Officially licensed Vaesen Ruleset & Mysteries now available!

[Valyar]

Welcome to the Mythic North – on your virtual tabletop! We are thrilled to say that Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying and A Wicked Secret & Other Mysteries from Free League have launched on Fantasy Grounds and Steam!

Now, you and your team of investigators can discover the horrible secrets of the Mythic North from the comfort of your home.


Available from SW Store:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.php?id=FRLFLFVAS01
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.php?id=FRLFLFVAS06
and Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1518450/Fantasy_Grounds__Vaesen__Nordic_Horror_Roleplaying/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1518470/Fantasy_Grounds__A_Wicked_Secret__And_Other_Myster ies/

Soon there will be dedicated forum to discuss this great game and have suggestions, bug reports and etc.

PS: There is user manual delivered as .pdf file in the local /docs folder within FGC/FGU data folder.

Cheers,
Simon and Valyar

[LordEntrails]

Nice!

[bracken]

Really looking forward to this. Unfortunately I am waiting for the Twilight 2000 kickstarter to deliver to get hold of my hard copy of the rule book so may hold off from buying it straight away. (But probably won't manage to hold out beyond the weekend ... ). I have a few questions that could make the difference for an immediate purchase.

Does the ruleset support the lifepath generation of characters?
I am assuming the tables for lifepath generation are part of the ruleset (hopefully) but is there any automation in the construction of the character?
Can you drag talents (not sure what they are called in Vaesan) and other elements from the lists to the character sheet with any level of automation similar to some of the bigger name rulesets or is it closer to the pen and paper experience of having the reference tables available but typing all of the entries directly into the sheet yourself?

Sorry for so many questions, but well done for getting this out so quickly. Now I just need to wait for Forbidden Lands, Mutant Year Zero and Tales From The Loop to be ready :P

Regards,
Bracken

[Frail Realities]

This is looking great...
"User Manual delivered as .pdf file And more..." - I can't see this anywhere - can you let me know where I find it (I have bought and downloaded the module)

[Valyar]

Really looking forward to this. Unfortunately I am waiting for the Twilight 2000 kickstarter to deliver to get hold of my hard copy of the rule book so may hold off from buying it straight away. (But probably won't manage to hold out beyond the weekend ... ). I have a few questions that could make the difference for an immediate purchase.

Does the ruleset support the lifepath generation of characters?
I am assuming the tables for lifepath generation are part of the ruleset (hopefully) but is there any automation in the construction of the character?
Can you drag talents (not sure what they are called in Vaesan) and other elements from the lists to the character sheet with any level of automation similar to some of the bigger name rulesets or is it closer to the pen and paper experience of having the reference tables available but typing all of the entries directly into the sheet yourself?

Sorry for so many questions, but well done for getting this out so quickly. Now I just need to wait for Forbidden Lands, Mutant Year Zero and Tales From The Loop to be ready :P

Regards,
Bracken
Hi Bracken,
There is no character creation wizard as in D&D 5e - FL games are very light on mechanics and majority of the choices are examples, players can come up with different things. Therefore this is done in the traditional way. We have the rollable tables for the Lifepath, but they are not populating automatically charsheet. If there is enough demand for such feature we will create one and push to rulesets.

You can drag & drop talents and equipment, talent automation is small as the talents are narrative and situational. We work on talent automation framework that will be introduced where necessary in Alien/Vaesen. Equipment usage is having automation and connects with CT and NPC sheets. NPC/Vaesen also is having automation.

Forbidden Lands is 40% ready, content for Core, Raven's Purge and The Spire of Quetzel is already done.


This is looking great...
"User Manual delivered as .pdf file And more..." - I can't see this anywhere - can you let me know where I find it (I have bought and downloaded the module)
Hi Frail Realities,
If you go to FG data directory, there is /docs folder and the file is named Vaesen - FG Ruleset Manual.pdf

[NotRussellCrowe]

Awesome!! Noticed it last night on my way to bed so picked it up but haven't had a chance to look around too much. Very excited none-the-less!!

[damned]

Well done guys - I will be getting this one.

[bracken]

Thanks for the reply, Valyar. Do you know if Vaesen will be getting its own sub-forum or will there be a "Year Zero" sub-forum to cover all the Free League year zero games?

[Valyar]

Thanks for the reply, Valyar. Do you know if Vaesen will be getting its own sub-forum or will there be a "Year Zero" sub-forum to cover all the Free League year zero games?
Yes, I asked for subforum for now, but one big to aggregate all FL games is also what I was thinking. But this is something that we have to align and agree with out hosts from Smite Works :)

[bracken]

Thanks, Valyar.

So ... despite my best (worst?) intentions of waiting until I at least get my Vaesan pdf from the Twilight 2000 kickstarter ... I gave in and bought the ruleset and A Wicked Secret. (My bank account curses you).

I have just started a dummy campaign so I can start looking through the content. Think I might have found my first glitch. If I roll any d10 the individual die results do do not display upon the icons in the chat result, just the total to the side.

Edited to add:

Working through Player Section reference manual I have found a few typos that may be font irregularities. On the Your Player Character page It looks like instances of "ff" or "fi" have been replaced with or are displaying as "?". For example "This chapter o?ers a step-by-step description" or "you must ?rst pick an archetype" and a few other instances.

In the Gamemaster Section reference manual the final section of Chapter 9 is listed as "Gamemasater Techniques" rather than "Gamemaster Techniques".

[Cailore]

This is looking great...
"User Manual delivered as .pdf file And more..." - I can't see this anywhere - can you let me know where I find it (I have bought and downloaded the module)

Hej Frail Realities, looking in your Fantasty Grounds data folder (I think default called "fantasy_grounds_data" or "fantasy_grounds_data_UG"), there should be a subfolder called "docs", you'll find the PDF there.

[Cailore]

Hey guys, this looks great. I've found a couple little mistakes and typos so far, do you have somewhere to report those?

[damned]

Bought!
I dont know when I will get to play it but I think it looks beautiful and I love investigative style games!

[Valyar]

Hey guys, this looks great. I've found a couple little mistakes and typos so far, do you have somewhere to report those?
Hi Cailore
Send me PM while we get the forum.

[viresanimi]

I was playing around a little bit to see what this ruleset could do and I ran into an error:

Fantasy Grounds Classic. I populated the combat tracker with 1 or more npc's. When I press the "next actor button" after the last npc on the tracker (to increment a new round), I get the following error: Script Error: [string "scripts/manager_combat2.lua"]:36: attempt to index local 'fastChild' (a nil value)

Also: the text on the Tokens and Library buttons are completely unreadable. Dark brown and black text, not really a good combination.

Overall I am very happy to see this on Fantasy Grounds and will for certain have many great hours with this ruleset. Thanks!


Vires Animi

[Valyar]

And we have a forum now :)
I added the combat tracker bug to our board, will nail it soon as I could replicate it.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?125-Vaesen