Free League Gen Con Showcase News Roundup: Announcements & Releases

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Free League Gen Con Showcase News Roundup: Announcements & Releases

The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E & The One Ring™ Starter Sets Released, Coriolis the Great Dark Pre-Released, Dragonbane Miniatures on Kickstarter, and Twilight Sword RPG Announced

Stockholm, Sweden (July 31, 2025) | Gen Con 2025 is in full swing, and Free League just completed their yearly showcase presentation of new announcements and releases.

Here are the highlights:

The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying Starter Set for 5E, was officially released, alongside a brand new Starter Set for The One Ring™.
Coriolis the Great Dark, the new edition of Free League's original sci-fi RPG, was pre-released.
Dragonbane Miniatures by Titan Forge are now LIVE on Kickstarter.
Twilight Sword a brand new anime-style RPG designed by the award-winning italian games studio Two Little Mice and published by Free League, was announced.

You can read more about each title below. Gen Con 2025 attendees can meet Free League at Gen Con in booth #2449 in the main trade hall and in their very own game room in ICC #137!

The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E & The One Ring™ Starter Sets

These 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, were officially released today.

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.

Coriolis: The Great Dark

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 today.

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 11 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.

Dragonbane Miniatures

The Kickstarter for official Dragonbane miniatures, based on the amazing art by Johan Egerkrans and David Brasgalla, went live today!

The Kickstarter is managed by the acclaimed miniatures maker Titan Forge in partnership with Free League, to launch a wide range of high-quality miniature sets for the award-winning Dragonbane fantasy RPG.

The Northern Beasts miniature 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.

Twilight Sword RPG

The biggest news of the showcase was the announcement of Twilight Sword, a brand new anime-style RPG designed by the award-winning Italian games studio Two Little Mice and to be published by Free League.

Twilight Sword is inspired by classic video games like The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Ni No Kuni and by the animated movies of Studio Ghibli. In Twilight Sword, players take the role of Champions who travel to bring back hope to the lands of Radia.

Champions need to free the world from desperation before they enter the Fortress of Evil, where they can face the scourge Vardas in a battle for the fate of Radia. More information and assets for Twilight Sword, including a 16-page PDF preview, can be found here.

Twilight Sword is planned for a 2026 release and will be an 11.5x21 cm hardcover book that opens into a perfect square. Each spread is divided into squares and rectangles, keeping all the information easily accessible!

About Free League Publishing

Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

Our game portfolio includes the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE Award winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE Award for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate '80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and The Electric State RPG.

We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.