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Pirate Borg Sets Sail with Down Among the Dead Expansion and Starter Set, Now Available

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Free League Publishing and Limithron have launched the Down Among the Dead expansion for Pirate Borg, alongside the Pirate Borg Starter Set and Gamemaster Screen, bringing new adventures and tools to the scurvy-ridden tabletop RPG. The new range is now available for purchase in the Free League webshop and in hobby stores worldwide. Digital copies are also for sale through DriveThruRPG.

Pirate Borg sends players on a terrible journey across the high seas, as they raid, pillage, and plunder their way toward infamy. The newly released Down Among the Dead expansion presents three full-length adventures across 148 pages, introducing terrifying challenges, new discoveries, and untold booty for daring crews to claim.

For those new to the life of a pirate, the Pirate Borg Starter Set provides an accessible entry point to the rules-light RPG. The set includes a Player’s Guidebook, the deluxe Trapped in the Tropics adventure, and a full collection of accessories designed to get players sailing quickly into the cutthroat world of Pirate Borg.

The tabletop experience can also be enhanced with the official Gamemaster Screen—a five-panel screen that folds down to A5 size, featuring original artwork, glow-in-the-dark elements, and quick reference materials to support play during campaigns.

Designed by Limithron and published under Free League, Pirate Borg is a scurvy-ridden, rules-light, and art-heavy tabletop RPG, inspired by history, fantasy, horror, and rum. 

In true pirate fashion, players take on the role of greedy, filthy scoundrels sailing the high seas in search of treasure. Beginning with humble resources, pirate crews must acquire a ship, recruit companions, and raid ports, forts, and rival vessels to make a name for themselves.

As each campaign unfolds, players can upgrade vessels, uncover hidden treasure, and grow in notoriety—though danger lurks everywhere beneath the waves. With monstrous threats and deadly encounters awaiting at every turn, fallen pirates are encouraged to roll up new characters and chart a fresh course.

Pirate Borg includes a 166-page core book featuring eight character classes, easy-to-learn naval combat rules, stats for 18 vessels, more than 80 NPCs and monsters, 90+ system-agnostic tables, and the sandbox adventure The Curse of Skeleton Point, spanning 11 pirate-themed locations.

Free League Announces The Flowers of Algorab, First Expansion for Coriolis: The Great Dark, Coming February 3

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The Flowers of Algorab

Free League Publishing has announced that The Flowers of Algorab, the first expansion for its science-fiction tabletop roleplaying game Coriolis: The Great Dark, is now available for pre-order in the Free League webshop, with immediate access to a complimentary PDF, ahead of the February 3 release date.

This complete boxed campaign invites Explorers to investigate the mysteries of Ship City, embark on dangerous expeditions, and travel along the Hammurabi Arm in search of long-lost secrets. The journey begins with the death of an old ruin delver and the disappearance of a mysterious stone tablet, setting off a strange chain of events deep within Ship City.

Designed as a full campaign experience, The Flowers of Algorab expands the world of Coriolis: The Great Dark with new locations, stories, and tools for both players and Game Masters. The boxed set includes:

  • Campaign book detailing characters, locations, and overarching plots
  • Expedition booklet with player-facing information on Greatships and the systems of the Hammurabi Arm
  • Large full-color map of the Lost Horizon and Ship City
  • Map of the Charted Sphere
  • Delve maps and handouts
  • Blueprints of the Greatships Akhander and Rigel
  • Blueprints of a Grasshopper shuttle and a Rhino rover
  • Nine base dice and three gear dice
  • Deck of custom cards for initiative, gear, and discoveries
  • Cardboard tokens for Blight, supply, and expeditions
The Flowers of Algorab

Free League’s Black Friday Deals features Up to 80% Off Select Items

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Get ready to cozy up with new adventures. The Free League Black Friday Sale runs from November 28 to December 1 on the Free League webshop, offering 40% off most core books and starter sets, and up to 80% off select titles. This holiday season is the perfect time to surprise your adventuring party or treat yourself to something magical at the table.

Curl up with adventures from across the Free League catalog. Explore the legends of Middle-earth, crack strange cases in the neon-lit streets of LA 2037, or unravel mysteries inspired by retro, alternate-history ’80s science fiction. Venture into eerie forests inspired by mythic creatures, roam cursed kingdoms, or gather your group to explore far-flung worlds together. Wherever your table travels, there’s a world waiting to be unwrapped.

The sale runs from November 28 to December 1 on the Free League webshop.

