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Tales From the Loop RPG: They Grow Up So Fast Out Now

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Return to the ’80s as they never were. Free League Publishing has released They Grow Up So Fast, a brand-new expansion for the multiple award-winning Tales From the Loop Roleplaying Game.

In these four new adventures, the Kids will be tested to the limits of their abilities. When an ordinary camping trip turns into something else, they will discover that friends come in all sizes and forms, and even from different worlds. Together they will go on an adventure they will never forget.

The four adventures in Tales From the Loop RPG: They Grow Up So Fast can be played independently, but together they form a campaign spanning the seasons of a year.

This expansion includes:

  • A four-part campaign taking place in the UK Loop of Norfolk Broads
  • Extensive information on the Norfolk Broads Loop and the area surrounding it
  • Tips on how to set the campaign in the Swedish and US Loops
  • New art, maps, and handouts

They Grow Up So Fast is a new expansion for the Tales From the Loop RPG

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Tales From the Loop They Grow Up So Fast

Return to the ’80s as they never were! Free League Publishing has announced They Grow Up So Fast, a new campaign expansion for the award-winning Tales From the Loop RPG. A pre-order is available now with immediate access to a complete PDF.

Everything changed on that fateful day. Looking back, I know that whatever we did changed our lives forever. The sky ruptured and something strange came through. It was a great adventure that showed us how little we knew about the universe. It was scary and yet magical. I wish we could do it again.

In these four adventures, which together form a campaign spanning the seasons of a year, the Kids will be tested to the limits of their abilities. When an ordinary camping trip turns into something else, they will discover that friends come in all sizes and forms, and even from different worlds. Together they will go on an adventure they will never forget.

This book includes:

  • A four-part campaign taking place in the UK Loop of Norfolk Broads.
  • Extensive information on the Norfolk Broads Loop and the area surrounding it.
  • Tips on how to set the campaign in the Swedish and US Loops.
  • New art, maps, and handouts.

Tales From the Loop – The Board Game Out Now!

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Tales From the Loop - The Board Game

Step into the amazing world of the Loop. Tales From the Loop – The Board Game by Free League Publishing, based on the works by acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, has launched today and is available in the Free League webshop and in retail stores world-wide.

In Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, you and your friends play cooperatively to investigate the mysteries originating from the Loop, a huge underground science facility with strange effects on the suburban landscapes around it.

You take the roles of local kids that investigate whatever phenomena that threaten the islands (or perhaps just the local video store), and hopefully stop them. Each day starts at school, but as soon as the bell rings you can use whatever time you have before dinner and homework to go exploring!

Tales From the Loop The Board Game includes eight unique scenarios as well as six high-quality miniatures of Simon Stålenhag’s robot designs.

The Release Includes:

  • Tales From the Loop – The Board Game
  • Invasive Species expansion
  • The Runaway expansion

Invasive Species expansion
The school is buzzing with wild rumors about how the ice cream truck was attacked and the driver… eaten?!

The Runaway expansion
For the past week black vans and agents in suits have been seen in the area around the Loop. Rumors have it that they are searching for a spy…

Both expansions includes a brand new scenario, a new designed miniature as depicted in the art by Simon Stålenhag, as well as cards and sheets. The miniatures supplied are unpainted. The expansions requires the core game to play.

Free League Publishing Teases Some of 2022 including the One Ring, Blade Runner, Alien, and more!

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TALES FROM THE LOOP – THE BOARD GAME

Release Date: February 8
In Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, you and your friends play cooperatively to investigate the mysteries originating from the Loop, a huge underground science facility with strange effects on the suburban landscapes around it. 

The upcoming board game is based on the works by the internationally acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag. The narrative art books Tales From the Loop and Things From the Flood, published by Free League, stunned the world with a vision of an alternate Scandinavia in the 1980s and ‘90s, where technology invaded tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic.

In 2017, Free League published the tabletop roleplaying game Tales From the Loop, which was a smash hit and went on to win five Gold ENNIE Awards, including Best Game and Product of the Year. The tv series adaptation of Tales From the Loop has launched Amazon Prime Video. Now the time has come to return to The Loop in the upcoming board game.

TALES FROM THE LOOP – THE BOARD GAME

THE ONE RING™

Release Date: March 22
The new edition of The One Ring™ roleplaying game, set in the world of The Lord of the Rings™ by J.R.R. Tolkien and designed by Francesco Nepitello, became the most successful tabletop RPG core game ever on Kickstarter when it ended March 4th 2021, raising över $2 million.

