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The Northern Reaches
Welcome to the Land of Vikings. Discover the berserk Jarls of Soderfjord, the Vikings of Vestland and the fearsome drakkars of Ostland. The Northern Reaches is a unique compliment to your Gazetteer collection, providing detailed background on these three nations, their people, and many adventures, * Seperate Players' and DM's booklets - 96 pages in all! * Large, double-sided full-color map * A complete 3-D Viking village * 32 pages of exciting adventures in The Northern Reaches * New Runic Magic for the D&D Game * Gates to the FORGOTTEN REALMS Campaign Set
96 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 1988
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August 9, 2019
There's still the occasional bump on the road, but for the most part it seems these Gazetteers have hit a good stride now.
This one taps heavily into the Norse Mythology, which as we all know is a rich and vibrant fantasy setting, and a solid foundation for anything northern. You've got your elves and dark elves, your big giants, your dwarves - neatly tied into the previous volume - and your gods and rune magic, and of course your mysterious fjords and cliffs. And this book builds up on it fairly effectively, with more than a pinch of its own unique flavour in politics and personalities and a few big screw-ups, as well as the non-norse D&D races such as gnolls and kobolds added in with plenty for them to do. It still has a bit too much dialogue, but on the whole even the more mundane things - laws and such - are written in a reasonably original and interesting manner, the sort to evoke imagination rather than stifle it.
Overall, if I were to run a Norse campaign in the future, I'd probably pick this one up and skim through the best bits.
This one taps heavily into the Norse Mythology, which as we all know is a rich and vibrant fantasy setting, and a solid foundation for anything northern. You've got your elves and dark elves, your big giants, your dwarves - neatly tied into the previous volume - and your gods and rune magic, and of course your mysterious fjords and cliffs. And this book builds up on it fairly effectively, with more than a pinch of its own unique flavour in politics and personalities and a few big screw-ups, as well as the non-norse D&D races such as gnolls and kobolds added in with plenty for them to do. It still has a bit too much dialogue, but on the whole even the more mundane things - laws and such - are written in a reasonably original and interesting manner, the sort to evoke imagination rather than stifle it.
Overall, if I were to run a Norse campaign in the future, I'd probably pick this one up and skim through the best bits.
September 15, 2021
Didn’t really get around to using this one in my campaign.
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