Recent content by Hyborian Apeman

I am bummed. For all of its faults, the second book held the theme of the tension between humanity and curroption in the use of sorcery. Thanks for the heads up. I sadness at one less good Hyborean novel is lessened slightly at having read "Beyond the Black River" for the first time tonight...

Once again, I suffer deprevity due to the fact that I am an American, and must wait patiently before I can recieve this book. Even the Vanahiemians get the books before us Americans. :wink:

You all have PCs with characters that actually want to read anything in your campaigns? Hmm, my PCs must be taking the "Barbarian" aspect of Conan to an extreme. :D

I will leave the discussion of historical weapopnary to those more well read and intellegent then I. But to the point of archery focused PCs vs melee: I have run two decent lengthed Conan campaigns. One had a Shemite who was more focused on the bow, and another a Turanian focused on the...

This nay have been discussed already, but I am curious as to everyone's opinion to the Age of Conan novels that are being released. I have read the first two books of the "Heritic of Stygia" book, and at the least, I don't see why Howard would need to roll in his grave. They seem OK when you...

As always Vincent, I am impressed with your work. Keep it up!

Same here. I hope I didn't miss my window to get the map. Sheesh, I go on vacation for a while and look at all the stuff on the forum I missed.

I think 'People of the Black Circle' would likewise make for an excellent adventure. I ran an adaptation of it for a mid level party (complete with a Draw Forth the Heart spell) and it went vwery well. It would be easy to modify a lot of those encounters to an even higher level.

In D&D shields are a shield bonus (I am pretty sure, but my rules track record hasn't been very good as of late). So you can have +5 armor, +5 shield, and a +5 ring of protection (for deflection bonus) to have a killer AC. Fighting with 2 weapons or two handed can subtract up to 7 from your...

Yeah, I'd agree with Sutek. I think the biggest piece is the fact that strength and dex apply to the DV, and a character can choose (in most cases) which one will work the best. Of all my Conan players, I only have 2 that don't have both a high str and dex. The other 2 have a high one or the...

I'll track it down in your Sorcerery 1.1 thread. Note, at some point I may ask you to e-mail the master document, that is if I get to the point that I want to re tool the magic system.

I think the feel of Midnight is too different from Conan. I really got a Lord of the Rings fantasy feel as opposed to a Howard Sword and Sorcery feel. A gifted DM could probably transfer the adventures over and maintain the Hyborian feel, but it would be a lot more work then I would want to do.

Are you sure a passed save is left for dead/dying? I thought a passed save (assuming they still have HP) and they could keep up the fight?

Raven, Am I correct in my interpretation of some of your other posts that magic in your sessions is less dark and evil and more neutral? Which is completely fair, but I think I would prefer to stay closer to Howard's interpretation of magic. I don't have a big need to retool things because my...

One note about the lethality of Conan and the lack of magical healing: Characters heal 3 + con modifier + level each day, or 6 + 2 x con modifier + 2 x level with complete rest. Also, after each combat, each heal skill check can heal 3 + con modifier in hp. That was a pleasant little surprise...