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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ethawyn" data-source="post: 8722702" data-attributes="member: 7017219">Interestingly, when Free League first announced they'd picked up DoD, they were adamant that it was only for their Swedish market. I kept seeing people begging them to bring it out in English and they kept saying no, but clearly they must have heard enough requests to persuade them to try.It seems like Free League's philosophy on this is that as long as the systems are different it's not a problem for them. Each of these, whether made or just published by Free League, is a separate rule system with a distinct flavor. I'd guess they're thinking Dragonsbane will be the same, though it's interesting to me that both it and Symbaroum are D20 roll under. You could also add Ruins of Symbaroum and the announced Lord of the Rings RPG into the mix since they're a different ruleset than Symbaroum and TOR. Anyway, for my part I'll be picking it up for the Johan Egerkrans alone. Not quite... that's true for MB, but The One Ring is designed by Sophisticated Games but the writing, layout, art, etc. are all Free League and its Free League branded on the spine. It's definitely sold as one of their games. But even with MB I still see a lot of confusion with people asking Free League questions about it and them repeating "We just publish and distribute it," so I don't think it makes that much of a difference to the consumer. But as I said above, I think the system and setting differences are enough to justify the different games. I also think that outside of the 5E ecosystem a lot of the market these days is driven by addicts like me who will buy every new game from their favorite publisher just to have it even though they'll never actually play it...</blockquote>

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