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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3262378" data-attributes="member: 22779">I'm in the not convinced camp as well.Which assumptions do you mean?  The wealth/level ones?  That's a simple baseline, and, really, pretty easy to get around in the single digit levels.  You can strip out all the wealth from a party, simply bump the point buy to about 45 (which models Conan heroes pretty well) and you have a Conan setting so long as you set the level limits to about 11th.  Use mostly human and humanoid enemies, with the odd aberation and dire animal tossed in, and that's pretty darn close.Might have to nix a few of the classes, but, that's more a setting thing than rules anyway.  Paladin's wouldn't fit in Conan too well, not because of power or balance issues, but because paly's don't fit.  Middle Earth?  Meh, not too hard at all.  Good grief, the Fellowship is literally dripping with magic halfway through the first book.  Granted, Gandalf would have to be NPC'd, cos, well, if I had a high double digits level wizard in Moria, there'd be a stack of dead goblins before I retreated.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As I said, trying to emulate specific novels is pretty difficult.  Not because of the mechanics so much as the fact that players are FAR more pragmatic than any novel writer.  Heck, players would have handed the Ring to Tom Bombadil and then went off to check out something else.  Novel emulation isn't a game problem, it's a player one.</blockquote>

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