Vaesen Travels to Prague and Stockholm in New Expansions

Free League Press has announced a new sourcebook and new campaign for their horror RPG Vaesen. Today, the Kickstarter pre-launch page for Mythic Carpathia & City of My Nightmares for the Vaesen RPG went live, revealing new plans for the popular Nordic horror RPG. Mythic Carpathia is a new sourcebook detailing Central and Eastern Europe, including Prague. Most notably, this sourcebook brings in several mythic monsters into the game, including the Baba Yaga and the Vampire. The book was written by a team of Polish and Ukrainian writers and also includes three new adventures set in Prague, Ukraine, and Transylvania.

Meanwhile, City of My Nightmares is a full-length campaign set in Stockholm, in which players investigate a series of murders that leads back to a mystery regarding the origin of the Society, the monster-hunting group players are a part of.

Also announced as part of the campaign is a starter set for the game, with a box containing the usual materials (character sheets, dice, abridged rules) and an intro adventure titled The Haunting of Castle Gyllencreutz.

No specific launch date has been announced, but we're expecting it to happen in the coming days. It is spooky season after all.

 

[Autumnal]

Well, these things make me happy.

 

[doctheweasel]

The newsletter from them said the launch date was October 29th.
I'm psyched for this one. While the Carpathian book is a sexy draw for the KS, I'll likely get a lot more out of that campaign and starter set.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

i should really consider picking up vaesen...

 

[Tonguez]

Oh this is very cool, Prague is a greater city for gothic horror

 

[Blue]

i should really consider picking up vaesen...

I had been saying that to myself for a while, then there was a PDF sale

I was not disappointed.

If you want the hardcover (beautiful book), the illustrator sells signed versions on his website.

 

[Piperken]

I'll be running this in time for Hallows Eve.

Vaesen is very inspiring in general. And gives good reason to roll d6s!

I wasn't as enthused with the offerings in Mythic Britain/Ireland, but in retrospect some of this feeling may have been to how well the core book was. :3

Prague is such a quirky city in general; the regions included in the upcoming source book ought to have provided a lot of ideas for the writers!

And a whole campaign set in Stockholm is cool as well.

 

[ugavine]

I've not bought Vaesen yet, but will these books be compatible with the announced 2nd edition?

 

[Fenhorn]

I've not bought Vaesen yet, but will these books be compatible with the announced 2nd edition?

There is no 2nd edition.
The new printing of the rulebook (that still will be 1st edition) will be updated with some erratas and clarifications but they are very few and only minor.