I have never done RPG in my life and I wouldn't know how to start, but I confess that I find the whole Harn thing fascinating. I could seriously spend hours just reading about the different regions and kingdoms.
I've tried it. It is definitely a different genre when compared to hex and counter games, or miniatures. Game enjoyment is highly dependent upon the DM to make games balanced between death and advancement. If you are going to try it, I recommend playing a PC/console game solo where the AI is the DM. This will allow you to explore the concepts without big investments in rules and dice and such. I recommend starting with Oblivion or Skyrim on sale.
12:39 - Page numbers such as Geldeheim #2¹ reference specific building entries listed on the Geldeheim GM map (Geldeheim p6, in this specific case). The main article provides a brief description while these pages provide more detailed information, sort of like an appendix.
There was a very bad plague called the Red Death that decimated a large part of the mainland and Harn around T.R. 553- 561 so about 160 years before. Many places were hard hit and only just starting to fill up the population again. In many places up to a third of the population died.
Ís there anything actually NEW, beyond everything that could be found in the original Orbaal book encyclopedia harnica articles on Orbaal, etc...? I was highly disappointed at the Kaldor supplement (loose pages in a pack) that came out a dozen years or so ago: it was essentially exactly the same as the previous Kaldor book, but more expensive (plus useless for european readers who use different distances/spacing for the holes in the binder pages). I have all the old supplements, literally , I'd buy this if it had like 20 pgs of extra, unpublished previously material.
I don't have an earlier version of Kaldor, but the current hardcover has 60 pages on the Kingdom and 70 on the city of Tashal. The new Melderyn is also about 130 pages. I do have the third printing of Azadmere, which is about 38 pages covering Azadmere, Azadmere City, the Khuzdul, Habe, and Zerhun. Columbia has plans to come out with a new Kingdom of Azadmere hardcover and if it is also 130 pages, that will be a significant amount of additional material. I don't know if some of the new material is from pdf articles previously published separately, but you can compare your copy of Kaldor to the page count of the new version.
These are hardcover compilations of the most current version of the articles. If you have them then this is just the same material. People have been clamoring for a hard cover edition of Harn forever, and this is that made manifest.
@@jamest39 OK, thanks for the clarification. I own every single supplement of Harn old style, and hate HATE the loose sheets format if some of the more recent supplements (because they don't fit European style binders). I might trade in the originals for hard cover versions. Is the hard cover version quality good? (it looks so from the video?
I have never done RPG in my life and I wouldn't know how to start, but I confess that I find the whole Harn thing fascinating. I could seriously spend hours just reading about the different regions and kingdoms.
I've tried it. It is definitely a different genre when compared to hex and counter games, or miniatures. Game enjoyment is highly dependent upon the DM to make games balanced between death and advancement. If you are going to try it, I recommend playing a PC/console game solo where the AI is the DM. This will allow you to explore the concepts without big investments in rules and dice and such. I recommend starting with Oblivion or Skyrim on sale.
12:39 - Page numbers such as Geldeheim #2¹ reference specific building entries listed on the Geldeheim GM map (Geldeheim p6, in this specific case). The main article provides a brief description while these pages provide more detailed information, sort of like an appendix.
If anything the Harn population numbers are hard on the low side
There was a very bad plague called the Red Death that decimated a large part of the mainland and Harn around T.R. 553- 561 so about 160 years before. Many places were hard hit and only just starting to fill up the population again. In many places up to a third of the population died.
Certainly in Orbaal they are. Less so elsewhere.
Ís there anything actually NEW, beyond everything that could be found in the original Orbaal book encyclopedia harnica articles on Orbaal, etc...? I was highly disappointed at the Kaldor supplement (loose pages in a pack) that came out a dozen years or so ago: it was essentially exactly the same as the previous Kaldor book, but more expensive (plus useless for european readers who use different distances/spacing for the holes in the binder pages). I have all the old supplements, literally , I'd buy this if it had like 20 pgs of extra, unpublished previously material.
I don't have an earlier version of Kaldor, but the current hardcover has 60 pages on the Kingdom and 70 on the city of Tashal. The new Melderyn is also about 130 pages. I do have the third printing of Azadmere, which is about 38 pages covering Azadmere, Azadmere City, the Khuzdul, Habe, and Zerhun. Columbia has plans to come out with a new Kingdom of Azadmere hardcover and if it is also 130 pages, that will be a significant amount of additional material. I don't know if some of the new material is from pdf articles previously published separately, but you can compare your copy of Kaldor to the page count of the new version.
These are hardcover compilations of the most current version of the articles. If you have them then this is just the same material. People have been clamoring for a hard cover edition of Harn forever, and this is that made manifest.
@@jamest39 OK, thanks for the clarification. I own every single supplement of Harn old style, and hate HATE the loose sheets format if some of the more recent supplements (because they don't fit European style binders). I might trade in the originals for hard cover versions.
Is the hard cover version quality good? (it looks so from the video?
@@josefreitas753 I think so. The paper is very thick and glossy.
Quality of the hardcover is very high.