NORTHLANDS - 900 Pages Of Adventure for PATHFINDER and S&W

Frog God Games describes its latest Kickstarter product as "an epic campaign guide and adventure path in The Lost Lands for Pathfinder and Swords & Wizardry from the publishers of Sword of Air! " It's a series of six new adventures based on the barbaric Northlands, with authors such as Ed Greenwood, Greg Vaughan, and others. The book comes in at nearly 900 pages, and has a poster map.

The campaign is over half funded, with nearly three weeks to go. You can get the PDF for $45 or a hardcover for $125. Not cheap, but it is nearly 900 pages! Click on the image below to check it out!9

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[jamesjhaeck]

That's just way too much adventure for me! It's a good deal for its price, but I can't possibly imagine myself using (or even stealing and repurposing) anywhere close to 900 pages of adventure.

 

[Rygar]

I thought about this one, but everything on the kickstarter page seems to assume that you know what the Northlands Saga is, I can't find anything that really tells me what it's about. So I ended up not pledging.

 

[turkeygiant]

That's just way too much adventure for me! It's a good deal for its price, but I can't possibly imagine myself using (or even stealing and repurposing) anywhere close to 900 pages of adventure.

I find myself in a similar position, at 45$ just for one of the PDFs (or 90$ for both) using systems I have dropped in favour of 5e, and with Northlands not really being a recognizable name to me personally (seems like the last book in the series came out 4-5 years ago), I find this a hard sell. I would love to see some viking inspired game content, I'm just not gonna roll the dice on such a massive (the size of the book) kickstarter. If for some reason it isn't very good in the end you would be stuck with A LOT of not very good content and you would be paying for more than the average book too just because of the size of it.

 

[Doctor Futurity]

I'm still trying to absorb Razor Coast and Sword of Air.....much as I want this, I will have to wait for down the road, possibly when Frog God has a sale on it in a couple years. That, or they can force me to give them money sooner by making a 5E-compatible version.

 

[Matthan]

I'm sorely tempted. But, I don't run either of those systems and while converting to 5E from Pathfinder isn't that hard, it's still work and I'm hoping to keep things simple as a DM after my current campaign. If it was 5E compatible for $45 for the whole pdf, it would be an instant pledge. Over 900 pages is immense. If my math is right, that's roughly a nickel a page. I know I won't spring for the print version, but that pdf is tempting me.

This is a worthless comment with me just fretting over whether to get it. Consider this a plea to convince me one way or the other.

 

[ninjayeti]

"[Y]ou can play an entire adventure path to take PCs from level 1 to 20 (about level 1 to 9 in the Swords & Wizardry version)."

An interesting reminder of how much the definition of "high level" changed through the editions.

 

[ExoKnight]

On the fence for the S&W version. The last couple of years of releases have been hit or miss for me from the Frogs. I wasn't overly impressed with the Rappan Athuk Expansion, Sword of Air, and Tome of Horror IV. Although Cyclopean Deeps was quite good.

Also I wonder how comfortable reading a 900 page book while sitting on my couch might be....

 

[IIsi50MHz]

On the fence for the S&W version. The last couple of years of releases have been hit or miss for me from the Frogs. I wasn't overly impressed with the Rappan Athuk Expansion, Sword of Air, and Tome of Horror IV. Although Cyclopean Deeps was quite good.

Also I wonder how comfortable reading a 900 page book while sitting on my couch might be....

Might need to get one of those immense dictionary stands that libraries used to keep for the Unabridged versions. Set it on the center table and lean in.

 

[IIsi50MHz]

Might need to get one of those immense dictionary stands that libraries used to keep for the Unabridged versions. Set it on the center table and lean in.

On the other hand, Harry Potter volumes aren't too large. Least ways, in paperback. But on the gripping hand, those are almost entirely text.