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<blockquote data-quote="The_Gneech" data-source="post: 2499690" data-attributes="member: 6779">The Dark Horse Conan is a little more brutal than REH's in my opinion, but not too far off. But yes, Conan is the perfect CN hero. I always liked his comment when he came upon the pitiable Yag-Kosha: &quot;I'm just a thief. I won't harm you.&quot;Conan was honorable on a personal level -- he'd never break his word once given, nor abandon a companion in need -- but he was an outlander and a thief. The big play of clashing nations or whatnot meant nothing to him. Similarly, he regularly rescued people who needed rescuing, often at considerable cost to himself in terms of loot or power, but he was hardly a do-gooder. He would kill, too, but not randomly or without reason. Generally, breaking trust with him was a death sentence, for instance ... as was having the bad luck to be on the side of the Evil Sorcerer of the Week.Banning CN effectively bans the whole Conan-ish archetype, which IMO is a shame. In my particular case, I am suffering from that myself because this kind of rowdy adventurer character is precisely what I want to play, but my GM has effectively banned it because his own inclinations are heavily toward the &quot;lawful&quot; end of things and he just can't cope with the unexpected.So his game is considerably less fun than I would like it to be; but right now it's the only game going, so I suck it up and play NG instead.&nbsp;&nbsp; -The Gneech <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The_Gneech, post: 2499690, member: 6779"] The Dark Horse Conan is a little more brutal than REH's in my opinion, but not too far off. But yes, Conan is the perfect CN hero. I always liked his comment when he came upon the pitiable Yag-Kosha: "I'm just a thief. I won't harm you." Conan was honorable on a personal level -- he'd never break his word once given, nor abandon a companion in need -- but he was an outlander and a thief. The big play of clashing nations or whatnot meant nothing to him. Similarly, he regularly rescued people who needed rescuing, often at considerable cost to himself in terms of loot or power, but he was hardly a do-gooder. He would kill, too, but not randomly or without reason. Generally, breaking trust with him was a death sentence, for instance ... as was having the bad luck to be on the side of the Evil Sorcerer of the Week. Banning CN effectively bans the whole Conan-ish archetype, which IMO is a shame. In my particular case, I am suffering from that myself because this kind of rowdy adventurer character is precisely what I want to play, but my GM has effectively banned it because his own inclinations are heavily toward the "lawful" end of things and he just can't cope with the unexpected. So his game is considerably less fun than I would like it to be; but right now it's the only game going, so I suck it up and play NG instead. -The Gneech :cool: [/QUOTE]

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