HYPERBOREA » Hyperborea Trivia

gizmomathboy · 11/30/2015 8:42 pm

Man, Handy, you're cutting this one very fine and precise.

I only owned this module 3 days ago. :-)

I'll give rhialto another shot at it before I plumb other sources of canon for bits of trivia.

Handy Haversack · 11/30/2015 10:55 pm

Yeah. I'm a chiseler.

rhialto · 12/01/2015 5:07 am

Hmmm...I need to relinquish the floor then, as I'm days away from consulting my printed copy of the adventure...

gizmomathboy · 12/01/2015 9:38 am

rhialto, I think Handy is cutting things to fine because the text reads:

These pyramidal (or “brilliant cut”) gems are small but precious...

But it's his question and his ruling. :-)

Handy Haversack · 12/01/2015 1:04 pm

I was looking for "brilliant"--hey, Jeff stresses it repeatedly, so I figured there was a curse or something associated with it--a spirit that forever lurks inside the mind of the bearer, groaning sepulchrally, "Goooo toooo JAAAAARREDDDD!"

That said, a cut is different from a shape. These gems aren't going to shape themselves! Wait a minute--these gems might.

gizmomathboy, your call. Pose a question or yield to rhialto as you prefer!

gizmomathboy · 12/01/2015 2:55 pm

I don't care. Rhialto if you have a question fire away. I would have to go find something.

rhialto · 12/02/2015 5:55 am

Hmmm, so a quick consultation of the tome of esoteric surface knowledge reveals a contradiction: "brilliant cut" are typically referred to as "cone-shaped", whereas these are "pyramid-shaped"...in any case, I yield the floor as my Hyperborean knowledge is slim.

gizmomathboy · 12/03/2015 10:39 am

How are snake-men able to take the guise of sages and assume advisory positions to kings and
overlords, knights and nobles?

rhialto · 12/03/2015 7:59 pm

Through their ability to shape-change/alter self at will. I've used this numerous times in my game, to great effect.

gizmomathboy · 12/03/2015 11:32 pm

correct

Handy Haversack · 12/04/2015 8:26 am

For the record, if I were a king, overlord, knight, and/or noble and a six-foot-tall walking snake from a race ancient when we were still thrashing about in the sea offered to advise me, I'd order as many white mice as I could, toss them in a tureen, and tell it to go nuts!

gizmomathboy · 12/04/2015 9:22 am

I was reading one of the modules with the Yith and then the Bestiary entry for them...starting to get some ideas for both of them but in radically different ways.

gizmomathboy · 8/16/2016 12:09 pm

Just a little thread necromancy here...

How many gods are of Law and what are their signs?

francisca · 8/16/2016 12:13 pm

Apollo: Lyre
Artemis: arrows over a black sun
Yig: Serpent Eye

So that's 3

Chainsaw · 4/26/2017 2:15 pm

What desert peninsula is the only land mass to meet the Rim of the World?

Handy Haversack · 4/26/2017 2:20 pm

And here I thought Ghul was the Dead Necromancer!

Nice one. It's been a while . . .

Chainsaw wrote:
What desert peninsula is the only land mass to meet the Rim of the World?

Sharath! As featured most recently in the updates on the AS&SH second edition. Gets 'em while they're hot.

Chainsaw · 4/26/2017 2:21 pm

Handy Haversack wrote:
And here I thought Ghul was the Dead Necromancer!

Nice one. It's been a while . . .

Ha!

Handy Haversack wrote:
Chainsaw wrote:
What desert peninsula is the only land mass to meet the Rim of the World?
Sharath! As featured most recently in the updates on the AS&SH second edition. Gets 'em while they're hot.

Haha! Yeah, that one's a freebie. Your turn, Handy. Let's see what ya got!

Handy Haversack · 4/26/2017 2:22 pm

Oh man. Pressure's on . . . gimme one sec to do some "work."

Handy Haversack · 4/26/2017 2:27 pm

What is the only missile weapon with an annotation on table I.44, and what effect does the annotation note?

Chainsaw · 4/27/2017 3:12 pm

Handy Haversack wrote:
What is the only missile weapon with an annotation on table I.44, and what effect does the annotation note?

Hooked throwing knife, ignores AC bonus provided by an opponents shield (if any).

So, next up..

Where's a pterodactyl's favorite place to live in Hyperborea?