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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6271646" data-attributes="member: 42582">I also just noticed that the spell, at least in the playtest, has to be renewed every 24 hours. So not so much &quot;hordes of undead&quot; as &quot;modest bunches of undead &quot;.Just FYI, the conclusion that you reach here is not uncontroversial among contemporary English-speaking moral philosophers. A significant number - perhaps a majority, but I'm not entirely confident of that - would take the view that the dead have interests, and hence can be harmed.?? REH's &quot;Hyborian Age&quot; draws completely upon our own world. We're meant to be able to recognise Zingara as spain, the Black Coast as West Africa, Stygia as Egypt, Vilayet as India etc. It's REH's device for putting all those tropes and stereotypes into play without having to worry about the details that matter to historical fiction. (And credit where it's due: this is not my independent analysis, though I regard it as fairly plain; it's the analysis from the editors of the recent critical editions of REH - The Coming of Conan, the Bloody Crownof Conan, etc.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6271646, member: 42582"] I also just noticed that the spell, at least in the playtest, has to be renewed every 24 hours. So not so much "hordes of undead" as "modest bunches of undead ". Just FYI, the conclusion that you reach here is not uncontroversial among contemporary English-speaking moral philosophers. A significant number - perhaps a majority, but I'm not entirely confident of that - would take the view that the dead have interests, and hence can be harmed. ?? REH's "Hyborian Age" draws completely upon our own world. We're meant to be able to recognise Zingara as spain, the Black Coast as West Africa, Stygia as Egypt, Vilayet as India etc. It's REH's device for putting all those tropes and stereotypes into play without having to worry about the details that matter to historical fiction. (And credit where it's due: this is not my independent analysis, though I regard it as fairly plain; it's the analysis from the editors of the recent critical editions of REH - The Coming of Conan, the Bloody Crownof Conan, etc.) [/QUOTE]

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