Adventure Path: Isle of Mystery

Aholibamah

Mongoose
I want to put together a version of the Isle of Dread for Conan, mostly for my own purposes but I'd appreciate any ideas or contributions.

First of all: I want to remove most of the strange races from it, but want to keep the following:
1. giant spiders and other prehistorically big bugs
2. dinosaurs/prehistoric beasts. (particularly terror birds, pterodactylians, a huge prehistoric crocodile, etc)
3. neanderthalish humans
4. some evil race of aquatic creatures living in the subterranean/aquatic regions of the island. I was thinking that these could be 'gods' that the islands civilized remnants still worship.

I was thinking that primitive hunting tribes would live on parts of the island but that they are preyed on as sacrifices/slaves by the remnant civilization which is on a plateau. This would be a decaying Aztec/Maya type city where a few thousand people still remain.
 
I remember now there is also an excellent "Conan"-like adventure written by G. Gygax in his Island of the Ape.
 
Very similar yes--I may try to combine some of the maps or something. I think "Isle of Dread' was based on King Kong somewhat anyway.

I like the idea of there being a Xuthal like area where the civilization is still alive but somewhat decaying.
 
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