D&D General No One Reads Conan Now -- So What Are They Reading?

[Bohandas]

Conan enters the public domain in three years. I suspect there will be a lot of Conan RPG stuff coming out then. I might write some myself! Crom!

Does anyone know why that stuff is so late entering the public domain? Didn't Robert Howard write during the same era as Lovecraft?

 

[Bohandas]

Conan enters the public domain in three years. I suspect there will be a lot of Conan RPG stuff coming out then. I might write some myself! Crom!

Write them now and sit on them until the copyright ends that way you can have them already ready and be first to market

 

[TwiceBorn2]

I received the two Robert Jordan Conan Chronicles compilations last Christmas (I previously read all the Howard stories). I started reading one of them a few days ago.

 

[GnomeWorks]

Does anyone know why that stuff is so late entering the public domain?

Blame the mouse.

 

[gnarlygninja]

Does anyone know why that stuff is so late entering the public domain? Didn't Robert Howard write during the same era as Lovecraft?

I think quite a lot of HP Lovecraft's stories came out years before Conan did, and iirc Lovecraft's copyrights were not always managed by people who knew what they were doing.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

Does anyone know why that stuff is so late entering the public domain? Didn't Robert Howard write during the same era as Lovecraft?

Probably some publishing differences between the East Coast WASP/provincial types establishment vs the podunk Texas establishment .. R.E.Howard went through quite a bit of intellectual bullying & bullying outside of his cohort group