Very cool!
My players are going to love this. Of course, between all the APs, modules, and the Tales of the Old Magreve stuff I want to run, I hardly know where to begin.
Props for the Led Zeppelin references!!!
Tried learning that tune on the guitar. Looks easy on paper but my lack of rhythm hinders me...
If only the link worked here. I thought there was some sort of provision for use for parody in copyright law. :-(
Thanks for the fine comments, everyone. Enjoy!
@Marc: I think I listened to that particular song about a thousand times over the course of the project.... Definitely the "inspire courage" tune of choice for a north bard!
Had a leaf through the pdf of this yesterday - there's some cracking content in this. Love the rune magic and the monsters. How can you not love a book with stats for an Ice Maiden (a cruel fey - of course).
Full disclosure - I loved working on the map for this. There's a preview of the map in the book on my blog (with Wolfgang's permission):
Map of the Frozen North
You're only allowed to go look at it if you promise to come right back and buy the pdf :)
@Dark Mistress - there's something very viking about kittens. It's the total disregard for human life I think.
@ Jonathan Roberts: Gorgeous map! It makes me want to completely redesign Paizo's Lands of the Linnorm Kings and Irrisen to match this. I always thought that Golarion didn't have sufficient fjords. Is there a way just to buy a pdf of the map?
@ DM: Awesome link to an awesome song.
Looks like Open Desgin scores again. Curse my lack of moneys...
The tupilak remains my favorite. I must use it somewhere.
The tupilak remains my favorite. I must use it somewhere.
Dumb question, but is a tupilak a sort-of combination of a construct and undead, made out of the sewn-together pieces of animals? Because I can swear I remember something like that from a Poul Anderson heroic fantasy novel titled <i>The Merman's Children</i>.
@ Jonathan Roberts: Gorgeous map! It makes me want to completely redesign Paizo's Lands of the Linnorm Kings and Irrisen to match this. I always thought that Golarion didn't have sufficient fjords. Is there a way just to buy a pdf of the map?
You'd have to ask Wolfgang about that I'm afraid, but the map does appear in full colour in the pdf for Northlands.
I'm really pleased you like it! It was fun to go with a more mountainous style for OD's world maps.
The tupilak remains my favorite. I must use it somewhere.Dumb question, but is a tupilak a sort-of combination of a construct and undead, made out of the sewn-together pieces of animals? Because I can swear I remember something like that from a Poul Anderson heroic fantasy novel titled The Merman's Children.
Yes it is. :D
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Yep, the mythology of the Inuit provides the tupilak (sometimes tupilaq), and the Pathfinder version of it in the Northlands book was one of the most popular monsters in the design and playtest of the book.
More on the myths at Wikipedia, with awesome real-world carved tupilak
Bought it last night. Great setting, very varied and interesting
Norse world. Great use of pathfinder rules: A whole set of chase card challenges for winter travel! I really recommend this product.
Yep, the mythology of the Inuit provides the tupilak (sometimes tupilaq), and the Pathfinder version of it in the Northlands book was one of the most popular monsters in the design and playtest of the book.
More on the myths at Wikipedia, with awesome real-world carved tupilak
Lilith, Mister Baur, thank you for the answer. I'll definitely be getting this one as soon as I can; I've been fascinated with Eskimo magic and legends ever since reading the aforementioned Anderson story and an old Manly Wade Wellman tale about angakoks and issintoks (Eskimo shamans and witches).
And the information at that link is truly creepy in spots.
I was a patron on this, great job all who did this. I have a copy sitting beside me right now.