Grand Cycle Sword: A grand cycle sword is a finely crafted short sword, with a jade hilt decorated with astrological symbols. For most a grand cycle sword is a short sword +1, but when wielded by one who knows the proper techniques its true powers become known. In the hands of a monk, the weapon is effectively a long sword +2 in almost all respects, including WC, though not designed to be wielded two-handed. The blade does not physically extend, though one can see a small white bead of energy, perhaps the wielder's own ka/qi, that travels up from the hilt to the "tip" of the "blade." In addition, the grand cycle sword adds 3 to the wielder's dexterity for purposes of determining who strikes first when initiative is tied.
It is said that there were 13 of these swords made, each with unique hilts pairing both monthly and yearly zodiacal symbols but, in the countless ages since their creation, most have been lost. Rumours hint darkly at the swords bringing misfortune to their wielders when both month and year match the sword. An up-and-coming thief in Port Zangerios is known to possess one of these blades, with the signs of Taurus and Fish.
XP 1000; GP 10000

Kingly Scabbard: A well crafted hard leather scabbard for a long sword or broad sword, lined with fur and decorated with the image of a bear in a Keltic style and a silver spiderweb design. When worn its owner does not bleed, allowing them to continue fighting from 0 to -9 hp (death still occurs at -10). In addition, while at 0 to -9 hp, the owner will regenerate 2 hp per round until reaching 1 hp or more, and furthermore natural healing is doubled. Finally, if a non-magical weapon is sheathed with this scabbard, it is treated as a +1 magical weapon while in use.
These scabbards are considered a sign of nobility and lordship among the group of Kelts known as the Children of Camlann, and anyone wearing one receives a +2 reaction bonus while dealing with them. Mere dream-imitations of the original reli

Neat! I never moved to 5e so I can't compare how it works with that, but hopefully this should answer your questions:

- Percentile rolls, like extraordinary feats, are generally bottom to top, so if you have a 16% chance, you're looking for 01-16 on the die roll.
- Yes, scrolls are basically single-use items that replicate casting the spell, so it doesn't affect your daily spell usage.
- It varies on a case-by-case basis, but if they do require an attack roll than it will mention it in the description. So burning hands and magic missile don't need an attack roll, but magic ice dart and acid arrow do, for example. If you do make an attack roll, then yes, you roll d20 and use the THAC0 table.

Hope that helps! Rats in the Walls is a good adventure and pretty easy to run. If your players aren't super used to OSR-style gameplay, it might be useful to try and keep pressure up to keep them moving forward. When I ran it, my players tried to back out and rest basically right at the finish line, but luckily went to talk to a priest who was able to tell them it was probably a bad idea to leave a rat daemon around to plot revenge. Luckily they listened, if they had waited the night I'd have had to have them come back to the whole inn infested and the NPCs stripped to the bone by ravenous rats.

I suspect the DCC version would be easier to convert over (or at least it would if you're more familiar with it), but both editions should come with the original AD&D version as well which would probably be the best bet.

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Maybe next time. 

Does mean there's still a dude going around kidnapping people for sacrifice, for sure!

Nice! I did the same thing a while ago, borrowing a lot from the OSE-AF version of the class too. For the 'Falling' ability I just gave them the monk's Controlled Fall. I also kept the Evasion ability from OSE, it seemed fitting that they would have an advantage in dipping out of a fight. How do you see them advancing? I just used the Assassin's XP/FA track.

It's something I pondered a bit as I look at TSR settings I'd like to run, while Hyperborea has easily become my preferred ruleset. Do I tone stuff down to Hyperborea scale, or expand out? It's easy enough to port over the basics for levels 13+ from 1e, there's just a few points of AS&SH rules that you'll have to judge on, for instance FA is capped to 12 (3e RM pg. 19) and saves cap out at HD 17. Should those advance further, or do you leave them as-is? If you do leave them, does giving spell-casters more spells per day/spell levels tilt the balance too much in favour of casters? What about thief abilities? Should those end up capping out at 10:12, should you advance up the dice chain (to borrow a DCC-ism), or just allow for thieves that are so good at what they do it's basically supernatural? I think once you make your decisions about those, you're pretty much good to go.

It is worth noting that both Scythium and IX are right at the edge of the world. Who knows what weird energies and radiations they get there and the effects they have on the human body, especially over thousands of years.

Yeah, I think simplifying level drain into an ability drain just makes it easier. I know that my preferred house rule for your standard level drain is taking a hit die in permanent health drain (so a fighter will lose 1d10 hp, ect.), which is still less brutal than level drain as-is but is also fairly simple to handle while still being bad.

Ah, so it was a funnel but for hirelings. Thanks, I think I'll definitely use Sailors. I've done a bit of adapting Neon Knights, though the very premise makes that one pretty simple.

So, there is (or was, might be over now) a Humble Bundle containing a bunch of DCC adventures and I was thinking, despite the bit of difficulty in converting them over due to different base assumptions at the core of each game, that there's several that'd work well in Hyperborea. The 3e-based adventures should convert over decently well with minimal mechanical changes (but probably requiring a bit of Hyperborea-izing) while the DCC RPG ones are a bit more finicky to translate over but could probably be dropped in with few changes and fit the setting.

Anybody done a DCC adventure in Hyperborea? Anything you found particularly difficult or simple to convert over? Any adventure that stands out as working great?