Recent content by Jason Durall

Hey there! This'll probably be my last post on this forum - it's clear that I'll have to go the "serial numbers scraped off" route for this and will likely just self-publish it - I'll distribute info on other boards (like rpg.net or enworld) when this happens. However, I wanted to address...

Thanks again to all the folks on this thread who've voted to get the project published, though it seems certain that Mongoose will not reconsider. I have a modest proposal, however, that might make a lot of folks happy. As anyone who follows US news might know, the city of Cross Plains, TX...

Just to be clear, Mongoose is not publishing Conan and the Shadow of the Sorcerer. I don't know what they have planned, but according to an email I received from Matthew Sprange yesterday, the project is still cancelled.

Hey all - Thanks for the continued interest in the product. I came back to check on things, and am amazed to see the positive response here. However, I've been led to believe that as far as Mongoose is concerned, cancelled is cancelled. As noted in my previous post: So there you go. Jason

There is no mystery to it. The project got off to an extremely late start due to some serious miscommunications between Mongoose and myself, and a lack of info I needed to start. It was announced too early (before I'd even submitted a full outline), and major questions I needed to begin went...

I am anxious to see the adapted scenarios. I pushed for them a long while ago, as I felt they'd do quite well. Players aren't always familiar with the original stories, and enough can be changed to make them feel new and distinct. There's a considerable difference between reading about Conan...

Address all disrespect to me. The lateness is entirely my fault. I have valid reasons, but the deadline was blown in a spectacular fashion and for that I am truly sorry. "The Man" has been a model of understanding and patience, leavened only ever-so-slightly by having soccer hooligans come to...

Since this means lengthy diatribes that I skip reading, I'm not generally concerned, until they reach the point of ridiculousness (like your five-page attack on, well, everything sexist, in a thread originally about a warrior class book).

Am I correct in guessing that you don't game with any women? It's your game, so you can obviously do what you want, but you did come to the forum asking for advice on your rules tweaks (under the header "making combat grittier"), and you seem to want to throw out any criticism on this issue...

Awesome! I've only read scattered short stories about Imaro, so it'll nice to read a big chunk of them at once.

This would seem to run counter to having a character like the aged King Conan, who's still a fearsome opponent. Wow. This will serve to make critical hits the equivalent of killing blows. I'm not going near this one, but it seems profoundly sexist and seems to channel females into roles of...

I've only read the first of the Kern series, but sadly, it was enough of a slog for me that I won't revisit that trilogy. I agree almost entirely with the review. The one novel felt tremendously padded, with inordinate detail given to mundane elements and a lack of a strong dramatic arc. On...

A recent over-the-top Thor comic miniseries had the Asgardian hero fighting a group of Vikings, who had raided a village in around 1000 AD. The village shaman, with his dying breath, cursed them to never find rest in any port for one thousand years. They arrived in New York City, one thousand...

Sounds pretty cool, but I had some questions about how to really involve the PCs: If they attack the first night, and demand their gold, what happens if the PCs just hand it over? If they're after the NPC survivor, what happens if he is killed or the PCs give him over to them, along with the...

I forgot to mention how much I enjoy that this mirrors the Clades Variana, a famous ambush and massacre of three Roman legions as they marched through Germania in 9 AD.