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Yes but they were strapped to hang off the shoulder and not really the back for when riding on horseback mostly. The Victorian artist often misunderstood that and it sort off has become accepted but I can't see it working in real life. Medieval man was about a foot shorter than most...

Exactly! Admittedly I'm a horrible archer and know most of what I know of it from others but they are very careful about them (bows). An adventurer with a bow can't just buy a bow off the shelf and be immediately comfortable with it and can't have it fixed/repaired on the field/during...

I've fought in the SCA since 1986 and running about with a 10lb helm and 70+lbs of armor, a 9lbs shield and a 3lbs "sword" ( ok a club) running about, scaling walls and operating REAL siege equipment in clamshell gauntlets... It sucks, armor after a few hours starts to hurt. Especially when you...

I mapped out the precataclysmic world of Kull and I've done some maps in Zamora. It would be nice seeing what the Americas looked like in the Hyborian Age, most realistically it would just be an ice age Americas with more ice as the poles would be slightly of before the finial cataclysm put...

BRP Rome covers Rome well but don't forget it's Evil brother Cthulhu Invictus... A Runequest Greece would grab those playing those other games. For general gaming both GURPS Rome and Greece are excellent.

LOL, agreed! That said grabbing the CoC market is brilliant, as Runequest Conan would do, and a Swords against Cthulhu would grab the Cthulhu Dark Ages and Cthulhu Invictus markets. But even better is grab the CoC market with the era that came before Conan, before Kull.....the Hyperborean era...

I'd prefer that Conan be either systemless or single system to Runequest, a system they own that is much better than OGL/d20. I won't use the rules in the Conan books, they just don't make realistic characters in Howard's style. I use CoC/BRP to make characters and it works great for me so I'm...

I mix Lovecraftian technology in my Conan games. I also use Call of Cthulhu /BRP instead of the OGL system to run my Conan games. Deep Ones make great enemies and knowing Set and Thoth are both avatars of Nyarlathotep adds a very insidious secret to Hyboria. Yithians and their technology can...

I'd like to know more about what's going on with Conan. When I first heard that Conan was switching to the Runequest system I thought "Wow they get it". Runequest is obviously a better system for capturing the feel of REH's Conan than D20/OGL. The intercompatability with Runequest and BRP/Call...