/em>professions, skills, heroic abilities, and magic \u2014 wielded by <em>vitner weavers<\/em> and <em>dimwalkers<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>Jorgi&#8217;s Bestiary:<\/strong> The classic monster manual for <em>Trudvang <\/em>returns, featuring beasts from <em>braskelwurm <\/em>and <em>draugr <\/em>to <em>hrimtursir <\/em>and <em>yggdras<\/em>, adapted for <em>Dragonbane<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><strong>The Black Sun:<\/strong> A legendary four-part epic campaign in <em>Trudvang<\/em>, revised and published in English for the first time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The<em> Trudvang <\/em>brand and its original content was created by Theodore Bergqvist and Magnus Malmberg of Riotminds as a campaign world for their Swedish edition of <em>Dragonbane <\/em>(<em>Drakar och Demoner<\/em>) in the early 2000s. <em>Trudvang <\/em>later took a life of its own in the separate <em>Trudvang Chronicles<\/em> RPG and the board game <em>Trudvang Legends<\/em> by CMON.<\/p>\n<p>The art of <em>Dragonbane: Trudvang<\/em> will mainly be drawn from over two decades of amazing <em>Trudvang <\/em>illustrations by masters like Paul Bonner and Alvaro Tapia. Paul Bonner has also created the new cover art for the <em>Dragonbane: Trudvang<\/em> <em>World Book<\/em>, and Francesca Baerald has drawn a new world map of <em>Trudvang<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The work of writing, editing, and adapting <em>Trudvang<\/em> to the current version of <em>Dragonbane <\/em>will be spearheaded by Magnus Seter, a veteran RPG writer (<em>Cyberpunk 2020<\/em>, <em>Mutant Chronicles<\/em>, <em>Forbidden Lands<\/em>, <em>Dragonbane<\/em>) who also worked on <em>Trudvang <\/em>in its early days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we heard that Free League had licensed <em>Trudvang <\/em>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 \u2014 but also because <em>Trudvang <\/em>has, in many ways, found its way home again,\u201d said Theodore Bergqvist, co-founder of Riotminds in the preface to the new edition.<\/p>\n<p>To stay current with Free League Publishing, follow on <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=fc46a8f50a&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">X (Twitter)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=7caf2102b1&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=0ae182828d&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">Instagram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=4e402c8279&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">YouTube<\/a>, and visit the official website at <a href=\"https:\/\/uberstrategist.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b4300e528090154189e29235d&amp;id=dad4e6b4c5&amp;e=2a7cc2d4be\">freeleaguepublishing.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>About Free League Publishing<\/h4>\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 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic world of deep forests and endless mystery returns to its roots as a massive setting for the award-winning Dragonbane RPG Stockholm, Sweden (October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1935,4],"tags":[378,4736,3930,3521,3542,5134],"class_list":["post-59048","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","tag-trudvang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59048","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=59048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roleplayerschronicle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}