HYPERBOREA » Introduction Thread

Krath · 4/05/2016 12:07 pm

Hello all! Wish I had heard about this game when it came out! I've really been missing out. I helped kickstart The Mystery at Port Greely and am already setting aside as much money as I can for the Second Edition. This game is just great can't get enough of it! We wants more precious!

mabon5127 · 4/05/2016 12:15 pm

Krath wrote:
Hello all! Wish I had heard about this game when it came out! I've really been missing out. I helped kickstart The Mystery at Port Greely and am already setting aside as much money as I can for the Second Edition. This game is just great can't get enough of it! We wants more precious!

Welcome Krath! We gave a great bunch of folks here to answer questions an generally obsess over ASSH! The Mystery at Port Greely looks outstanding, can't wait to get my hands on it!

Krath · 4/05/2016 1:55 pm

mabon5127 wrote:
Krath wrote:
Hello all! Wish I had heard about this game when it came out! I've really been missing out. I helped kickstart The Mystery at Port Greely and am already setting aside as much money as I can for the Second Edition. This game is just great can't get enough of it! We wants more precious!
Welcome Krath! We gave a great bunch of folks here to answer questions an generally obsess over ASSH! The Mystery at Port Greely looks outstanding, can't wait to get my hands on it!

Thanks for the welcome. I'm defiantly obsessed with ASSH!

Handy Haversack · 4/05/2016 2:31 pm

Krath wrote:
Thanks for the welcome. I'm defiantly obsessed with ASSH!

Obsession just means you care enough to slay the very best. Welcome to the boards!

Krath · 4/06/2016 12:18 am

Handy Haversack wrote:
Krath wrote:
Thanks for the welcome. I'm defiantly obsessed with ASSH!

Obsession just means you care enough to slay the very best. Welcome to the boards!

This is true. Slaying is caring! Thanks for the welcome!

Chainsaw · 4/06/2016 9:00 am

Krath wrote:
Hello all! Wish I had heard about this game when it came out! I've really been missing out. I helped kickstart The Mystery at Port Greely and am already setting aside as much money as I can for the Second Edition. This game is just great can't get enough of it! We wants more precious!

Welcome aboard! I think the second edition will be awesome as well. I really can't wait to see it come together.

mavfire · 5/16/2016 9:49 am

Welcome Krath! Glad to have another convert!

7/16/2016 8:35 pm

Greetings!

I started gaming in '87 with the D&D Red Box, but soon switched to AD&D, just before TSR switched to Second Edition. Talk about bad timing.

I have no idea how long I've had my AS&SH box, but it's been long enough to back the last two Kickstarters and look forward to second edition and the extra stuff it entails.

Well, that's me. Thanks for having me!

mabon5127 · 7/16/2016 8:41 pm

Welcome aboard 1970! I await the new hardback edition as well as do a couple of my players!

Morgan

Ghul · 7/16/2016 9:10 pm

Welcome, 1970! Thanks for joining us here!

Chainsaw · 7/17/2016 9:32 am

Welcome, 1970!

1970 wrote:
I started gaming in '87 with the D&D Red Box, but soon switched to AD&D

Cool, man. I took a similar path, but started around 1990 or so.

1970 wrote:
I have no idea how long I've had my AS&SH box, but it's been long enough to back the last two Kickstarters and look forward to second edition and the extra stuff it entails.

Me too! Should be good.

1970 wrote:
Well, that's me. Thanks for having me!

Thanks for signing up!

Philotomy · 7/17/2016 5:06 pm

Recently signed up. Many familiar names, here!

Chainsaw · 7/17/2016 5:11 pm

Philotomy wrote:
Recently signed up. Many familiar names, here!

Hey man! Glad you signed up.

mabon5127 · 7/18/2016 9:26 am

Welcome!

Blackadder23 · 7/18/2016 1:45 pm

1970 wrote:
I started gaming in '87 with the D&D Red Box, but soon switched to AD&D, just before TSR switched to Second Edition.

