Fellrune

[felixgwilliams]

Hey guys,

As some of you may know tomorrow myself and Justin are running the first ever session of Fellrune: A Game of Viking Legend. For all those who are Live people we hope you will be able to come along if not to play then to play some of the cool monster rolls we have cooked up for those who wish to monster.

Some suggestions for people coming

Comments

[mostlyfoo]

Also theres some primary resources freely available:

The Eddas, although mostly you'll want to read the Poetic Edda.

And also the Runic Alphabet specifically the Rune Poems.

The library actually has a rare comentary on the Old English Rune poem thats well worth a read:
Maureen Halsall, "The old English Rune poem: a critical edition", University of Toronto Press, 1981, ISBN 0802054773

[mostlyfoo]

Although to avoid confusion you may want to read this copy of the rune poems which plonks the stave next to the verse. If its 6th-8th century ISTR you can have the Elder and Anglo-Saxon Futharks both going and the Younger Furthark not quite in yet, depends how mental for accuracy you want to be.

[felixgwilliams]

We are really not trying to run an historical game. The world is distinctly Viking flavor but not to a huge degree of accuracy. I was told by Justin very early on I wasn't allowed to go mad with historical stuff in case I bored people.

[mostlyfoo]

eh, its still going to be a good set of sources for getting the flavour and shouting lots of things while charging heroicly into a group of scum in a suicidal berzerker run.

[idlemuse]

Also your spelling of seiðr is awful...

[bhriste]

Yeah, god Connor, get it right.

[felixgwilliams]

I am going to stab you in your eyes.

[wombatchar]

Can I have the eye afterwards? All that delicious jelly going to waste... om nom nom

[archangelonline]

Oh yeah, another film to watch: Pathfinder (the US version, not the original European one - although I recall the barbarians in that were Scandinavian and from about the right era as well).

Vikings as Warhammer Chaos Warriors.

(Hey, that's an idea - take a look at the more recent Warhammer books about Chaos for some particularly impressive fantasy Vikings.)

[moradrel]

Yup, way ahead of your.
Largely because I've got the book of yours that you're refering to, of course.

If Fellrune takes off I do plan on drawing heavily from the lavish imagery contained within.

[archangelonline]

That was my original concept for my Far Shores character (who I have played a grand total of once... damn my inability to combine good weather, Saturdays off and being awake in time). Depending on how heavy the armour's allowed to get in Felrune (I've got a few plate accessories - not historically accurate for Vikings), I may just port him across, but grizzlier.

[mr_jez]

Best of luck with the whole thing!

In case you struggle to find an 'eth' on your keyboard, note that seid is standard usage in English. Similarly, the practitioners (seiðkona and seiðmaðr) can be referred to as seid woman and seid man.

Now, don't forget to trim the hoods of your robes with white cat skin! ... ;o)