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

 

[MuhVerisimilitude]

Managed to track down a collection of Fritz Leiber's FatGM (lol) short stories. They're not in order of publication.

1: The Snow Women. Quite boring. Not very interesting imo.

2: The Unholy Grail. Now this is much better. The finale is very intense.

3: Ill Met In Lankhmar. This was really good. I am officially a fan.

There's still more to read. I'll get back to you.

 

[Bill Zebub]

I'm pretty familiar with Beowulf, both in my super basic Anglo-Saxon but more so in various translations. I usually teach from the Seamus Heaney version; it's not the most literal but I think the most effective in capturing the poetic feel of the original verse.

This book is utterly brilliant.

Because of it, when my elementary-aged kids read Beowulf in high school (or is it a college thing now?) they are going to be able to make a lot more sense of it than I did on my first read.

 

[Dioltach]

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This book is utterly brilliant.

Because of it, when my elementary-aged kids read Beowulf in high school (or is it a college thing now?) they are going to be able to make a lot more sense of it than I did on my first read.

I saw this mentioned a few weeks ago in a high-brow discussion among some professors of Old and Middle English. Their response was very favourable.

 

[Mannahnin]

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This book is utterly brilliant.

Because of it, when my elementary-aged kids read Beowulf in high school (or is it a college thing now?) they are going to be able to make a lot more sense of it than I did on my first read.

Thanks for the reminder! This is still in my to be read pile, but I bought it on release as I'm a fan of Zach Weinersmith.

Same artist/writer as the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic, for those unaware, so no shock that it's smart and good.