Well there's your problem. Welcome to the forum!

Philotomy wrote:
Recently signed up. Many familiar names, here!

Welcome! Your website has been very inspirational to me.

Last edited by Blackadder23 (7/18/2016 1:46 pm)

Ghul · 7/19/2016 6:03 am

Philotomy wrote:
Recently signed up. Many familiar names, here!

Happy to have you aboard, PJ!

Arkansan · 8/04/2016 2:38 pm

Hello All,

So I discovered AS&SH perusing the forums over at therpgsite, then frantically searched for a copy of the boxed set because I'm a total sucker for anything in a boxed set. Found a copy and languished without a group for a good while. Got a group going finally and we are playing a weekly game, starting off with rats in the walls and I expect we will sandbox it from there.

Chainsaw · 8/04/2016 7:03 pm

Arkansan wrote:
Hello All,

Welcome aboard, Arkansan. We have a nice group here with a pretty good singal/noise ratio. I think you will find everyone welcoming and helpful.

Arkansan wrote:
So I discovered AS&SH perusing the forums over at therpgsite, then frantically searched for a copy of the boxed set because I'm a total sucker for anything in a boxed set. Found a copy and languished without a group for a good while.

Cool! I think I might have been one of the first people to receive the box set and I've really enjoyed it. I've taken the books with me to conventions and on work trips and vacations. My son's beat the heck out of them. They've held up pretty well!

Arkansan wrote:
Got a group going finally and we are playing a weekly game, starting off with rats in the walls and I expect we will sandbox it from there.

Sounds great. My next stop is your campaign thread.

Scalydemon · 8/05/2016 6:31 pm

Welcome Arkansan, also interested to hear how your campaign goes. Sounds like a fun start..

Zudrak · 9/06/2016 11:25 am

Hail and well met!

My name is Michael Gross. I "met" Jeff on the Troll Lord Games boards and/or Dragonsfoot boards over 10 years ago. Like Jeff, I was selected to write for Gary Gygax's Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh project -- namely the Rivergate sector of the Free Town, but had to withdraw due to an illness in the family.

I remained the team's cheerleader until Gary Gygax's passing and subsequent dissolution of the project. I have kept an eye on Jeff's work since, tracking down Fight On! and Knockspell magazines as money allowed and eventually purchased the AS&SH PDF years ago, not long after its post-Kickstarter release. I regret, Scalydemon, that I was not able to keep up with AFS magazine after procuring its debut issue. At long last, I was able to purchase a copy of the ASSH box itself. It arrived last week.

My approach to the ASSH game is a little different in that, sadly, I did not read much of the source material that feeds the milieu. Only in recent years have I purchased a compilation of HP Lovecraft's works, for example. I watched the Conan movies but did not own any REH works until I bought the Complete Conan tome at about the same time as the HPL book. I have yet to read that one beyond a cursory glance.

I have played some form of Tabletop RPG from 1980-1990 and since 2000. It started in 3rd grade with a classmate running OD&D (or maybe it was Holmes BD&D, I never saw her books). She had a classmate roll up a PC and told me I could do the same at recess the next day. Sure enough, I rolled 3d6 in order and "Thor" the fighter was born. Later, a cousin DM helped me append a surname (so as to differentiate him from the Norse god) and as "Thor Guth" was he then known. My parents bought us the new Moldvay Basic set in 1981 for my brother and I. I have pretty much been a DM ever since.

Anyway, I had been looking for a perfect RPG system and ASSH seems to be "it." Not as clumsy or bloated as the more modern games. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.

I do hope to connect the Hyperborea setting to my own Greyhawk campaign via "The Land of Black Ice" and auroras rumored to be sweeping away unsuspecting folk! I see some familiar screen names here and hope to join in when I can. For now, I am stocking up on popcorn and spare cash for the Kickstarter.

Happy gaming,
Michael / Zudrak