In the world of THE ONE RING™, the year is 2965 of the Third Age and the players create a Company of heroes seeking adventure in the Lone-lands of Eriador. It is a desolate country, yet it sees the presence of many adventurous folk – Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves and Men. It is here that the One Ring lies, a seed of the past that will one day lead the world to open war against the returning Shadow. The Enemy is moving, and smoke issues once more from Mount Doom, in the land of Mordor…

THE ONE RING™

BLADE RUNNER RPG

Release Date: TBA
Walk the mean streets of Los Angeles in a new game from the award-winning team behind the hit ALIEN RPG. This is the BLADE RUNNER ROLEPLAYING GAME – a neon-noir wonderland that’ll take your breath away. One way or another.

Set in the year 2037, the game begins the adventure shortly after the Wallace Corporation debuts the new Nexus-9 Replicants on Earth, giving players the choice to play as either human or Replicants. The game will propel players into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories.

As a member of the LAPD’s Rep-Detect Unit, you’ll face impossible choices and find beauty and humanity in the stubborn resilience to keep fighting. To persevere through pain. To do questionable and extraordinary things.

Other than that, it’s just a normal day on the force, so get to work and grab some noodles on the way. That stack of cases won’t crack itself. It’s a shame you won’t live long enough to solve them all. But then again, who does?

BLADE RUNNER RPG

RUINS OF SYMBAROUM 5E

Release Date: TBA
Heed the warnings spoken by the wardens of the forest – do not disturb the ruins of old, for an ancient evil stirs in its sleep. The horrors of Davokar are about to awaken…The dark and mysterious world of Symbaroum welcomes new adventurers with Ruins of Symbaroum, the 5E adaptation of the praised fantasy game.  

At the heart of the dark fantasy RPG Symbaroum lies the forest of Davokar that calls out to be explored, for the trees are covering the remnants of an empire which fell into ruin long ago. But the road into its depths are fraught with danger. Explore the vast forests in the hunt for treasures, lost wisdoms, and fame. Seek out the barbarian clans to trade or plunder. Establish your base of power among princes, guilds, or rebellious refugees in the capital. Survive encounters with trolls, dark-minded beasts, and undead warlords.

RUINS OF SYMBAROUM 5E

CY_BORG

Release Date: TBA
The World Ends. Again. In Style. Get ready for the nano-infested doomsday RPG CY_BORG, where cybernetic misfits and punks are raging against a relentless corporate hell. Rules-light, rage-heavy. A fever-dream of tech, punk and fury. The cyberpunk spinoff game CY_BORG, based on and compatible with multi-award-winning apocalyptic heavy metal RPG MÖRK BORG, by Stockholm Kartell is launching in 2022. 

CY_BORG is about rage against climate collapse, out-of-control consumerism, the commodification of personal data, late-stage capitalism, transhumanism and senseless violence.  Stay jacked in. Stay synced. Stay updated.

CY_BORG

INTO THE ODD REMASTERED

Release Date: TBA
You are a curious explorer that long for the strange, peculiar and marvelous. You are braving places too far for maps and too old for records. Your expeditions touch the bizarre, wondrous, and horrific. You search for riches, but also Arcana, mysterious devices with unnatural powers. 

The remastered version of the acclaimed weird-fantasy tabletop roleplaying game Into the Odd revisits Industrial Bastionland, giving the original game a lavish hardback, full-color restoration with expanded content. The game is written by Chris McDowall (Electric Bastionland) with art and graphic design by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG). A rules-light, flavour-heavy roleplaying game of industrial horror and cosmic strangeness awaits. 

INTO THE ODD REMASTERED

UPCOMING EXPANSIONS:

ALIEN RPG: HEART OF DARKNESS

Release Date: TBA
Heart of Darkness is an upcoming new cinematic scenario for the multiple award-winning ALIEN roleplaying game. The expansion offers a stand-alone adventure, but also serves as a conclusion to the Draconis Strain Saga begun in the cinematic scenario Chariot of the Gods and continued in Destroyer of Worlds, all written by Andrew E.C Gaska. The expansion is designed for 3–5 players plus the Game Mother and is a spiraling descent into soul-crushing madness.

ALIEN RPG: HEART OF DARKNESS

VAESEN: MYTHIC BRITAIN & IRELAND AND SEASONS OF MYSTERY

Release Dates: TBA
Leave the Mythic North and set sail for mist shrouded isles. Mythic Britain & Ireland provides a brand-new setting for the ENNIE-winning RPG Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying. Explore the fog shrouded streets of London, discover the secrets of Rose House and the British Society. Discover the islands and walk the moors in search of long-lost tales and ancient remnants. The new setting invites you to experience Gothic horror mysteries in the lands of Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle and Bram Stoker. Written by industry legend and ENNIE-winner Graeme Davis (The Enemy Within) and beautifully illustrated by ENNIE-winning artist Johan Egerkrans. 

