The very fact that Conan is so unusual means you CANNOT cite him as an example of success. Not every player will become a king. Aiming to become a king is, however, the very epitome of self-agrandisement. As for saving women, that's because he's Hyboria's number 1 shagger. It seems he values bonking...

Winning in Hyboria is about survival and personal aggrandisemnt, not saving the village from orcs. If you are saving a tauran village from the Picts it's because you are white, they are white and you hate Picts. On the other hand, if you are Picts... While possibly true in a dark game, its phrased ...

The truest thing is don't reward people being 'good'. And don't punish the 'bad'. Whoever said allow a bad NPC to honour a deal is so right. This alone will make players totally change their approach, because all through they'll be waiting for their 'bad' employer to shaft them. Even after it ends t...

It's interesting that PDFs sell so poorly compared to their dead-tree counterparts. For me (as an IT professional with an unhealthy RPG collection) pdfs outnumber actual books by about 20 to 1. But... when I actually want to play a game I'll either purchase a real book if it's available or print ou...

Granted, but the point is nobody is going around dissing the LOTR trilogy as being an embarrassment to the subject. That's not true either. I have Tolkien purist friends who think Peter Jackson is a hack, and hate how he butchered John Ronald Reuel's masterpiece. While I don't agree with them, I th...

Granted, but the point is nobody is going around dissing the LOTR trilogy as being an embarrassment to the subject. You look at LOTR and can relate to the Middle Earth written about by Tolkien. You look at the Conan films and they have as much to do with Hyboria as Hawk the Slayer, for example, bar...

Granted, but the point is nobody is going around dissing the LOTR trilogy as being an embarrassment to the subject. You look at LOTR and can relate to the Middle Earth written about by Tolkien. You look at the Conan films and they have as much to do with Hyboria as Hawk the Slayer, for example, barr...

I love the presumably intentional irony of 'dead-tree counterparts' in the sentence before printing out PDFs.

While there is indeed a lot of work changing stories for the screen, LOTR showed it can be done with a great deal of sympathy.

The original Mad Max was released in Australia in 1979! If you can get your hands on that version (not the US dubbed version) you might be interested to hear Gibsons accent. There is certainly a generation of kids who haven't heard that . Sadly I can remember going to the cinema to see the original...

Gibson also acted in the Mad Max films, which had a Conanesque brutality. There would have been a time when poiting out Mel Gibson was Mad Max would be akin to saying God was in the Bible a bit. :wink: True, but remember Old BEar, there's a whole generation of youngsters out there that don't realis...

WeakAsAKhitan wrote:Gibson also acted in the Mad Max films, which had a Conanesque brutality.

There would have been a time when poiting out Mel Gibson was Mad Max would be akin to saying God was in the Bible a bit.

A few years ago the bloke in line for Conan was Eric Bana. At least, he was top of the wish list in 2005.

Production values of Xena are what you will more likely get, with Rosie O'Donnell as Belit...

Pretty much anything this Ratner guy touches turns to crap. It's not just that he will bugger the Conan brand, but it may well become a laughing stock. http://au.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/brett_ratner/ It's not like the two Conan movies to date have a stack of credibility in any case. Arnie is o...

The trouble with 'arguing' with you, Vincent, is that after about two posts I always end up agreeing with you. :lol: I don't recall the letter about the grandfather but I've always considered your knowledge of the subject superior to mine so I'll happily take your word for it. I guess all of this bo...

How do you come to the conclusion that Conan is an atypical Cimmerian? My recollection oif Howard's writing is that Conan is painted as being typical of his surly kind. Howard did occasionally paint Conan as atypical. Here are two examples where Howard hints Conan is more like an Aesir in temperame...

"Conan, what is best in life?"

"To crunch your muesli, never drive a chariot as it's bad for the environment, and to hear the repetitive nagging of old women."

How do you come to the conclusion that Conan is an atypical Cimmerian? My recollection oif Howard's writing is that Conan is painted as being typical of his surly kind. Because he is the only Cimmerian living his life out of Cimmeria. So because of circumstance he is 'atypical'? :roll: I would sugg...

I don't see the Cimmerians as PC treehuggers either. Whether or not they had women warleaders is open to debate, based as much on a lack of evidence, but throughout Conan's career I seem to recall his personal preference was for wine, women and song, not some half-baked eco-theory. Well Conan is an...