If you've ever sat at your kitchen table sketching a dungeon for your Forbidden Lands group and thought "I could sell this", Free League just opened the door. The Swedish publisher has expanded its royalty-free Free Tabletop Licence to cover five of its core RPGs: Dragonbane (a light, fast Scandinavian fantasy system), Forbidden Lands (hex-crawling survival in a cursed world), Symbaroum (dark-fantasy exploration of a cursed forest that resents being resettled), Coriolis: The Third Horizon (Arabian-Nights sci-fi with creeping cosmic dread), and Coriolis: The Great Dark (its deep-space sequel), according to Rascal News.
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Set up your group for freeThis matters because Free League's back catalogue is arguably the strongest run in modern RPG publishing. Dragonbane took the 2024 Gold ENnie for Best Cartography, Symbaroum has a long-running cult following, and Coriolis is one of the few non-D&D sci-fi RPGs with mainstream legs. Opening all of that to creator content puts Free League alongside Paizo as the most community-friendly publisher in the hobby, a stark contrast to Wizards of the Coast's 2023 OGL episode, when WotC tried to revoke the old D&D Open Game Licence and charge royalties on third-party products before backing down under community revolt.
Free League's licence is also irrevocable, meaning the publisher cannot later pull the rug the way WotC attempted to. It's royalty-free and covers publishing in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Ukrainian and more, per Games Press. That multi-language support is unusual and should help non-English creators break into a hobby that still skews heavily Anglophone.
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See how it worksFor GMs who've been running homebrew supplements for their groups anyway, this is the green light to publish and sell that material commercially on DriveThruRPG or itch.io. If you fancy running a Symbaroum or Coriolis campaign first, round up some players here.
Sources: Rascal News | Games Press | Free League
