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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
Content Continues
In the past few months a lot of content has been added, which includes copying notes and writing new content (such as the Sickle and expanding Artipellin. I will move the News section to a separate page as well.
We also added Daniel Engh to the IPO campaign. Let's hope he is as good a roleplayer as he is a converser.
Leord (talk) 16:58, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
Loads of content
A slight update in that I have made a load of minor updates. Noting Healing for a combined article on house rules and Generator for worldmaking. Also very large updates on Capitoleum, the Sabenius Order and much else.
Leord (talk) 19:29, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
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:
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.
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. :)
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!
Leord (talk) 19:07, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
Dwarves!
I have started working on the finer details of the 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 pitch quartz, the material of which it is made.
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 me and I'll just make an account for you.
Also made a massive update on flora.
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 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...
Leord (talk) 11:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
Content rush
Added a lot of content and editing/moving existing stuff into useful shape.
Leord (talk) 16:52, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
A start
Added last links from the Obsidian Portal page for Hokaland. Starting on adding content.
Leord (talk) 13:02, 6 September 2014 (UTC)