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I've started working on revising my notes for Eternal House (the adaptation of Gary Gygax's Necropolis) to include newer Conan products. It's got a ways to go, but it's on my wiki at http://unclebear.com/wiki (search on Necropolis or Eternal House).

The revised article, containing additional information based on the feedback from this forum, can be found here: http://berinkinsman.blogspot.com/2006/01/justifying-serpent-people-in-age-of.html Thank you, one and all, for the additional information. I love this sort of exercise. It's my idea...

I wait with baited breath... :)

This article contains spoilers for the Robert E. Howard story "People of the Dark". Consider this fair warning. This is a first draft of what will hopefully be a longer article for publication, so all feedback is appreciated. First, allow me to begin by saying that no justification is needed...

Wasn't that an episode of Reno 911? The weird larper was the guy from King of Queens.

Got the book for Christmas. Haven't read it or seen the National Geographic special, but I had a thought that it could be useful source material for a Hyborean campaign. Howard's basic concept of barbarians as civilization builders, conquering corrupt civilizations until they, in turn, became...

My NAMELESS CULTS wiki is back up at http://unclebear.com/namelesscults/ with my Call of Cthulhu-set-in-Hyborea notes and adventures. As part of that project, I'm working on an article on non-chronological campaigning, running the game in the manner Howard told his Conan tales. The first draft...

Raven, Can I compile all this into a PDF and post it on my Hyborean Mythos site? Nameless Cults http://unclebear.com/conan/

Raven, Can I collect these into a PDF and host them on my site? Nameless Cults http://unclebear.com/conan/

I hit my local library, which has a nice selection of "world music", and check out whatever fits the area of the world the adventure us in. Middle Eastern music , African music, East Indian music, Celtic music, whatever. Now, when I'm preparing adventures and getting myself pumped up, I listen...

I'm going to take this as a no, and make my own. Anyone interested in it, when I do, or have suggestions for layout?

I love the rules for creating organizations along the same lines as characters, with attributes, skills, feats and "hit points". It's got a broad variety of uses in all sorts of OGL games regardless of genre. Has anyone created a "character sheet" for organizations? My Google Fu is weak today...

Yup, and exploring those differences (and similarities) is going to be part of the fun. I think it works perfectly. The Hyborean heroes encounter fish-men... and instead of the dread of turning into one of them (Corruption! Quick, spend Fate Points!), they kick their scaley arses... I'm...

I've got a Dreamlands campaign plotted out. It's where the people go in Xuthal of the Dusk. Black Lotus and all that. Haven't run it yet. I've been fiddling with an adaptation of Shadows Over Innsmouth. I was going to have the PCs shipwrecked in a storm and wash up in a remote, dying fishing...

Topic says it. Weathermaster (www.milieusim.com) is a program that lets you import a map graphic and it will generate weather. I'm wondering if anyone's used it with the map of Hyborea and how they're using it in-game. I've used it in the past with D20 games for wilderness and pirate...