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LET IT BREATHE! There is an excellent passage from the introduction of the Aquilonia sourcebook that I want to share with you. This advice should be at the start of every sourcebook for every RPG, not just for Conan. To often (and I have been guilty as well) I've seen GMs strive to...

Well, if the post art is any indication, it does look like the Discovery is going to remain very similar to what we saw in the first trailer--the ship design that makes me throw up. It does look like the saucer section is wider, which is good, and the triangle shaped secondary hull is not as...

SUGGESTED READING There are three supplement books that every Conan GM should read: Aquilonia - Flower of the West, Across The Thunder River, and Styiga - Serpent of the South. These are dense game books packed full of atmosphere and notes that will help make any GM a master at describing...

An entry for Average Population Density might read: 132 adults per acre. An entry for Average Number of Structures might read: Approx. 2645 structures total. So, those entries look like they were taken off a table someplace. And, I don't see a definition of how to use the Wealth Limit and...

HYBORIAN AGE = POOR AGE The Hyborian Age is not a time of riches. Character should not be able to get rich by adventuring. Monsters do not sit on piles of gold as do dragons in a D&D game. Think of the Conan stories. Conan has gone on many adventures. He has explored several ancient...

As most of you know, I run a game using the Mongoose Conan RPG rules--a game based on, but much different than, D&D 3.5. Cities in the supplements are described using these descriptors: Population Size Average Population Density Average Number of Structures Wealth Limit Ready Cash...

HYBORIANS Mongoose published a good stable of books for us to use in playing the game, but the company did not cover every kingdom known to exist in the world with a supplement. So, what do you do if you want to set your adventures in Nemdia, or Corintha, or Ophir, or any of the other...

I was thinking that this would be interesting to implement by having it be where the player characters are charged by Milo, King of Argos, to establish a colony in the Pictish Wilderness. We are used to Pictland being a struggle between the savage picts and the colonization efforts of...

CONAN-IZING NOTES Here's an example of some of the steps I am taking to "Conan-ize" a standard D&D adventure module for my Conan game. I have taken The Sunless Citadel, and I am turning it into a hidden temple to Derketo. For those of you not familiar the gods of the Hyborian Age, Derketo...