Recent content by KemperBoyd

D20 Conan was actually the first time I ever played D20 games, and for me it's worked out. One big thing is of course that the players have the correct attitude towards the game.

I've noticed that soldiers play well as defensive fighters. My current campaign has one soldier character (level 6) who is a nemedian who wears lots of armor and fights with a greatsword, doing sunder attacks and absorbing lots of blows from the enemy, while the barbarian dishes out damage...

I would be really happy if you could put it up somewhere else :)

Tales of the Black Kingdom has good scenarios too (especially the last one in the book), but it's worth to read Thulsa's review of it first to find out what typos and illogical stuff has crept into them :)

I do give them special abilities, but I never bother to look up if there's actually a feat for what they do. I'm a lazy GM.

I never bother giving NPC's any feats :)

I finished running the Tales of the Black Kingdoms and the players made a friend of a Stygian during this game. This Stygian promised as a gesture of good will send word to a Stygian trading house in Iranistan, where the characters are heading now. I've envisioned that the Stygians use their...

Yeah those and basically all feats that can only be used in overly specific circumstances, i just consider them to be a bit of character fluff even if they're rarely important.

You can always use the method used in 4th Ed. D&D, namely allowing people to swap out feats whenever they gain a level. I also give out some of the crappy feats as story awards for players.

Well, either they do that or have an undead REH write and direct it.

This sound pretty good, since I love crunch :)

The party had surprise on their side (they entered the sorcerer's fortress with supporting warrior through a secret passage and achieved perfect tactical surprise), and I had decided that if they succeed with it, they are in a better position to attack, because the sorcerer would only have some...

He summoned demons, but the demons were massively uneffective (Black fiends are too easy to neutralize by grappling :D ) and he never managed to hit with a death touch. Maybe it was just bad dice rolls, but sorcerers seem to be really hard to run as serious opponents without making them too...

Technically two, since they get the defensive blast too.

I've now finished GM'ing the Tales of the Black Kingdoms and I learned some lessons here which i thought i could share: - it's perfectly OK to say from time to time that "you meet a few enemies along the way but you kill them". Howard didn't spend multiple pages every time Conan killed someone...