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Welcome to the Hökaland Wiki. Please see the 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.
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 507 pages of which includes 173 articles.
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.
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 copyrights. To contact the author, see the about page. Contributions are greatfully accepted (well, if it fits).
Below are links for each section relating to the setting.
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
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.
The World
This section introduces the world of Hökaland.
Note about information in the wiki
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
Articles
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Alchemists' Guild |
Church of Rahn |
Dragons |
Artipellin |
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Sovereigns Oakshield |
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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 in Hökaland, an introduction
- Campaigns
- Players
- House rules
- Races
- Feats
- Languages
- Skill bonus
- Skill training
- Damage Conversion
- Masterwork
- Wounds
- Death
- Damage and healing
- Magic
- Death Attack
- Other articles
Campaigns
These are campaigns that are active/inactive in Hökaland.
Coin & Blood
Mercenary style campaign with on/off players: Phil, Dushyant, Joe, Gordy, Dan.
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.
Web Game
The game as it is sits on the UWE servers and was the Digital Media Project of my Web Design degree.
Game of Houses
- Introduction to Hökaland
- Regent Attributes
- Add New House
- Hökaland House List
- Features and Patch Notes
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. :)