Are you ready for your digital journey into the roleplaying game universe? Join Free League Publishing in strange and wondrous worlds at the international game convention SPIEL.digital 2020, October 22–25, the world’s biggest fair for board games. The event schedule includes interviews, panel debates and Actual Plays for the publisher’s award winning tabletop roleplaying games.
Prepare for adventure – the line-up includes the three latest game releases: The official ALIEN – the Roleplaying Game, the pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG Mörk Borg and the Nordic horror RPG Vaesen.
Included in the event schedule are also the retro-fantasy survival Forbidden Lands, the alternate ’90s Things from the Flood RPG and the alternate ’80s Tales From the Loop, the science fiction RPG Coriolis – The Third Horizon, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum and the post-apocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero.
Free League are also collaborating with Orkenspalter-tv.de & Roll20Con during the weekend.
SPIEL.digital 2020
DATES: 22th-25th of October
EXHIBITOR: Free League Publishing
EVENT CHANNEL: www.youtube.com/c/FrialiganSe
SPIEL 2020: spiel.digital/en
FREE LEAGUE – SPIEL.digital 2020 EVENT SCHEDULE
Thursday, Oct 22 7:00 PM CEST – Live Panel: Fantasy Worlds Collide – The One Ring, Symbaroum & Forbidden Lands
What is your ideal fantasy world? Is it the sleepy villages of the Shire, the dark depths of Davokar, or the frozen wastes of the Bitter Reach? Whatever you are looking for when you explore a fantasy world in a tabletop roleplaying game, Free League will likely be able to offer it to you.
Between games such as Symbaroum, Forbidden Lands, and the upcoming The One Ring, you have a variety of fantasy worlds to explore. Join Francesco Nepitello (The One Ring, based on the works of Tolkien), Mattias Johnsson Haake (Symbaroum), and Erik Granström (Forbidden Lands) as they discuss how to create fantasy worlds for you.
Link: https://youtu.be/loRVuXIIIlo
Thursday, Oct 22 9:00 PM CEST – Vaesen RPG Actual Play: The Silver of the Sea
In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.
The death of a preacher leads the characters to a rocky western archipelago, where something strange is afoot on Wrecker Isle. Gamemastered by Matthew Tyler-Jones from the Effekt podcast.
Link: https://youtu.be/ygejKkNoEJk
Friday, Oct 23 3:00 PM CEST – Live Panel: Using the Year Zero Engine For RPG Design
The real magic happens in the mind of the players. Free League Workshop gives you a chance to publish & distribute your creations for Mutant Year Zero, Tales from the Loop, Forbidden Lands, Symbaroum & Coriolis– The Third Horizon. But how do you implement the rules of the Year Zero engine to guide gameplay in different genres? How can you use it to write scenarios and create content? Live Q&A with Free League’s rules master, Tomas Härenstam where he reveals how he creates a system that facilitates storytelling and creates a better play experience. Also joining is Dave Semark from Effekt to give his insights on how he used the Year Zero Engine to get his start in the tabletop roleplaying game industry.
Link: https://youtu.be/RfHBnSZ6UHs
Friday, Oct 23 7:00 PM CEST – Live Interview: Turning Art Books into Roleplaying Games – Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, and Vaesen
One of Free League’s strengths has been the ability to turn art books into a world for players and game masters to explore and create stories in. What is that process like as a game writer to transform art books and their worlds to expand them into a world that other people can play in and experience themselves? Live interview Nils Hintze, game writer of Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying based on the acclaimed book by Johan Egerkrans and the Tales Fromthe Loop RPG and Things From the Flood RPG based on the internationally praised art books by Simon Stålenhag.
Link: https://youtu.be/4khL1y1uB7g
Friday, Oct 23 9:00 PM CEST – ALIEN RPG Actual Play: “Olenya Bay”
Actual play of the official ALIEN RPG – a harsh and unforgiving universe awaits. Stay alive if you can. Five UPP workers, cast adrift in the desolate oceans of LV-917, head for the Deeprange Rig “Olenya Bay,” an abandoned drilling platform that may be their only hope of survival. But is it as abandoned as they think, and will they have to battle more than the bottomless seas to survive? Game Mastered by Dave Semark from the Effekt podcast.
Link: https://youtu.be/4OF5M_DQfgU
Saturday Oct 24 7:00 PM CEST – Live Panel: The Post-Apocalyptic Worlds of Mutant: Year Zero, MÖRK BORG & Twilight: 2000
Of course the world ends. It was always just a question of time. When it is all over, Earth is still. Nature invades the ruined cities. Winds sweep through empty streets, turned into graveyards. Yet life remains.
The apocalypse is as alluring as ever, and the possibilities of creating a game about the end of the world are endless for roleplaying games. In a live panel debate, you will meet the creators of the three post-apocalyptic RPGs Mutant: Year Zero, MÖRK BORG, and the upcoming Twilight: 2000. Learn how the game creators tackle the apocalypse, and what they find so compelling about apocalyptic settings.
Link: https://youtu.be/1lOqVJOQ1oY
Saturday Oct 24 9:00 PM CEST – MÖRK BORG Actual Play: “Murder Party at Dark Manor”
MÖRK BORG is a pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG about lost souls and fools seeking redemption, forgiveness, or the last remaining riches in a bleak and dying world. A twisted Murder Mystery in a Dark Tangled Maze of Fear and Nightmares. Will anyone make it out alive? Who is the killer…? Game Mastered by Josh from Victory Condition Gaming.
Free League Publishing is a Swedish publisher dedicated to speculative fiction. We have published a range of award-winning tabletop role-playing games and critically acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our game portfolio include the official ALIEN The Roleplaying Game (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Nordic horror roleplaying game Vaesen, the pitch-black apocalyptic fantasy RPG Mörk Borg, the alternate ’90s Things from the Flood, the alternate ’80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the sandbox retro fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the space opera Coriolis – The Third Horizon (Judge’s Spotlight Award 2017) and the dark fantasy game Symbaroum.
We have also published the art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood and The Electric State by internationally acclaimed visual artist Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated edition of the Lovecraft classic The Call of Cthulhu by the praised French artist François Baranger.