Why do we need thieves??

[Bill Zebub]

Gotta admit that "How ripped was Conan?" is one of the more entertaining thread derailments we've seen.

 

[Fenris-77]

Gotta admit that "How ripped was Conan?" is one of the more entertaining thread derailments we've seen.

Were there really a lot of different opinions on the subject? I'm not prepared to go look for myself.

 

[Bill Zebub]

Were there really a lot of different opinions on the subject? I'm not prepared to go look for myself.

Have you ever seen somebody on the Internet make a claim about geeky esoterica without somebody else vehemently disagreeing?

 

[Fenris-77]

Have you ever seen somebody on the Internet make a claim about geeky esoterica without somebody else vehemently disagreeing?

I'm sorry, did you just make a declarative statement?! WELL, allow me to retort...

 

[Bill Zebub]

I'm sorry, did you just make a declarative statement?! WELL, allow me to retort...

ACTUALLY....

 

[nevin]

Conan certainly does wear armor when he can, in the original Howard stories, but he is stronger than almost any man/can wrestle gorillas and the like (not beat them, but survive a grapple long enough to win with a knife or something). Not superhuman, and I don't know if Howard would have pictured him as bodybuilder physique, per se (though maybe something like a 1920s bodybuilder, say Eugene Sandow but much taller), but he's supposed to be kind of like original comic Captain America- something like the peak of combined human strength and agility. And he's as skilled a swordsman as he is a general athlete (including climbing, leaping, etc.).

grappling a Gorrilla is Captain America territory. Id definitely consider Conan superhuman territory. He's more demi-god than man in ability if not birth.