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World of Weirth on World Anvil – More Peoples

By On 29 August 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Workbench, World of Weirth

I’ve added some more lore to the World Anvil account, detailing some of the races and creatures of Weirth.

The Tanso:

The Tanso are a secretive and isolationist people, centered around the great lake of Lago Tanso in the North. They have made their homes on boats and barges since time immemorial, except for […]

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WW on WorldAnvil – Tuathacoma, the High Desert

By On 31 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

In the Faerie Realm there is a desert, located high on a plateau, between two mountain ranges:

This high, dry plateau is home to a variety of strange and monstrous creatures, as well as two sorts of human-like creatures that call it home. The Thri-Kreen are an insectoid race, looking for all the world like […]

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WW On WorldAnvil – The Sisterhood of the Raven

By On 30 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

Healers? Or spies?

The Raven Goddess has dominion over the realms of Healing, Protection, Initiation and Messengers. She is the Keeper of Secrets and Protector of the Innocent.The priesthood is only open to women, by long-standing tradition, though the ranks of the Exalted and Sages are open to men and women alike.The Sisterhood of the […]

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World of Weirth on WorldAnvil – The Necromancer

By On 29 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

On Necromancers:

A necromancer is among the most loathed of all people on Weirth, certainly the most feared and despised of the Magic-Users. With Death and Remembrance playing such an important part in the cultures of Weirth, is is an unforgivable horror to disrupt the path of the spirit.The cultural practices designed to hasten the […]

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Preparing for Gygax 75 Challenge

By On 28 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Gaming Community, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

I found a link to a great set of blog posts by Charles A, about a personal challenge to follow the instructions for building a campaign setting laid out by Gary Gygax in 1975.

The article itself is well worth reading, as are the blog posts at Dragons Never Forget.

Over on Itchio, […]

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Links – Saturday Shares

By On 18 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Appendix N, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Gaming Community

Here is some reading material for your weekend!

From The Other Side

Adventures in Hyperborea

Hat tip to Jason Vey for sharing these with me.

So if I know ANYTHING at all about Conan, likely it came from Jason Vey. In addition to being a top rate game designer, he […]

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World of Weirth – Magic and Spellcasting

By On 17 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, OSR - Old School Rules, World of Weirth

After much research and soul-searching, I have completed the first draft of the magic system for the World of Weirth Campaign Setting. The setting can best be described as Swords & Sorcery, with a grim and gritty aesthetic. Visually, I believe it looks like the old Conan movies from the 80s, Frank Frazetta and Boris […]

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Weirth on World Anvil – Myths and Monsters

By On 16 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

The Worldbuilding Summer Camp continues, and despite working all day in 106 degree heat, I am doing my best to get some content written and flesh out this world I have in my head. Here are three more articles of Lore:

Voorsteh – Midwife of the Gods

“Before a woman delivers her child, all […]

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More on the Post-Post-Apocalypse

By On 16 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, Gaming Community, World of Weirth

I keep finding these fantastic blogs with deep and thoughtful analysis of the situation in the [insert game system] -based on AD&D’s “Implied Setting”. I have been researching this for months now, and am getting a good grip on how I want to explain the World of Weirth (TM) setting. Eventually I’ll put it down […]

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More Weirth on World Anvil – Wives’ Tales

By On 15 July 02020 · Leave a Comment · In AD&D, Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperborea, World of Weirth

Here is a snippet of the latest article for the World of Weirth for the World Anvil Summer Camp.

“Before a woman delivers her child, all spiders and crawling insects of the Weirth must be driven from the room with the smoke of Sage and green Willow branches, to keep the Entropy daemonette Lolth from corrupting the […]

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