I only played it once, at a convention game with a less-than-stellar GM; so I'd hardly say it was a typical experience. All I can say is, "It was a great game, except for the GM." The rest of the players and I more or less were playing one game, while the GM was playing "Show off my Mary Sue NPC."
I love the setting, tho ... I've been reading Robert E. Howard since I was so high and in terms of reading the game, it seems like it would be a good interpretation of it as an RPG. If I had another REH fan in my group, I'd probably be running it right now.
-The Gneech
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I only played it once, at a convention game with a less-than-stellar GM; so I'd hardly say it was a typical experience. All I can say is, "It was a great game, except for the GM." The rest of the players and I more or less were playing one game, while the GM was playing "Show off my Mary Sue NPC."
I love the setting, tho ... I've been reading Robert E. Howard since I was so high and in terms of reading the game, it seems like it would be a good interpretation of it as an RPG. If I had another REH fan in my group, I'd probably be running it right now.
-The Gneech
Any chance you live in Southern California? If you do, then you can count me in.
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I have it, and the Scrolls of Skelos. I like it.
We were gonna start it, 2 years ago, but then...long story, gaming group dissolved.
I brought it to work, though, and in the rulebook all the pictured weapons have blood dripping off them. My friend from work who gamed with me insisted that I drew the blood on there, but it came like that. We were all set to play. Long story.
It looks fun.
Low magic, true to REH's vision I felt.
I like the armor system. I think it's much like one of the variant armor systems in the Unearthed Arcana. Not sure, both books are at home.
Sorry, I live in Texas (like REH and Moorcock I think).
I was ultimately looking forward to combining it somehow with D20 Call of Cthulhu--I think it's what REH and HPL would've wanted.
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I have it, and the Scrolls of Skelos. I like it.
We were gonna start it, 2 years ago, but then...long story, gaming group dissolved.
I brought it to work, though, and in the rulebook all the pictured weapons have blood dripping off them. My friend from work who gamed with me insisted that I drew the blood on there, but it came like that. We were all set to play. Long story.
It looks fun.
Low magic, true to REH's vision I felt.
I like the armor system. I think it's much like one of the variant armor systems in the Unearthed Arcana. Not sure, both books are at home.
Sorry, I live in Texas (like REH and Moorcock I think).
I was ultimately looking forward to combining it somehow with D20 Call of Cthulhu--I think it's what REH and HPL would've wanted.
When you get REH & HPL combined, and play a session or two, please post your experiences with the hybrid game. I'd love to know how it turns out.
Thoth-Amon
Any chance you live in Southern California? If you do, then you can count me in.
Nope, sorry, other end of the country. I'm sure you can find a group out there one of these days, tho!
-The Gneech
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I have it, and the Scrolls of Skelos. I like it.
We were gonna start it, 2 years ago, but then...long story, gaming group dissolved.
I brought it to work, though, and in the rulebook all the pictured weapons have blood dripping off them. My friend from work who gamed with me insisted that I drew the blood on there, but it came like that. We were all set to play. Long story.
It looks fun.
Low magic, true to REH's vision I felt.
I like the armor system. I think it's much like one of the variant armor systems in the Unearthed Arcana. Not sure, both books are at home.
Sorry, I live in Texas (like REH and Moorcock I think).
I was ultimately looking forward to combining it somehow with D20 Call of Cthulhu--I think it's what REH and HPL would've wanted.When you get REH & HPL combined, and play a session or two, please post your experiences with the hybrid game. I'd love to know how it turns out.
Thoth-Amon
Will do. Don't hold your breath though, unless you have the Innsmouth look about you.
Also, Mongoose has a forum about the Conan RPG; someone over there might have something.|
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Just don't know how to put REH and HPL together.
Howard's vision was that of a Nietzchean Ubermann striving and conquering in a world gone mad, by sheer force of will alone.
Lovecraft's vision,...reality is an existentialist nightmare that the Hero never escapes sane or normal, if even alive. Man has no hope in the face of a supernature he doesn't dare try and comprehend.
If the two got together and did Conan vs. C'thulhu, you know Conan would put the sucker back to bed in R'lyeh for another age of man. But how would any of it even make sense?
I have the book but I cannibalized it to build my campaign world rather than playing in Hyboria. There are alot of awesome things in it though. The magic system is very cool I think, with power points and corruption and less flashy magic. Very different from "I cast fireball and float up to the ceiling while enabling my globe of invulnerability!"
I couldn't get used to the armour system. It looked good but my players were new so I wanted to keep it simple with the standard system. I also swiped the reputation and nature system, and the codes of honour thing, they were all very cool.
The main reason I'm not actually playing Conan is quite frankly that my players didn't want to be restricted to only human PCs. But it's definitley a good book, I can't praise it enough.
Just don't know how to put REH and HPL together.
Howard's vision was that of a Nietzchean Ubermann striving and conquering in a world gone mad, by sheer force of will alone.
Lovecraft's vision,...reality is an existentialist nightmare that the Hero never escapes sane or normal, if even alive. Man has no hope in the face of a supernature he doesn't dare try and comprehend.
If the two got together and did Conan vs. C'thulhu, you know Conan would put the sucker back to bed in R'lyeh for another age of man. But how would any of it even make sense?
REH and HPL were pen-pals and borrowed from each others' works liberally. They're not that far removed. The main difference is in the durability of their heroes, which makes sense. REH was a cowboy and a boxer; HPL was a pale and sickly antiquarian type. They just wrote to suit their own natures! ;)
(Yes, I'm exaggerating a tad, I know.)
REH wrote a sizable chunk of what is considered to be part of the original "Cthulhu mythos" stories, and had fun inserting bits of the mythos into the Conan and Kull stories. Some mythos sources consider the Hyborian Age to be part of the history. It works. :)
-The Gneech