Conan the Barbarian


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I'll tell you one thing, regardless of how you build him, Conan, like Drizz't, is just another fricking munchkin character.

Don't get me wrong I love all the stories just like the next fantasy lover, but both these characters represent the uber fighter-2/rogue-3/barbarian-4/swordmaster-6/discipleofkickass-3 that some dude in your group spent all week scouring message boards and dreaming up ways to exploit game mechanics to create. So he shows up at the gaming sessions, kicks everyones ass, and has a hell of a time doing it. Afterwards he happens to "conveniently" leave before everyone else and you all sit proceed to sit around and contemplate kicking his ass out the group.

LOL, in other words, he belongs in the storybooks and movies, not statted out for a campaign run....


Zmar wrote:

So we can't have single classed Conan you say?

STR 16
DEX 14
CON 14
INT 14
WIS 13
CHA 12

BTW Leadership can also explain various princesses slavishly following Conan.

You do have leadership here, which is good, but I would say charisma is likely Conan's second best stat. He's very well rounded indeed, but I would go STR, CHA, WIS, DEX, CON, INT.

STR 16
DEX 14
CON 13
INT 12
WIS 14
CHA 14

In addition to the princesses (and pirate women, slave girls, etc...) he also regularly gains command of men, instantly dominates his environment with his presence, and builds relationships pretty quickly.

Of course, I'm one of those who believes Conan is likely a multi-class character with at least barbarian, rogue, and fighter but perhaps a visit to the ranger path for a couple of levels.


Trample wrote:
Zmar wrote:

So we can't have single classed Conan you say?

STR 16
DEX 14
CON 14
INT 14
WIS 13
CHA 12

BTW Leadership can also explain various princesses slavishly following Conan.

You do have leadership here, which is good, but I would say charisma is likely Conan's second best stat. He's very well rounded indeed, but I would go STR, CHA, WIS, DEX, CON, INT.

STR 16
DEX 14
CON 13
INT 12
WIS 14
CHA 14

In addition to the princesses (and pirate women, slave girls, etc...) he also regularly gains command of men, instantly dominates his environment with his presence, and builds relationships pretty quickly.

Of course, I'm one of those who believes Conan is likely a multi-class character with at least barbarian, rogue, and fighter but perhaps a visit to the ranger path for a couple of levels.

Well, I went for higher INT to gain more skills. Conan has always been a fast learner, knew quite a few languages and a little bit of everything. Charisma, on the other hand was never a thing he would rely upon, Conan spoke through his deeds, but I left him some persnal magnetism, which can only increase, as he gets older and gains levels (ability increases on level 16 an 20 were left free).


Deyvantius wrote:

I'll tell you one thing, regardless of how you build him, Conan, like Drizz't, is just another fricking munchkin character.

Don't get me wrong I love all the stories just like the next fantasy lover, but both these characters represent the uber fighter-2/rogue-3/barbarian-4/swordmaster-6/discipleofkickass-3 that some dude in your group spent all week scouring message boards and dreaming up ways to exploit game mechanics to create. So he shows up at the gaming sessions, kicks everyones ass, and has a hell of a time doing it. Afterwards he happens to "conveniently" leave before everyone else and you all sit proceed to sit around and contemplate kicking his ass out the group.

LOL, in other words, he belongs in the storybooks and movies, not statted out for a campaign run....

Actually Conan was never presented as THAT uber in Howad's stories. Sure, he has two potent weapons, which he knows how to exploit. He is one of the few PC classed characters in the world and high level one to boot, which gives him an edge over the others, So he can be seen as being armed with confidence steming from metagaming. His second and much more real. He has built himself quite a reputation and uses his intimidate skill to push the others to do what he wants. The legends told by common folk then only increase Conan's abilities to godly proportions, but Conan is really only a human. In the Hour of Dragon for example Conan is beaten in combat by not-so-high level fighters when cought off his guard.


