I don't know if you have looked at 5th Edition much, but what advice would you give for turning that edition of D&D into a Sword & Sorcery game? Throw out alignment. People in S&S stories are gray. They are sometimes good and sometimes bad--they are people. Heroes are many times anti-heroes. Make M...

Reading? Writing? Here's a simple and easy to use rule in your game for character literacy. First off, note that the NPC class for Commoners default to illiterate. If a Commoner classed character can read and write, it costs them 2 skill points. In the game, all PCs are considered to be literate. I...

LEVEL ADVANCEMENT When a character advances a level, I award them their new hit points and bonuses due to that level. My thought is that the character has earned that through the acquisition of experience points. What I don't do is allow new Feats and skills to magically improve the character. The ...

LEVEL ADVANCEMENT When a character advances a level, I award them their new hit points and bonuses due to that level. My thought is that the character has earned that through the acquisition of experience points. What I don't do is allow new Feats and skills to magically improve the character. The ...

THE COST OF TRAINING/LEARNING/ADVANCING Way back when, when I ran my long-term campaigns playing AD&D and AD&D 2E, one of the rules I used was that character level advancement usually (not always) required some sort of mentor/teacher/trainer. This could be some grizzled old war veteran who could te...

Player's Guide to Xoth This could be useful to a Conan campaign. It's a Pathfinder based Player's Guide to the private gaming world of Xoth, which is the sword & sorcery campaign of Morten Braten (a.k.a. Thulsa). CLICK HERE FOR PDF. Venture in the footsteps of Conan the Cimmerian, Satampra Zeiros o...

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Random Sword & Sorcery Tables TABLE I 1 curved dagger 2 Dao-Khee 3 caravan or caravanserai 4 jewelry or gem 5 pirate ship 6 corrupt advisor 7 sewer tunnel 8 temple guardian 9 feat of desperate strength 10 cursed artifact or weapon 11 burglary or kidnapping 12 treachery or betrayal 13 naked female c...

CONAN THE INVINCIBLE by Robert Jordan RPG Notes A good source of Conan material for your roleplaying game are the various novels and short stories (and comics), both those written by Robert E. Howard and those that are not. Here are some notes from Chapter One of Robert Jordan's book, Conan The Inv...

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SCROLLS When converting a standard D&D adventure, or an adventure from most other fantasy games, for use in a Conan game, the GM will most likely dispense with most of the "drops" that are common in such things. Things like +1 daggers, rings of invisibility, cloaks of protection, and what not are e...

NEW FEAT: IMPROVED DEMORALIZE OTHER (GENERAL) You are skilled at landing fear into the souls of your enemies. Demoralize Other is a use of the Intimidate skill. Benefit: Demoralize Others is a standard action that can be combined with a (standard action) attack during combat. In addition, the demor...

CTB Novelization - 5 -- Thulsa Doom's helmet is jeweled. He wears serpentine mail. -- The Cimmerian captives are taken north, into Vanaheim. -- Rexor and Doom leave the Vanir sometime during this journey. Captives speculate that the Vanir paid the two for their services in the raid. -- It is Spring...

CTB Novelization - 4 -- Rexor directs the battle from a hill across the river from the village. No mention is made yet of Thulsa Doom. Is Rexor a Vanir? -- This strikes me as strange, too: when it was obvious that they had lost (the must have failed a Morale check based on number of casualties), th...

CTB Novelization - 3 -- The Sword: the crossguard is fashioned to resemble a stag's antlers; the two-handed grip is wrapped with string made from the gut of forest tigers; the steel pommel is fashioned into the likeness of the hooves of elk. -- The scene on the mountain ties into the creation of th...

CTB Novelization - 2 -- Wind and Fire are the children of the sky gods. Father Crom rules the earth, the heavens, and the sea. -- Giants once dwelt in the earth. They were fashioners of wood and stone; miners of gems and gold. They fooled Crom and stole the secret of steel from him. Notice how this...

READING L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP'S AND LIN CARTER'S NOVELIZATION OF.... CONAN THE BARBARIAN THIEF. WARRIOR. BARBARIAN. KING. Now...how about we read the novelization of the original Conan movie! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-78i9Wn8J8qk/U2JhO6tkErI/AAAAAAAAD40/nuc39m8YZpQ/s1600/conan005.jpg It looks to be a ...