Free League Announces The Flowers of Algorab, a New Campaign for Coriolis

Free League Publishing has announced what they are billing as the first expansion for Coriolis: The Great Dark, a new boxed campaign that's set within Ship City. The Flowers of Algorab is described as a full campaign experience, containing a full-length campaign as well as numerous handouts for players. The campaign box will also contain a set of nine dice, a deck of custom cards for initiative, gear, and discoveries, and cardboard tokens. The campaign will be released on Free League's website starting on February 3rd, with pre-orders available now.

With that, two white-robed Coriolites with pale silver masks operate a console that tips the platform beneath the body, making it slide off and tumble down into the inky blackness of the well. Within seconds, it’s gone.

The death of an old ruin delver and a missing stone tablet mark the beginning of a strange set of events in the depths of Ship City. Soon, the Explorers are drawn into a web of intrigue and ancient secrets that threaten the very fabric of the Lost Horizon itself.

The Flowers of Algorab is a complete campaign for the Coriolis: The Great Dark RPG, where the Explorers will partake in investigations in Ship City, embark on perilous expeditions, and travel down the Hammurabi Arm in search of lost secrets.

Coriolis: The Great Dark is Free League's sci-fi RPG that's focused on exploration and survival in a remote region of space. The game was inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep-sea diving, and pulp archeology and uses a variant of the Year Zero Engine for gameplay. Coriolis: The Great Dark is functionally a second edition of Coriolis - The Third Horizon, which came out in 2015.

 

[Dire Bare]

I like how the first and second Coriolis games are like different games, and the second game is also kinda sorta a "new edition". You get to have a new, updated experience that doesn't invalidate the original game. Neat.

I'm not sure that would work with something like D&D, but I dig it.

 

[Fenris-77]

I got the box in the mail a couple weeks ago, it's bloody marvelous.

 

[Superchunk77]

Mine is still in the shrinkwrap tormenting me from my bookshelf.

 

[Hygge Halfling]

Never played Coriolis (I hear good things), but that title gave me a hazy thought. There has to be some kind of untapped market for a Flowers for Algernon inspired indie or solo journaling kind of game.

 

[Rob F]

Free League has some fantastic products. It may be time to expand the collection...

 

[Paragon Lost]

Yup, got mine about a month ago, via the Kickstarter. It's very well made and the campaign looks fun.

 

[aramis erak]

I like how the first and second Coriolis games are like different games, and the second game is also kinda sorta a "new edition". You get to have a new, updated experience that doesn't invalidate the original game. Neat.

I'm not sure that would work with something like D&D, but I dig it.

The current is the third edition; the first was done outside FL, hell, Before FL existed. C:TTH is the second,

Coriolis was the reason I got back into roleplaying games, and the key to the
foundation of Free League Publishing. In 2008, when the first edition of the
game was released, I hadn’t played a pen and paper RPG in years. Coriolis
had everything I had longed for in a sci-fi game: vast space, exciting cultures,
lost wonders, and mysteries in abundance. I started playing the game with
some new friends right away. We had tremendous fun, but soon realized
that there wasn’t enough material about the game universe. So a few of us,
enthusiasts, decided to create more material for the game. Thus, the Free
League game studio was born, taking its name from one of the factions in
the Third Horizon.

Page 4, by the way. intro penned by "Kosta Kostulas and the Free League".

 

[Staffan]

The current is the third edition; the first was done outside FL, hell, Before FL existed. C:TTH is the second,

Sort of. Original Coriolis was made by a company called Järnringen, who had previously made an edition of the Swedish post-apocalyptic game Mutant (which has some links to Mutant: Year Zero, but takes place far later when society is in the process of rebuilding rather than falling apart). Järnringen, by the way, is a faction within that game.

Järnringen eventually closed their doors (I don't think they went bankrupt or anything, they were just burnt out and stuff), and sold the rights to Coriolis to Fria Ligan. I'm not entirely sure of the timeline, but I think this was after they had done M:YZ but before they had become the (for the gaming biz) behemoth they are today. A year or so later, Järnringen started up again and made another new RPG: Symbaroum. Symbaroum used the same publishing model they had used with Mutant: core book, moderate rules expansions, and a series of combined adventures and setting sourcebooks that together formed a big honkin' campaign. This was fairly successful, and eventually Fria Ligan and Järnringen merged which is why Symbaroum is now published by Free League.

So while it is correct to say that OG Coriolis was made outside of Free League, most of the people making it now are part of Free League though doing other stuff.

 

[MGibster]

The Swedes are really kicking it with style with RPGs these days.