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Thanks Wolf! Much appreciated! What I can't understand is how it is possible you WEREN'T asked about these things! They are crucial; effectively you can't build a character without these information. The most interesting roleplaying aspect of RQII is the emphasis on cultures, and Xoth is so rich...

That's the problem; in RQ/Legend characters are defined by cultural backgrounds, but in Spider there's absolutely nothing about them. Are Lamurans civilised or nomadic? What about Khorans? We get a bunch of descriptions, and mostly pointless racial traits. In Citadel we get a few more cultural...

Does Song contain info about the cultural backgrounds in Xoth?

Hi all, so months after buying the pdfs (Bride and Citdael), I managed to sit and read and...well apparently there's no way to create characters for this setting, as we only get the decriptions of the races, but ZERO information about the cultural backgrounds. So how is one supposed to roll a...

Hi! I have been mulling over doing some S&S with D&D 5e; the fact that the game's focus shifted quite heavily away from magic w.r.t. 3e makes it quite a good baseline. While I work on a full conversion, here's a quick-and-dirty approach: 1- Start characters from 3rd level; I don't see S&S...

Hi all! long time poster here from the days of d20 Conan. I am (slowly) working on a full conversion of d20 Conan to D&D 5e. The idea is to reproduce the d20 Conan classes in 5e terms, and take advantage of the much simpler rules framework of the latter. It won't be a 1-1 port, obviously; for...

+1 Never owned the bestiary, it seems very unnecessary. Atlantean Edition + Scrolls of Skelos has been sufficient for me.

You have surely noticed that surprise is barely dealt with in the PHB; a player should only know the effect of surprise, not how surprise is handled. This is the province of the DM, and as such surprise is described in the DMG. The problem is that the description is fuzzy, and for someone...

In my experience, it's more a matter of how the DM presents the game to the players, rather than a design flaw. After all, skills-based games have existed since 1978 (RuneQuest was the first.) When I DM 3e (3.0) I will point out that it's the DM's job to ask the players to roll for skills, not...

That's interesting, I still haven't got a chance to read it (hopefully this week end!) Do you think the material could be easily ported to d20 Conan in terms of rules to increase player survivability? Or lacking that, perhaps changing the rules somewhat? I have Mongoose RuneQuest II and...

I obviously forgot about Nobles: they could easily represent the various Patricians and other aristocratic types. I bought Cthulhu Invictus, but I have yet to read it. I think it will provide many interesting ideas. Actually reading the Bran Mak Morn tales, it looks like they would be an...

Nice Viking source, thanks! Though honestly I don't like to so massively house rule a game. I would probably steal the runes, or take material from RuneQuest Vikings (both the Chaosium and Mongoose versions.) RE: the racial templates, Howard explicitly mentions the Gauls being of purely Aesir...

So I was thinking about using the d20 Conan rules for a different setting. The first that came to mind is based on the Bran Mak Morn tales, so it would be ancient Rome. A possible campaign could be the conquest of Britain, and the fights with the locals (Picts in particular.) I would take the...

Yeah that's not easy to accomplish, unless one resorts to abstract positioning like it's done in some recent games (e.g. The One Ring, or Dungeon Hack.) Even AD&D 1e had a sort of abstract positioning system, as it was assumed that one was engaged in melee with everybody in a 10' radius. I think...

Consider also how it's done in AD&D, where adversaries tend to fill the ranks in front of a character before being able to surround him, since the assumption is that one does not stand in one place, barring special circumstances. Playing on a fixed grid locks you in one place, which is quite...