The game takes place in small communities that are close to huge particle accelerators, called the Loops. There were some great discoveries after World War II, and seeing Russian Magnetrine transporters, called Gauss ships, which is a sort of anti-gravity ship, is not that uncommon. There are many similarities, but the technological level is different.
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In Tales from the Loop players take on the roles of 10-15 year old kids growing up in the 80’s, but these are not the 80’s that we old dogs remember. So, it’s with high hopes that I bought the game and started reading through the main rulebook. Tales from the Loop won five Gold Ennies (Best of Best Best, Best Writing, Best Interior Art, Best Setting) at the GenCon World RPG Award in August 2017.
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Perhaps this is something that other countries could learn from Sweden, I know that there are some great Norwegian, Finnish, Danish and even Icelandic games, that could be of interest to the international roleplaying community. Using Kickstarter to fund publishing of roleplaying games seems to be something that Swedes are good at, for there are quite many good, even established Swedish games that have been translated and published this way. Tales from the Loop was published this year following a successful Kickstarter Campaign in 2016. The English edition of that game was published in 2014 in collaboration with the English publisher Modiphius Entertainment. Fria Ligan updated the system for Mutant and the renewed edition was called Mutant: Year Zero (for those of you who are active on the rpg part of Reddit, Mutant: Year Zero is the game of the month at the moment).
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Fria Ligan took over the rights to publish material for that game and later they got the license to publish material for the post-apocalyptic roleplaying game Mutant. Jarnringen had published roleplaying games, amongst them the sci-fi rpg Coriolis.
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Trudvang Chronicles and Coriolis, and it seems to me that there must be something special happening in Sweden that can explain this rise of many great and interesting games.įria Ligan (or The Free League) was founded in 2011 after the publisher Jarnringen Forlag closed down. There seems to be an endless supply of great and original games from Sweden, e.g. Lately I’ve been quite interested in why Sweden is emerging as a super-power in the roleplaying games industry. and Goonies, you should take a look at Tales from the Loop.
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It’s a game where players take on the roles of kids in an alternative 80’s, based on the artist’s Simon StÃ¥lenhag visionary artwork. Tales from the Loop is a new roleplaying game from the Swedish publisher Fria Ligan.