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<blockquote data-quote="Storn" data-source="post: 5516777" data-attributes="member: 6698">Conan's wife was Zenobia.&nbsp; I know, because I got to draw her twice for the Mongoose Conan rpg.&nbsp; Here is the younger version...<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/ZenobiaIIloRes.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />but back onto topic.&nbsp; I think Conan had an enormous influence on D&amp;D.&nbsp; I remember getting Greyhawk, the little yellow pamphlet, in the mail, and the artwork was certainly influenced by the seminal Conan artists, Frank Frazetta, John Buscema, Barry Windsor Smith.&nbsp; Got to remember, this is 1976, this is some time ago.&nbsp; Conan the marvel comic was in full swing.&nbsp; Frazetta's covers were only about 10 years old.&nbsp; Mechanically, I think the the idea of mixed classes was a direct result of Conan as a young man, thief career.&nbsp; You could see the struggle in those early days between D&amp;D 's wargame roots and trying to satisfy the lure of the fiction.&nbsp; Not to mention the very idea of &quot;leveling&quot;.. Conan's arc has a real D&amp;D leveling structure to it, despite REH&nbsp; writing his stories completely out of order of the eventual chronological order.And without Conan, we wouldn't have Elric who is the antithesis of Conan, Moorcock even admitted as much.&nbsp; Without Elric, I'm not sure we would have had Alignments, which were extremely influenced by Moorcock's Law and Chaos thematics.&nbsp; And certainly Leiber was influenced by REH.&nbsp; And certainly Vance was influenced by REH.&nbsp; Even if both of those men tried to do fantasy that distanced itself from all the pastiches of Conan.&nbsp;&nbsp; Without Vance, we wouldn't have the D&amp;D magic system.&nbsp; Conan has been a huge influence on me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Storn, post: 5516777, member: 6698"] Conan's wife was Zenobia. I know, because I got to draw her twice for the Mongoose Conan rpg. Here is the younger version... [IMG]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y35/Storn/ZenobiaIIloRes.jpg[/IMG] but back onto topic. I think Conan had an enormous influence on D&D. I remember getting Greyhawk, the little yellow pamphlet, in the mail, and the artwork was certainly influenced by the seminal Conan artists, Frank Frazetta, John Buscema, Barry Windsor Smith. Got to remember, this is 1976, this is some time ago. Conan the marvel comic was in full swing. Frazetta's covers were only about 10 years old. Mechanically, I think the the idea of mixed classes was a direct result of Conan as a young man, thief career. You could see the struggle in those early days between D&D 's wargame roots and trying to satisfy the lure of the fiction. Not to mention the very idea of "leveling".. Conan's arc has a real D&D leveling structure to it, despite REH writing his stories completely out of order of the eventual chronological order. And without Conan, we wouldn't have Elric who is the antithesis of Conan, Moorcock even admitted as much. Without Elric, I'm not sure we would have had Alignments, which were extremely influenced by Moorcock's Law and Chaos thematics. And certainly Leiber was influenced by REH. And certainly Vance was influenced by REH. Even if both of those men tried to do fantasy that distanced itself from all the pastiches of Conan. Without Vance, we wouldn't have the D&D magic system. Conan has been a huge influence on me. [/QUOTE]

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