Recent content by Kortoso

That doesn't seem right to completely exclude all magic-working and worship among Cimmerians. The Hour of the Dragon: "Wizards and sorcerers abounded in his barbaric mythology..."

"Robert E. Howard's Conan of Cimmeria: Black (but not African-American) Colossus"

Didn't the Nazis have a program for breeding athletes?

Huzzah! :D

Why Gilgamesh? He was from a historical race/culture (Sumerian) that were not Polynesian. Cimmerians are a mythical race. That's puzzling.

I want to call his craft minimalism. The temptation when we was being paid by the word, would have been to pad out everything, but Howard dropped in sparse clues, bait, so to speak, that engages our imagination and makes these worlds more real...

After being offered to the deity of your choice? The choices of preparation often depend upon the deity in question and the number of eons since they have feasted upon human flesh.

It's not hard to experiment with real candles to see what kind of illumination they create.

Well, they are not Greek or Egyptian words. :) Natheless, here is my somewhat educated crack at it: Pallantides - pal-an-TEE-dess or -dayss depending on dialect, Aquilonian or Nemedian. Ctesphon - ka-TESS-fone although the CT may represent a strange phoneme unpronounceable to all but serpents...

Man, this could be complicated. Probably the exchange rate could be just as realistically determined by dice throw. :) "Hmm, was this silver stolen or is this guy legit? How hungry does his look? Is he from out of town? Will I see him again? How close is my thumb from the scale?" :D The value...

Cool, Decker, go for it! Check out what the ancient Egyptians had for inspiration. I would even look at the Coptics and Berbers to see whether they had an interesting system to raid. It's wide open.

Then Conan would have become king in year 0. Hardly makes for vivid storytelling. :) And what of poor Pelias? "It is the month of Yuluk in the fifteenth year of me." :D Indeed regnal years were common many cultures, and sometimes the monarch switched up the system to change their luck (at...

Dang, that could be Conan. ;)

For gameplay, it would probably be helpful to tag these smaller settlements with descriptive and evocative terms such as village and hamlet. In a nation with a semi-feudal agricultural arrangement, these could be small clusters of farm houses, In areas such as Corinthia with city-states, these...

Or you looking for an average or a statistical mean? ;) I am not sure if a census has been performed. Anyway, those numbers seem a little large, actually, for ancient cities.