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System of the Month February: Vaesen

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.

Welcome to the Mythic North – northern Europe of the nineteenth century, but not as we know it today. A land where the myths are real. A cold reach covered by vast forests, its few cities lonely beacons of industry and enlightenment – a new civilization dawning. But in the countryside, the old ways still hold sway. There, people know what lurks in the dark. They know to fear it.

Vaesen – A Chilling Horror Role-Playing Game with a Detective Twist in the Mythic North by Nils Hintze. Vaesen offers a dark and eerie setting steeped in Nordic folklore and the ancient myths of Scandinavia. The game mechanics use a customized version of the Year Zero Engine.

Trigger Warning – This role-playing game may include the following themes: murder, cruelty towards animals and humans of all ages, death, loss, mental suffering, occultism, and religious conflicts. As the setting takes place in the 19th century, social norms are also different, which involves topics such as discrimination, social inequality, exclusion, and prejudice. Child death will come up in ‘The Devil on the Moor’.

1st Adventure: The Dance of Dreams
A letter reaches the members of te newly reformed Society at castle Gyllencreutz. It contains a advertisement and a note. It advertises a shadow play, ‘The Dance of Dreams’, performed at the Witch Cat inn. The note asks the Society to meet with a K. Olaus there.

2nd Adventure: The Devil on the Moor
Grimsted Lyng is a largely untouched moor between Denmark and Germany. Only a few farmers inhabit the area. The Danish Society for Moorland Reclamation wants to restore fertility to the barren moors through artificial fertilizer, tree planting, and drainage canals. But strange things start to happen and the Society is asked for help.

Registration

  • 8.2. – The Dance of Dreams: full
  • 22.2. – The Devil on the Moor: full

Imageheader from the Free League Website.

System of the Month January: Brindlewood Bay

Put away your knitting and close up the gardening shed, because the sheriff of Brindlewood Bay has just approached you with news of another mysterious death in Brindlewood Bay! And who better to solve this week’s mystery than you, dear Murder Maven, and your fellow krimi bookclub members? Investigate and meddle to your hearts’ content, but be wary of the dark and the secrets it holds.

Brindlewood Bay is a PBtA cozy crime drama inspired by TV shows such as Murder, She Wrote, with cosmic horror undertones. Play is both narrative and collaborative. The solution to the mystery is not set in advance, but discovered together through clue gathering and the success (or failure) of your theories!

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The event is fully booked.

Picture credits: Illustration from the role-playing game Brindlewood Bay.

System of the Month December: Adventures in Ankh-Morpork

In a distant and second-hand set of dimensions, in an astral plane that was never meant to fly, the curling star-mists
waver and part… See…

Great A’Tuin the Turtle comes, swimming slowly through the interstellar gulf, hydrogen frost on his ponderous limbs, his huge and ancient shell pocked with meteor craters. Through sea-sized eyes that are crusted with rheum and asteroid dust He stares fixedly at the Destination.

In a brain bigger than a city, with geological slowness, He thinks only of the Weight.

Most of the weight is of course accounted for by the four giant elephants upon whose broad and star-tanned shoulders the disc of the World rests, garlanded by the long waterfall at its vast circumference and domed by the baby-blue vault of Heaven.

The Colour of Magic

Welcome to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld RPG: Adventures in Ank-Morpork. The Modiphius system will be available on Kickstarter soon, but the quickstarter is already available!

We are playing the mystery intro adventure “Up in Smoke”. You embody up to 5 members of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard (pre-made characters) and have been sent out to investigate the raid on the Sunshine Home for Sick Dragons. For those in the know: We are playing around the time of Thud!.

The rules are very simple and focus heavily on role-playing. There is little fighting (and only with normal skill tests – there is no weapon damage or similar) and the focus is entirely on immersing yourself in the bizarre world of Terry Pratchett – but you don’t have to know it to have fun!

TLDR: 3-5 players, in German, pre-made characters, two different groups.

Registration soon via SwissRPG MeetUp.

System of the Month November: Draw Steel!

Folks, it’s time to DRAW STEEL! Taking the Keywords Tactial, Heroic, Cinematic and Fantasy, MCDM promise to cut down on the slog of traditional RPGs and to bring fast, thrilling combat with tactical depth. And we will check out, if they hold their promise!

In their playtest adventure The Fall of Blackbottom you will fight armies of demons while saving civilians during a full scale attack of AJAX THE INVINCIBLE OVERLORD on Blackbottom!

For this, we will generate characters before the game or use the provided pregens whatever you prefer.

I will run the adventure twice, once in english and once in german.

Event is full

Header: MCDM Productions

System of the Month October: 10 Candles

Ten Candles is a “tragic horror” game rather than survival horror for one main reason: in Ten Candles there are no survivors. In the final scene of the game, all of the characters will die. In this, Ten Candles is not a game about “winning” or beating the monsters. It is a game about being pushed to the brink of madness and despair, searching for hope in a hopeless world, and trying to do something meaningful with your final few hours left.

For the second time, GM Max offers us the opportunity to try out this very low-rule game of pure improvisation 4 times in October! 2 dates are reserved for KuList players. The games will be played in English.

The games are happening on the
10th, 15th, 23rd & 29th of October at 6pm
10th and 29th are reserved for KuLists.

All sessions fully booked

Header: Cavalry Games

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