Chaosium Announce Community Content Program for Age of Vikings!

Ever fancied writing and publishing your own scenarios, background material, or NPCs and monsters for the Age of Vikings tabletop roleplaying game? Well now, thanks to Chaosium, you can through their new Sagas of the North Community Content Program.

Sagas of the North allows you to create and sell Age of Vikings content yourself through DriveThruRPG, sharing your work with the world. Chaosium has produced a set of Content Guidelines for anyone interested in doing so, which also includes free resource packs for creators including artwork, runes, templates and more.

Age of Vikings is a tabletop roleplaying game set in medieval Iceland, a land on the edge of known world, where Vikings can seek honour and fame through adventures. The game covers the history of mythic Iceland - detailing the life of a Viking, laws and government, religion, wild and wondrous creatures of legend, and rules for ships and seafaring, inlcuding naval combat. A guide to Icelandic magic, rules for combining different Norse runes to cast powerful spells, and the shamanic practice of seidr isalso covered in the main rulebook which was released last year and is available in Hardcover or PDF.

Community Content Programs have become quite popular over the last few years, allowing anyone to publish scenarios or supplements for a range of companies and games through DriveThruRPG, with the creator often keeping around 50% of the sale price with the rest being split between DriveThruRPG and the company that publishes the main game. Content programs currently exist for games such as Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, Dragonsbane, Vampire: The Masquerade, Pathfinder, Twilight: 2000. RuneQuest, Vaesen and the big one - Dungeons & Dragons - through the Dungeon Masters Guild.

The first wave of Sagas of the North releases are out now including Hulda’s Last Song, a scenario by Carol Tierney, and Snow Mount Peninsula, a detailed Icelandic setting book by Don Ford. You can see the full list, as well as the free resource packs, here.

Images courtesy of Chaosium.