Free League Publishing

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Fria Ligan (Free League)
Industry Role-playing game and Book publisher
Founded2011
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Number of employees
20
Website freeleaguepublishing.com

Free League Publishing (Swedish: Fria Ligan) is a game studio and publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2011. [1] The company designs and publishes tabletop role-playing games, board games, and books based on licensed properties and independent works.

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After the Swedish publisher Järnringen had folded in 2011, Järnringen got in touch with some role-playing game enthusiasts to ask if they wanted to take over development of the role-playing game Svavelvinter , which led to the formation of Free League Publishing. [2]

The publisher has had a series of successful crowdfunding campaigns. [3] Between 2015 and 2022, their Kickstarter campaigns brought in 100 million SEK (10 million USD). [1]

Major releases

Games

Other publications

Free League has also published the art books Tales from the Loop,Things from the Flood, and The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated edition of the Lovecraft story The Call of Cthulhu by French artist François Baranger.

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