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The main continent of Hökaland.

Welcome to the Hökaland Wiki. Please see the introduction for more information on the world. The author Leord (Gunnar Petzäll) invites you to read about it and if you'd like to contribute, I'd be delighted to talk about it.

This wiki covers everything about Hökaland; the world itself, history, geology, religions and important characters. It also covers just about every project related to Hökaland, which includes mothballed ones. Currently the wiki has 507 pages of which includes 173 articles. The Featured category lists articles that are closer to being "finished" and slightly easier to read as many other articles can be little more than lists of notes. Here is a list of essential links about the world. (Some content is for roleplaying, including house rules and may be about other worlds like regular DnD and Pathfinder material.)

The main focus is the campaign/story setting information such as Kingdoms, important factions, cultural features etc. More content is not on the web but simply on my hard drive but most "general notes" and information about the world is presented here.

In terms of games, the only up to date information is related to roleplaying and the systems, mainly DnD 3.5, PF1, Pf2 and DnD 5. I would like to use a "gritty" system like EON or something but I simply don't have the energy to learn a new system. As of summer 2023 I haven't "pruned" the game-related articles or updated them so, in essence, there are almost no up-to-date house rule articles for game mechanics, costs or anything that isn't specifically world-related. The oldest working campaign, the Hökaland IPO has also converted to Dungeons and Dragons 5e.

Please note that this wiki is NOT in the public domain, and neither is any content created; see copyrights. To contact the author, see the about page. Contributions are greatfully accepted (well, if it fits) and credit is gladly attributed, but rights are reserved.

NOTE: All players in any of my campaigns or projects are welcome to contribute by adding details found out through whatever source. In fact I would be delighted to get assistance. But if you DO want to help editing, an account needs to be made for you as the wiki is locked down to avoid spammers.

It also covers the Hökaland "meta game" (that is still not permanently mothballed) as well as Hökaland the online web strategy game.

Featured Articles

Like the more famous Wikipedia, I am striving to present articles at a high quality; many are just collections of notes. This section will list articles that I feel are good enough to be "officially done", with continous development. Mind you that this is not an automatic list, so a full list of articles (currently just a few) can be found in the Featured category.

Gentry - Fairly detailed article explaining the type of feudal system that is dominant in the "main section" of the world.
Religion - Article detailing religions, religiosity and related terms in the world.

Campaigns

These are campaigns that are active/inactive in Hökaland. As of 3023 this is the most active part of the wiki.

Name	Start	Theme	Group	System	Status
Active campaigns
CoS 2	2022-11-26	Curse of Strahd	Zeta	DnD 5e	Ongoing (29+ sessions)
CoS 1	2022-09-06	Curse of Strahd	Epsilon	DnD 5e	Ongoing (51+ sessions)
Inactive campaigns
Hökaland IPO	2015-01	Hökaland sandbox & lots	Gamma	Pathfinder -> DnD 5e	Inactive from 2018 (66 sessions)
Finished campaigns
Hökaland Escape	2022-03-29	Hunted/survival hexploration	Delta	Pathfinder 2e	Finished 2022-08-12 (5 sessions)
Hökaland PF2	2021-03-14	One murder investigation; to test PF2	Delta	Pathfinder 2e	Finished 2022-03-29 (14 sessions)
Hökaland England	2015	Intrigue/adventure	Alpha	Pathfinder	Inactive, halted (1 session)
Hökaland Uppsala	2014	N/A	Beta	N/A	Inactive, halted before session 1
Capitoleum one-off	2014	Detective work	Alpha + Ben	DnD 3.5	Finished (1 session)
Coin & Blood	2013	Mercenary management & mass warfare	Alpha	DnD 3.5	Inactive, halted (2 sessions)

Groups:

Zeta - Masen, Tobias, Staffan, Darío
Epsilon - Elly, Jonas, Jenny, Julle, Staffan
Delta - Engh, Julle, Staffan
Gamma - Engh, Gabriel, Julle, Lars-Åke, Masen, Staffan (ex: Heather, Petteri)
Beta - Cancelled - Uppsala BORK-associated players
Alpha - Dan, Dushyant, Gordy, Joe, Phil

News

These are the latest news items. The rest are archived on the News page.

2024

First quarter new campaigns and a guest

Partly because of my energy and partly because "new is fun", I have encouraged the group to alternate other campaigns than CoS 1 for the tuesday slot. Both Jenny and Staffan has shown interest and Jenny has done a session 1 in a campaign where all the players play as Tabaxi, with lots of cat humour. Staffan is preparing a campaign in Faerûn around the very north of the world and possibly including dragons. His first s0/s.5/s1 session will be on the 16th.

On the 23rd my friend Greg, whom I played a lot with in Bridgwater, is going to be a guest at the table and the current plan is for him to play Ezmeralda in the battle for reconsecrating Yester Hill!

Leord (talk) 12:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Happy New 2024!

The rest of the autumn went pretty well and started speeding up the CoS 2 as well. The new players in CoS 1 have acclimatised well by now. Ann has said she needs to focus on another thing for a bit but isn't closing the door for the roleplaying. My energy levels are depleting a bit for reasons but work is going better. May be related. :P This week we're back on (hopefully) regular sessions.

So, cheers and hope for a great year! :)

Leord (talk) 15:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

2023

New roster and my energy

So we had our first session with Elly and Jenny this past Tuesday on CoS 1 and they seem like great fits to the table. They play a clueless barbarian and essentially insane scientist who arrived in Barovia from the West.

Lifen has decided he would like to pursue a different table that closer align to his preferred play style, and while he's always welcome back, we're at least for now putting Gocai on NPC duty and we'll see how we solve for it all.

