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Prepare for Adventure in the Worlds of Free League

Award-winning RPG publisher Free League Publishing invites press and content creators to a Free League Showcase at Gen Con 2023 to reveal news for the coming year as well as a Q&A opportunity with the game creators. The showcase takes place on Thursday, August 3rd, at 11AM ET in room ICC #244. Also, Free League is teaming up with The Glass Cannon for an all-star live-play of the brand new fantasy RPG Dragonbane which will be available at Gen Con ahead of the August 15 official release, as well as offering quick demos for the game. Strange and wondrous worlds await.

Showcase Participants:

• Tomas Härenstam, co-founder of Free League and lead game designer of the anticipated fantasy RPG Dragonbane as well as the award-winning tabletop RPGs Blade Runner RPG, ALIEN RPG, Twilight: 2000, Forbidden Lands, and Mutant: Year Zero
• Luke Stratton, lead designer of the upcoming MÖRK BORG spin-off game PIRATE BORG
• Johan Nohr and Christian Sahlén, game creators of MÖRK BORG and CY_BORG
• Carl Niblaeus, lead designer of Death in Space
• Kiku Pukk Härenstam, co-writer of Vaesen: Seasons of Mystery and Vaesen: A Wicked Secret

The Free League game creators at the showcase will also be available at booth #2641 in the main trade hall throughout Gen Con for interviews. In the booth, attendants can also get a sneak peek at the highly anticipated fantasy RPG Dragonbane as well as the MÖRK BORG spin-off game PIRATE BORG.

There are also drop-in seats available in room ICC #138, where Free League, in partnership with Lurking Fears, will have over 90 games running over the weekend, including a 30-minute sneak-peak demo for the upcoming fantasy RPG Dragonbane.

If you are interested in scheduling an interview at Gen Con or want to participate in a Dragonbane game demo, please get in touch with ÜberStrategist at: freeleague@uberstrategist.com.

Free League is proud to have received seven ENNIE Award nominations this year, including Product of the Year for Vaesen: Mythic Britain and Ireland, Best Layout and Design for the Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game core book, and Best Monster/Adversary for Ruins of Symbaroum Bestiary. Winners are determined by an open vote and will be announced at Gen Con on August 4, 2023.

Glass Cannon Dragonbane Liveplay

Break out the salted licorice and make peace with the existence of umlauts because The Glass Cannon is kicking off Day 2 of Gen Con 2023 with a 2-hour live-play of Dragonbane! They are doing character creation for the revival of the classic Scandinavian TTRPG on Glass Cannon Labs tomorrow Thursday, July 28th at 2 PM ET! Then next Friday, August 4th at 10 AM ET, Joe O’Brien will be running this same all-star crew through an adventure LIVE in The Glass Cannon’s Gen Con booth (#174)!

Full press kits for Free League’s products, including logos and artwork, can be found here: https://uberstrategist.link/Free-League-Press-Kit.

To keep up to date with Free League Publishing, follow on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, and visit the official website at freeleaguepublishing.com.

About Free League Publishing

Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

Our upcoming games include Dragonbane, PIRATE BORG, The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame.

Our current game portfolio includes the official Blade Runner RPG (Judges Choice and Peoples Choice for Best Adventure at the UK Games Expo 2023), The One Ring™ (Gold ENNIE Award winner 2022), The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, 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), 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 Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).

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