Conan was a wizard! Read People Of The Black Circle to learn who Conan's real enemy was. Nekhemet Sehket! Conan used cantrips, for instance making the mark of Jubel Sag in the Pictish Wilderness. A sword was like a golfers' handicap, he mostly used a dirk or his bare hands. It is his great strength and cunning that make him appear to be a fighter or a rogue. Sometimes Robert E Howard would use the word Barbar (sic) as though Conan knew how to cut hair, but I am not suggesting that. Punching and neck breaking were his trade and the idea to lead a wedge of steel into battle was suggested to a prince in person, observing as though he were just a brilliant minded pile of jelly!


Odd, in this whole thread I only saw one mention of berserkers. Those of you who have ever read the old 1st edition Monster Manual will recall when "Humans" (I think that was the term) were a long entry with different subtypes, including everyone's favorite, the Berserker (drawn from the Norse tales mentioned earlier in this thread).

I believe the Unearthed Arcane 1st ed. Barbarian (along with the first Cavalier and Thief-Acrobat) was a response to the demand from loads of players who saw that "monster" type and wanted a piece of it as a PC. Berserkers gained bonuses driven by battle lust, which I believe is the real source of the Rage power we have inherited today.


Read Frost Giant's Daughter, Carpjay, Conan wasn't a berserker. He was an alcoholic, but not a Norseman either. The Norse descend from the Aesir and the Vanir. It is suggested that Conan was the descendant of survivors of Atlantis.


I mentioned the berserkers as a source for inspiration other than Conan. Conan's rage was a smoldering anger driving him ever forward and it were also his heightened senses when Conan fell back to relying on his instict and inner beast.

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The Speaker in Dreams wrote:


Not for me. Conan's a LOT more level headed than "rage" types, IMO. Sure he's a "barbarian" but for my experience (reading novels, comics, and watching the movies) he's not really a "rage" type of guy. He seems more like a highly skilled Fighter.

If he's "barbarian" it's more a matter of how he interacts with society and civilization in general rather than a game-mechanic-like emphasis on raging and getting more powerful/reckless. Keep in mind the down and dirty nature of his world - it's almost a specific POINT that Conan makes few mistakes in combat because it WILL spell his death. That's not a Barbarian mindset, IMO, it's a Fighter.

The fact that he's ungodly strong - that's just a feature of his stats. He's also consistently strong - not suddenly strong or anything like that (ie: rage).

On a side note: I also think he'd rely on his feats and skill-set more than equipment to see him through - he's always running out of funding and stuff {plus magic just doesn't seem all that frequent in his world}.

Addendum: I think he *might* have a bit of Rogue tossed in there for flavor, too - not much, but a bit.

There are a few viable ways to run Conan. He could be the "Thug" alternative of Fighter, limtied to medium/light and greater skills per level as suggested with an expanded class skill list. or a bit of multi-classing fighter/rogue or barbarian/rogue.


LazarX wrote:
The Speaker in Dreams wrote:


Not for me. Conan's a LOT more level headed than "rage" types, IMO. Sure he's a "barbarian" but for my experience (reading novels, comics, and watching the movies) he's not really a "rage" type of guy. He seems more like a highly skilled Fighter.

If he's "barbarian" it's more a matter of how he interacts with society and civilization in general rather than a game-mechanic-like emphasis on raging and getting more powerful/reckless. Keep in mind the down and dirty nature of his world - it's almost a specific POINT that Conan makes few mistakes in combat because it WILL spell his death. That's not a Barbarian mindset, IMO, it's a Fighter.

The fact that he's ungodly strong - that's just a feature of his stats. He's also consistently strong - not suddenly strong or anything like that (ie: rage).

On a side note: I also think he'd rely on his feats and skill-set more than equipment to see him through - he's always running out of funding and stuff {plus magic just doesn't seem all that frequent in his world}.

Addendum: I think he *might* have a bit of Rogue tossed in there for flavor, too - not much, but a bit.

