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Campaign » Hyperborea.pm » 11/29/2023 7:36 pm

gizmomathboy
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## 2023-11-15

  Present

    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)

  not present

    - Jenn (Conan - pyromancer)
    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Chris (arsalion-death-lord)


### 577-02-25

Weather:
  conditions:
    base: Cloudy
  temp: 70
  temp_c: 21.1
  wind:
    wind_direction: East
    wind_force: light breeze
    wind_speed: 7
    wind_speed_kph: 11.3

The party goes back down the other hallway.

Aldi and Emmett trigger a trap door and fall 20 feet.

They are helped out of the pit.

It is decided to have Torcan jump across the pit tied to
a rope. He doesn't clear the distance. He does climb out
to get to the other side.

Kallisto anchors the other side.

When Aldi gets across him and Torcan hear a door open. It sounds
like it is coming from a hallway to the north of the hallway they
are in.

A svart alfar comes around the corner, looks at the duo, grunts "huh",
then walks away from them down the hallway and exits via another door.

Everyone gets across and Kalli deftly jumps across the pit.

Aldi and Verica go down the hall and through the door. Beyond it is
a short hallway going north and south with a door at either end.

When they go Verica starts to check out the northern door when a ghostly
image of a horned helmet appears. Its eyes glowing an evil red.

Verica feels its gaze and takes damage.

Just as Verica reaches for her symbol of Raven to turn it the image fades away.

The two of them go back to the rest of the party.

The part takes the hallway that the svart alfar come out of and through the door
they find.

Verica and Aldi go through it. The door they went through is painted red on the
other side (not the side they came through). To the west is another door painted
blue and the hallway stretches to the east.

The doors start speaking. Insulting each other and the party. As t

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/22/2023 10:32 am

gizmomathboy
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Blackadder23 wrote:

Nice! Do you have a link to the name generator? I can find some of the others, but not that one. Or do you have a link to all of your apps?

 
All the apps:

https://www.gizmomathboy.com/hyperborea/

The name generator is tucked inside the pc generator.

I added an entry to the above link for the name generator.

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/19/2023 10:19 am

gizmomathboy
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...and now the name generator adds epithets to those a Punic descent.

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/18/2023 10:34 am

gizmomathboy
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Blackadder23 wrote:

gizmomathboy wrote:

I'm considering adding a few for the Punic folks

37: the Fair
38: the Barcid
39: the Great

Mostly from a brief read through of the Wikipedia entry for Cathage and some notable people mentioned in it.

Some others that come to mind offhand are "Hanno the Navigator" and "Hasdrubal the Bald".

I still think you should just translate "Barca" as "Thunderbolt", since none of the other epithets are left in the original language ("Barca" is, as a point of very minor interest, the same as the Biblical name "Barak", which also meant "Thunderbolt"; ancient Semitic languages didn't use vowels). But handle it however you want!

 
I will and add those others in just for the Carthaginians :-)

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/17/2023 10:03 am

gizmomathboy
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BA, I'm assuming you're using the epithets list.

I thought that might be the way to create names.

I'm considering adding a few for the Punic folks

  37: the Fair
  38: the Barcid
  39: the Great

Mostly from a brief read through of the Wikipedia entry for Cathage and some notable people mentioned in it.

Campaign » Hyperborea.pm » 11/15/2023 7:35 pm

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## 2023-11-08

  Present

    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Jenn (Conan - pyromancer)
    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)

  not present

    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Chris (arsalion-death-lord)



### 577-02-24

Weather:
  conditions:
    base: Fog
    effects:
      - Visibility reduced to 20 feet
  temp: 30
  temp_c: -1.1
  wind:
    wind_direction: Southeast
    wind_force: moderate breeze
    wind_speed: 18
    wind_speed_kph: 29.0

Aldi goes out to hunt to get something fresh to eat.

He is only able to find a rabbit, but on the way back
it steps into a herd of reindeer, surprising them.

The is able to kill one as they bolt away.

Aldi cuts off a haunch to take back to the barrows.

### 577-02-25

Weather:
  conditions:
    base: Cloudy
  temp: 70
  temp_c: 21.1
  wind:
    wind_direction: East
    wind_force: light breeze
    wind_speed: 7
    wind_speed_kph: 11.3

Go back down the ladder into the dungeon

They revisit the 2 rooms. The dead bodies are still
there and are starting to smell.

The take the one door leading out. Three more svart alfar bodies
are found. They have the tell tale burn marks of lightning on them.

They are in a T junction. The hallway to the left is take where it
ends in a door. Emmett opens with Aldi covering.

There are 3 beds here and it is ransacked to find 20 cp, 15 sp, 28gp, 6 pp, and 3 gems

Emmett is impatient. He checks and opens the second door in the room. His impatience
continues and he follows the hallway beyond. It keeps turning to the left.

