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"The Tirane article was written by Loren Wiseman, and is inconsistent with all the previous writings on Tirane, getting the planet wrong (it's the 4th planet in the AC-A system, not the 1st) and even the identities of the colonies wrong. This was later retconned in the 2nd edition and EC/S to...

Thanks for this interesting facts! "having people be immortal and breed forever" - who would've imagined... Will there be an official Mongoose errata sheet, which adresses these issues? The data seems often fundamentally wrong. Additionally boxed set, book 1, p.100: Earth 7 billions, Tirane 1...

Maybe I'm wrong myself, but if I compare the population numbers of UPP with the ones in UCP, they don't always match. A breakdown world by world: American Arm - King 4 Mio vs. 300.000 + 200.000 - Hermes 3 Mio vs. 6 Mio - Ellis O.K. - Botany Bay 7 Mio vs. 1 Mio - Kingsland O.K. Chinese Arm -...

Yes, I could order directly from Mongoose, but the other shops I named were considerably cheaper. A few minutes ago I got a mail from dragonworld.de: they will nor sell any Mongoose books anymore because of the poor binding, paper quality etc. I do not comment this, but present you the (German)...

Not at special F&SF web-stores (dragonworld or f-shop), not at amazon (except via marketplace at silly prices) nor at buch.de you can order CONAN 2e. Will this change sometimes? Second ed. is out for months now...

I can't remember REH mentioning the RoK, I think it's pastiche (but good pastiche in this case -what isn't true for the pastiche novel "Road of Kings" by KE Wagner: it's abysmal).

A real nice review! Thanks! (For linking with "my" TotBK-thread, too!)

Since I've been away for some time: has there been an errata for SoS? IIRC Vincent Darlage once said he had it already written (I hope I'm not confusing things...).

How about this: Nordheim "template" to represent the origins. To represent the Hyperborean education use the normal skill points / feats every character gets.

How often do you use this class in your game? Do your players have a Temptress as character?

to January. That's really uncool. But on the other hand: which Conan-product was in schedule?

One thing about Fighting Madness in general: REH gives this "feat" many of his characters - it doesn't matter if they come from Cimmeria or modern America ("El Borak", the various boxers) or are civilised crusaders. So in my game I don't restrict it to savage races. If a PC (or NPC) is...

It's delayed for another month; hopefully this is hint, that it'll not only be reprints, of which a good part is already included in other books...

It'd be cool if not only source books would be released, but also accompanying adventure books a la TotBK (the leading German RPG does so since a few years and they are very successful doing this).

Wildside Press publishes in ten volumes "The Weird Works of REH". Although most stories are available in other editions, I found it very interesting to read the (not so excellent) beginnings of REH in one book. Almost all the elements of his 1A works are already there in the first few stories...