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Customer Reviews

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Eoin O'Keeffe
Beautifully illustrated haunting mystery RPG

Book has had enough said about the beautiful art throughout the book, but the system itself is also very simple and fun. The vaesen all come with adventure hooks that really write themselves, and the core rules and character creation. I'm very excited to continue playing.

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Leanne Rason
My son loved this gift

Beautiful art work , very well received gift for a game player

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Mike N.
Nordic Cthulhu by candlelight

This was an impulse buy from the Thirsty Meeples store in Bath. I'm a long-time Cthulhu fan, and have recently bought "Whispers in the Dark" for 5e Dungeons and Dragons. The front cover of the Vaesen rulebook could be something out of either product line, and the artwork is a key feature for the game and the setting. Inspired by the work of the artist Johan Egerkrans and his book "Vaesen: Spirits and Monsters of Scandinavian Folklore" the games takes as a setting a slightly alternative mythic Northern Europe in the 1800s. Initially funded through a kick-starter, everything needed to play the game (except some d6 dice) is included in the 230 pages.
Character creation is very straightforward, using a set of attribute and skill points derived by a character's age, which are then applied against occupational templates. There is sufficient scope for customisation to allow characters with the same occupation to have a very different feel, and some lovely touches (characters have a trauma and a dark secret).
The game mechanics, driven by d6 rolls, are easy to pick up and don't get in the way of the role-playing.
The main rulebook includes a campaign setting based on 19th century Uppsala in Sweden, along with a great chapter for gamesmasters on how to run a campaign and structure a gaming session.
The real joy of the book is the section on the Vaesen, the mythic creatures of the region. There is plenty of guidance on incorporating the creatures into the gameplay, and their relations with humans. Some are potentially benign, many are hostile (threatened by industrialisation), and there are those whose motivations are otherworldly and unfathomable. The entire book is filled with sumptuous illustrations from Egerkrans that picture both the Vaesen and capture the mood of this alternative Scandinavia.
The final chapter provides a short (2-3 session) introductory adventure, 'The Dance of Dreams', set in a rural inn south of Uppsala.
In summary this is both a great game in itself, but also a resource for other 19th century horror rpgs. I'm already contemplating how to arrange for my group of 5e D and D characters from my "Whispers" campaign to leave New Orleans for an excursion to rural Sweden.