Recent content by Raphael

If you're not already aware of the background of 13th Warrior check out the book by Michael Crichton Eaters of the Dead. He gives a nice afterward explaining why he wrote the book. Basically the first part is an only slightly edited version of Ibn Fadlan's account of the Vikings and the rest...

Kewl! 8) Looks like I'll definately have to pick this one up. Thanks Toothill Man. Raphael

From the info S&P 24 Anyone seen this yet? Vincent, care to give us a precis?

How about it Raven?

[deja vu] I seen this before...[/deja vu] :) Oh yeah. Vincent's section on GMing Hyboria in RoK has an extaended list of stories boiled down to adventure seeds. Raphael

Raven, not to pick nits, oh heck that's exactly what I'm doing. :wink: Couldn't you just as easily reverse those ability modifiers. As in... Abilities: Change as follows: Str +1, Con +1, Cha –2. Children of Nature are much closer to their primal selves and are striking physical specimens...

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Ahhh. Now I get it. Many of us, including Hyborian Apeman, IIRC, play a very episodic style of campaign wherein it matters not how those 400 silver pieces were reduced to a mere 8 since the last adventure. It sounds as if you play a more traditional style of campaign (at least traditional in...

Thanks Rene! I just downloaded the goodies!

Pa11ad1n, First off, nothing I said was meant as a personal attack and I'm glad you didn't take it as such. As far as Tolkien goes, Yes based on Saxon mythology. Also, and I think more importantly, he was attempting to create a myth cycle for England. Howard, otoh, was writing historical...

Isn't that what the rest of us are saying?

Space 1889! Dang, I've got the core book and I can't convince anyone to play. One of the best, most original settings, IMHO. Raphael

Nice Point! And Pa11id1n, If you don't read the posts, whats the point? "Low Fantasy Bred High Fantasy" What? "High Fantasy" really has its antecedents in Tolkien and his emulators. High Fantasy being a created universe noticeably different from our own in terms of intelligent races, magic...

Yikes! Hit by a car. I suppose, since your posting here, you are physically okay? I kept putting off buying Conan until my local game store had a sale. I ended up buying it at a used bookstore for $20 (not Atlantean natch!), so...I missed the whole SoC thing. Is it still going on? Not the...

Apeman, before I spent the money I'd try to find out what has been reprinted in Conan accesories. I am actually a little frustrated that this idea never generated a response from Mongoose. My RoK and HF are waiting in the maifor me to pick-up. Yeah! And congrats on making Mongoose!