Recent content by argo

Some of you may remember me, I've been away awhile but had to come back to comment on this. To be perfectly honest I've slowed down my purchases of Conan RPG products due to the fact that I've already got more than I will probably ever use. Likewise not much interest in RQ or SW Conan. But...

I voted Good. My vote would have been Very Good but for a few errors that are simply too big to be ignored. Specifically... The editing :evil: From the first printing to the Shadizar map, plus some other general copy/paste errors, typos and statblock errors. The editing on the line just...

Sweeeeeeet, been looking forward to this for a while now. 8)

Anti-climactic for whom? The PC's or the GM? I usually define anti-climactic as having a GMPC step in at the last minute, solve all the problems and take all the glory. It may be the Conan RPG but, within the contex of any given campaign it is the players who are the "title characters". I...

Yeah, getting players to switch their mindset from any game to a different one can be difficult. Try talking to them upfront about some of the differences between DnD and Conan. Some of the differences you might want to highlight before the game begins. -Power is a function of your character...

I don't much like the martial desciple class, but that is a different thread. The archtypal "martial artist" in Conan is a Scholar multiclass with Orential style. However, if you player is focused on the "drunken master" concept, and you want to enable that concept, the scholar route might not...

The artwork is very nice. Still, I have to say that I really liked the old cover's style showing sort of a "snapshot" of the action (a theme also used in most of the rest of the Conan line). Still, it will probably grow on me with time. I just hope the ensamble of floating heads doesn't...

Free Companies narrative combat system is good if you expect to have mass battles only occasionally and/or to not have the mass battle the central focus of the game session. It provides just enough structure that the players will feel that their actions and the roll of the dice decided the...

I'm gonna disagree. Let them have all the loot they can carry! It will just provide more adventure hooks later when they have to try to hold on to it, or else spend it on something that then turns out to be more trouble than they anticipated, natch. If nothing else you can always enforce the...

Now, stuff like this is the kind of "punishment" that I advise the OP to avoid at all costs. Passive-agressive morality plays done through backhanded mechanisms (like in-character penalties for out of character behavior) are most likely to just piss off the player in question without him...

I'm not going to switch rules in the middle of my current campaign. But I do plan to get the second edition and, if I like what I see, then I will probably run future campaigns with it. Just my two copper.

Tokens for good roleplay are a good idea. Positive reinforcement >> "punishment" What exactly do you mean when you say the problem player is "not taking the game seriously"? You say he interrupts you. Does that mean he is interrupting the NPC monologue with some snarky insult aimed at the...

Thats 20 points of damage or more in a single hit, after the DR itself is considered. Basically - any time the character has to make a Massive Damage save his armor also has its DR reduced by 1d4. The armor damage is persistent, it does not go away at the end of the scene. Damaged armor can...

If you want detailed rules for boozing then "Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns" by EN Publishing (available as a PDF) is your best bet. As the name indicates it covers more than drinking, also includes rules for all sorts of mini-games and competitions and some sample locations. OTOH you don't...

I agree that the price seems fair given the nature of the product. What I was asking though is if there is a chance of a future normal-quality, non-limited edition product. Only a handfull of people will ever own a Ferrari, most people will own a Ford... if you follow what I'm saying. In any...