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...

That's one damn good looking fan made adventure.

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 ...

ALTERNATIVE IDEA FOR FATE POINTS I'm not 100% accepting of the official rules for PCs regaining Fate Points. In first edition, the rule is that the players are awarded one or two FPs at the completion of a major goal, usually at the end of an adventure. In second edition, players can use that metho...

Sargava The Lost Colony is a 32 page booklet for Pathfinder (Golarion setting) and I would never have thought that a Golarion book could provide some much material for a Conan setting. Basically, it talks about an [Argosean] isolated outpost in the Black Kingdoms, that is White colonists among Blac...

USING SKILLS OTHERWISE NOT USED Skill points are a scarce resource, and understandably, players will use them to improve their character's effectiveness in the game. Usually, we're talking about improving the character's combat ability. A player will sometimes place a few points in a skill just for...

AQUILONIA - THE AQUILONIAN MILITARY The third chapter is useful, devoted as it is to the Aquilonian military. There are notes on how big the kingdom's military is as a whole and what type of units are used by the Aquilonians. This chapter can be useful to a GM in a number of ways, from informing th...

AQUILONIA - AQUILONIAN SUB-RACES The entire second chapter is devoted to helping players create specific Aquilonian characters and Game Masters create NPCs. Advice is given for Attalusians, Bossonians, Central Aquilonians, Gundermen, Poitainians, and the Tauran, plus those Aquilonians who live in t...

AQUILONIA - AQUILONIAN SUB-RACES The entire second chapter is devoted to helping players create specific Aquilonian characters and Game Masters create NPCs. Advice is given for Attalusians, Bossonians, Central Aquilonians, Gundermen, Poitainians, and the Tauran, plus those Aquilonians who live in t...

AQUILONIA - LIFE IN AQUILONIA 2 HONOR & ALLEGIANCE The next two sections of the chapter cover Honor and Allegiance . This is good stuff. It's for roleplayers. There's the rules in the game for those two aspects of a character. A Conan game doesn't have to be all blood and guts. There's a real deep ...

AQUILONIA - LIFE IN AQUILONIA The first chapter is rather long, so I won't cover it all in this one post. I'll break it up, not only to make it more easily read but also because I probably won't read it in one sitting. The introduction to the chapter is extremely useful to a GM. There, it describes...

AQUILONIA - FLOWER OF THE WEST - INTRODUCTION One of the most important setting books in the game is the one written by Vincent Darlage. This is a top notch, excellent sourcebook for your Conan game. Why? Well, I'm going to tell you about it. In general, though, the book not only informs the player...