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Howl From the North by Dale “Slade” Henson i
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Credits Design: Dale “Slade” Henson Editing: Mike “Mike” Breault Cover Painting: Jeff Starlind Interior Art: Ken Frank Cartography: Diesel Typography: Angelika Lokotz and Bacey Zamagne Keylining: Sarah Feggestad Graphic Design: Dee Barnett Thanks to: James Ward, David “Zeb” Cook, Timothy B. Brown, Carl Sargent Playtesters: Clayton Cox, Darrell Caldwell, Lori Strickland, Leslie Biffle, Stephanie Biffle, Sam Jones
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Howl From the North Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 1: Beginnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 2: The Road to Kelten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 3: Across the Frozen River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 4: Return of the Great God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chapter 5: Should The Characters Fail ..................... Combined Monster Statistics Chart ........................ Monstrous Compendium Entry: Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Greyhawk Deity Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NPCRoster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PregeneratedPlayerCharacters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Magical Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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The Setting
Introduction
The WORLD OF G R E Y H A W P boxed set
Howl From the North is the second in a
is useful as general background to this adventure, but isn’t required to play it.
trilogy of modules set in the northeastern lands of Oerik, in the world of Greyhawk. The trilogy began with the Five Shall Be One adventure module, and concludes with the
[email protected] boxed set. In Five Shall Be One, the player characters-supplied in the back of this book-are hired to locate the five Blades of Corusk. They located only three during the course of that adventure. Howl From the North continues this search, enabling the characters to locate the remaining two swords.
The information given in this pack tells you all you need to know to run the adventure smoothly. However, if you want to convert the adventure for use outside the Greyhawk world, you will need to read the material below on barbarians and the barbarian lands of Greyhawk, and consider carefully how to set this adventure in another game world.
The Barbarian Lands of Greyhawk To understand the broad themes of this trilogy, it’s necessary for you to have an understanding of