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It's almost exactly like the first edition , same painting and font but with " Atlantean Edition " about two inches from the bottom , and the spine no longer has the " OGL " logo at the top .

The write - up mentions " formative levels " , I'm presuming it'll be a 1st - 3rd level start working all the way up . The scenarios published so far go with this , presumably because it's easier to " beef up " the beginning than rewrite it for a lower level group . Obviously , this is just my...

I don't know much about bow construction , but from the stories and the aesthetics of the historic races that the relevant hyborian nations are based on , Argo's suggestions tally with how I'd imagined them . The suggestions on materials used make sense as well .

Is Free Companies likely to be available at Dragonmeet ? I'm hoping to go , but will be sending a shopping list with friends if not , any likelihood of any other Conan exclusives there ?

All the reviews I've seen of the Conan game have been pretty unfavourable , to the extent that one mag have started using " not as bad as Conan " to describe poor games . Having said that , if I find the Xbox version in a sale I'd probably still buy it , obsessive geek that I am !

What about putting up each of the articles as a PDF you can buy via the website , then we'd have the choice of buying the mag or just the articles wanted. Id prefer this as I find S&P hard to find ( no decent games shops near me ) . I'd happily pay £ 1 - £ 1.50 for just the Conan stuff and it...

You could keep it in the desert , just have the Thing need a moisture rich environment ie. it would dry up and die before getting out of the desert . It could have arrived from the outer dark ( deep space ) in many ways , not neccesarily a physical spaceship , the creatures in lovecraft's...

Thanks guests , I had no idea Cimmeria was anything other than a fictional invention . I love this sort of stuff , knowing the background of the fiction always makes it more enjoyable for me .

Cheers Terry , I thought you might know someone in the know !

Leisure Games have the first issue of a new mag in stock which has an article entitled " Robert E Howard : from the bizzare to the bazaar " . Has anyone read this ? If so , what's the verdict ?

Guzberg , you're right . The character does seem to be Bran , but since he's not explicitely named I thought I'd point it out . Just me nitpicking !

Cheers , I might have to pick that up . I got the Del Rey Solomon Kane book and was very impressed - they included quite a bit of extra stuff / alternate versions etc. If the Bran volume is anything like this it should be a treat .

I'm not sure what's in " Worms of the Earth " , I picked up the Baen edition of " Bran Mak Morn " which contains the following : Author's Foreword The Lost Race Men of the Shadows Kings of the Night A Song of the Race Worms of the Earth Fragment The Dark Man The Gods of Bal Sagoth The Lost Race...

I'd probably use a small Cthonian , these were used well in a desert setting in Richard Tierney's " The Worm of Urakhu " , one of his Simon of Gitta / Scroll of Thoth stories which is basically a biblical - era rewrite of Dune . In fact quite a few of the Simon stories use Cthulhu mythos...

Old Bear ( Mongoose guy ) has a page or two on his site giving conversion notes for using Necropolis in Conan and there was a forum post giving a link to a site with conversion notes for Ancient Kingdoms : Mesopotamia ( sorry can't remember the site off hand but look for the threads with AK:M in...