Time is running out to back a double feature for the award-winning Gothic Horror RPG from Free League, alongside a new Starter Set
November 19, 2024
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Free League Publishing :
In two days, Free League Publishing will close their eerie double-feature of a Kickstarter campaign, with two new expansions for Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying: Mythic Carpathia and City of My Nightmares. The campaign was fully funded in 10 minutes and has currently raised over $475,000 from over 5,000 backers.
The Kickstarter campaign also offers a new Starter Set for the game and a lightly updated Core Rulebook. Ten of eleven stretch goals have been unlocked, including bonus vaesen as well as various maps and printed handouts. Only one goal remains: the Vampire Hunter player character archetype.
Exclusive limited edition deluxe giclée prints of the cover art of City of My Nightmares and Mythic Carpathia are also available during the campaign. Each print is personally numbered and signed by the acclaimed artist Johan Egerkrans.
Learn More and Back the Kickstarter campaign.
Delve deeper into the Mythic North – and beyond. Investigate a lurking evil threatening to throw the capital into chaos in City of My Nightmares and venture into Mythic Carpathia to face Vampires, Rusalkas, Baba Yaga, and other even stranger horrors of Eastern European folklore.
Read more about each new title below.
In dark forests, beyond the mountains, by black lakes in hidden groves. At your doorstep. In the shadows, something stirs. Strange beings. Twisted creatures, lurking at the edge of vision. Watching. Waiting. Unseen by most, but not by you. You see them for what they really are. Vaesen.
Since its release in 2020, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying, based on the acclaimed art book by Johan Egerkrans and written by Nils Hintze and Free League, has become a fan-favorite across the globe and won multiple awards, including three ENNIEs.
“The perfect roleplaying companion for the spooky season.” – OnTableTop
“Vaesen is a deliciously dark take on the horror mystery genre.” – Tabletop Gaming Magazine
“I was not too surprised when Vaesen turned out to be good. I just did not expect it to be this good.” – Save or Quit
To celebrate the finale of Kickstarter campaign, the Vaesen Core Rulebook is now 50% OFF in the Free League webshop. PRESS KITS
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About Mythic Carpathia
It’s time to wander south to the busy streets of Prague, where history and myths collide in an unusual fashion. Explore the Pravda Society that deals with the phenomena from all over Mythic Carpathia and beyond. Visit old cities, deep forests, and high mountains to find colorful folklore and myths.
This hardback volume will take your Vaesen adventures to Central and Eastern Europe. It includes information about the Prague branch of the Society, a gazetteer of the city complete with adventure locations and secret societies, a chapter with over a dozen local mythical beings including Drekavac, Golem, the infamous Baba Yaga, and – of course – the Vampire.
The book also presents three new complete mysteries to play, set in Prague, Ukraine, and Transylvania. The book will include a large separate map of the city of Prague and Mythic Carpathia.
Mythic Carpathia is written by a team of Polish and Ukrainian writers and editors in partnership with the Free League core team, and illustrated by Johan Egerkrans and Anton Vitus. Go to the Kickstarter Art by Johan Egerkrans.
About City of My Nightmares
Did you think you were safe from the vaesen in the crowds and lights of the city? Think again. Unspeakable horrors lurk in the dark alleys, crawl underneath the cobblestone streets, or soar through the twilight skies above.
City of My Nightmares is a full-length campaign in four parts in which the characters are invited to the capital to investigate a series of grisly murders, only to become embroiled in a much deeper mystery involving the very origins of the Society itself and threatening to throw the city into utter chaos.
City of My Nightmares is set in 19th century Stockholm but can be adapted to London, Prague or any Gothic metropolis of the era. This beautifully illustrated hardback book will include a separate large map of Stockholm and a detailed newspaper handout.
The book is written by Kiku Pukk Härenstam, and illustrated by Johan Egerkrans and Anton Vitus.
Go to the Kickstarter
About the Starter Set
The new Starter Set for Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying will be designed as the perfect starting point for newcomers to roleplaying in the world of Vaesen, containing everything they need for game night including abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, maps, and the introductory mystery The Haunting of Castle Gyllencreutz.
Go to the Kickstarter
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021 and 2023, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our game portfolio includes the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane (ENNIE Award winner 2024), the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate '80s Tales from the Loop (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and The Electric State Roleplaying Game.
We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.
www.freeleaguepublishing.com
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