Our Christmas freebie is a little different this year. It's a scenario and it's not for Christmas, it's for the winter solstice. It's coming up on Thursday so be ready to hit the shore with axe and shield unlimbered if you want to run it on or around midwinter's day.
The adventure uses Gregor Vuga's Sagas of the Icelanders rules, insofar as it uses anything, so if you want to run it with those you can get the book here. Your quick intro to the Icelandic stories is here. And how about a bit of music to set the mood?
Salivating down here down under (though I think you'll find it's midsummer...)
ReplyDeleteMidsummer? The perfect time for going viking... or should that be viking matilda?
DeleteHave you read the 'Uhtred of Bebanburg' stories by Bernard Cornwell, Dave ? (Recently filmed by the BBC/ Netflix as a kind of PG-13 Game of Thrones serial). I do enjoy them even if the hero occasionally becomes a kind of Anglo- Saxon James Bond with a new damosel in every installment. Cornwell often channels real historical gravitas - a great sense of place and period - and there would be plenty of scenes that could be mined for material in an 'Icelandic Saga' adventure - Uhtred being an outspoken and unabashed pagan amidst the Christians.
ReplyDeleteFate is all, as they say !
I shall check it out, John. Even if I don't stay the course (and I find my attention often wanders from genre TV shows these days) I'm quite sure that Jamie will watch it to the Nth season!
DeleteIt's called "The Last Kingdom" if you're looking for it on TV. Some good actors, but no Clannad soundtrack sadly !
DeleteThe source material contains lines such as this from our pagan protagonist "I thought that Loki the trickster of the Gods must have invented Christianity...but he always takes a joke too far."
You've reminded me that I ought to get back to Vikings one day. I left it after Ragnar had taken Paris. That was probably five seasons ago!
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