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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5047062" data-attributes="member: 177">All the Conan stories?  Yes, it'd be tough to match that.  But then, that's the work of some 15 authors over 5 decades!  I daresay the total time spent writing Conan stories exceeds the time spent prepping and running your typical two-year campaign.No.  Despite your implication, D&D does not have an inherent structure to the resulting stories.My point is this -  Have you honestly heard anyone ever say, "Gee, you know what cool about (Conan, Fafhrd, etc)?  The fact that they are pretty much the exact same person in every single story, never changing!  And the lack of continuity from one story to another - I just love that!" ?  I've never seen it said even once, much less commonly.  Thus, the episodic nature is not part of what makes those old stories really cool.I love and read the classic tales we're talking about here, and they have lots to recommend them as a source of inspiration, but the episodic mode is not one of them.  It isn't a particular hindrance, but neither is it a particular asset.There are good reasons to run D&D in an episodic mode, too.  However, doing so will not get you any closer to the coolness of Conan.</blockquote>