About this game

Players travel to a godforsaken moor on the west coast of Jutland, where ambitious engineers have awakened dark forces in their quest to tame and modernize the landscape.

Rating: R – Meant for adults.

Content Warning: Victorian style horror, violence, death, child death, blood, industrial sabotage?

Safety: Communication, breaks, open door, content warnings

Suitable for new players: Yes

Pregenerated characters available: Yes

Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying is based on the work of Swedish illustrator and author Johan Egerkrans, Vaesen presents a dark Gothic setting steeped in Nordic folklore and old myths of Scandinavia. The game mechanics use an adapted version of the award-winning Year Zero Engine.

Players travel to Grimsted Lyng on the danish peninsula of Jutland. It is a windswept moorland stretching to the sea west of Viborg, Denmark and Hamburg, Germany. This once lush area has been slash-and-burned and overgrazed, is cursed by plague, epidemic, and marauding soldiers. Engineers arrived after with coal smoke belching machines with dreams of turning it back in to an agricultural area. Legend has it that the “Devil on the Moors” helped save the area from the marauding soldiers long ago. Rumor is that the Devil has returned to defend against the new incursions on the land.