Recent content by Edhel

Dwellers of the Forbidden City, no doubt about it. It could be a great little sandbox for example on one of the islands of the Vilayet. I've never actually played AD&D, only B/X and then 3.x and 4E but I've been reading through old modules and Dragon magazines. They're all full of great...

Yes, our group has used them a long time (first the originals and now the pathfinder ones which are more suited to our houseruled version). They've been a great and easy-to-use tool bringing lots of excitement to criticals. I and Majestic7 have posted about our house rules multiple times on this...

For inspiration, I suggest the Imaro novels and its world, Nyumbani. EDIT: Nyumbani article even says: "The world of Nyumbani is set thousands of years ago in an alternate Africa, probably about the same time as the Hyborian Age." Atlas Games has also released Nyambe, a fine-looking...

http://www.pathfindersrd.com/ Check out the feat and combat changes.

Not much. Did I say or imply in any way that it is? We fixed power attack and massive damage in our game. (see Acheronian edition) Again, who's doing that?

Huh? How about Conan's hypnotise spells vs d&d's traditional non-damage dealing spells? Just from the 1st level wizard spells, I like sleep, hypnotism and color spray. And speaking of sleep, how did the Khitan sorcerers put people to sleep in Hour of the Dragon? Secondly, I really don't like...

Our house rules aka Acheronian Edition. That covers most of it, I guess.

I don't know if my gm, Majestic7, uses any, but I've convinced him to approve some feats from WOTC's Player's Handbook II, Complete Scoundrel, Book of the Nine Swords and Paizo's Dragon Compendium. If I was a Conan GM, I'd use all the enviroment books like Stormwrack etc like someone mentioned...

Then I suggest you read it. Don't disregard the class bonuses, feats, higher hit points, class abilities etc. If your scholar wants to have Str 18 and spend all his feats to improve close combat, it's fine, but he'll still be worse than soldier or barbarian and much worse in sorcery and...

Yeah, no, I don't this is fruitful at all. D20 isn't about simulation and making arbitary tweaks that feel realistic to you personally isn't worth it. The strength of the system is that it's fast and easy to improvise because the basic mechanics are simple and exception-based. Hit points in d20...

I didn't say a word about sorcery - I think it's ok as it is since I don't play a sorcerer. The point wasn't in the accumulation of wounds but in the fact that if you get skewered, the game is no fun since you can't regain hit points in any way. Even if you do, you'll be so weak that the small...

So you decided not to handle the issue? The point was not survival but the fact that you drop from the first strike - and after that you have to just sit and wait. I see it as a major flaw and unfun. Of course it would be even worse if there were no extra lives / fate points but that wasn't...

My 2 copper pieces: I think it would extremely easy to take the plot lines and most of the encounters from Age of Worms and Savage Tide and turn them into a conan-esque adventure. I don't see any trouble converting anything since you don't have to do it 1:1 (duh). Savage Tide's ending could be...

Yes, this is the old 3.x flaw and I think these kinds of game design issues belong to another thread. I haven't seen one where these would fit - but I've seen a couple of 'oh mitra how I hate 4E threads'*. In D&D, the depletion of resources is known as 9 o'clock adventure time. You leave your...

I'm kinda hopeless :). Why does this still go on? I've linked to my explanation something like 3-4 times and explained again in these posts. The short version: The point was NOT to remove massive damage but to fix the wide gap between attack and defenses that usually causes massive damage with...