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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.


Welcome to the '''Hökaland Wiki'''. Please see the '''[[Roleplaying#The_World|introduction]]''' for more information on the world. It's currently just populated by Leord (Gunnar Petzäll), the crazy sod who created the setting, but may or may not have additional authors in the future.
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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.)


This wiki covers everything about Hökaland; the world itself, history, geology, religions and important characters. It also covers the Hökaland "meta game" (that is still not permanently mothballed) as well as Hökaland the online web strategy game. Currently the wiki has {{NUMBEROFPAGES}} pages of which includes '''{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles'''.
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.


A large focus on this wiki is unsurprisingly on Dungeons & Dragons as wells as 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.
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.


This material supersedes and replaces whatever is left on the Obsidian Portal page for this setting.
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.


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).
'''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.


Below are links for each section relating to the setting.
It also covers the Hökaland "meta game" (that is still not permanently mothballed) as well as Hökaland the online web strategy game.  


'''NOTE:''' If you want to help editing, an account needs to be made for you as the wiki is locked down to avoid spammers.


== Division of information ==
== 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 '''[[:Category:Featured|Featured category]]'''.


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 3.5 and Pathfinder), the possible future '''game of houses''' (also referred to as the "meta-game") and my dream of finishing the '''web-based game'''.
* [[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.


== The World ==


This section introduces the world of Hökaland.
== Campaigns ==
These are [[Roleplaying#Campaigns|campaigns]] that are active/inactive in Hökaland. As of 3023 this is the most active part of the wiki.


=== Note about information in the wiki ===
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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.


See: '''[[Knowledge skill]]'''


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* [[Introduction]]
* [[Faction]]s
** [[Chamber of Commerce]]
** [[Church of Rahn]]
** [[Court of Houses]]
** [[Governors]] (of Capitoleum)
** [[Magic user]]s
** [[Shadow Chamber]]
** [[Sickle]] (mage guild)
** [[Stripes]] (Capitoleum militia)
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* [[Creation myth]]
* [[Story lines]]
* [[Maps]]
* Areas
** Realms
*** [[Northrealm]]
*** [[Midrealm]]
*** [[Southrealm]]
*** [[Lofty Peaks]] (Elven homelands)
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* Areas
** Realms
** Kingdoms
** Cities
*** [[Capitoleum]]
*** [[Gabilgathol]] (Great Fortress)
** [[Structure]]s
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* [[Race]]s
** [[Human]]s
** [[Dwarf|Dwarves]]
** [[Elf|Elves]]
** [[Halfling]]s
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* [[Character|Notable characters]]
** [[Amerys Edmyr]]
** [[Ninla Walter]]
** [[Piersym Fleetfoot|Piersym "Pierre" Fleetfoot]]
** [[Gilan Brook]]
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* [[History]]
* [[Calendar]]
* [[Flora]] (plants/fungi)
* [[Fauna]] (animals/non-plant life)
* [[Material]]s
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To just get information about the setting, use these articles.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
== Roleplaying ==
A lot of this has to be updated to work with Pathfinder.
 
* [[Roleplaying|Roleplaying in Hökaland]], an introduction
* [[Campaigns]]
* [[Players]]
* [[House rules]]
* [[Races]]
* [[Feats]]
* [[Languages]]
* [[Skill bonus]]
* [[Skill training]]
* [[Damage Conversion]]
* [[Masterwork]]
* [[Wounds]]
* [[Death]]
* [[Damage and healing]]
** [[Hitpoints]]
* [[Magic]]
** [[New Spells]]
** [[Feats|New Metamagic Feats]]
** [[Residue Table|Residue time and DC tables]]
* [[Death Attack]]
 
=== Campaigns ===
These are campaigns that are active/inactive in Hökaland.
 
==== Coin & Blood ====
Mercenary style campaign with on/off players: Phil, Dushyant, Joe, Gordy, Dan.
 
* [[Coin & Blood]]
 
==== Uppsala BORK etc ====
Campaign that never quite took off. May do so in the distant future?
 
==== IP-Only ====
To-be-decided type of campaign with Lars-Åke, Pettri, Julle och Staffan.
 
* [[IPO]]


== Web Game ==
== Web Game ==
''Currently down''
* [http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~g2-petzall/dmp/hokaland/ Game prototype]
* [http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~g2-petzall/dmp/hokaland/ Game prototype]
The game as it is sits on the UWE servers and was the Digital Media Project of my Web Design degree.
The game as it is sits on the UWE servers and was the Digital Media Project of my Web Design degree.
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==News==
=== Factions and religion ===
So, for the [[IPO]] campaign, I have also made numerous minor updates to the wiki to make it more readable from my old notes as well as written new material. Especially on:
* [[Religion]]
* [[Gods]]
* [[Faction]]
* [[Governors]]
* [[Court of Houses]]
The team is all but done. One character that needs some polish and one that needs most work done. Next Sunday is the first session.
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 17:35, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
=== Content and campaigns ===
Some friends at work have shown interest in playing, and we have begun building characters and I have begun planning a campaign. Exciting. As such I have also made some more updates to the wiki. :)
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 06:20, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
===More Spam; now sorted===
I haven't had the energy to work on this wiki since I got my job, just after the last post, and progress will continue to be slow. However, I did find and plugged the last spam issue as I had forgotten to remove anonymous editing. That's no longer possible.
I may make a separate wiki that only I can log in to and have stuff that I don't want to be public be there, but that will also have to wait until I magically have the energy to finish that book...
Anyways. Always a pleasure to log in here. See you!
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 19:07, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
===Dwarves!===
I have started working on the finer details of the [[Dwarf|dwarven]] homelands, which are really unknown to most non-dwarves. The massive [[Gabilgathol]] "gem" populated by dwarves. To do so I also needed to specify [[Material#Pitch_quartz|pitch quartz]], the material of which it is made.
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 11:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
===Spam prevention and Flora===
The wiki had its first spammers a few days ago so yesterday I changed the wiki so you can't add pages as anonymous and you can't create accounts. However, if you (who are reading this) would like to help out for whatever reason, contact [[User:Leord|me]] and I'll just make an account for you.
Also made a massive update on [[flora]].
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 22:18, 24 September 2014 (UTC)


===Domain/hosting move===
Not noticeable in the wiki (fortunately), but took a great deal of time was to move hokaland.com from being my main domain for me (I'm using [http://gunnarpetzall.com/ GunnarPetzall.com] as the main domain now) which meant making a new wiki installation and fiddle with the database backup. After much ado, it's at least working fine again in the same location on the web (and a different location on the server) and any links work fine as far as I know...<br>
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 11:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)


===Content rush===
Added a lot of content and editing/moving existing stuff into useful shape.<br>
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 16:52, 7 September 2014 (UTC)


===A start===
Added last links from the [https://hokaland.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page Obsidian Portal page] for Hokaland. Starting on adding content.<br>
[[User:Leord|Leord]] ([[User talk:Leord|talk]]) 13:02, 6 September 2014 (UTC)


[[Category:Hökaland Wiki]]
[[Category:Hökaland Wiki]]

Latest revision as of 12:40, 10 April 2024

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

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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