Award-Winning Dragonbane RPG Grows with Two New Expansions: Arkand & the Book of Magic Kickstarter to Launch on June 3

Stockholm, Sweden (May 22, 2025) | Today, Free League Publishing is announcing not one, but two beautifully illustrated and finely crafted expansions for the multiple award-winning Dragonbane RPG. Both Arkand – City of Waves and Flames and the Book of Magic will officially launch on Kickstarter on June 3, 2025. Backers can sign up here to be notified at launch.

As an exclusive offering in this campaign, there will be special limited-edition versions of both Arkand – City of Waves and Flames and the Book of Magic, 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 Arkand – City of Waves and Flames or the Book of Magic.

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Gold ENNIE Award winner 2024

“Dragonbane is now my go-to fantasy TTRPG.” - Pop Geeks Review

‍“Classic fantasy fun in a modern shell.” - Tabletop Magazine Review

“Of the many TTRPGs played this year, Dragonbane stands out as one of the best.” - ScreenRant

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.

Read more here

Arkand – City of Waves and Flames Key Features

• A rich, bustling setting: 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.
  
• Danger and intrigue: The player characters will experience a fierce power struggle in the city’s underworld, take on the role of demon hunters, and uncover secrets about Arkand’s storied past that could change the city forever.
  
• Award-winning creativity: Arkand – City of Waves and Flames is written by Johan Sjöberg 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.

Book of Magic Key Features

• More magic: The Book of Magic adds at least five new schools of magic to your Dragonbane game, including harmonism, demonology, necromancy, witchcraft, and illusionism – as well as new spells for the existing schools of general magic, animism, elementalism, and mentalism.
  
• More spells: 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.
  
• More award-winning creativity: The Book of Magic is written by Mattias Johnsson Haake and Mattias Lilja (creators of Symbaroum) with Tomas Härenstam (Dragonbane Core Set) as co-writer and editor, and illustrated by Johan Egerkrans and David Brasgalla.

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

To request review copies of other Dragonbane RPG books, fill out this form: https://uberstrategist.link/Dragonbane-Review-Request-Form.

To keep up to date with Free League Publishing, be sure to follow them on X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and visit their official website at freeleaguepublishing.com.

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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 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.

Our game portfolio includes the 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 RPG (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 games Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the cinematic action RPG Outgunned, 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 Roleplaying Game.

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