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Did I miss Merchant Prince (or whatever it is called)? Is it tucked away in one of the other books? If I didn't miss it, when will the expanded merchant character book be coming out? Thanks!

Am I alone in finding the specialization methodology in skills to be--well--really bad? It seems to me that if I have Engineer (Jump Drive) 4, I should sure as heck have a better general Engineer skill level than 0. Am I misreading the skill system? I'd much rather see the system used in Ars...

Thanks a lot! This spreadsheet makes setting up a character MUCH easier on both myself and my players. Any chance you might do a character sheet page that would be set up for standard US 8.5 x 11 inch paper? I don't have the know-how to do it myself, and I don't have any a4 paper (though I...

Go with the new Dark Horse series, which is very good and quite true to REH. The only possible exception might be the two or three issues which deal with his time as a slave in Hyberborea, though someone who is more conversant with the source material will have to confirm my feelings in that. I...

Thanks, Trodax. Obviously I'm whacked too. :) I suppose I'll just do up his info by hand and drop an email to the guy who did the Excel sheet.

I've just done up the captain of the Free Company my players will be part of using v. 1.3 of the Excel character generation spreadsheet and it's giving me some funky numbers for Base Attack Bonus. General Gerasimos Alyamas is a Soldier 7, Noble 3, Scholar 1, Nomad 1. By my calculations, he...

After a long discussion and letting her read more about scholars (sorcerors), she has decided what she is really after in her characetr concept is a thief/scholar. She wants to be a lay priest of Bel, more interested in perfecting her knowledge of things worth stealing and her trickery in order...

Thanks to all--I have my head around it now. :) Tomorrow night we start the CONAN campaign. Think kind thoughts!

Ok, we had a reasonbly good discussion about things to watch out for if you want to play a sorceror. Now let's turn that on its ear and offer some advice on how to discourage a player from playing a sorceror. This is mostly because I don't want to deal with a PC sorceror at the start of our...

We have a very active "Victorian Science Fiction" fanbase here in Quincy. At our annual con (coming up in three weeks!) there's always at least two VSF events, plus at least one (repeated) Space:1889 session. And this year I am adding my new minis obsession: Aeronef, which is dirigbiles and...

I'm glad for the slow-down in publications for CONAN, actually. Gives me time to save up for the next wave. I have the complete run (excepting magazine articles) for just three games: PENDRAGON, 7th SEA, and of course, CONAN. Man...that's a LOT of money! I'm seriously considering retiring my...

I don't see an answer to this in the FAQ, so I will pose it here: When creating a character, you receive certain racial skills, generally 2 ranks worth. My question is do you consider those "racial ranks" when totting up your maximum ranks in a skill, or do you consider them a "racial bonus"...

I've got so many appropriate minis as it is that I can't see myself buying CONAN minis unless they are particularly remarkable (or priced where it's an offer I just can't refuse!) :D

C&S: Rebirth (also known as 4th ed.) came out a few years back and is very good. I prefer it to D&D, though CONAN is rapidly overtaking it in my "personal likes". Here's the bad part: the four games I like the most are all unrelated, systems-wise. C&S, CONAN, 7th SEA, PENDRAGON Yikes! :?

I think Tortage = Tortuga. I have a bunch of the "7th Sea" RPG books (both Roll & Keep and d20 versions) that I may have to plunder (no pun intended) for maps and ideas if/when my players decide to go off and undertake a pirate's life. Yo ho! :wink: