Hökaland IPO

Will change the name of this page when we have an official campaign name.

This campaign runs Pathfinder.

Get started

1. Read the introduction, it briefly explains the setting and what races are available.
2. Handy guide for character creation.
   • The 15 point-buy is used.
3. Some help to make the actual character background.

House Rules used

Mind you, some bits may be outdated, so if anything is unclear: Ask.

• Flaws - Are ok. Almost all of them, but you have to check with me first.
• Damage Conversion (AC) - Armoured characters take less lethal damage, as in Unearthed Arcana with a small alteration.
• Hero Points are introduced at lvl 3.
• Damage and healing - Increased detail to go with wounds, primarily. There's now also an incentive to sleep comfortably.
• ALL MAGIC IS x4 COST. That includes enhancements on items, scrolls, potions, services, ALL! It also means that the material cost in crafting magical items is four times as much as usual.
• Masterwork - Though there is a lack of magical weapons, there are artisan craftsmen and they can make non-magical items that packs a punch!
• Environment - Rules for sleep deprivation and hunger/thirst

Extra reading

• Hitpoints - Brief article about my thoughts behind the healing/wound/shock/death rules.

Timeline

Day 1

• Session 1
• Arnos gathers party
• Minor socialising

Day 2

• Party sets out in morning (about 6 day's to Wellbarrow)
• 1 day's travel

Day 3-5

• 3 day's travel
• Aeric mostly provides food by hunting

Day 6

• Ambushed with magic, Malkor injured
• Session 2
• Met Stripes
• 1 day's travel

Day 7

• 1 day's travel
• Arrive at Wellbarrow in evening
• Stay at Snorting Bull owned by Bernard

Day 8

• Talk to Mayor Baronet Tred Arthorn
• Tred's father Nemrab more interested
• Nemrab joins party, pays a fee
• 1/2 day's travel
• Meed Petre Hills
• Finds hidden staircase
• Walking dead attacks Aeric, who is wounded
• Session 3
• Close floor and rest

Day 9

• Opens Korhaldrum
• Octagonal rooms!
• Finds a zombie dressed as Petre
• Several pathways have collapsed
• More recent inhabitants have vandalised art
• Hub connected to a freezing room and armoury, among other things
• Find frozen room, black iron sceptre with "ice pearl" embedded in metres of ice
• Closed in zombies in additional rooms
• Few traps, heading up the corridor
• Session 4
• Big lizard zombie
• Finds untouched living quarters. Books!
• Big bugbear zombie
• "Chrrrr" sound. Sound stops after ~3min.
• Frozen room melted and sceptre gone
• Race after, aeric tries to row to the departing boat
• Dragon! "Hari" explains the Petre mystery, restores him.
• The ice pearl was left by the thief, Arnos keeps it insulated in wagon
• Dragon tries to catch thief
• Gives Aeric potion, 3 drops/day for 5 days
• Travel during night to Wellbarrow
• 1/2 day's travel

Day 10

• Arrive at Wellbarrow before dawn
• Session 5
• Sells stuff at Jorg's contact, Aeric orders armour job (7 days)
• Stay at Pissing Unicorn owned by Marcela
• Taken by guards, come willingly, Jorg sneaks off
• Accused of kidnapping Mayor's son, father, some boy and stealing a barrel of salt
• Nemrab requested but doesn't come
• Jorg finds Nemrab in his house, guarded
• Sneaks to jail to get friends free
• When Mayor Tred arrives, they are freed
• Shadows offers money to find this out
• Checks murder scene (Aurelius dead)
• Captain Waltom dislikes outsiders
• Wait til evening with Marcela
• Murder probably on salt barrel, contaminating salt, murderer leaves
• Rumour says Rakvin is gay
• Contemplate going to the morgue
• Nifty says Aurelius owed Nicolas money. The two has a friend called Rosalba (religious)
• Talk to Mayor and baker for clues
• Session 6
• Party reconvenes and split up to look for clues (22:00)
• Arnos/Malkor go back to Nemrab for research on rituals like human sacrifice
• Aimee goes canvassing
• Aeric/Jorg search alternative routes, like water disposal system
• Gets in to entrance hut after 1 hour
• Long dark corridors in natural or mined caves ~4 metres down
• Find tracks, leads to 3 men in capes outside a door; 1 leaves through door
• Jorg attempts charm, turns violent and the "men" are some sort of monsters:
  • 1 crustacean. 1 shadow/invisible.
• Jorg bit injured (and sprayed with black goop when crustacean died)
• Shadow man fled when (heavily?) injured
• Leader's name probably Trangin
• Two teenagers attempt to overpower Aeric/Jorg, failing miserably
• Find candles and empty salt barrels
• Hidden door, wine cellar at mayor's house
• Jorg sneaks up and asks Nemrab down (01:00)
• Session 7
• Arnos given book bound with human skin about sacrifices and summoning by Nemrab. Children are potent material component.
• Aimee finds out some people have been leaving town to go westward (off road).

