Thanks for posting this Donovan. And by the way...

I hate you, mate. I am so jealous right now!

These are some sweet, sweet pieces of art my friend.

Have you framed them since you took those shots?

Quote from: Benoist;567060Thanks for posting this Donovan. And by the way...

I hate you, mate. I am so jealous right now! [/quote

These are some sweet, sweet pieces of art my friend.

Have you framed them since you took those shots?

Glad you like them! I have not yet had them framed, unfortunately. Soon, though, very soon.

Quote from: Chainsaw;567065Glad you like them! I have not yet had them framed, unfortunately. Soon, though, very soon.

It's hard to tell, but has the corpse lying in the muck got two knives sticking in his back? I wonder if the rest of the party "sacrificed" him as a diversionary tactic.

Quote from: Dan Davenport;567050Zombie with an assault rifle? I have got to hear the background of this setting.

Hyperborea is a continent "beyond the North Wind", which could mean a number of things in your own campaign. It could be a different plane from the one the PCs come from, a realm that is cut off by mysterious seas from the rest of the world, etc.

What is known is that different beings came to prominence in the history of Hyperborea at various times. The Great Race, the Mi-Go, the Elder Things have left ruins and artefacts behind them in the distant past. Snake Men are known to have commanded great power over science and sorcery until their Empire came into conflict with the beings of the oceans' depths. The Beast Men did rule Hyperborea as well before they evolved into different semi-intelligent species. And there is of course the mighty Hyperborean Sorcerer-Kings themselves, the progeny of the Boread giants, who have ruled the land themselves until their civilization entered a slow drift towards an unavoilable death following the great catastrophies born from the Ashen Worm and the Emerald Death much later...

Various people live in Hyperborea, from the Kelts and Kimmerians to the Picts and Vikings, the Atlanteans and the Esquimaux... some people even say there are Saxons, Moors, Romans and Yakuts roaming the land, exiled from their own times and seas to the North Wind which lead them there, to Hyperborea, to try and survive as best they can in that foreign land of swords and sorcery...

Oh yeah man. Hyperborea is cool alright...

Quote from: Benoist;567069Oh yeah man. Hyperborea is cool alright...

Certainly sounds that way.

Are there dinosaurs?

Quote from: Dan Davenport;567077Certainly sounds that way.

Are there dinosaurs?

Not in the Monsters section that I remember, but importing them from AD&D should not be a problem at all, and thematically, they could totally fit, depending on the specs of your campaign.

Looks pretty impressive.  Maybe they'll want to send me a review copy...

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It's a genuine labor of love.

It's a traditional role playing game, and yet it's really its own thing throughout, thanks in no small part to the setting of Hyperborea and how it brings some components of the source fiction we all know about (like the Elder Things and the Snake People that ruled the world before us, or the Atlanteans and Lemurian people of legend, the planets gravitating around Hyperborea like Kyranos, Yuggoth - I'm sure these names click for many of you here, and they should!) and yet manages to create a world that is both original and coherent, and yet broad and welcoming personal input enough that you DM can take it from there into whatever direction you want to go with your campaign (I was thinking of using Hyperborea as part of the CoC Dreamlands in a CoC/OAD&D crossover idea I had, for instance).

Lots of bits have been added to the rules we all know. They create their own coherent paradigm that is clearly related to some specific iterations of the D&D game (I'm thinking AD&D 1e in many respects, and OD&D in some others) you can use as is, or in part by picking and choosing some specific resolution mechanic or class or whatnot to add it into the vintage D&D game you prefer.

It's hard for me not to be going all out raving about it, seriously. I just think it's a genuinely good game that deserved to be out there for people to enjoy because it's GOOD, and it's going to bring lots of fun hours of play to lots of game tables in the future, hopefully.

Quote from: languagegeek;567066It's hard to tell, but has the corpse lying in the muck got two knives sticking in his back? I wonder if the rest of the party "sacrificed" him as a diversionary tactic.

Ha! I'm afraid it's not quite that sinister - in larger images, it's clear that those are two scrolls tucked in his belt.

Quote from: languagegeek;567066It's hard to tell, but has the corpse lying in the muck got two knives sticking in his back? I wonder if the rest of the party "sacrificed" him as a diversionary tactic.

Ha! I'm afraid it's not quite that sinister - in larger images, it's clear that those are two scrolls tucked in his belt.

AS&SH is now available for download on RPGnow for $10 US. Direct link to the AS&SH download on RPGnow.

Quote from: Benoist;569501AS&SH is now available for download on RPGnow for $10 US.

I just picked it up.

Quote from: Benoist;569501AS&SH is now available for download on RPGnow for $10 US. Direct link to the AS&SH download on RPGnow.

Do you have contact information for the author?

Quote from: Benoist;569501AS&SH is now available for download on RPGnow for $10 US. Direct link to the AS&SH download on RPGnow.

There's Taun-Tauns?!?!

Right on!

Lot's of classy pics of demon boobs as well!