The sale features 40% off core books and starter sets for fan favorites across the Free League catalog, including The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, The One Ring™, Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game, The Walking Dead Universe Roleplaying Game, Invincible – The Roleplaying Game, The Electric State Roleplaying Game, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Tales From the Loop RPG, Dragonbane, Symbaroum, Mutant: Year Zero, Forbidden Lands, and Twilight: 2000. Select items are discounted by up to 80%.

Note: Titles published under the Free League Workshop sublabel (such as MÖRK BORG, Outgunned, and Black Powder and Brimstone) are generally not included, as they are developed externally.

ALIEN RPG: Evolved Edition, Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure, and Evolved Edition Starter Set Out Now

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ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition

This week, Free League Publishing released the updated and expanded ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition, a modern take on the award-winning sci-fi horror TTRPG, in partnership with 20th Century Studios. Joining it at launch are Rapture Protocol, the first chapter of a new cinematic trilogy, a redesigned Starter Set, a deluxe Game Mother’s Screen, and a high-quality Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set that puts the ALIEN universe’s most iconic threats on the tabletop for fans old and new.

The ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook ($57.99), Starter Set ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Cinematic Adventure Set expansion ($39.99), Rapture Protocol Miniatures Set ($59.99), Game Mother’s “MU/TH/UR” Screen ($24.99), and related accessories are now available through the Free League webshop, hobby stores worldwide, and in PDF format at DriveThroughRPG. Virtual Tabletop Modules are available on Roll20 and Demiplane today, with Foundry and Alchemy versions to follow later.

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Core Rulebook

ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition builds on the beloved sci-fi horror TTRPG with a fully updated and refined ruleset that offers a modern, streamlined experience for both new and veteran players. The expanded core rulebook features refreshed artwork, added content, and a range of enhanced tools for players and Game Mothers, all fully compatible with previous releases and game material.

  • A striking redesign of the Core Rulebook with updated layouts by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), fresh interior maps and artwork, and a new cover by Colm Geoghegan (Creepy Duck Design)
  • Life path character generation for richer and more varied backstories
  • Revised and expanded core rules for talents, stress and panic, and stealth
  • Reworked combat rules covering armor, ammo, grenades, stuns, and spaceship engagements
  • Iconic weapons, items, ships, and locations drawn from the hit film Alien: Romulus
  • Additional rules and tools requested by players, including zero-gravity hazards, miniatures support, and expanded campaign play
  • The Tartarus Sector, a fully realized campaign setting that expands the frontier of the ALIEN universe
  • Last Survivor, an immersive solo mode crafted by veteran solo game designers Shawn Tomkin and Matt Click

About ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition Starter Set

Redesigned as the ideal entry point to the ALIEN universe, the Evolved Edition Starter Set includes everything needed for game night. Inside are abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, large miniature-ready maps, initiative and reference cards, handouts, tokens, and an expanded Evolved Edition of the fan-favorite Hope’s Last Day scenario, set on the terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope before the events of the 1986 sci-fi horror classic ALIENS.

The set includes:

  • Abridged Evolved Edition rules featured in the included rules booklet
  • A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) featuring chartered space in 2183 on one side and Hadley’s Hope on the other
  • Five pre-generated characters ready for immediate play
  • Playing cards that streamline gear management, combat initiative, personal agendas, and panic responses
  • Durable cardboard tokens representing characters and creatures
  • Rules reference sheets for quick lookup
  • A supply dial that tracks essential resources such as air, ammunition, and power
  • Ten engraved base dice and ten engraved stress dice crafted for the ALIEN The Roleplaying Game
  • A high-quality plastic miniature of the iconic Xenomorph

About Rapture Protocol

Rapture Protocol is a complete cinematic adventure for ALIEN The Roleplaying Game: Evolved Edition and the first chapter of the Jeremiah Saga trilogy. Built for three to five players and a Game Mother, the adventure brings the franchise back to its iconic blend of tension and isolation. Players follow the crew of a modest starfreighter on a routine resupply run to the remote Jeremiah VI industrial colony, unaware that something far more dangerous is waiting for them there.

