Conan RPG - What do I need?

[replicant2]

Same here. I find Howard's work bright, energetic, two-fisted, and the epitome of purple prose. It's lush and dreamy at times, and keen and quick as a sword-stroke at other times. Tolkien's writing is erudite and cleanly elegant, and has a certain weight to it, gravitas, that the great myths and epics have. Both writers' styles are very different, but both are supremely readable.



I wouldn't say one is a better writer than the other. Howard has a natural ability, a kind of raw talent, that leaps off the page as if alive. Tolkien has the stately bearing of a scholar, supremely comfortable with the language and capable of creating great wonders with it. Howard's action scenes are like whirlwinds, where Tolkien's action scenes are like a richly detailed painting one can only catch a few beathless glimpses of in passing.

I like your thinking, very well thought-out and I would agree.

 

[Nyaricus]

I like your thinking, very well thought-out and I would agree.

I will be the first to second that. I have yet to get some REH, but man, reading that is gonna force me to order me a box set, or somehting

I think that's a good choice. That's exactly what I have .

Good to hear I'm really not that familiar with REH and Conan, but I'm highly interested in the grim adn the gritty, and realism, so I'm intrigued to fun some Conan for my players someday soon

cheers,
--N

 

[TheAuldGrump]

And whatever you do, don't run by what is shown in the movies!

Some non-Conan material that you may find handy is in 'Cthulhu; The Mythos & Kindred Horrors'. A book of Howard's Cthulhu Mythos stories. There is actually a slight overlap between the Cthulhu Mythos and Conan, both in Howard's works and in Lovecraft's. (The two were friends, and borrowed from and acknowledged each other's writings.)

The Auld Grump

 

[TheAuldGrump]

A place that seems to still have the Atlantean Edition. Hope that this helps.

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