The hallway is spiraling in on itself until it ends in a door.

Once again Emmett checks and swiftly opens the door. Aldi and him are able
to surprise what is behind the door. A zombie minotaur.

Emmett toss fire on it and Aldi shoots 2 arrows.

Slowly they are able to kill the zombie minotaur

No loot is found in the room.

session paused here

Campaign » Hyperborea.pm » 11/08/2023 5:39 pm

gizmomathboy
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## 2023-11-01

  Present

    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Jenn (Conan - pyromancer)
    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)


  not present

    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Chris (arsalion-death-lord)


### 577-02-23
weather:
  conditions:
    base: Rain
    effects:
      - Missile fire at -2
      - -10 MV
  temp: 45
  temp_c: 7.2
  wind:
    wind_direction: Southeast
    wind_force: light breeze
    wind_speed: 7
    wind_speed_kph: 11.3



Decide to jam a dagger in the door to the "north" and set the
watches and get some rest.

During the first hour of Verg/Aldi watch a ghostly viking
figure appears. It beckons them to towards the door.

Just as the rest of the group awakens it disappears.

About 20 minutes later, about when the rest of the part
falls asleep, a loud banging on the door starts.

The group is awakened. Torcan positions himself to be
behind the door when it opens in the room, in the hope
of getting a backstab attempt.

The door is opened.

Aldi shoots an arrow into the haug bui standing there.

Arsalian and Verica try to turn it but fail.

Emmett attacks and misses it.

The haug bui attacks Aldi but misses.

Torcan is able to backstab and kill it.

The body is looted and 1 silver armband is taken.

During the start of Asulfr/Emmett's shift they hear
shuffling of feet near the door. They do nothing.

Then the sound like they running away.

Shortly after that there is a bang on the door bursts open. Two
haug bui are standing in the doorway with a third behind those.

They pair rush up to Emmett and Asulfr but miss their attacks. The
third runs to Kali but isn't able to attack.

One hits Emmett. Asulfr is able to hit the one attacking him.

Torcan starts a Prayer.

Meanwhile the rest of the party wake up and get into combat.

Emmett, Asulfr, and Kali all get hit in the meantime.

Eventually t

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/08/2023 4:30 pm

gizmomathboy
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updated name and physique apps to have those pesky Carthaginians available as a choice.

I haven't checked the physique stuff that closely.

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/08/2023 2:05 pm

gizmomathboy
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Blackadder23 wrote:

gizmomathboy wrote:

What, no Barcids family/last names? ;-)

Well, you do have members of the Barcids listed (just not their family name)

Even "Barca" was actually an epithet applied to Hannibal's father Hamilcar. If their names were fully translated into English (consistent with other examples like "Hanno the Navigator" and "Hasdrubal the Handsome"), they would be "Hamilcar the Thunderbolt" and "Hannibal Son of the Thunderbolt".
 

 
Yeah, I dug in far enough after I posted to read that.

Now to dig up Punic epithets :-)

Hyperborea » Carthaginians (New Minor Race) » 11/08/2023 9:39 am

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What, no Barcids family/last names? ;-)

Well, you do have members of the Barcids listed (just not their family name)

HYPERBOREA 3E » Ixians » 11/03/2023 7:12 am

I think this is best left to our imagination and not nailed down to some fixed thing.

It's your game and idea of Ixians

Campaign » Hyperborea.pm » 11/01/2023 10:00 pm

gizmomathboy
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## 2023-10-25

  Present

    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)
    - Jenn (Conan - pyromancer)


  not present

    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Chris (arsalion-death-lord)


### 577-02-23
weather:
  conditions:
    base: Rain
    effects:
      - Missile fire at -2
      - -10 MV
  temp: 45
  temp_c: 7.2
  wind:
    wind_direction: Southeast
    wind_force: light breeze
    wind_speed: 7
    wind_speed_kph: 11.3


Kali climbed down the ladder and was attacked by 4 dudes. They all somehow
missed her.

She got down then Verica, then Arsalian, then Alsufr enter the room.

The party is able to slowly kill 2 but Kali is severely injured but Verica
gives Kali some healing and the remaining 2 run out through what look to
be a secret door.

Torcan and the rest come down the ladder. Torcan does spot what looks to
be good loot on the dead bodies and a chest under the bed in the room.

Arsalian and Aldi stand guard next to the second secret door connecting
the room with the ladder to the room the 2 svart alfar fled into.

Arsalian informs everyone he's gonna have Aldi open the door and he's gonna
toss a lightning bolt. Everyone tenses up thinking of the last time he did
this.

Aldi opens the door and casts the lightning bolt. It happens to travel
through/past 2 alfar and the door way leading out of the room and into
the hallway beyond. Arsalian kills a couple in the room and one standing
in the hallway beyond the room. Their might be others.

