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CTB Novelization - 2 -- Wind and Fire are the children of the sky gods. Father Crom rules the earth, the heavens, and the sea. -- Giants once dwelt in the earth. They were fashioners of wood and stone; miners of gems and gold. They fooled Crom and stole the secret of steel from him...

READING L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP'S AND LIN CARTER'S NOVELIZATION OF.... CONAN THE BARBARIAN THIEF. WARRIOR. BARBARIAN. KING. Now...how about we read the novelization of the original Conan movie! It looks to be a small book. It clocks in at 181 pages. L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter...

ALTERNATIVE IDEA FOR FATE POINTS I'm not 100% accepting of the official rules for PCs regaining Fate Points. In first edition, the rule is that the players are awarded one or two FPs at the completion of a major goal, usually at the end of an adventure. In second edition, players can use...

USING SKILLS OTHERWISE NOT USED Skill points are a scarce resource, and understandably, players will use them to improve their character's effectiveness in the game. Usually, we're talking about improving the character's combat ability. A player will sometimes place a few points in a skill...

AQUILONIA - THE AQUILONIAN MILITARY The third chapter is useful, devoted as it is to the Aquilonian military. There are notes on how big the kingdom's military is as a whole and what type of units are used by the Aquilonians. This chapter can be useful to a GM in a number of ways, from...

AQUILONIA - AQUILONIAN SUB-RACES The entire second chapter is devoted to helping players create specific Aquilonian characters and Game Masters create NPCs. Advice is given for Attalusians, Bossonians, Central Aquilonians, Gundermen, Poitainians, and the Tauran, plus those Aquilonians who...

AQUILONIA - LIFE IN AQUILONIA 2 HONOR & ALLEGIANCE The next two sections of the chapter cover Honor and Allegiance. This is good stuff. It's for roleplayers. There's the rules in the game for those two aspects of a character. A Conan game doesn't have to be all blood and guts...

AQUILONIA - LIFE IN AQUILONIA The first chapter is rather long, so I won't cover it all in this one post. I'll break it up, not only to make it more easily read but also because I probably won't read it in one sitting. The introduction to the chapter is extremely useful to a GM. There, it...

AQUILONIA - FLOWER OF THE WEST - INTRODUCTION One of the most important setting books in the game is the one written by Vincent Darlage. This is a top notch, excellent sourcebook for your Conan game. Why? Well, I'm going to tell you about it. In general, though, the book not only informs...

It's fantasy.

I knew that, surprisingly (as I know little of Middle Earth--just what I've seen in the films). Howard does a more convincing job, I think, in that Conan's known world is made up of what he thought the European continent would look like before it "broke apart" and drifted into the shape we know...

Conan would run up against man-apes from the past, or near-humans from some dark lonely age, but there are no nations of demi-humans. It's all human. Conan's world is supposed to be the real world--forgotten history--some 10,000 years ago. This is, of course, sorcery, demons, and other...

Absolutely I can. I'm looking for the least amount of work, though. Sometimes, with D&D, I might as well write my own scenarios (and I do that, as well) with the work it takes to replace the gelatinous cube, the magic mouth doorway, the orcs, the goblins, the ogre, and the kobolds. I'm looking...

I'm looking for stuff to convert to my Conan campaign. Are there any game worlds out there (with adventures) that feature a human only game universe? Although preferable, it doesn't have to use d20 rules. You know, games worlds like Game of Thrones or Thieves World. Suggestions?

I just read the novelization of Star Trek The Motion Picture, written by Gene Roddenberry, himself, an he explores the idea of Kirk and Spock being lovers. They aren't, though Roddenberry says that some suspect them. The idea is revealed in Kirk's thoughts (it's the the Admiral's preface...

What a show! I just finished the series finale! THIS IS TRULY A GREAT SHOW! GOOSEBUMPS! WHAT AN ENDING!

Watching the season finale. Did any of you catch the ear monsters from Star Trek II frying in a skillet? It was hard not to catch the Klingon urinating up against the wall...with two streams! :erm:

The Original Conan RPG Boxed Set From TSR. It used its own rules, and those rules were based on the AD&D (1st edition) system. Like AD&D, but different than AD&D. CLICK HERE.

MONGOOSE CONAN THE BARBARIAN ROLEPLAYING GAME -- A Review. This is absolutely one of the best adaptations of the d20 3.5 rule set. It captures the atmosphere of the Hyborian Age like no other game I've played. And, although it's subtle, the game is quite different from a traditional d20 3.5...