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A newly starting E6 campaign using the Conan RPG rules is starting. We have 1 GM and 3 players, but more are welcome. Post here, PM me, or e-mail me at steven.woyach@gmail.com if you're interested.

Studded leather armor goes all the way back to the Sumerians, it is by no means a made up piece of equipment. Sumerian Armor Bronze Meets Brawn.

There are very few settings you can just drop into Faeurun. What exactly are you looking for? Lankhmar is a setting. Anything major like Greyhawk, Cerilia, Midnight, etc. would require major redrawing of the map. All you can drop in are cities such as Lankhmar or Freeport without upsetting...

You could always just drop a city like Lankhmar in. I don't know how effective that would be though, the high magic world of Faerun wouldn't allow a place to remain low magic long.

The pbp campaign is up and running, here are our PCs so far: Cast of Characters

As has been pointed out the Mongoose books are great even if you don't use d20. You might also check out these websites Conan Wiki Hyborian Age - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I also second the Nemedian Chronicles. It's a great campaign site, it was even the featured campaign at Obsidian...

Prometheus really sounds like your best bet. While not technically dead he is chained to his own private hell and in DND terms it's logical that he wouldn't have the power to grant spells to any followers.

Module, haha that's funny. I usually have only a very broad idea of what's going to happen and just make everything else up as I go. I barely know more than my players do. I used to try to plan things out in detail but I'm a much better dm on the fly, or a much worse dm when working from a...

Damaen, 1st edition human fighter created in 1987. I actually dragged him through several gaming groups and even updating him to 2nd edition (becoming a myrmidon), last playing him in the early 90s. He made it to 9th level before retiring. Man, now I want to break him out again and update him...

I'm trying to put together a gaming group in the Tempe area. The plan is to play 2 games on rotating weekends, currently we're looking at Conan one weekend and 7th Sea on the other. Neither of these is written in stone however and we're open to suggestions. If you're interested leave a reply...

I start by using Conan D20, make it E6, and go from there. I also prefer a critical hit system that can result in actual wounds that take time to heal and can hinder your ability to fight. In my system a 5 point wound to your arm gives a -5 penalty to all attacks and skill checks with that arm...

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your post. The way I read it you gain a set number of skills at 1st level, one more at 4th level, and that's it. So if your character decides to go in a new direction after 1st level you're limited to gaining 1 more skill ever. The system is intended to be very...

I like the basic concept of the general, specific, and normal skills; but I'm running E6 and I don't think it will really work well for that. And there isn't really enough control after first level; you can't set aside an old skill to concentrate on different skills. The chasm's an easy...

I've put a lot of time and energy into attempts to improve the skill system, and the results are usually improvements (in my view at least) but are also much more complex than the rules in the PHB. So I've decided to go in the opposite direction and am contemplating using the following house...

The best system I've seen in print is still the old crit tables from 2e Combat & Tactics. I prefer my own system of course.

There's been non-weapon proficiencies since the mid 80s, and of course dice rolls from the first rpg game played. Why is it so unbelievable to you that people treat a failure by 1 and a total flub differently? Most people do it.

Almost every DM I've played with over the last 20+ years, and most of the ones who didn't were pretty bad.

I had a film professor who hated the Godfather, yet he was still a published author who's written about film. He went to school with De Palma. The fact that he didn't like a movie everyone else hails as genius (and I also find a bit boring) doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's talking about...

This isn't a serious game article, it's a throw away piece about a bunch of people at a newspaper playing a few board games. They judged them solely on whether or not they had a good time. Even arguing about it makes you look bad, because it's not important to the people who wrote the article...

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be a gamer. Those comments are akin to two geeks having a slap-fest in the middle of a mall about who's better: Kirk or Picard.