Malcadon said:I hear a lot of talk about it from talk and from the Conan 2 preview, all I know is that it going to have the Temptress as a core class, Solders will have new and improved formation abilities, the Borderer will have the Uncanny Woodcraft ability (you can lay traps and ambushes) as an option to Combat Styles, other classes are subject to change (Noble, Pirate, Thief & Scholar?), some new Combat Maneuvers are added, the Sorcery Rules are going to be cleaned up, the Defensive Blast spell is reworked, new Spells are added, they are reworking Fate Points & Reputation, more NPCs are added to the Beastery (they are mostly urban types like town-guards and harlots), they may even add more OGL stuff to it.
And, this is all from feedback from us!
WOW! Its sounds like its going to be a fat book!![]()
Eh, look at the Succubus in the MM1, and the demoness at the end of the DMG. And then look at the new art of 3.x...AD&D 1e IS Sword & Sorcery, and it shows, by Crom!Malcadon said:Remember you use to see them (mostly T&A) in the old AD&D books, then the dame fools at TSR got all retarded and PC. And the newer D&D game still seams a little G-rated (but that Nymph from the 3.5 MM is vary sexy). :twisted:
D&D is good if you like to play a half-elven princess riding a pink unicorn, but Conan is a man's game!
rabindranath72 said:Eh, look at the Succubus in the MM1, and the demoness at the end of the DMG. And then look at the new art of 3.x...AD&D 1e IS Sword & Sorcery, and it shows, by Crom!
It always reminded me of the art in the real-world bestiaries; crude art, which was meant to convey an idea of how the author viewed the creatures. Much more conducive to the imagination than "modern" approaches, and much more fitting the genre: a monster manual is about things that exist in fantasy!Malcadon said:By Crom, the old art was simple, crude and black & white, but they has their charm. Its hard to say why we still like such campy, woodcut-styled works. I guess is how they look like the illustrations from are favorite books, as most of us old-school gamers are avid readers.![]()
Valgrim Bragisson said:Well, I hate to be a killjoy, but I hope they don't ruin the game. I don't really think Mongoose will. It's just that I've seen it happen before. Another company really screwed up the Warhammer RPG 2nd Ed. They altered the history of the setting, and"fixed" a bunch of things that weren't broken. They also did us the huge favor of taking a single comprehensive paperback core rulebook, and breaking it into 4 or 5 hardcovers at $30-$40 a pop.