Also on the horizon is Vaesen: Seasons of Mystery, a book filled with four new spine-tingling mysteries spanning four seasons across The Mythic North: Dance of Death, Fireheart, The Devil on the Moor and A Winter’s Tale.

VAESEN: MYTHIC BRITAIN & IRELAND AND SEASONS OF MYSTERY

TWILIGHT: 2000 – URBAN OPERATIONS

Release Date: TBA
Urban Operations is the first expansion for the new retro-apocalyptic edition of RPG classic Twilight: 2000. It is a modular expansion focused on cities loosely based on the classic module Free City of Krakow – but designed to be used in any city environment. Krakow is described in it as one example town, another being Karlsborg in Sweden.

The expansion will include guidelines for playing in cities, new factions, new scenario sites, and introduce several plots to create longer story arcs. It will be a boxed set with a scenario book, city maps, scenario site maps, modular battle maps for urban environments, and new encounter cards for urban environments.

TWILIGHT: 2000 - URBAN OPERATIONS

FORBIDDEN LANDS RPG: BOOK OF BEASTS AND THE BLOODMARCH

Release Dates: TBA
Want to fight horrid monsters and demons? Then explore Book of Beasts and The Bloodmarch, two upcoming expansions for the award-winning fantasy RPG Forbidden Lands.

Forbidden Lands: Book of Beasts is a bestiary you can play, beautifully illustrated and filled to the brim with murderous monsters and lethal encounters. Each beast comes ready to play with tailored random encounters, presenting the Gamemaster with a handy set of mini-adventures to go. 

Forbidden Lands: The Bloodmarch is a campaign book expanding the game world and including a full campaign – Legacy of Horn. The Bloodmarch is the name given to the volcanic region west of Ravenland, accessible as the Shadowgate Pass is again opened. This ancient land of battle-ready horse riders and secretive dwarves is rapidly changing due to the demonic vegetation spreading across the land. 

FORBIDDEN LANDS RPG: BOOK OF BEASTS AND THE BLOODMARCH

MÖRK BORG: CULT – HERETIC

Release Date: TBA
Doom and misery is upon us, for the blasphemous expansion MÖRK BORG Cult: Heretic, a zine of community-made misadventure and malice for use with MÖRK BORG RPG or other rules-light dark fantasy games will launch this year. This godless tome includes creatures, classes, optional rules and generators as well as four deadly adventures; Nurse the Rot, Graves Left Wanting, Sepulchre of the Swamp Witch, and Bloat.

The multiple award-winning MÖRK BORG RPG is designed by Pelle Nilsson (Ockult Örtmästare Games) and Johan Nohr (Stockholm Kartell) and published by Free League Publishing under the sub-label Free League Workshop.

MÖRK BORG: CULT - HERETIC

Step Into the world of Tales From the Loop with a New Board Game

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Step into the amazing world of the Loop. Tales From the Loop – The Board Game by Free League Publishing is set to launch on February 8. It will be available in the Free League webshop and in retail stores everywhere.

In the game, you and your friends play cooperatively to investigate the mysteries originating from the Loop, a huge underground science facility with strange effects on the suburban landscapes around it.

You take the roles of local kids that investigate whatever phenomena that threaten the islands (or perhaps just the local video store), and hopefully stop them. Each day starts at school, but as soon as the bell rings you can use whatever time you have before dinner and homework to go exploring!

Tales From the Loop The Board Game includes eight unique scenarios as well as six high-quality miniatures of Simon Stålenhag’s robot designs.

Players: 1–5
Playtime: 1.5h–2h per scenario

The Free League Humble Bundle Has Launched, Including Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood & Symbaroum

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Free League Humble Bundle

Humble Bundle’s latest charitable bundle launched today and includes the award-winning tabletop roleplaying games Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, and Symbaroum from game developer and publisher Free League.

Humble Bundle allows you to pay what you want with buyers able to choose how to allocate the money.

The Humble Bundle benefits Active Minds. Active Minds is the nation’s leading nonprofit promoting mental health for young adults ages 14-24. Their focus is on changing the culture around mental health, by changing the way we talk about, care for, and value mental health in our lives and in our communities. They’re best known for their National Chapter Network at high schools and universities, an iconic Send Silence Packing suicide-prevention exhibit, Active Minds Speakers, and their new @Work corporate programs.More details on Active Minds can be found here.

