I remember a Dune boardgame did in fact existed once, but I can't give any more details.

The squirrel won't need teeth

The King wrote:You talk much but you will soon hate your mothers for giving you birth and enabling you to experience this very day.

Nice one

EDIT : I will feed your manhood to my pet squirrel.

If it is as complex as it sounds, a specific Feat might be necessary to use this book.

This event will be remembered in ballads as "The gruesome death of an ugly man".

I hope for your sake your sword-arm is quicker than your mind.

Only by dying will you learn.

I loved Dark Sun. It was probably the most innovating setting for D&D : a harsh and cruel world of scarce resources and tyrannical sorcerer-kings.

Both me and my players are clearly narrativist. We're not playing a game (that's what video games are there for), we're co-telling a story.

I'm more interested in Turan/Hyrkania too.

Nobles also tend to have high Charisma and social skills, making them able to stand their (social) ground even abroad.

Well, keep in mind this isn't a mercenary's job we're talking about.

Guards are there to deter bandits in the first place. This kind of job doesn't automatically imply fighting. So the pay should be less than a merc's (merc jobs do imply actual fighting).

I go along with The King on this one. I'd add that, as the range of Conan OGL products is nowhere near TSR's, references to material found in other books should be far between. Besides, if you don't happen to have the book where the appropriate rule, monster, feat,..., can be found, you can always m...

Well, the wages should be inferior to a merc's pay. I'd say something like 2-5 sp/day (varies with the quality of the guards and the nature of the goods transported), food, and a bonus if there is an actual fight.

Soulmage wrote:It would be a shame to simply convert the old core material without expanding it to include the gems of what has been released since.

This is dangerous as the rules already are pretty complicated. Adding more rules in the MRB might discourage new players.

As I don't give a damn about the rules, I'd rather get new background info than reprinted stats, feats, skills,...

Also, to read the same paragrph twice in the same book (Shadizar, Stygia,...) drives me mad.

The French publisher Oriflam has produced several Hawkmoon sourcebooks and campaigns. Some of them are awesome but... it is written in French.

But for scenarios! I was thinking of something pre-made. Advice : plunder the Signs and Portens section asap. There's plenty of useful stuff there. As a first adventure, I used Coming of Hanuman. It has a very Howardish tone (brutish ape-men, defiant Zuagirs, Presumptuous Turanians, naked girls in ...

I agree with the barbarian.

Aholibamah wrote:The other thing that I intend to change is the stats--some of the slave girls are tougher on pure physical levels than the guards! I kind of chuckled to myself--I mean they're depicted as concubine types for the most part not as gladiators!

"Move away, thugs... or I release my slave concubine !"