There are a few viable ways to run Conan. He could be the "Thug" alternative of Fighter, limtied to medium/light and greater skills per level as suggested with an expanded class skill list. or a bit of multi-classing fighter/rogue or barbarian/rogue.

Or he could just be straight barbarian with some rogue-ish skill selections.


meatrace wrote:
LazarX wrote:
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Or he could just be straight barbarian with some rogue-ish skill selections.

points at his creation :D


In A Witch Shall Be Born, Conan blatantly uses something similar to magic missle. He was a minimum spell caster with Str and Dex to make his unarmed ability the same as a Fighter and enough Con to make his advancement the same as a Rogue. In Red Nails he admitts that he could berserk but says he does not know what would happen, also in Red Nails he reads from a scroll casting Stoneskin or Barkskin! He was described (again in Red Nails) as a murderer on the field and not a combatant. The highest villians were always wizards or astral beings, he had visions, and could dodge magic. Conan lived in an occult world that was actually FILLED with sorcery!


Read: POOL OF THE BLACK ONE to know nearly everything about the real Conan. Also I suggest reading TREASURE OF TRANICOS, my personal favorite with either RED NAILS or ROGUES IN THE HOUSE close behind. And don't skip any of the others either. The inspiration I have found in barbarian/survival gaming is the Conan encompassed what he appeared to be having a multitude of other skills. In a recent 4.0 game a Barbarian with high stats (Charisma I think) was as effective a healer as a Paladin or Cleric, he only needed some herbs and quiet. That is being a barbarian, class or not, in my book. What does the word mean anyway, Beast-Man? Wild-Man? Anybody remember Riverwind from Dragonlance? He had "can do."


Bright wrote:
Read Frost Giant's Daughter, Carpjay, Conan wasn't a berserker. He was an alcoholic, but not a Norseman either. The Norse descend from the Aesir and the Vanir. It is suggested that Conan was the descendant of survivors of Atlantis.

I make no mention whatsoever that i think Conan = berseker. I am answering OP's original question about different inspirations for barbarians. This thread became a discussion of conan, I was getting back to the original question.


Carpjay wrote:
Bright wrote:
Read Frost Giant's Daughter, Carpjay, Conan wasn't a berserker. He was an alcoholic, but not a Norseman either. The Norse descend from the Aesir and the Vanir. It is suggested that Conan was the descendant of survivors of Atlantis.
I make no mention whatsoever that i think Conan = berseker. I am answering OP's original question about different inspirations for barbarians. This thread became a discussion of conan, I was getting back to the original question.

This thread is called Conan The Barbarian.


I can't remember what site or when I found this at, but I hope it helps.

Shadow Lodge

Conan is a epic level gestalt barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue.


Read this thread and you will see barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue still doesn't cover it!


Kthulhu wrote:
Conan is a epic level gestalt barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue.

What about Wizard and Paladin?!

Seriously though, why Ranger? Anyone can track. I don't recall him ever disarming a trap, though he does specifically react to traps sprung on him quickly (Trap Sense).


meatrace wrote:
Kthulhu wrote:
Conan is a epic level gestalt barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue.
What about Wizard and Paladin?! Seriously though, why Ranger? Anyone can track. I don't recall him ever disarming a trap, though he does specifically react to traps sprung on him quickly (Trap Sense).

Seriously, he was a wizard with abnormal strength.


Bright wrote:
This thread is called Conan The Barbarian.

True, but OP's question was this (emphasis mine, otherwise direct quote in its entirety): "i have been keeping track of the new Conan movie coming out next year and was wandering if Conan is my major inspiration for playing a Barbarian what are other peoples inspirations for playing Barbarians"

So conan discussion is perfectly on target, but I was trying to answer the original question and had noticed that there were many more posts about conan than those answering that basic query...other people's inspirations for barbarians. I think the 1e berserker "monster" was an inspiration for the class as a whole as well as for many players, so it also fits the topic...imho.

