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How do you use Hyperborea?
So, how do you use the Hyperborea setting in your game? Is it "everything" in your campaign? Or just another island area among others in a bigger world? Or a nether realm, like Ravenloft or something?
I have pretty much run my games using Hyperborea as everything there is, but I don't really have an existing, established homebrew world into which I could plug it.
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- Ghul
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
I use it as is, but I have use the Land of Black Ice in the northwestern Flanaess of GH as a place where the North Wind might sweep up a party of adventurers and deposit them somewhere in Hyperborea.
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- Handy Haversack
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
So far since we started AS&SH, everything has been Hyperborea (except for a brief foray to a space-pixie space station). It's the world. I have heard it referred to as a "small sandbox"--maybe I just have limited horizons, but to me it seems huge. Our campaigns have always tended to stay pretty local, so I already feel like there are just huge segments of Hyperborea I'd like to get to but don't know how it will happen. There's already been one teleportation, though, and the players seem fine with where they are and under no real urgency to get back to Brigands Bay.
Which is maybe partly my fault. Keeping adventurers hungry to me has often meant that at least for a while they don't have a secure base--until they can take it and keep it or make themselves useful enough that someone will be waiting for them to return. Like Conan before he was king--just keep moving to the next adventure.
That said, I intend to have some portals to other places crop up, especially Yuin-Soon and, unless I place it in Hyperborea, A Red and Pleaant Land.
- Ghul
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
That's excellent, Handy. Thanks for sharing. Keep 'em hungry and desperate! ;)
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
Ghul wrote:
That's excellent, Handy. Thanks for sharing. Keep 'em hungry and desperate! ;)
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
That's excellent, Handy. Thanks for sharing. Keep 'em hungry and desperate! ;)
+0 swords for everyone!
Sheesh, Handy's finally gone Monty Haul... what's the world coming to?
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Re: How do you use Hyperborea?
That's excellent, Handy. Thanks for sharing. Keep 'em hungry and desperate! ;)
+0 swords for everyone!
Sheesh, Handy's finally gone Monty Haul... what's the world coming to?
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