I agree with the need for more regional sourcebooks, starting with Turan/Hyrkania and Ophir/Koth.

Well, in order to stay "Howardian", I'd say about "gods" :

-they are mortal (they may be rather hard to kill though)

-they aren't all-powerful

-their exact nature is unknown and philosophers debated endlessly about it. Howardian characters tend to despise philosophic questions...

Mongoose Gar wrote:That's mainly 'cos Chris asked me for "stuff he could talk about in an ad" and I had the Sorcery chapter open in front of me on my laptop.

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From my experience as GM, I don't forbid my players to play evil characters, but I think it takes a mature player to do so.

Too often I saw an evil character played as a 5-years-old burning ants with a magnifier and lacking any personnality traits besides being evil and power-driven.

Well, I think rules should support the game and not the opposite. As the GM, you are allowed to say "no" to anything, even if the rules say "yes". Alternatives : Weapons like bardiche and pike are useless in a building, a cave, and so on. In a narrow corridor or stairs, even a broadsword may be inef...