But conan is a fascinating figure worthy of much discussion, and I've been enjoying the talk about him as a PC, as well as some mentions of other inspirations. I'm sure OP has enjoyed it, too.


very much so, i do enjoy hearing other peoples views of Conan.

i don't feel like the thread has really moved away from what i wanted to talk about.


Bright wrote:
meatrace wrote:
Kthulhu wrote:
Conan is a epic level gestalt barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue.
What about Wizard and Paladin?! Seriously though, why Ranger? Anyone can track. I don't recall him ever disarming a trap, though he does specifically react to traps sprung on him quickly (Trap Sense).
Seriously, he was a wizard with abnormal strength.

Because of something he did once in one story, which I've read and don't remember that bit, disregarding everything else the character ever does? Regardless of his patent mistrust of magic? His complete lack of arcane knowledge?


Carpjay wrote:
Bright wrote:
This thread is called Conan The Barbarian.
True, but OP's question was this (emphasis mine, otherwise direct quote in its entirety): "i have been keeping track of the new Conan movie coming out next year and was wandering if Conan is my major inspiration for playing a Barbarian what are other peoples inspirations for playing Barbarians" So conan discussion is perfectly on target, but I was trying to answer the original question and had noticed that there were many more posts about conan than those answering that basic query...other people's inspirations for barbarians. I think the 1e berserker "monster" was an inspiration for the class as a whole as well as for many players, so it also fits the topic...imho. But conan is a fascinating figure worthy of much discussion, and I've been enjoying the talk about him as a PC, as well as some mentions of other inspirations. I'm sure OP has enjoyed it, too.

What I am saying is berserker = barbarian = conan is off base. Where does our "barbarian" image come from, Germanic people who upset Rome or Attila the Hun perhaps? Conan, I believe, is misunderstood.


meatrace wrote:
Bright wrote:
meatrace wrote:
Kthulhu wrote:
Conan is a epic level gestalt barbarian/fighter/ranger/rogue.
What about Wizard and Paladin?! Seriously though, why Ranger? Anyone can track. I don't recall him ever disarming a trap, though he does specifically react to traps sprung on him quickly (Trap Sense).
Seriously, he was a wizard with abnormal strength.
Because of something he did once in one story, which I've read and don't remember that bit, disregarding everything else the character ever does? Regardless of his patent mistrust of magic? His complete lack of arcane knowledge?

He did lots of things in stories I know I have read! "His lack of arcane knowlege" you haven't read any of Robert E Howard's stories have you. If you want to single class Conan it is as a minimum intelligence spellcaster with strength and dexterity to be formidible in combat. I have read Conan after Conan. In Path of Eagles he Feigns Death, etc.


Actually he is a barbarian, but over his adventures he has learned an incantion from Unearthed Arcana.


Zmar wrote:
Actually he is a barbarian, but over his adventures he has learned an incantion from Unearthed Arcana.

He used spells and cantrips in every story. Read his encounter with Baal-Petor, I think you will find that in Shadows In Zomboula. Fighting was a natural gift he had, he was an outlander but not a primitive. I am not trying to torque anybody I am saying that Conan used magic and his enemies were wizards.


Imagine if you rolled all 17's and 18's. You could pick any class and your character would definetly be great in a fight. So you pick wizard and advance on combat. This is why he was less heavily armored, and often carried only a long daggar. It is that he had a kind of bloodlust and love for breaking taboo. He was an outcast from the wilderness, practically a traitor for fighting the picts--there is one: Mercenary.


Bright wrote:
Meatrace, and what about his father before him? You have obviously missed everything in those stories. Here is a question, why would a semi nomadic society allow a boy who was strong enough to kill a bull be stolen? This isn't movie Conan, this depression era pulp written in the 1930's. The answer is he literaly had the devil in him. Conan was a witch, that is the whole point of the entire series.