This set contains:

  • The main Rapture Protocol scenario book, full of story details, locations, and guidance for running the adventure
  • A huge double-sided map (864×558 mm) showing the starfreighter USS Fidanza on one side and the industrial colony of Jeremiah VI on the other
  • Five pre-generated characters with unique roles and motivations
  • Playing cards that support personal agendas and NPC interactions
  • High-quality cardboard tokens for characters and creatures
  • Maps and handouts to assist players during the scenario

To accompany the adventure, a new Miniatures Set introduces 20 finely crafted 28mm figures of soldiers, space truckers, Xenomorphs, and other threats. These miniatures are perfectly scaled for the large battle maps featured in Rapture Protocol, Hope’s Last Day, and other cinematic scenarios across the ALIEN RPG line. The set also includes a booklet of simplified skirmish rules that enables fast, tactical encounters using the included miniatures.

Free League also offers a deluxe landscape Game Mother’s Screen, styled after a MU/TH/UR ship-intelligence interface. The inward-facing panels compile essential tables and quick references to streamline play, while keeping the Game Mother’s notes and secrets concealed from curious eyes.

Free League Publishing and Skybound launch Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying

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Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying, the tabletop roleplaying game by Free League Publishing and Skybound Entertainment, is now live on Kickstarter.

This latest RPG from fan-favorite and multiple award-winning publisher Free League is based on Skybound’s groundbreaking comic book series Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley, which is also a hit animated series on Prime Video.

Early backers who make a pledge for a physical reward within the first 48 hours of the Kickstarter launch will receive an exclusive cloth patch bearing their choice of the Invincible suit design or the symbol of the Viltrum Empire, home of Omni-Man, at no additional cost.

Backers can also download a completely free Quickstart PDF to get a taste of the game right away. This Quickstart will also be launched as a free content module on the Foundry virtual tabletop during the course of the campaign.

The Kickstarter will include a comprehensive Core Rulebook – in a standard and an exclusive Collector’s Edition – and a boxed Starter Set, both with illustrations by Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley and graphic design by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG).

If unlocked as a stretch goal in this campaign, Skybound will print a limited run of Invincible #1 with a brand-new variant cover drawn and inked by Todd Nauck and colored by Matt Herms. If unlocked, all physical pledge backers will receive one copy of this unique item, which is exclusive to this Kickstarter campaign and will never be printed again.

The Invincible universe is filled with everything we love about superhero stories – costumes and capes, epic brawls across cityscapes, sidekicks, team-ups, alien invasions, witty banter, alternate dimensions, and much more – though these familiar elements are often subverted in surprising ways. Any trope can exist, and any trope can be turned on its head.

In this action-packed storytelling experience, players take on the role of superheroes in their own corners of the Invincible universe. Whether you choose to play an established character from the comic or create your own, this game is the story of what happens to your superheroes – the protagonists of your own saga. 

You might be a wisecracking speedster, a super-genius inventor, a grizzled vigilante, a shape-shifting alien, or a high-flying symbol of hope. Whatever you play and wherever you go, you’ll have to juggle relationships with patrols, face tough challenges and choices, and learn how to use your powers… and learn more about yourself in the process.

Who knows? You might be INVINCIBLE.

Invincible – Superhero Roleplaying Core Rulebook Key Features:

  • Your Superhero: Instructions for how to create your very own hero.
  • Powers & Talents: Details on superpowers, talents, and drawbacks that signify what kind of hero you’re playing.
  • Action & Combat: Rules for combat, damage, recovery, adversaries, and challenges.
  • The Invincible Universe: A primer providing guidance on how to capture the feel of the setting, and descriptions of key locations and organizations.
  • Running the Game: Guidance intended for the GM about how to prepare and run a game session.
  • Campaign Play: Tools to help set up campaigns, events and encounters, and non-player characters. 
  • Dramatis Personae: Descriptions and statistics for dozens of key characters from the Invincible universe.

Coriolis: The Great Dark, the New Edition of Free League’s Original Sci-Fi RPG, Released Today

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Coriolis: The Great Dark

Free League Publishing has officially released Coriolis: The Great Dark, the new edition of their original sci-fi RPG. The core rulebook, alongside a GM screen and custom dice set, is now officially available via the Free League webshop, in digital format via DrivethruRPG and the Foundry virtual tabletop, and soon if not already in hobby stores worldwide.

Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archaeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark is a roleplaying game about exploration and intrigue. Join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of this Lost Horizon. The core rulebook features:

  • Rules for creating your crew of Explorers, with upgrades such as talents, vehicles, and crew maneuvers to enhance campaign play.
  • Rules for delving into the unknown, traveling on Greatships through the dangerous Slipstream, and trekking across wild planets.
  • A detailed gazetteer of the Lost Horizon, the eleven systems of the Charted Sphere and the asteroid-metropolis of Ship City.
  • The Black Ziggurat, an introductory adventure that will take you deep into an ancient ruin on a distant moon.
  • Tools and rules for solo play, making it possible to explore the Lost Horizon all by yourself.

