Since Conan has made a long time appearance as a Marvel character, I was thinking that perhaps with some tweaks the old Marvel Super Heroes game might be used for Hyborian Age campaigns. Sorcery can be handled via Powers, whereas the normal people (including all non-sorcerer characters) would be normal humans with appropriate Talents.
The system lends itself well (obviously) to the kind of heroic action expected in a Conan game.
Has anyone done anything in this respect? It might be quite fun!
Marvel Super Heroes Conan!
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Marvel Super Heroes Conan!
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The old 1984 Conan RPG from TSR was already using a color table in the mood of MSH's one. The rules are still available as a a free download here:
http://www.midcoast.com/~ricekrwc/zefrs/
The game had really some nice ideas but had a somewhat 'unfinished' feel.
http://www.midcoast.com/~ricekrwc/zefrs/
The game had really some nice ideas but had a somewhat 'unfinished' feel.
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Somehow, Conan using a bright, colorful chart to determine fate dose not have a right feel to me! Spinning an arrow to get results like "Killed It!", "Robbed It", or "Raped It" sounds more like a Conan game then having to roll Burgundy or darker to hit. LOL
TSR also tried the same thing with 3rd edition Gamma World, but it did not work out all that well. It was too strange - even for Gamma World fans (which is odd, as we like things... a little strange!
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TSR also tried the same thing with 3rd edition Gamma World, but it did not work out all that well. It was too strange - even for Gamma World fans (which is odd, as we like things... a little strange!
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You can always decorate it with skulls and naked girlsMalcadon wrote:Somehow, Conan using a bright, colorful chart to determine fate dose not have a right feel to me! Spinning an arrow to get results like "Killed It!", "Robbed It", or "Raped It" sounds more like a Conan game then having to roll Burgundy or darker to hit. LOL
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Williams and Holland law:
"Everything can be demonstrated by statistical methods if you have enough data"
Williams and Holland law:
"Everything can be demonstrated by statistical methods if you have enough data"
Anything with sufficient quantities of those elements can mitigate a large ammount of other dross rather well.rabindranath72 wrote:You can always decorate it with skulls and naked girlsMalcadon wrote:Somehow, Conan using a bright, colorful chart to determine fate dose not have a right feel to me! Spinning an arrow to get results like "Killed It!", "Robbed It", or "Raped It" sounds more like a Conan game then having to roll Burgundy or darker to hit. LOL
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I loved that old Marvel Super Heroes RPG! I remember there was a website where you could see all the old books, but i can't seem to find the site right now...
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Bada bing, bada BOOM!!! http://www.marvelrpg.net/DaveNC wrote:I loved that old Marvel Super Heroes RPG! I remember there was a website where you could see all the old books, but i can't seem to find the site right now...
Which has not just the original rules but a whole new simulacrum game based on them.Hervé wrote:The old 1984 Conan RPG from TSR was already using a color table in the mood of MSH's one. The rules are still available as a a free download here:
http://www.midcoast.com/~ricekrwc/zefrs/
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The resolution chart was simply terrible!! For Marvel, it was fine and made sense. But TSR went crazy and added it to Gamma World (killed the game), Top Secret (killed the game), and Star Frontiers (killed the game). The original Conan game was actually pretty good but Heve hits on the nose. It definatly felt unfinished.
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Soooooooooooo true!cbrunish wrote:The resolution chart was simply terrible!! For Marvel, it was fine and made sense. But TSR went crazy and added it to Gamma World (killed the game), Top Secret (killed the game), and Star Frontiers (killed the game).
I find some of my favorite games has an unfinished feel to them - if only to get you to work with it, to add your own personal touch to it, but I'm just ol'-skool that way!cbrunish wrote:The original Conan game was actually pretty good but Heve hits on the nose. It definatly felt unfinished.
By the way, this is a bit off-topic, but what is everyone's favorite Marvel characters? I'm just a little curious!
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Either the Thing or Spiderman. Oh, and Ghost Rider!
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The ConanMalcadon wrote:Soooooooooooo true!cbrunish wrote:The resolution chart was simply terrible!! For Marvel, it was fine and made sense. But TSR went crazy and added it to Gamma World (killed the game), Top Secret (killed the game), and Star Frontiers (killed the game).I find some of my favorite games has an unfinished feel to them - if only to get you to work with it, to add your own personal touch to it, but I'm just ol'-skool that way!cbrunish wrote:The original Conan game was actually pretty good but Heve hits on the nose. It definatly felt unfinished.
By the way, this is a bit off-topic, but what is everyone's favorite Marvel characters? I'm just a little curious!
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I always liked Nightcrawler. He is a vary interesting charterer - a shy, yet outgoing; dark and demonic in appearance, sunny and devout in heart; and his nerdish interest of fantasy and swashbuckling adventures (Errol Flynn movies, ERB books, and such) makes him even more appealing to the ladies. I just like how Marvel breaths life into their charterers.
I also like (in no real order) Storm, Shadowcat, Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Benjamin J. Grimm, Warlock, Corsair of the Starjammer, and of course Conan!
I also like (in no real order) Storm, Shadowcat, Wolverine, Doctor Strange, Benjamin J. Grimm, Warlock, Corsair of the Starjammer, and of course Conan!
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