Recent content by Kasimir

Armour? Fast Healing? More hit points and retreats at 20 HP instead? Diehard feat? (especially in combination with fast healing) Any of these should improve survivability.

Fair enough, I am not aiming to make a carbon copy of REH flavour. I mention that I am not using favoured classes because I only need to figure out the racial traits and background skills of these new races, I will not be needing suggestions for favoured classes. Thanks! I will take a look at...

Sorry it has been a while, but university took priority. My end goal is to have a few races representing the local cultures on their own terms rather than the “torture-fetish-savages” stereotype that is a bit too common for non-Hyborians in the Conan setting. The colonists are not Hyborians...

I would rather reduce the bonuses than give them a STR penalty, since all the other races have balanced ability score modifiers. I could give them -2 STR +2 INT and have their education reflected that way but a higher intelligence implies being inherently smarter as well, which is not the...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. My aim is to emphasise the sophistication of the culture and their organised education. I really struggle with what skills to raise, because while they would be fairly educated they would not necessarily know that much of the wider world. For example, if I were...

First of all, thanks for your help in advance to anyone who does reply to help me with this. Essentially I am looking for suggestions on a custom race. In a nutshell, I am looking to apply the Conan rule system in a somewhat original world, although inspired by many real-world cultures. For the...

There are a few rules in place which can help you already. Armour Damage & Repair on page 179, any blow that does 20+ damage reduces DR by 1d4. You could also reverse those rules so the weapon takes damage when it hits for 20+ damage (before DR). Maybe half damage (subtract hardness) to...

Exactly. In fantasy artwork and movies like Gladiator those leather wristbands do help emphasise the muscular arms of our very manly heroes. :D I have been told dark colours are slimming, so if you put a dark wristband on a light-skinned hero it makes his wrist look slimmer and the rest of his...

Depending on what you mean by bracer and how much of the arm they covered. If they just covered the wrist, the answer is warriors generally didn’t use them. Those are for the most part fiction. Generally a bracer to me implies training equipment, something you might use for fencing practise...