Yggsburg is back in print. Apparently some arm twisting is in progress to attempt restart the Castle Zygag line.

I watched a couple interviews with the TLG team and they mentioned Gary had named Ghul the head honcho on the project back in the day-- they also said they'd likely try to reach out to him for advice should the legal arm twisting prove successful.

Ive run "sailors on a starless sea" for a level 1 party.
The chaos lords are discribed as hyperboreans-- dungeon contains a shrine that is a clear reference to the shrine of xathoqqua from "tale of satampra zeiros". Some ideas are pilfered from the greyhawk "moat house" and the "temple of tharazdun". just swap the monsters & treasures for their near equivalent in Hyperborea.

Where are the other 980 eyes though!? 😡

Damn, I just got Immolated! XD
Another unsuspecting victim of the Dread Necromancer!

Hyperborea is by far my preferred  system for fantasy roleplaying-- even when I run AD&D Waterdeep/Undermountain. Now I use Hyperborea as the core game & hack in a homebrew "race as class" system for Elves, Dwarves & Halflings. also converted to ascending AC.  can't be the only one right? 

This hits the sweet spot!
100% using this.
Brilliant Imagination.

 

The ranger certainly isn't wrong! It should perhaps be something more like 1d2+2 base damage to closer represent a small shield set at a charge; but it's hard to say, since I've never seen a ram's charge stat-ed for an Osric compatible system. 

The shield is an homage to "the ring of the ram" from AD&D 2e.

To be fair, relegating the sapping hands ability to "pretending" to lay on hands every time, renders it arguably ineffectual and certainly monodimensional in the scheme of a larger campaign.

Trickery of that sort is hardly lawful evil-- which seeks to crush its foes forthrightly & with a perverse sense of honor rather than play such games.

if a fell paladin has to trick somebody every time he uses it, rather than making a touch attack that makes it a significantly worse ability than the versatile lay on hands in this ones opinion. 

and given that evil foes are more common than good ones in most campaigns the fell paladin is down 2 for 2 with its righteous wrath equivalent ability.

Thanks for the feedback folks!