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<blockquote data-quote="Crust" data-source="post: 3164519" data-attributes="member: 22330">I only just discovered the original Howard stories last month, and I was totally blown away.&nbsp; I read The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, and I'm now halfway through the second volume's &quot;Hour of the Dragon.&quot;&nbsp; Howard was amazing.&nbsp; What a horrible tragedy that he shot himself at age 30.&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I am VERY interested in running my next campaign in Hyborea.&nbsp; The overall flavor of Howard's world is unlike anything I've ever experienced.&nbsp; After playing in Faerun for almost ten years, Hyborea will be like a breath of fresh air.&nbsp; I'd LOVE to step away from the renaissance style, heavy magic flavor of FR.I also agree that the PHB magic system is non-existent in Howard's world.&nbsp; I'm definitely going to pick up the d20 Hyborean rulebook to see the world's take on magic, which is clearly of less power than Faerun's Weave.Lastly, I'm very interested in hearing how folks run Age of Worms in Hyborea, as I'm currently running it in Faerun.&nbsp; Certainly Kyuss' worm angle would work wonderfully, and Kyuss himself has a Lovecraftian Cthulhu style which is found in several original Howard stories.&nbsp; I would expect several major changes to setting and characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crust, post: 3164519, member: 22330"] I only just discovered the original Howard stories last month, and I was totally blown away. I read [I]The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian[/I], and I'm now halfway through the second volume's "Hour of the Dragon." Howard was amazing. What a horrible tragedy that he shot himself at age 30. :( I am VERY interested in running my next campaign in Hyborea. The overall flavor of Howard's world is unlike anything I've ever experienced. After playing in Faerun for almost ten years, Hyborea will be like a breath of fresh air. I'd LOVE to step away from the renaissance style, heavy magic flavor of FR. I also agree that the PHB magic system is non-existent in Howard's world. I'm definitely going to pick up the d20 Hyborean rulebook to see the world's take on magic, which is clearly of less power than Faerun's Weave. Lastly, I'm very interested in hearing how folks run Age of Worms in Hyborea, as I'm currently running it in Faerun. Certainly Kyuss' worm angle would work wonderfully, and Kyuss himself has a Lovecraftian Cthulhu style which is found in several original Howard stories. I would expect several major changes to setting and characters. [/QUOTE]

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