Here's a (mostly) complete Freeport Bibliography. I actually have, I think, all of these, although it wasn't originally my intention to re-read all of them. But who knows; maybe I will. I actually have a lot of duplication of stuff: I have the original trilogy with the Brom covers, but I also have the five year anniversary revised omnibus with the Wayne Reynolds cover. I also have the original 3e Freeport setting book, the systemless setting update, and the Pathfinder update to that, which repeats all of the same text (and then adding a bunch more, although it's mostly mechanics.) And I have most of the Freeport Companions (I might even have the True20 one kicking around somewhere, although not on my hard drive.) And I bought another copy of Shadows in Freeport from DriveThruRPG before realizing that I had bought it from Green Ronin (I think) direct years ago, but it was archived on an old CD ROM.
I couldn't find where I had a copy of Hell in Freeport, so I ordered a used hard copy off of Amazon too. Expected to show up at the end of the week, more or less. Am I really going to read all of this stuff? Yeah, I think I'd actually like to. The mechanics heavy stuff will get a skim, and I'll likely only skim or even skip entirely the companions, but I'll at least have a look at them. My first idea was to just read the adventures, but why not read the rest of it too?
Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be a 5e update to Freeport. I'm honestly quite surprised by that. It looks like they started and converted the original first module as a 20th anniversary thing, and then never went on. And Hell in Freeport is unavailable except in used hardcopy; the only product from the line, as near as I can tell, that isn't available digitally anywhere. And I don't see much evidence that they've even converted it to their own house system Fantasy AGE, although I could be wrong about that. The Fantasy AGE 2e cover certainly has a Freeport cover on it, with two diverse grrlbosses. Blegh. But I don't see any specific Fantasy AGE conversions of the modules, or a Fantasy AGE companion, or anything like that. Maybe it's integrated into the game already.
Their are probably also a few third party Freeport products here and there that I'm missing. I know for sure that I don't have the Shadow of the Demon Lord material; a companion and a conversion of the original trilogy. Maybe Freeport is just an idea who's time done came and went and the stuff for it is now old. I'm OK with that. I'm getting rather old myself. And I don't even have any confidence in Green Ronin doing a decent job with it anymore. The original Freeport was a little too tongue in cheek sometimes for me already; I preferred my dark swashbuckling horror-fantasy pirates to be played straight. And Green Ronin has gone all in on woke nonsense in the time since Freeport was published. They may not have much of an audience left anymore.
Final thought; although I put these in order, if they came out the same year, I didn't do enough research to put those in order, so there may be some slightly out of order titles here and there that had the same release year. I'm not going to worry about it.
I've also put a strike-through through titles that I might skip, either because they were replaced by a better product, or they repeat too much information from an earlier product that just as good. Or, because they focus on specific mechanics for a system that I'm not using, or because they just focus on mechanics period.
But I might read, or at least skim those. Haven't decided yet.
- Death in Freeport (2000)
- Terror in Freeport (2000)
- Madness in Freeport (2001) (I'll almost certainly read these in the omnibus 5th Anniversary edition, because it also includes two interludes that were formerly available as web enhancement downloads, but were not part of the printed versions of the original modules.)
- Focus on Freeport (2000-2002)
- Hell in Freeport (2001)
Freeport: The City of Adventure (3e) (2002)- Denizens of Freeport (2003)
- Black Sails Over Freeport (2003)
- Creatures of Freeport (2004)
- Shadows in Freeport (2005)
- Vengeance in Freeport (2005)
- Tales of Freeport (2005)
- Crisis in Freeport (2006)
- Gangs of Freeport (2006)
- Pirate's Guide to Freeport (2007)
- Cults of Freeport (2007)
- Dark Wings Over Freeport (2007)
- Buccaneers of Freeport (2008)
d20 Freeport Companion(2008) (Since renamed the 3rd Era Freeport Companion, but I bought it before the name change)- Blood of Freeport (2008)
Freeport Companion Savage Worlds(2008)Freeport Companion Castles & Crusades(2008)4e Freeport Companion(2010)Freeport Companion Pathfinder(2010)- Peril in Freeport (2011)
Fate Freeport Companion(2013)- Dark Deeds in Freeport (2014)
- Freeport: City of Adventure (Pathfinder) (2014) (Much of it is repeated from the Pirate's Guide, and much of the rest is Pathfinder specific crunch, repeated/updatef rom the Freeport Companion for Pathfinder, but there's a big new adventure included too, which I should read...)
- Freeport Bestiary (2017)
- Return to Freeport (2019)
- Curse of the Brine Witch
- The Abyssinial Chain
- Storming the Razor Caves
- The Freebooters' City
- A Storm of Sails
- Traitor's End
I don't want to read the original trilogy too fast and then be waiting on Hell in Freeport in the mail, so I'm not going to pick it up quite yet. I'm about to finish, probably this week, my Greek Myths book that I'm reading and my 3.5 MM. That'll keep me busy for a few days. After that, I also need to pick up a novel again, and I've had Silverthorn by Raymond Feist already picked up and set aside to read for a couple of weeks at least. Then, I can have a look at the Freeport Trilogy. I'll probably read the 5th anniversary omnibus version rather than the originals with the Brom cover art. Probably.
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