The massive TTRPG bundle is up for grabs now up until June 14 at 11 am PT and includes:

TALES FROM THE LOOP & THINGS FROM THE FLOOD
•    Tales From the Loop RPG Starter Set
•    Tales From the Loop RPG – Core rulebook
•    Things From the Flood RPG – Core rulebook
•    Tales From the Loop: Our Friends the Machines
•    Tales From the Loop: Out of Time

SYMBAROUM
•    Symbaroum RPG – Core Rulebook
•    Symbaroum – Game Master’s Guide
•    Symbaroum – Advanced Player’s Guide
•    Symbaroum – Monster Codex
•    Symbaroum Starter Set – Treasure Hunts in Davokar
•    Thistle Hold – Wrath of the Warden
•    Karvosti – The Witch Hammer
•    Yndaros – the Darkest Star
•    Symbar – Mother of Darkness

Below are the tiers:

Pay $1 to Unlock:

  • Yndaros – the Darkest Star
  • Symbaroum Starter Set – Treasure Hunts in Davokar
  • Tales from the Loop RPG Starter Set

Pay $10 or more to also Unlock:

  • Tales from the Loop: Out of Time
  • Symbaroum – Advanced Player’s Guide
  • Thistle Hold – Wrath of the Warden
  • Karvosti – The Witch Hammer

Pay $18 or more to also Unlock:

  • Tales from the Loop RPG: Rulebook
  • Things from the Flood RPG: Rulebook
  • Symbaroum – Core Rulebook
  • Symbaroum – Game Master’s Guide
  • Symbar – Mother of Darkness
  • Symbaroum – Monster Codex
  • Tales from the Loop: Our Friends the Machines

Tales From the Loop RPG Gets a New Starter Box Set

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Tales From the Loop RPG Starter Set

Free League Publishing has announced a new Starter Set for the multiple award-winning Tales From the Loop tabletop RPG. The new Starter Set is both available as a physical boxed set and in digital format, as an official module on the Roll20 online platform. This launch is the first step in Free League’s new initiative to support virtual tabletop gaming for all of its titles.

The new boxed set, containing a new scenario called The Recycled Boy, can be found on the Free League website, at the Roll20 marketplace, and in select retail stores worldwide. It’s also available in PDF format at DrivethruRPG.

The Tales From the Loop roleplaying game, based on the wondrous worlds of author and visual artist Simon Stålenhag, was released in 2017 and was a big hit, winning no less than five Gold ENnies, including Best Game and Product of the Year. The game is Free League Publishing’s best-selling title to date.

Stålenhag’s narrative art books Tales From the Loop and Things From the Flood feature a vision of an alternate Scandinavia in the 1980s and ‘90s where technology has invaded the tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic. In April, a tv series based on Stålenhag’s work was launched on Amazon Prime Video.

In the Tales From the Loop RPG, players take the roles of teenagers solving spectacular mysteries connected to the Loop – a huge and mysterious underground particle generator.

The new Starter Set is the ideal starting point for roleplayers who want to step into the world of the Loop. The boxed set contains everything players need to get started:

  • An illustrated rulebook explaining how to play the game
  • The complete adventure called The Recycled Boy
  • Five pre-generated characters ready to play
  • A large, full-color map of land of the Loop
  • Ten engraved custom dice

The Roll20 edition is fully integrated with the VTT platform, and contains maps with GM layer information to maximize ease of use.

Free League Launches Kickstarter for Tales From the Loop – The Board Game

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The Kickstarter for Tales From the Loop – The Board Game was launched today by Free League Publishing. The game, based on the universe created by artist and author Simon Stålenhag was recently adapted to a tv series on Amazon Prime Video, offers cooperative gameplay using robot miniatures by Paolo Parente’s Dust Studio. A complete Print ‘n Play kit can be downloaded for free from the Kickstarter.

Simon Stålenhag is the internationally lauded artist and author of Tales From the Loop and Things From the Flood, narrative art books published by Free League that stunned the world with a vision of an alternate Scandinavia in the 1980s and ‘90s, where technology invaded tranquil landscapes to form an entirely new universe of the eerie and the nostalgic.

In 2017, Free League published a tabletop roleplaying game based on Tales From the Loop, which went on to win five Gold ENnie Awards, including Best Game and Product of the Year. A tv series adaptation of Tales From the Loop launched just a few days ago on Amazon Prime Video.

Tales From the Loop – The Board Game lets players take another step into the amazing world of the Loop. In the 1-5 players take the roles of teenagers who investigate the mysteries originating from the Loop, a huge underground science facility with strange effects on the suburban landscapes around it – but they also need to make sure they’re home in time for dinner!

Tales From the Loop – The Boardgame is designed by Martin Takaichi and includes high-quality miniatures by Paolo Parente‘s Dust Studio.

To let players try out Tales From the Loop – The Board Game for themselves, Free League provides a Print ‘n Play kit of the current Alpha game prototype for download from the Kickstarter page. The Print ‘n Play kit includes four characters and one scenario to play.

You can find the Kickstarter here.

Tales From the Loop – The Boardgame