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Dragon Kings Reunites the Original Dark Sun Creative Team for a New Edition of Timothy Brown’s Savage Fantasy RPG

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Timothy Brown’s Dragon Kings

Strange Owl Games has announced the release of Timothy Brown’s Dragon Kings in a brand-new edition suitable for 5E play, with conversion rules for 2E included. Brown, the award-winning co-creator of the Dark Sun universe, has further refined the desperate, savage world of Khitus, his spiritual successor to those exciting tropes and themes.

Brown reunites with Troy Denning, and Brom for the project. Veteran TSR designers Bill Salvicsek and Rich Baker are also part of the Dragon Kings team.

This crowdfunding campaign for Dragon Kings includes the Core Book with the entire setting and 5E-compatible rules, 2E conversion, maps, adventures, setting-appropriate dice, game master’s screen, and audiobook.

Dragon Kings crowdfunds on BackerKit, beginning September 22, 2026.

The Dragon Kings crowdfunding campaign includes:

  • The Dragon Kings Core Book with the complete setting and 5E-compatible rules
  • Conversion rules for 2E
  • Maps
  • Adventures
  • Setting-appropriate dice
  • Game Master’s screen
  • Audiobook
  • 30+ new creatures
  • 60+ pieces of commissioned original interior artwork

Inside the hardcover:

  • A complete 5E-compatible game with setting and rules in one book
  • Six ancestries native to Khitus
  • Classes, subclasses, and integrated psionic rules
  • Sorcery that is rare, dangerous, and alive
  • Survival, travel, and scarcity systems
  • A regional gazetteer filled with adventure hooks
  • 30+ new creatures
  • More than 60 original pieces of interior artwork created by human artists

Space 1889 Returns to the Tabletop with New Adventures

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Space 1889: After

Strange Owl Games has announced a crowdfunding campaign for Space 1889: After, featuring a premium offset print edition of the 5E Core Rules Book, a brand new Adventure Compendium, and a tabletop-ready Map Book. The campaign brings new content to one of tabletop gaming’s earliest steampunk roleplaying settings while creating a high-quality collector’s edition.

Originally released in 1988, Space 1889 helped establish the Victorian science fiction aesthetic that would later become closely associated with steampunk. Set in a solar system where ether-fliers travel between planets and scientific innovation pushes beyond the limits of conventional understanding, the setting invites players to explore the known galaxy.

Optimized for the fifth edition of the most popular roleplaying game, Space 1889: After advances the timeline and places players at the forefront of a new age of exploration. Crews command their own ether-flier as they uncover ancient alien technologies, navigate political intrigue between worlds, and confront threats hidden within the Great Dark.

The campaign includes:

  • A premium offset print edition of the Space 1889: After Core Rules book
  • A brand new Adventure Compendium featuring four missions across the solar system
  • A spiral-bound Map Book with tabletop-ready encounter maps
  • Play as humans, Martians, Venusians, Moonfolk, Ogres, and Clockwork Automata
  • Command your own ether-flier and chart the Great Dark
  • Explore strange worlds powered by Victorian science and ancient alien technology
  • Compatible with the most popular roleplaying game system.

The crowdfunding campaign launches on July 7, 2026.