Where does it say that Conan was stolen? Other than the 1982 movie of course.

I seriously don't know where you're getting this stuff. Please quote me where he has used magic missile as previously stated. As in story, chapter, and page number. I've LITERALLy never heard anyone ever assert that Conan was a spellcaster, and the idea is frankly as absurd as insisting that Han Solo is a Jedi.


Bright wrote:
Imagine if you rolled all 17's and 18's. You could pick any class and your character would definetly be great in a fight. So you pick wizard and advance on combat. This is why he was less heavily armored, and often carried only a long daggar. It is that he had a kind of bloodlust and love for breaking taboo. He was an outcast from the wilderness, practically a traitor for fighting the picts--there is one: Mercenary.

You're so wrong you don't even know. What game are you talking about? Certainly not PATHFINDER, you know, the forums you're on. If you have an 18 strength and a BAB of 5 at level 10, no combat feats, and a poor fortitude save you're going to be HORRIBLE in combat compared to, I don't know, a particularly pernicious rabbit.


Bright wrote:
Zmar wrote:
Actually he is a barbarian, but over his adventures he has learned an incantion from Unearthed Arcana.
He used spells and cantrips in every story. Read his encounter with Baal-Petor, I think you will find that in Shadows In Zomboula. Fighting was a natural gift he had, he was an outlander but not a primitive. I am not trying to torque anybody I am saying that Conan used magic and his enemies were wizards.

Where exactly in Shadows of Zamboula does Conan use ANY magic?

I remember him making a few sigils when he was pursued by the animals summoned by Pict Shaman, but that is all. No magic in conan's hands anywhere else.


Conan is wasted on you guys. He uses magic missle in A Witch Shall Be Born after emerging from the sewers while all the fighters and guards are busy outside. The people he dealt with were theives and drunks. If you don't know about being stolen then you haven't read The Thing In The Crypt. And if you think Conan was a barbarian by any qualification other being born in the hills then you haven't read the class either. It is a kind of ego mania to say Conan = Me = I draw my sword at the last possible second and slaughter my foes. Grow up.


Zmar wrote:
Bright wrote:
Zmar wrote:
Actually he is a barbarian, but over his adventures he has learned an incantion from Unearthed Arcana.
He used spells and cantrips in every story. Read his encounter with Baal-Petor, I think you will find that in Shadows In Zomboula. Fighting was a natural gift he had, he was an outlander but not a primitive. I am not trying to torque anybody I am saying that Conan used magic and his enemies were wizards.
Where exactly in Shadows of Zamboula does Conan use ANY magic? I remember him making a few sigils when he was pursued by the animals summoned by Pict Shaman, but that is all. No magic in conan's hands anywhere else.

If you remember that then you might remember the aerix from that same story, a steel clawed solar being who was taking heads and seemed to have something to say to the Cimmerian. Phoenix On The Sword isn't even very long, focus on the dream not just blurring through to the fight (and there is another mystical attacker in that one as well). If you can't see these thing then People Of The Black Circle must be the most pointless story ever.


Well, Conan often encounters magic and the supernatural, but the question is whether he is actually the source of these phenomenons, or he is just the target. You should definitely try to find the later if you want to convince us of Conan's wizardry.

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Bright wrote:
Conan is wasted on you guys. He uses magic missle in A Witch Shall Be Born after emerging from the sewers while all the fighters and guards are busy outside. The people he dealt with were theives and drunks. If you don't know about being stolen then you haven't read The Thing In The Crypt. And if you think Conan was a barbarian by any qualification other being born in the hills then you haven't read the class either. It is a kind of ego mania to say Conan = Me = I draw my sword at the last possible second and slaughter my foes. Grow up.

Thing in the Crypt IS NOT A HOWARD STORY it was written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter in the 60s, nearly 30 years after Howard's death.

