AS&SH Available for Order

[Ghul]

ASTONISHING SWORDSMEN & SORCERERS of HYPERBOREA

A Role-Playing Game of Swords, Sorcery, and Weird Fantasy



ASTONISHING SWORDSMEN & SORCERERS of HYPERBOREA™ is sword-and-sorcery role-playing at its pinnacle. Play an Amazon fighter, Atlantean magician, Esquimaux shaman, Hyperborean warlock, Ixian necromancer, Keltic barbarian, Kimmerian cataphract, Pictish thief, Viking berserker, or one of many other possibilities.

The heroes of a HYPERBOREA campaign delve the mazes and labyrinths of vast dungeons filled with horrifying monsters, lethal traps, and bewildering puzzles. They explore savage frontiers, breach hostile borderlands, probe ancient ruins, and investigate cursed tombs. They plunder for treasure and magic in a decaying world inhabited by bloodthirsty beasts and weird, otherworldly beings.

Explore endless challenges and infinite realms of imagination with this complete sword-and-sorcery role-playing game!

Text: Jeffrey Talanian
Illustrations: Ian Baggley
Editing: David Prata
Cartography: Andreas Claren
Box Cover Art: Charles Lang
Box Cover Design: James Kramer
Foreword by Stuart Marshall

Rules: An OGL-based game informed by the original 1974 fantasy wargame and miniatures campaign rules as conceived by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.
Milieux: Sword-and-sorcery setting inspired by the fantastic literature of Robert Ervin Howard, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith.
Product Type: Complete role-playing game designed for 2 or more players.
Product Format: 8 x 10 x 2.5-inch boxed set that includes a 252-page, 7 x 8.5-inch, spiral-bound Players' Manual; 236-page, 7 x 8.5-inch, spiral-bound Referee's Manual; a 22 x 28-inch poster map of Hyperborea, 6 character sheets, and 6 polyhedral dice.
Product Code: NWA101
Product Price: $50.00
Product Availability: Available Now!(*) Order at our Online Store. Also available in PDF, for $10.00, exclusively at RPGNow.

(*)Please note the following: Although the AS&SH game is now shipping to pre-order customers, we do not expect general sales orders to begin shipping until early October 2012.

[battlebrotherbob]

Love the PDF so much just ordered the box and the modules. Cant wait until October, nice little birthday gift.

[diogonogueira]

Awesome! I will make sure to let everyone know about it here in Brazil.

It's a shame, though, that the shipping is basically the same price as the box.

[Ghul]

Aug 20, 2012 7:25:42 GMT -6 battlebrotherbob said:

Love the PDF so much just ordered the box and the modules. Cant wait until October, nice little birthday gift.

That's excellent! Most appreciated.

[Ghul]

Aug 20, 2012 7:29:03 GMT -6 diogonogueira said:

Awesome! I will make sure to let everyone know about it here in Brazil.

It's a shame, though, that the shipping is basically the same price as the box.

I hope you don't mind, but I just responded to this same concern at another forum, so I'm going to quote myself:

I know. The international shipping is painful. If anyone wants to see firsthand, just go to USPS.com, and click the "calculate a price" link. From there, start with USA as the starting point and then plug in your country of destination. This is a "medium" sized package that weighs about 4 lbs., 6 oz. Because the game weighs so much, the rule is that it must be sent Priority Mail International, for which the best rate (again for a medium sized package) is Priority Mail Flat Rate shipping. I wish things were different. UPS is even worse. Not sure what has changed over the years, as I did own a mail order business for nearly 10 years, and prices have escalated drastically since then. Cost of fuel? Labor? I don't know, but I'm not thrilled about it, either. In any case, I do appreciate the interest in the game, fellows.