Cimmerian Bard
Mongoose
Okay, so yesterday (Sunday) I happened to wander into a Barnes & Noble in north Atlanta (Georgia, USA), and eventually meandered my way toward the 75% Off table. Oddly enough (or not so oddly enough, perhaps), I was just thinking something along the lines of "wow, it'd great to find some Mongoose Conan books among this potential treasure-heap".
Mitra, Ishtar, or perhaps even grim Crom must've overheard my innermost thoughts, for there in the middle of the table, half-hidden beneath piles of overstocked Twilight paraphenelia, was, lo and behold, an Age of Conan strategy boardgame! It literally beckoned to me, or else the demon-thing trapped within it did, but regardless, I was helpless to its Howardian powers.
Still, I hemmed and hawed for a good half-hour over whether or not to buy the accursed thing, wandering off to other regions of the store, but always, inexorably, I was drawn back to the lotus-sweet beckonings of the 75% Off table where the mighty-sized Conan boardgame awaited me.
And, so yeah, to sum up, I snagged the thing for $20 (regular retail on it is $79.95!). And, though I'll likely never get a chance, or have the time, to play the game itself, the plastic minis themselves were easily worth the twenty bucks. Pretty board too, although it doesn't go any farther eastward than the Sea of Vilayet. Probably not nearly as cool as the $5 boxed sets someone posted about a few days ago, but still, not half bad!
Mitra, Ishtar, or perhaps even grim Crom must've overheard my innermost thoughts, for there in the middle of the table, half-hidden beneath piles of overstocked Twilight paraphenelia, was, lo and behold, an Age of Conan strategy boardgame! It literally beckoned to me, or else the demon-thing trapped within it did, but regardless, I was helpless to its Howardian powers.
Still, I hemmed and hawed for a good half-hour over whether or not to buy the accursed thing, wandering off to other regions of the store, but always, inexorably, I was drawn back to the lotus-sweet beckonings of the 75% Off table where the mighty-sized Conan boardgame awaited me.
And, so yeah, to sum up, I snagged the thing for $20 (regular retail on it is $79.95!). And, though I'll likely never get a chance, or have the time, to play the game itself, the plastic minis themselves were easily worth the twenty bucks. Pretty board too, although it doesn't go any farther eastward than the Sea of Vilayet. Probably not nearly as cool as the $5 boxed sets someone posted about a few days ago, but still, not half bad!
