Free League Gen Con Showcase: Expansions for The One Ring, CY_BORG, and DEATH IN SPACE
Shaun M Jooste 
Gen Con is off to an exciting start, as Free League Publishing Gen Con showcase hosted its own show to provide updates and announce new expansions for several of its award-winning games, including The One Ring, CY_BORG, and DEATH IN SPACE! Full details can be found in the press release below.
Here is the official press release for the Free League Gen Con Showcase!
Free League Gen Con Showcase
Award-winning tabletop RPG publisher Free League hosted its annual Showcase at Gen Con 2023 and revealed exciting news for the coming months. Here is a summary of the news revealed at the Free League Gen Con Showcase:
- The highly anticipated fantasy RPG Dragonbane to be released on August 15
- Moria™ – The Long Dark for The One Ring™ coming to Kickstarter on August 29
- WASTE 20X4 – new expansion for the CY_BORG RPG announced
- Dead Flag Contracts – new expansion for DEATH IN SPACE announced
- The Dunwich Horror by H.P Lovecraft illustrated by François Baranger announced
- Late pledges are now available for The Walking Dead Universe RPG
The Highly Anticipated New Fantasy RPG Officially Releases August 15
A legend reborn. Dragonbane, the new and reimagined edition of Scandinavia’s first and biggest tabletop roleplaying game, Drakar och Demoner, will be officially released on August 15, shortly after its pre-release at Gen Con. Dragonbane is a new take on the classic fantasy RPG full of magic, mystery, and adventure.
“This most certainly makes me not even want to look back at D&D 5e! It is exactly what I want a fantasy system to be, and is great for both one shots and long campaigns.”
– DTRPG Review
Dragonbane was funded in just four minutes on Kickstarter raising more than $700K USD, and comes in a massive boxed core set packed with adventure. The game is designed from the ground up to facilitate fast play with very little prep time and adventures that are a breeze to run.
Check out the official Dragonbane website and trailer here:
Website | Trailer
Moria™ – The Long Dark for The One Ring™ Coming to Kickstarter August 29
Beyond the shadow, it waits for you still…
Moria™ – The Long Dark, an epic campaign expansion delving into the depths of Khazad-dûm for the award-winning second edition of The One Ring™ roleplaying game based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, is coming to Kickstarter on August 29. This expansion will also be published in a version for the 5E edition The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying, under the title Moria™ – Shadow of Khazad-dûm.
All backers who pledge within the first 24 hours will receive a bonus item soon to be revealed. If fully funded, the crowdfunding campaign offers early PDF access to the expansion well before its retail release planned for early next year.
Check out the official Kickstarter here.
WASTE 20X4, ANew Expansion for CY_BORG,Announced
New year, new shit. New toxic waste vomited by this nightmare metropolis; people, places, products. Outside the city limits or deep within its rotten heart, you’ll find it. Regardless of what you’re looking for.
WASTE 20X4 expands the acclaimed CY_BORG RPG by Stockholm Kartell with additional classes, factions, scenarios, and tables aplenty. Rules for car chases and vehicular manslaughter, hazards and foes to get killed by, and much more. WASTE 20X4 will be coming in 2024.
CY_BORG is a complete rules-light, rage-heavy tabletop roleplaying game based on and compatible with MÖRK BORG. Easy to play, easy to hack.
Dead Flag Contracts, A New Expansion for the DEATH IN SPACE RPG, Announced
Dead Flag Contracts is a collection of scenarios and tools for the DEATH IN SPACE RPG. The expansion is focused on Dead Flag City, a fuel depot town on the jungle planet Lepidoptera, where workers and hustlers have struggled to rebuild since the end of the Gem War.
Life is hard in Dead Flag City, but there are still rewards to reap for those willing to take on some danger. In the shadows, new powers are pulling the strings. Their plans can upend the fragile balance in the Tenebris system, reopening old wounds and stirring up new conflicts. Dead Flag Contracts is set to launch in 2024.
The world is broken. In a collapsing universe, your crew is your only family. DEATH IN SPACE takes you to a grimy blue-collar future in a universe filled with risk, but also opportunity.
H.P Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, Illustrated by François Baranger, Announced
Enter the desolate, decrepit Massachusetts village of Dunwich. Brace yourself for a tale of dark rituals, witchcraft, and the looming shadow of the Old Ones. Free League Publishing and Design Studio Press today revealed the illustrated edition of H.P. Lovecraft’s iconic story The Dunwich Horror, by acclaimed artist François Baranger.
The Dunwich Horror is a true classic of American horror and a dark tale of powers from beyond our world. The book is set to be released later this year and is now available for pre-order at the Free League website, where the previously published The Call of Cthulhu and At the Mountains of Madness are also available.
Late Pledges Now Available for The Walking Dead Universe RPG
Explore an unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world where you must learn to survive. Together.
Late pledges for the upcoming The Walking Dead Universe RPG are now available. The game raised close to $600K USD and unlocked 18 stretch goals during the successful Kickstarter campaign. All backers, including late backers, get early access to the PDF version of the game ahead of the official release later this year.
In The Walking Dead Universe RPG, the player characters must not only hone their physical skills but deeply explore who they truly are – what drives them to go on, what they consider worth fighting for, and what they’re capable of doing in the best and worst of times.
Check out the Kickstarter page and announcement trailer here:
Website | Trailer