Day 11

• Nemrab speaks to Aeric & Jorg in basement; Arnos wakes and goes to check.
• Reconvenes at Pissing Unicorn where Emarns serves vegetable soup (01:30).
• Young woman (Kelly) comes down.
• Party starts interrogating boy (Aldano; other is Henric). Joined anti-religious "club". You are in danger!
  • Tattos: Aldano = "Inhademanius" & Henric = "Ditekrim" (03:00).
• Kelly wants to come. Touches Aldan's tattoo - flare + knockback. Aldano bruised. No reaction from Aerik or Arnos.
• Tattoo not magic but Cure Light Wounds is "sucked in" to it. Panicked and crying Aldano.
• Party is exhausted and decide to sleep; Aldano and Henrik stays with them in suite. Wake at 12:00. Sunshine.
• Check other 2 rooms in sewers. Aldano shows way. 1) Store room, 2) trapped, Arnos falls unconscious.
• BONUS ENCOUNTER!
• Jorg opens; nothing interesting except coded scrolls (left). Leads to some shop (Magical Mysteries).
• Through corridor, "natural caverns" (10 min walk) -> barn outside city. Kelly goes to get horse and buy antitoxin (15:00). Arnos wakes up (15:15). Kelly catches up (15:45). March to Skull Castle.
• 19:00 - Kelly goblins (1 big, 2 small, 1 "dog") which are despatched. Allergic reaction and acids.
• Regroup (19:30). 3 hours til Skull Castle.

• The party finds on the large goblin:
  • Longsword (best anyone has ever seen!), given to Aeric.
  • Handaxe (very nice), kept in the saddlebags of Kelly's horse.
  • Silver dagger (nice), given to Kelly.
  • Worth noting that all of these items have pagasi engraved on the hilts.
  • An amber stone and a red stone
  • A vial (found out to be antitoxin).
  • A brass mug with green stones inlaid.
• The party finds on the smaller goblins:
  • 286 silver pieces (total)
  • A lock.

• Session 8
• Jorg's acid helped by Nemrab and Aldano. (see below)
• Arriving close to the castle. Aimee scouts. (23:00) Aimee despatches invisible scout.
• Denwell arrives, explains cultists give demon powers. Is accepted into the party, tentatively. (23:45)
• Party despatches guards. 2 have special shadow attacks, one turns into a swarm of locust-like shadows. Sniper shot by Aimee.

Day 12 - 00:00

• Party finds mostly nothing in castle. Some scrolls in Trangin's room. Heads to dungeons. Finds secret passage further down. (01:15)
• Session 9 - Rituals
• 19:30 (other party)
• Jorg is helped by Malkor, seems ok (21:00). The four travel closer.
• Arrive close to Skull Castle (00:15), leaves Aldano & Nemrab safe. Finds party (01:15)
• Party despatches guards and interrupts ritual. Finds Rakvin (noble "young" person), Trangin & Lady in Red.
• Big black half orb on the far wall. Shadows on floor. Concentrated tendrils of shadow focused on scptre, beamed on to Trangin.
• Party attacks, Lady in Red takes familiar Black Iron sceptre and teleports out. Trangin is pulled into the black orb.
• Party saves sarcophagus with young boy in.
• Everyone pretty injured. Aimee close to death (01:45).
• Checks rest of rooms and bunkers up to let party rest (02:15).
• Session 10 - Aftermath & Loot
• No recognised runes from ritual other than from the boys.
• Jorg & Kelly loots. Finds out the "burned" victims are "ok" underneath.
• Pick up Nemrab and Aldano, heading to Wellbarrow. Stops Denwell from "burning" Rakvin or Aldano for now (05:00).

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