Review & Commentary On The free Bi-Ethnic Characters of Hyperborea Phamplet By Ben Ball For the Hyperborea Rpg

 When it comes to the Hyperborea Rpg, I've been lacking in cohesion with the OSR game itself. And over the last couple of days I find myself drifting back to her. Why?! The most recent reason is the newst download from that creative ball of OSR Sword & Sorcery fire Ben Ball. If you haven't heard of Ben it's becasuse he mostly stays to the background even though he's the author of  'Beneath The Comet'. Among the Hyperborea rpg community Ben is well known. And one of Ben Ball's most recent rpg additions to Hyperborea is the free Bi-Ethnic Characters of Hyperborea.

For the Hyperborea rpg and setting this is a very important addition to the game of Sword & Sorcery. Why? Because of the fact that it's now possible to have more customized racial options to the Hyperborea rpg game. 
And this is a big part of the setting. While 'Old Earth' withered away the human race crossed over to Hyperborea after the Green Death. This makes it possible to add in unique pocket cultures to the expansive Hyperborean setting and even to add even more options for player's PC's. 
Bi-Ethnic Characters of Hyperborea is a nice little short and sweet additon that allows the DM to have more options for NPC's. Mixing & matching human types might not seem like a big deal. When you've got players who are constantly asking what happened to Ixian group that migrated to area 'C' of Hyperborea it's nice to have options. 
The set up here in Bi-Ethnic Characters of Hyperborea is simple you have several human style racial mixatures that allow one to have other genetic variations  such as hair, eye, etc colour. Doesn't seem like much but it adds a world of difference when you've got Roman, Keltic, etc. all interacting on a huge floating disk in space. Having additional PC & NPC races for PC's is a Lovecraftian god sent and one that comes as a welcome.