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A new e-publisher is about to see the light of day. The first product line will be Vikings D20, and the first product Vikings D20: Midgard is scheduled for release as a PDF in april 2005. The second book,Vikings D20: Beyond Midgard will be released sometime this fall. Other upcoming products for the year will include short adventures and one really long adventure (a campaign that should take players from level 1 to level 6).
Vikings D20 is a low-magic version of D&D. The setting will be Europe in the Viking era; but assuming the world is the way the vikings believed it to be. A mixture of true history and fantasy, in other words, but all fantasy elements are based on the beliefs and mythology of the vikings.
The first book, Midgard, will introduce 6 new base classes and a great number of prestige classes, new feats, spells, monsters, weapons, armors and other equipment. It will also have chapters on running a viking campaign, on the history of the vikings, on the viking culture, customs and lifestyle, and on how the vikings related to the rest of the world.
The second book, Beyond Midgard, will be sort of a combination Manual of the Planes/Epic Level Handbook. According to viking mythology there are nine worlds; Midgard, the world of humans, being one. Others include Aasgard - the world of the gods; Jotunheim - the world of giants, Niflheim - the realm of the dead, and Svartalfheim - the world of the dreaded black elves. Beyond Midgard will have all the information on how to get to these planes, what monsters you might encounter there, all the important locations on each plane and the NPC's who rules them. It will also have feats, spells, items and PrC's suited for each plane.
Later books will contain more extensive information on the other cultures the vikings dealt with, the ones they traded with, the ones warred against etc.
More information on Vikings D20 will be posted here shortly.
Vikings D20 is a low-magic version of D&D. The setting will be Europe in the Viking era; but assuming the world is the way the vikings believed it to be. A mixture of true history and fantasy, in other words, but all fantasy elements are based on the beliefs and mythology of the vikings.
The first book, Midgard, will introduce 6 new base classes and a great number of prestige classes, new feats, spells, monsters, weapons, armors and other equipment. It will also have chapters on running a viking campaign, on the history of the vikings, on the viking culture, customs and lifestyle, and on how the vikings related to the rest of the world.
The second book, Beyond Midgard, will be sort of a combination Manual of the Planes/Epic Level Handbook. According to viking mythology there are nine worlds; Midgard, the world of humans, being one. Others include Aasgard - the world of the gods; Jotunheim - the world of giants, Niflheim - the realm of the dead, and Svartalfheim - the world of the dreaded black elves. Beyond Midgard will have all the information on how to get to these planes, what monsters you might encounter there, all the important locations on each plane and the NPC's who rules them. It will also have feats, spells, items and PrC's suited for each plane.
Later books will contain more extensive information on the other cultures the vikings dealt with, the ones they traded with, the ones warred against etc.
More information on Vikings D20 will be posted here shortly.
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Actually, I'm living as smack in the middle of viking history as you could possibly get. If you have the illustrated version of Snorre Sturlasson's book Heimskringla (about the viking kings of Norway), several of the locations that got their own illustrations are places that I can see from my living room window!
