Late Pledges Open for 'Vaesen': Mythic Carpathia and City of My Nightmares
Award-winning horror roleplaying game invites late pledgers to explore the Mythic North
Award-winning horror roleplaying game invites late pledgers to explore the Mythic North
Stockholm, Sweden (February 4, 2025) | Free League Publishing announced that Mythic Carpathia and City of My Nightmares, two highly-anticipated expansions for Vaesen—Nordic Horror Roleplaying that smashed their fundraising goals on Kickstarter last fall, are now open for late pledges on PledgeManager.
Since its release in 2020, Vaesen—Nordic Horror Roleplaying, based on the acclaimed art book by Johan Egerkrans, has become a fan favorite worldwide and has won multiple awards, including three ENNIEs. Mythic Carpathia and City of My Nightmares, its most recent expansions, are scheduled to print in September 2025— just in time for spooky season.
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.
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, which deals with 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.
Mythic Carpathia, written by a team of Polish and Ukrainian writers and editors, also presents three new complete mysteries to play, set in Prague, Ukraine, and Transylvania.
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.
New Starter Set and Updated Core Rules
The new Starter Set will be designed as the perfect starting point for newcomers to roleplaying in the world of Vaesen. It contains everything they need for game night, including abridged rules, character sheets, custom dice, maps, and the introductory mystery The Haunting of Castle Gyllencreutz.
Based upon feedback from many players over several years of mystery-solving, the carefully updated Core Rulebook offers a streamlined version of the game. It fixes a few imbalances and unclarities and adds optional simplified rules for combat and damage.
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About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIE Awards in 2020, 2021, 2023, and 2024, 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 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.