Julle is planning to do a one-off boardgame soon; "RP" dungeoncrawling classic like DnD but less complex and more focus on the board. We're discussing doing it on a weekend so Jaroslav can make it, but I have opffered to replace a RP session, regardless.

I have been unable to get things working with CoS 2 as I have been unusually exhausted but it's very much something I want to do.

Leord (talk) 21:37, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

A couple new players

Following issues organising sessions I decided to not wait for Jaroslav to say proper good-bye and got two new players from the same FB group as before. We welcome Elly and Jenny to try out the next few weeks and then they can decide if this is the campaign for them. :)

Leord (talk) 21:15, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

Web Game

Currently down

Game prototype

The game as it is sits on the UWE servers and was the Digital Media Project of my Web Design degree.

Game of Houses

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+Welcome to the '''Hökaland Wiki'''. Please see the '''[[introduction]]''' for more information on the world. The author Leord (Gunnar Petzäll) invites you to read about it and if you'd like to contribute, I'd be delighted to talk about it.
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+This wiki covers everything about Hökaland; the world itself, history, geology, religions and important characters. It also covers just about every project related to Hökaland, which includes mothballed ones. Currently the wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages of which includes '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles'''. The '''[[:Category:Featured|Featured category]]''' lists articles that are closer to being "finished" and slightly easier to read as many other articles can be little more than lists of notes. [[World|Here]] is a list of essential links about the world. (Some content is for roleplaying, including house rules and may be about other worlds like regular DnD and Pathfinder material.)
-Welcome to the '''Hökaland Wiki'''. Please see the '''[[introduction]]''' for more information on the world. It's currently just populated by Leord (Gunnar Petzäll), who created the setting, but may or may not have additional authors in the future.
+The main focus is the campaign/story setting information such as Kingdoms, important factions, cultural features etc. More content is not on the web but simply on my hard drive but most "general notes" and information about the world is presented here.
-This wiki covers everything about Hökaland; the world itself, history, geology, religions and important characters. It also covers just about every project related to Hökaland, which includes mothballed ones. Currently the wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages of which includes '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles'''. The '''[[:Category:Featured|Featured category]]''' lists articles that are closer to being "finished" and slightly easier to read as many other articles can be little more than lists of notes.
-The main focus is the campaign/story setting information such as Kingdoms, important factions, cultural features etc. Much of the content available is not on the web but simply on my hard drive (backed up to the cloud, of course) but most "general notes" and information about the world is presented here.
-In terms of games, the only up to date information is related to [[roleplay]]ing and the systems I have been using is Pathfinder (and lately, Pathfincer 2nd Ed). I would really like to use a more down to earth system like EON or something but I simply don't have the mental capacity to learn a new system. As of summer 2021 I haven't "pruned" the game-related articles or updated them for PF2 so, in essence, there are almost no up-to-date [[house rule]] articles for game mechanics, costs or anything that isn't specifically world-related.
+In terms of games, the only up to date information is related to [[roleplay]]ing and the systems, mainly DnD 3.5, PF1, Pf2 and DnD 5. I would like to use a "gritty" system like EON or something but I simply don't have the energy to learn a new system. As of summer 2023 I haven't "pruned" the game-related articles or updated them so, in essence, there are almost no up-to-date [[house rule]] articles for game mechanics, costs or anything that isn't specifically world-related. The oldest working campaign, the [[Hökaland IPO]] has also converted to Dungeons and Dragons 5e.
 Please note that this wiki is NOT in the public domain, and neither is any content created; see [[My wiki:Copyrights|copyrights]]. To contact the author, see the [[My_wiki:About|about page]]. Contributions are greatfully accepted (well, if it fits) and credit is gladly attributed, but rights are reserved.
-Below are links for each section relating to the setting.
+'''NOTE:''' All players in any of my campaigns or projects are welcome to contribute by adding details found out through whatever source. In fact I would be delighted to get assistance. But if you DO want to help editing, an account needs to be made for you as the wiki is locked down to avoid spammers.
-'''NOTE:''' All players in any of my campaigns or projects are welcome to contribute by addign details found out through whatever source. In fact I would be delighted to get assistance. But if you DO want to help editing, an account needs to be made for you as the wiki is locked down to avoid spammers.
 It also covers the Hökaland "meta game" (that is still not permanently mothballed) as well as Hökaland the online web strategy game.
-A large focus on this wiki is unsurprisingly on [http://dnd.wizards.com/ Dungeons & Dragons] as wells as [http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/ Pathfinder rules], since the setting was originally conceived as a campaign setting and then just took off on its own. This includes attempts at making DnD/PF more adapted to the slightly darker and low-magic world of Hökaland using [[house rule]]s.
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-== Division of information ==
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-The wiki is divided in to several sections, including different types of information. General information about the '''world''' of Hökaland will be separated from any type of '''rules''' relating to any game I place there, such as the '''roleplaying''' (currently using DnD/PF), the possible future '''game of houses''' (known as the "meta-game") and my dream of finishing the '''web-based game'''.
+These are [[Roleplaying#Campaigns|campaigns]] that are active/inactive in Hökaland. As of 3023 this is the most active part of the wiki.
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-This section lists information on the world of Hökaland!
-To just get information about the setting, use the articles on the right.
-=== Note about wiki information ===
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-When reading articles in the wiki, please keep in mind that it is unlikely that any characters in the world (or one you play) will know these things. The wiki is written very objectively: This is how the world IS, not how people conceive it. However, it often indicates what an average citizen of the world would know.
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