How are the stories wasted on us? I enjoy the stories and always have. If by wasted you mean we don't have the mystical insight into things that are not there like you do, then sure.

Tell us, O Wise One, please enlighten us to the plight of this lost mage Conan.


You guys really seem to be taking this personally. If you don't have reprints it is your own loss. "True Conan dealt with supernatural...." and how is that normal? When is the last time you had a weird dream and woke up with a sword in your hand? Also, not Nekhemet Sheket, Amon Thot, wrong Howard story. Without some form of curse or pact Conan is still a professional soldier hundred, maybe thousands of miles from home who rubs elbows with princes, steals slave girls, has trouble with giant snakes and gets attacked wizards; basically having nothing in common with any class except for his few weapons and reduced armor. So why did he ever leave his villiage and why do supernatural things happen to him and how in the heck does he kill these things?


LOL, this whole thread has gotten ridiculous and lame. Do you guys really think someone is going to come up with the build that everyone else says "That's it!!!"

I know I shouldn't have said anything but someone had to say it....


Deyvantius wrote:
LOL, this whole thread has gotten ridiculous and lame. Do you guys really think someone is going to come up with the build that everyone else says "That's it!!!" I know I shouldn't have said anything but someone had to say it....

I have had this discussion before and everytime I say Conan used witchcraft somebody starts screaming. You don't have to use your best score in your prime slot, that is the point.


Bright wrote:
Read Frost Giant's Daughter, Carpjay, Conan wasn't a berserker. He was an alcoholic, but not a Norseman either. The Norse descend from the Aesir and the Vanir. It is suggested that Conan was the descendant of survivors of Atlantis.

It has been said a couple of times that the Cimmerians are based on the Celts FYI.


Bright wrote:
You guys really seem to be taking this personally. If you don't have reprints it is your own loss. "True Conan dealt with supernatural...." and how is that normal? When is the last time you had a weird dream and woke up with a sword in your hand? Also, not Nekhemet Sheket, Amon Thot, wrong Howard story. Without some form of curse or pact Conan is still a professional soldier hundred, maybe thousands of miles from home who rubs elbows with princes, steals slave girls, has trouble with giant snakes and gets attacked wizards; basically having nothing in common with any class except for his few weapons and reduced armor. So why did he ever leave his villiage and why do supernatural things happen to him and how in the heck does he kill these things?

And which of these things makes him a wizard? If he is a wizard, then please meet Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, his wizardly friends. We're looking for at least close approximation in PFRPG, and that is IMO the Barbarian. Being a profesional soldier doesn't make you into a fighter, it's the rigorous formal training, which I can't remember Conan receiving. Conan approaches combat with a mix of sword skills, which he gained mostly by fightng others and his predatory instincts, which is much closer to Barbarian than to anything else.

Howard leaves many white spots in Conan's life and that's fine. Don't forget that his predecessors - characters in romantism historising novels (which probably belong to Howard's inspirations) are often strangers with unknown or blurry past. Conan is restless. He wants to rule his own kingdom once, like those about which he had heard stories at home. At home he was also one of the best and now he seeks fame beyond his own tribe or nation, because like many other warriors, he want's to be part of the songs and fireside stories. Conan also spedns prohibitive amount of money on drinking and gambling, so he goes on adventures often because he's desperate for some coin. I think that he has plenty of motivation to leave his village and continue adventuring afterwards.

Toward supernatural things happening to Conan I can only say that as a king (or a person destined to be one) Conan tends to attract attention of various powers, wizards among them. Some of them want to help him, most of them don't. He also visits places, which locals otherwise avoid for being haunted, so we can't blame him for experiencing weird dreams or worse.


It's on Encore tonight. I'm recording it to watch it later.


Bright wrote:
You guys really seem to be taking this personally. If you don't have reprints it is your own loss.

Stop that, as I've said I have read the Howard stories. You're the one whose assertions have come from non-Howard (and IMO therefore non-cannon) sources. I happen to have all the original REH stories in their most recent published forms.