Coriolis: The Great Dark Coming August 12 – Now On Pre-Order

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Coriolis: The Great Dark

After the buzzing pre-release at Gen Con, Coriolis the Great Dark, the new edition of Free League’s original sci-fi RPG, will be officially released everywhere on August 12 – that’s this coming Tuesday!

The new core book, alongside a GM screen and dice set, are already available for pre-order in the Free League webshop, with immediate access to a complete PDF.

Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archaeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark is a roleplaying game about exploration and intrigue. Join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of this Lost Horizon. The core rulebook features:

  • Rules for creating your crew of Explorers, with upgrades such as talents, vehicles, and crew maneuvers to enhance campaign play.
  • Rules for delving into the unknown, traveling on Greatships through the dangerous Slipstream, and trekking across wild planets.
  • A detailed gazetteer of the Lost Horizon, the eleven systems of the Charted Sphere and the asteroid-metropolis of Ship City.
  • The Black Ziggurat, an introductory adventure that will take you deep into an ancient ruin on a distant moon.
  • Tools and rules for solo play, making it possible to explore the Lost Horizon all by yourself.

Free League’s The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E and The One Ring Starter Sets are out now!

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Free League Publishing‘s new and beginner-friendly Starter Sets for The One Ring tabletop RPG and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E, based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and inexpensively priced at just $29.99, have been officially released.

These starter sets provide all you need to embark on your journeys in Middle-earth. Immerse yourself in a world set between the time of Bilbo’s first adventure and the events of The Lord of the Rings, exploring the Lone-lands of Eriador and taking on the roles of characters whose stories are yet to be told. Key features: 

  • Condensed rules for action resolution, combat, councils, and journeys
  • The complete adventure Over Hill and Under Hill, bringing the heroes deep into the wild lands of northern Eriador to face a dark threat
  • A large full-color map of the lands of Eriador, with a combat diagram on the back
  • Beautifully illustrated cardboard stand-up figures for Player-heroes and Adversaries for use on the combat diagram
  • Five pre-generated and illustrated Player-heroes
  • Special dice engraved with custom symbols*

*Note that the type of dice depends on which Starter Set is purchased. The One Ring Starter Set – Over Hill and Under Hill includes two D12 Feat Dice and six D6 Success Dice, all engraved with custom symbols. The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying 5E Starter Set contains a full set of transparent polyhedral dice, including two D20s engraved with the Rune of Gandalf and the Eye of Sauron.

Gen Con 2025: Free League’s Coriolis: The Great Dark Gets a Pre-Release

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Ahead of the August 12 official release date, the core rulebook for Coriolis: The Great Dark, the new edition of Free League‘s original sci-fi RPG, was exclusively pre-released at Gen Con.

Inspired by 19th century expeditions, deep sea diving and pulp archaeology, Coriolis: The Great Dark is a roleplaying game about exploration and intrigue. Join dangerous expeditions, navigate the Byzantine schemes of Ship City, and hunt for the keys that unlock the mystery of this Lost Horizon. The core rulebook features:

  • Rules for creating your crew of Explorers, with upgrades such as talents, vehicles, and crew maneuvers to enhance campaign play.
  • Rules for delving into the unknown, traveling on Greatships through the dangerous Slipstream, and trekking across wild planets.
  • A detailed gazetteer of the Lost Horizon, the eleven systems of the Charted Sphere and the asteroid-metropolis of Ship City.
  • The Black Ziggurat, an introductory adventure that will take players deep into an ancient ruin on a distant moon.
  • Tools and rules for solo play, making it possible to explore the Lost Horizon all by yourself.

The Kickstarter for Free League and Titan Forge’s official Dragonbane miniatures is Live

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The Kickstarter for official Dragonbane miniatures, based on the amazing art by Johan Egerkrans and David Brasgalla, is live! The Kickstarter is managed by the acclaimed miniatures maker Titan Forge in partnership with Free League, to launch a wide range of high-quality miniatures sets for the award-winning Dragonbane fantasy RPG.

The Northern Beasts miniatures sets will primarily focus on the monsters found in the Dragonbane Core Set and Bestiary, along with a range of heroes to face the horrifying beasts.

Each set will include an original mini-adventure by BJ Keeton and Free League, featuring the monster in question, giving players everything they need to drop the miniatures straight into Dragonbane campaigns. The models will also be available for 3D printing.

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