Thrudvang Chronicles is based on the Drakar och Demoner rpg, first published in 1982, and only now getting an english version following a super-successful Kickstarter campaign. Thrudvang ChroniclesĮ voted Thrudvang Chronicles the most anticipated roleplaying game of 2017. Lately however, there has been an explosion of great roleplaying games and here are a few. Great Swedish gamesĪs stated earlier, roleplaying games have been published in Sweden since 1982 and even before 2000 the world was starting to learn about the many great games developed there, e.g. Whatever the reason, the fact remains, Sweden is slowly climbing to the top and emerging as major player in the roleplaying industry. Are the older publishers too set in their ways? Have their games gone stale? Are roleplayers more open to non-American games now? Has the internet enabled non-American publishers to get their message across? One can only speculate as to why it is so. edition of Dungeons & Dragons and a new version of Call of Cthulhu, an edition that has been celebrated by most roleplayers, the grounds for new roleplaying games have been especially fertile. The Swedish games are interesting and original and even with the advent of 5. On that list were 4 roleplaying games published in Sweden and the top three were all Swedish, many of which had a very successful Kickstarter campaigns and gained following through other social media. Last year listed the 10 most anticipated rpg’s for 2017. Drakar och Demoner (Dragons & Demons) was first published in 1982 and is still in print, though it has been heavily changed since then.
There has been an active RPG-scene in Sweden for years and it’s one of the first countries to publish a non-english roleplaying games. Broen (The Bridge), many of which have even been remade in the US.
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Swedish and Scandinavian films and TV shows have gained huge popularity, e.g. Music has been a huge export and many Swedish authors were at the head of the Scandinavian crime fiction wave, that took Europe by storm, e.g. Sweden has one of the most globalized and competitive economies today and a great educational system.įor years Sweden has been a major exporter of art and creativity. A high-tech local economy and a comprehensive system of welfare benefits allow Sweden to enjoy one of the highest standards of living in the world. The Swedish economy emerged from the financial crisis as one of the strongest in Europe. Chaosium and their success in using Kickstarter to fund their republishing of the module Horror on the Orient Express and funding the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu RPG, raising over 500.000 dollars! What’s happening in Sweden? More and more major publishers rely on crowd funding, e.g. discontinued settings and major system updates. TSR’s history  and WoTC‘s takeover is probably known to most, which seriously affected the D&D brand, e.g. CCP, the producer of the computer game Eve Online, buying White Wolf and later selling the World of Darkness brand to Paradox, a Swedish computer games publisher. There have also been shifts in the roleplaying industry, e.g. Cubicle 7 in UK and Ulisses Spiele in Germany. In recent years many great non-American publishers have emerged and it’s been interesting to witness their success, e.g. the swedish rpg Kult, which recently got re-published after a super-successful Kickstarter campaign. There have, of course, always been indie games published by non-American publishers that gained attraction and became popular, e.g. All the major publishing houses have been based there and the same goes for the writers and developers. Since the dawn of Dungeons&Dragons North-America has been the Mecca of roleplaying games.
In recent years however, this has been changing and what’s even more interesting, Sweden has been producing many interesting games and has been emerging as a powerful player in this field. Whether you look at WoTC, Chaosium, White Wolf, Catalyst or other large publishing houses, it has been the same all over. The main players in publishing are based there and for most parts writers and developers have been American. North-America has dominated for years in the pen&paper roleplaying games industry.
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