Designer: Jeffrey Talanian | Publisher: North Wind Adventures
Hyperborea 3e is a frustrating beast. In many ways it’s the best and worst of the kind of thing that the OSR has to offer. It landed in my hands as two lavish hardbacks and a massive map book of the titular land beyond the west wind. The Player’s Manual gives you the core mechanics, essentially unchanged since the seventies and bound to be immediately familiar to the book’s target audience, while also offering enough character options to satisfy even the most spoiled of power gamers. And those 22 subclasses are at the same time familiar and inventive; the poem-wielding Runegraver or the horse riding Cataphract, each with one or two unique little abilities that set them apart from the also included…
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