For of the surviving alfar throw hand axes at Aldi and Ars. Two of them
missing Ars and 2 hit Aldi.

Arsalian casts his final ligthning bolt and kills almost everyone in the
room. The surviving alfar run away.

The looting begins.

In the room with the ladder:
6 copper arm bands on 2 dead svart alfar and 16gp.

In the chest under the bed is:

1,322gp
251 pp
3 gold armbands
2 silver armbands

In the next roo

General Discussion » Hyperborean Encounter Tables 3! » 10/31/2023 12:38 pm

Blackadder23 wrote:

I won't blame you if you don't. The encounter tables were merely updated, and some of them haven't changed at all, but I started over from scratch with the terrain tables. There are now two columns each for ALIEN, ANIMAL, and MEN, to accommodate a greater variety of encounters, and almost no column was carried over intact from 2e. Sorry!

 
No worries.

I was looking over the changes and figuring out how much or how little work it's gonna be.

I think it won't be too hard.

The "hard" part will be accounting for "not in winter" "ignore not in winter"  notes :-)

I think the expanded encounter space is a great addition.

Rules Discussion » Scouts » 10/30/2023 8:24 am

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You are most certainly welcome.

I still have some tweaks and updates I want to do (...in the midst of doing).

Mostly to use the 3e character sheets pdf.

General Discussion » Hyperborean Encounter Tables 3! » 10/29/2023 8:35 pm

Great work.

Now...to update the web app...

Rules Discussion » Scouts » 10/27/2023 5:00 pm

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BlackKnight wrote:

gizmomathboy wrote:

rhialto wrote:

True...maybe adopt an all-digital model, and game-as-a-service at that point? What could go wrong?

 
Hyperborea Beyond? (Hyperborea Hyper? ;-)

We are from New England... "Wicked Hypa!!"

 
http://wickedhypa.com

Rules Discussion » Scouts » 10/25/2023 9:38 pm

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BlackKnight wrote:

We are from New England... "Wicked Hypa!!"

Now that's a name for a web service :-)
 

Campaign » Hyperborea.pm » 10/25/2023 9:36 pm

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## 2023-10-18

  Present

    - Marge (Verica - purloiner)
    - Dave (Torcan-purloiner)
    - Yanick (Verg - cryomancer)
    - Jason (Aldsvider - huntsman)
    - Shawn(Asulfr - druid)


  not present

    - Jenn (Conan - pyromancer)
    - Mark (Emmet Slaan - gadgeteer)
    - Chris (arsalion-death-lord)


### 577-02-22
weather:
  conditions:
    base: Rain
    effects:
      - Missile fire at -2
      - -10 MV
  temp: 40
  temp_c: 4.4
  wind:
    wind_direction: Southeast
    wind_force: moderate breeze
    wind_speed: 17
    wind_speed_kph: 27.4


Another barrow is searched by Verg.

Verg finds 5 copper arm bands and 6 silver arm bands on the raided bodies
in the barrow

Verg loots another barrow, finding 5 copper armbands and 6 silver ones again.
Also...taking a skull as well

In the next barrow he throws the newly acquired skull at the skull of a skeleton
near the entrance. The throw is so perfect it knocks the targeted skull aside and
the thrown one rests prefectly in its place.

Two skeletons then grasp at him from the ground and the other 10 rise up.

Verg makes an escape and Arsalian steps into the doorway and control 9 of the 12
skeletons. The 3 are quickly destroyed by the rest.

The skeletons are used to explore another barrow. In it the 6 that can fit in it
battle the 12 that rise up.

Eventually only 1 of the skelly friends is left standing.

Verg lots the bone piles and the standing skeleton of their copper armbands, 24
in total.

The remaining barrows are looted, finding 14 more copper and 12 more silver bands.

It is late enough that the party camps out in the barrow next to the one the donkeys
are stabled in.


### 577-02-23
weather:
  conditions:
    base: Rain
    effects:
      - Missile fire at -2
      - -10 MV
  temp: 45
  temp_c: 7.2
  wind:
    wind_direction: Southeast
    wind_force: light breeze
    wind_speed: 7
    wind_speed_kph: 11.3

The ashes in

Rules Discussion » Scouts » 10/24/2023 6:08 pm

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rhialto wrote:

Ghul wrote:

rhialto wrote:


Probably precisely where the idea belongs, as an "official" change. 

OK, but we're running into space concerns with all the skills and feats and skill/feat synergies. 
 

True...maybe adopt an all-digital model, and game-as-a-service at that point? What could go wrong?

 
Hyperborea Beyond? (Hyperborea Hyper? ;-)

Rules Discussion » Scouts » 10/23/2023 10:08 pm

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Ghul wrote:

I like the idea! Maybe in 4th edition?

 
GAH! Submitting to the cries of the mob! ;-)

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