http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1806106772/astonishing-swordsmen-and-sorcerers-of-hyperborea

Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea is a role playing game based on the OD&D and AD&D first edition rules. It features loads of variants and entirely new elements which together create a new, yet familiar, game experience at your table.

It includes its own fully described campaign setting, Hyperborea, inspired by the works of such luminaries as Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and others. This setting is playable on its own, or in conjunction with any setting of your choice, published and/or homebrewed, and even with other games, if you feel like it (I know I intend to use it in part with the Call of Cthulhu RPG).

Now, a kickstarter page has been launched so the entirely designed game (which I have seen, I can vouch for it) can be brought to print at last.

This is an awesome game. Please support this project.

Between your endorsement, the boxed set, and the art (knight with raygun? giant dragon worm eyestalk thingie? I'll have what he's having!), I'm seriously considering pledging $50 -- assuming, of course, reasonable overseas shipping rates.

EDIT: Shipping overseas is $5 extra. Pledged!

The art is pretty bad-ass.  Is there anywhere I could read up on the actual system?  It says it's based on OD&D and AD&D, but there is a pretty big difference between those two points of reference to me.

ASS of Hyperborea = best name evah.

On a(n even more) positive note, the art is very good.

If you watch the video at the site, the creator decribes the game in a little more detail. The art looks great. The setting sounds like a fun mishmash, although it seems to be stuff we've all seen before. The mechanics sound like a fairly humdrum repeat of D&D, with some added spells. The extra classes he lists are the usual things, like assassin, paladin, schools of magic, etc. The art looks awesome, just really great.

Quote from: two_fishes;495109although it seems to be stuff we've all seen before. The mechanics sound like a fairly humdrum repeat of D&D, with some added spells.

The OSR is LARP. Some players pretend to play role-playing games, while the goal of others is to see how many times you can sell people Yet Another Version of Dungeons & Dragons.

Quote from: FASERIP;495110while the goal of others is to see how many times you can sell people Yet Another Version of Dungeons & Dragons.

Sorry to sound like a naysayer, but I can't help thinking the same.

Good luck to the people involved, but I'm not interested.

Quote from: two_fishes;495109If you watch the video at the site, the creator decribes the game in a little more detail.

Unfortunately, he doesn't talk all that much about the actual system.  I'm left with the impression that I might already own this game since he doesn't talk about what sets it apart from the D&D I already own.

Still, I'm interested in hearing more.

l also like the fact that the emblem on the knight's back looks like the old Civil Defense emblem from 1950's-1960's America.

I'm intrigued, but I already have a backlog of three fantasy games (BOL, Savage worlds of Soloman Kane, D&D 4e) that I have yet to use as much as I'd like.
I'm sure many people will buy it for the setting. Alas I have no need of a science fantasy S&S setting and  I've got all the O/AD&D I need.

In a sense, it is Yet Another Dungeons & Dragons.

I do not think, however, that we've seen that much of that particular D&D before. Of the games that could compare with it, I can only think of Swords & Wizardry Complete and OSRIC itself, both of which are actual translation through the OGL of the materials we knew a few years back. This is not the same animal in that it is close to the spirit of those games while adding a shitload of variants and new tools (including the setting itself, Hyperborea) to the mix.

I think this is the closest you can get to the spirit of late OD&D-AD&D First Edition while doing your own thing with it.

Some information about the game on this board:

Some new information about AS&SH
Charnel Crypt of the Sightless Serpent (the first module of Hyperborea)

The draft of the map of Hyperborea (the map in the game is a reworked to look clearer and everything - this is just a sketch) :

Looks a bit like Antarctica.

Quote from: Benoist;495135In a sense, it is Yet Another Dungeons & Dragons.

I do not think, however, that we've seen that much of that particular D&D before. Of the games that could compare with it, I can only think of Swords & Wizardry Complete and OSRIC itself, both of which are actual translation through the OGL of the materials we knew a few years back. This is not the same animal in that it is close to the spirit of those games while adding a shitload of variants and new tools (including the setting itself, Hyperborea) to the mix.

I think this is the closest you can get to the spirit of late OD&D-AD&D First Edition while doing your own thing with it.

Some information about the game on this board:

Some new information about AS&SH
Charnel Crypt of the Sightless Serpent (the first module of Hyperborea)

Thanks for the additional info, Benoist...but despite the cool art I think I have to pass on this one.  I'm pretty well stocked up with D&D-esque games and I don't see enough new stuff here to tempt me.  But truly, thanks for getting the word out that this exists.

It's cool mate, no worries.