Best. Succubus. Pic. Evar!  

Jeff, FYI, this needs to be submitted for the Three Castles Award.  Looks very impressive!

Mike B.

ASTONISHING SWORDSMEN & SORCERERS of HYPERBOREA

A Role-Playing Game of Swords, Sorcery, and Weird Fantasy



ASTONISHING SWORDSMEN & SORCERERS of HYPERBOREAâ„¢ is sword-and-sorcery role-playing at its pinnacle. Play an Amazon fighter, Atlantean magician, Esquimaux shaman, Hyperborean warlock, Ixian necromancer, Keltic barbarian, Kimmerian cataphract, Pictish thief, Viking berserker, or one of many other possibilities.

The heroes of a HYPERBOREA campaign delve the mazes and labyrinths of vast dungeons filled with horrifying monsters, lethal traps, and bewildering puzzles. They explore savage frontiers, breach hostile borderlands, probe ancient ruins, and investigate cursed tombs. They plunder for treasure and magic in a decaying world inhabited by bloodthirsty beasts and weird, otherworldly beings.

Explore endless challenges and infinite realms of imagination with this complete sword-and-sorcery role-playing game!

Text: Jeffrey Talanian
Illustrations: Ian Baggley
Editing: David Prata
Cartography: Andreas Claren
Box Cover Art: Charles Lang
Box Cover Design: James Kramer
Foreword by Stuart Marshall

Rules: An OGL-based game informed by the original 1974 fantasy wargame and miniatures campaign rules as conceived by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
Milieux: Sword-and-sorcery setting inspired by the fantastic literature of Robert Ervin Howard, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Product Type: Complete role-playing game designed for 2 or more players.
Product Format: 8 x 10 x 2.5-inch boxed set that includes a 252-page, 7 x 8.5-inch, spiral-bound Players' Manual; 236-page, 7 x 8.5-inch, spiral-bound Referee's Manual; a 22 x 28-inch poster map of Hyperborea, 6 character sheets, and 6 polyhedral dice.
Product Code: NWA101
Product Price: $50.00
Product Availability: Available Now!(*) Order at our Online Store. Also available in PDF, for $10.00, exclusively at RPGNow.

(*)Please note the following: Although the AS&SH game is now shipping to pre-order customers, we do not expect general sales orders to begin shipping until early October 2012.

Hi Dave,

I haven't arranged the shipping by domestic vs. international, and in fact I've been mixing the two as my spreadsheet list dictates; so, packages have indeed gone out to the UK (in fact there was one today!), France, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Japan, and the Netherlands. I've even sent shipments all the way up to the Great White North!

Essentially, if I haven't emailed you to say your package has shipped, it means I have not hit your name on the list yet, mate. I am estimating that I am about 55% through shipping, so progress is being made, albeit slowly

I'm happy to hear you find the PDF favorable. It means a lot to me when fellow gamers (whose tastes run similar to my own) say they like it so far. Really makes it all worth it.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Jeff T.

Hi Dave,

Presently we have the two available at our site: Charnel Crypt of the Sightless Serpent and Taken from Dunwich. We also have another one called Rats in the Walls, found in Knockspell #4. At Gary Con and with my home group, I recently began testing out a new low level adventure called Ghost Ship of the Desert Dunes, which may well be the next published adventure. I have notes for a city supplement for City-State of Khromarium, and also for my future mega-dungeon which is situated in the depths of the treble-peaked extinct volcano known as Mt. Vhuurmithadon. So, the future is wide open.

Cheers,
Jeff T.

I am still eagerly awaiting the boxed set, but expect it to be awhile coming since I squeaked in at the last minute. I do have the pdf and the rules and setting impress me greatly.

I can't spend a long time at my computer or even reading at the moment but when the set arrives I should be able to dig into the game and do a full review,

Astonishing Swordsmen... is a wonderful amalgamation of D&D (the real stuff from the 70's and 80's) and the great old pulp writers. It will be easy to drop in ideas from A. Merritt, Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft, Howard, perhaps even some Burroughs, Haggard, Conan Doyle or Jack Vance. Any DM who would have loved to have written for Weird Tales should have a wonderful time with this setting. Right now I am reading through Jack Vance's Dying Earth, the Collected Stories of CAS and the Del Ray Howard's and ideas for this setting are filling my notebook for what I plan to do with an Astonishing Swordsmen campaign.

If you have a feeling for the old pulps, weird fantasy, sword, sorcery and ancient Atlantean technology you should grab yourself a copy of this set.

I can already hear my players sharpening their swords, preparing their spells, and getting ready for perilous adventure.

Hi Jeff, just wanted to know whether you were still in the process of shipping?

Thanks,
Jorge

Mine is also on its way. When I spoke to Jeff he was ploughing through them

Thank you Jeff !!! I look forward to receiving this.