Free League Announces Dragonbane: Trudvang

A Kickstarter launches in 2026.
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Free League Publishing has announced its next Dragonbane content - a four volume set featuring the Celtic and Norse inspired world of Trudvang. This week, Free League Publishing announced Dragonbane: Trudvang, which is based on the board game Trudvang originally published by CMON. The set will include the following books:

  • World Book: A deep dive into Trudvang's history, peoples, and regions – from Stormlands to Westmark, from Soj to the Great Ice Plains, richly illustrated.
  • Book of Heroes: New Trudvang professions, skills, heroic abilities, and magic – wielded by vitner weavers and dimwalkers.
  • Jorgi's Bestiary: The classic monster manual for Trudvang returns, featuring beasts from braskelwurm and draugr to hrimtursir and yggdras, all adapted for Dragonbane.
  • The Black Sun: A legendary four-part epic campaign in Trudvang, revised and published in English for the first time.

Trudvang has an interesting history. The IP was originally developed as a campaign setting for Drakar Och Demoner, the Swedish version of Dragonbane. RiotMinds sold the Trudvang IP to CMON shortly before selling the Drakar Och Demoner rights to Free League Publishing, and CMON developed Trudvang into a board game before its more recent financial troubles started. In some ways, this Kickstarter will bring Trudvang full circle.

A Kickstarter for the new campaign setting book will launch in 2026.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer


I do hope that this version of Trudvang leans away from the older aesthetic of pages and pages and pages of long form prose to describe the setting. I don't want to have to read (and remember) a novel in order to start GMing a setting.

I just found and dusted off my Trudvang for 5e books to jog my memory and...yeah...old school walls of text. :-/
 





...and CMON developed Trudvang into a board game...
CMON also produced a pnp RPG of Trudvang, I still have the physical book for that.
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The illustrations are absolutely awesome, the primary reason I'm attracted to the RPG. I'm also curios about Dragonbane (have the official PDFs, am just missing time), and having Trudvang run by FL and it running on Dragonbane, with the excellent support FL has for Foundry VTT. I suspect I'll be curious down the line as well. Won't be backing the crowdfunding campaign, I'll wait for the finished product...
 


CMON also produced a pnp RPG of Trudvang, I still have the physical book for that.
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The illustrations are absolutely awesome, the primary reason I'm attracted to the RPG. I'm also curios about Dragonbane (have the official PDFs, am just missing time), and having Trudvang run by FL and it running on Dragonbane, with the excellent support FL has for Foundry VTT. I suspect I'll be curious down the line as well. Won't be backing the crowdfunding campaign, I'll wait for the finished product...
That RPG was actually acquired from Riotminds, a swedish publisher, and started of as a setting for a previous incarnation Drakar och Demoner (Dragonbane in english). So this means the setting is back where it started.

Edit: Alos, Riotminds released the RPG Ruin Masters that uses a lot of the art that ended up in Free League's Dragonbane.
 

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