Bright wrote:
"True Conan dealt with supernatural...." and how is that normal? When is the last time you had a weird dream and woke up with a sword in your hand?

When was the last time you were in Hyperborea? It's fantasy, and fantastic things happen. This isn't a biography of a real person, it's FICTION. You might as well wonder why Bilbo was the one to find the ring. My god BILBO'S A WITCH!

Bright wrote:
Without some form of curse or pact Conan is still a professional soldier hundred, maybe thousands of miles from home who rubs elbows with princes, steals slave girls, has trouble with giant snakes and gets attacked wizards; basically having nothing in common with any class except for his few weapons and reduced armor.

Again, it's a story. If he stayed at home and hunted game there would be no stories to tell. He has plenty in common with the barbarian: He is well versed at combat (BAB/weapon proficiencies), distrustful of magic(Superstitious rage power), destroys his enemies with furious abandon(Rage), is a skilled tracker and is quick and lithe like a panther (Survival and Acrobatics class skills) I can go on.

Bright wrote:
So why did he ever leave his villiage and why do supernatural things happen to him and how in the heck does he kill these things?

He left his village because...it was boring who knows? The stories don't really say. Again, if he hadn't there would be no stories, this is fantasy fiction. As for how he how he destroys these supernatural things...he's really frickin beefy, sly as a fox, and he STABS THINGS UNTIL THEY DIE FROM IT!

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Whatever. Everyone knows Conan is a smurf. Think about it...

Smurfs oppose Gargamel, an evil wizard. Conan opposes Amon Thoth, an evil wizard.

Smurfs are magical beings. Conan encounters magical beings.

Smurfs are blue. Conan sometimes sees things through a red haze when engaged in battle, obviously a result of the fact that he is blue, and therefore sees everything else as being slightly red by comparison.

I can't believe I'm the only one here seeing the obvious smurf connection.

Edit: Papa Smurf FTW!


The reason the barbarian class has trap sense and such at all is directly based on Conan.

I say the best class build for him, if you don't just design d20 freestyle, would be barbarian. More skills, hit points, faster and tougher than a fighter. Rage is actually the least iconic of Conan's abilities, but it is mentioned he entered a blood red haze at times.

Here's a link to an old 3.5 Conan I did. Maybe sometime I'll update him to PF.

http://dicefreaks.superforums.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=5&start=63


That and I think if I remember right in the Conan The Barbarian d20 game, Conan was officially listed as a Barbarian/Rogue, since he did spend some of his time as a thief.

But he is generally quite a calm barbarian by all accounts of the books and movies, but nobody ever said a barbarian had to be screaming when he was raging...lol

Dark Archive

northbrb wrote:
i have been keeping track of the new Conan movie coming out next year and was wandering if Conan is my major inspiration for playing a Barbarian what are other peoples inspirations for playing Barbarians.

I have yet to play a Barbarian, but I will eventually.

My inspiration? Either Thundarr The Barbarian (always my favorite :) or Brian Blessed as Vultan from 1980's Flash Gordon. :)


Epic Meepo wrote:

Whatever. Everyone knows Conan is a smurf. Think about it...

Smurfs oppose Gargamel, an evil wizard. Conan opposes Amon Thoth, an evil wizard.

Smurfs are magical beings. Conan encounters magical beings.

Smurfs are blue. Conan sometimes sees things through a red haze when engaged in battle, obviously a result of the fact that he is blue, and therefore sees everything else as being slightly red by comparison.

I can't believe I'm the only one here seeing the obvious smurf connection.

Edit: Papa Smurf FTW!

He obviously isn't a smurf on the outside, but his uncommon blue eyes betray him. And since he deals with the supernatural and the smurfs are supernatural, then it's logical that at one point or another he has smurfed with them. The only unsolved question that remains in this branch of Conanology is why Gargamel is still alive...

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