Recent content by Darrin Kelley

Except for a few adventure books, I own pretty much everything of both editions of OGL Conan. In fact I just got Cimmeria in the mail today.

Well for the setup, I'd say start the characters off about as far away from Conan as you can get. Running into high powered literary characters can only serve to promote childish attempts at oneupsmanship of that character, or will result in one or more dead PCs. Dead PCs are no fun. I'd...

That's not stopping me from buying Cimmeria and whateverr other major Conan book I don't have at the beginning of next month. I'm quite happy with my OGL Conan books. I'll be keeping my eye out for anything new that may arise for it. I'm still committed to it as a Mongoose customer. As long as...

Mongoose hasn't announced a discontinuation of the Conan OGL line yet. And they got the rug pulled out from under them for Runequest and Savage Worlds. I'm going to keep enjoying Conan OGL as long as it is produced, and for as long as I own the books already do.

The opinions of the Runequest fans don't matter to me one little bit. Conan OGL has been the game that mattered for two editions. That's where the money has been. Anything else is speculation and wishful thinking.

I started with Conan OGL 1st edition, the extremely flawed book before the Atlantean Edition appeared. I mailed in to Mongoose to get the Atlantean Edition through the special deal they had made to do so. So you can see, I have been with the game since its very beginning. CPI I think made it...

How would one go about submitting to become a Flaming Cobra publisher?

I own CoC in D20 and BRP. Both are good games. But I lean in preference toward the D20 version. It is just what I am used to.

For me, it is more of a feeling of annoyance. Changing a successful product for no other reason than for the sake of change is a guaranteed way to bring that out in one's customers. The reactions, I feel, are quite natural.

Chaosium has always been a company on the edge financially. Their releases have always suffered because of it. Cthulhu D20 suffered massively because Chaosium really didn't adiquately support the book. Their regular release schedule was so slow that by the time the contract with Wizards was up...

Stormbringer and CoC? Yes, they did survive on their own and did well commercially. The fact that they are two very large literary licenses with a big following definitely had a lot to do with that survival. And Chaosium went where the money was. Runequest didn't sell anywhere nearly as well as...

You can already do that with Cthulhu D20. It's completely easy. I have the Cthulhu D20 GM's Pack also. It gives extended advice on converting characters and critters over from BRP. And it was always my intention to use the two games in concert from the outset. Imagine alternating weeks. Conan...

The adopting of a new system for a licensed product in house is a hairy subject. It brings forth all sorts of complications. Both for the company and the customers. And it certainly puts the company's reliance on its customer-base at risk. There are like 30 books in the OGL Conan line right...

The players should be forwarned that Conan is not D&D. That a great many things do not work the same way as they are familiar with. They should be approaching it as a new game that has commonalities with what they may be familiar with. But they should still treat it as a totally new game. Such...

Don't believe a word of it until we actually get official word from the company. But if the rumor should be true, I have very little motivation to re-buy my complete Conan RPG collection under the Runequest system. And from all indications, I'm not the only OGL Conan fan who feels that way...