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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 2135683" data-attributes="member: 6533">The Conan rules have some elements that work really well, but the emphasis isn't so much on elegant training and strategy in personal combat as it is on heroic virtue and intuitive badassitude.  It might work, but having played it for a while I don't really feel it.Weapons of the Gods is a non d20 Kung Fu game.  It's release has been delayed a couple of times, but the basic rules should be available on .pdf very soon.  The games been written for forever but suffered from repeated printer mishaps.  Very very very elegant system.  I'm tempted to work it into a GoT game because of the personality and color it gives every fighter, that and it has very nice virtue and passion mechanics.I will certainly be picking up the GoO game, as even where I am somewhat skeptical of their rules choices I have no doubt that it will be the definitive reference guide to the world and events of the series.Might be on the same level of difference as Conan, from what I've heard, but it's going to be even more brutal than Black Company.  Which, to my mind, did a brilliant job making the RAW more deadly with only a few minor changes to the system.  My only complaint against Black Company is that the mass combat system does a pretty poor job modelling individuals fighting squads, which is sad because the potential to do it well is certainly there.</blockquote>