Free League Publishing has announced Dragonbane: Trudvang, a massive game world and setting for the multiple award-winning Dragonbane fantasy tabletop roleplaying game.
Trudvang is a world of shadowed woods and fathomless mists, of dreadful beasts and unsung heroes, of wrathful gods and endless mystery – deeply original but with strong roots in Nordic mythology.
Dragonbane: Trudvang, produced by Free League under license from CMON, is coming to Kickstarter in early 2026, and prospective backers can sign up to follow the project here. The campaign will offer no less than four masterfully illustrated hardback volumes in Swedish and English:
• 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.
Note that players will need the Dragonbane Core Set or separate Rulebook to play Dragonbane: Trudvang.
The Trudvang brand and its original content was created by Theodore Bergqvist and Magnus Malmberg of Riotminds, as a campaign world for their Swedish edition of Dragonbane (Drakar och Demoner) in the early 2000s. Trudvang later took a life of its own in the separate Trudvang Chronicles RPG and the board game Trudvang Legends by CMON.
The art of Dragonbane: Trudvang will mainly be drawn from over two decades of amazing Trudvang illustrations by masters like Paul Bonner and Alvaro Tapia. Paul Bonner has also created the new cover art for the Dragonbane: Trudvang World Book, and Francesca Baerald has drawn a new world map of Trudvang.
The work of writing, editing, and adapting Trudvang to the current version of Dragonbane will be spearheaded by Magnus Seter, a veteran RPG writer (Cyberpunk 2020, Mutant Chronicles, Forbidden Lands, Dragonbane) who also worked on Trudvang in its early days.
“When we heard that Free League had licensed Trudvang from CMON, and that Magnus Seter would be leading the work on this new edition, we were naturally delighted. Most of all because the world gets to live on – but also because Trudvang has, in many ways, found its way home again,” says Theodore Bergqvist in the preface to the new edition.