Yora
2014-09-05, 02:31 PM
Primeval Thule is a campaign setting by Richard Baker, David Noonan, and Stephen Schubert for (currently) Pathfinder, D&D 4th Edition, and 13th Age. It has been released at GenCon three weeks ago and from what I've could glimps been described as "Conan vs. Cthulhu". Richard Baker said in an interview it's set in the time of Atlantis and Lemuria, which I assume means the actual world of both Conan and Cthulhu, which both Howard and Lovecraft strongly hinted to be the same alternative version of Earth.
Before the great glaciers covered the northern world for the last time, there was an age of legends now forgotten in modern the world.
Cities of barbaric splendor and brooding ruins from prehuman times were scattered across the great isles of the north. This was the land of Thule, savage and spectacular, a world of wonders and terrors. And it lives now only in the darkest depths of prehistory and half-remembered glimmers of myth.
Thule is an alternate Earth, a world in which legendary places and creatures once existed and magic, dark and mysterious, held power over young and superstitious humankind. Its civilizations arose in a warm and lush northern world, but were erased from history by the ten-thousand year reign of the vast ice sheets. This
is the age of Atlantis and Lemuria, of serpentmen and savage beasts, of star-demons and sorcery. From this mythical time we draw our oldest stories of deadly
monsters and bold heroes.
There's some art (http://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/products/primeval-thule-concept-art-gallery/) from the books around, and it really looks good. And with Richard Baker and David Noonan I expect the writing to be of a good quality as well.
The pdf is only 15€ (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/133780/Primeval-Thule-Campaign-Setting-for-the-Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game?manufacturers_id=6416&site=) at 272 pages, and I'm really quite intrigued by it. The only downside is that there doesn't seem to be any introduction or preview material for it around, other than a 30 page Travelers Guide for 2,30€, which sounds a bit dubious to me.
Anyone have and read it?
Before the great glaciers covered the northern world for the last time, there was an age of legends now forgotten in modern the world.
Cities of barbaric splendor and brooding ruins from prehuman times were scattered across the great isles of the north. This was the land of Thule, savage and spectacular, a world of wonders and terrors. And it lives now only in the darkest depths of prehistory and half-remembered glimmers of myth.
Thule is an alternate Earth, a world in which legendary places and creatures once existed and magic, dark and mysterious, held power over young and superstitious humankind. Its civilizations arose in a warm and lush northern world, but were erased from history by the ten-thousand year reign of the vast ice sheets. This
is the age of Atlantis and Lemuria, of serpentmen and savage beasts, of star-demons and sorcery. From this mythical time we draw our oldest stories of deadly
monsters and bold heroes.
There's some art (http://www.sasquatchgamestudio.com/products/primeval-thule-concept-art-gallery/) from the books around, and it really looks good. And with Richard Baker and David Noonan I expect the writing to be of a good quality as well.
The pdf is only 15€ (http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/133780/Primeval-Thule-Campaign-Setting-for-the-Pathfinder-Roleplaying-Game?manufacturers_id=6416&site=) at 272 pages, and I'm really quite intrigued by it. The only downside is that there doesn't seem to be any introduction or preview material for it around, other than a 30 page Travelers Guide for 2,30€, which sounds a bit dubious to me.
Anyone have and read it?