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- Registered: 1/14/2017
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Heretical Thread
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?
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"We alone of all mankind, who are sorcerers of high attainment and mastery, may endure the lethal ice-change and become breathers of the airless void, and thus, in the end, be made suitable for the provender of such as Rlim Shaikorth." sounds great unless you know what Provender means.
- rhialto
- Sorcerer of the 21st Aeon
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You're not the only one house-ruling, for sure. 
"It is all very well to point out that the man lacks facility; as he asserts, sheer force can overpower sophistication."
Jack Vance, Rhialto the Marvellous
- Carnby
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I've been playing a more traditional D&D game with Hyperborea, plus OSE-AF to fill in the gaps. I like the classes of Hyperborea and it worked since one of my players wanted to play a necromancer. It's been going well, my players poked around a goblin lair and are currently going through The Rats in the Walls. I also flip the AC.
- Mjollnir
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I like the way Hyperborea addresses the balance and leveling issues caused by multiclassing in other iterations.
- Ghul
- Dread Necromancer
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Re: Heretical Thread
Master Magician Rennalds wrote:
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?
It's OK, but now you have to replace your Clark Ashton Smith photo with J.K. Rowling. I kid, I kid! Do what thou wilt, shall be the whole of the law.
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- Master Magician Rennalds
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- From: Katy Tx
- Registered: 1/14/2017
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Re: Heretical Thread
Damn, I just got Immolated! XD
Another unsuspecting victim of the Dread Necromancer!
"We alone of all mankind, who are sorcerers of high attainment and mastery, may endure the lethal ice-change and become breathers of the airless void, and thus, in the end, be made suitable for the provender of such as Rlim Shaikorth." sounds great unless you know what Provender means.
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