Camelon75 said:
Has anyone played these and how easy would a translation be to fit Conan. Indeed does it fit at all? :?
Man, does it fit? Oh yes it fits like a glove!
In fact I have the same idea myself.
Why do I think this is a nice fit?
Well... simple really.
Freeport is very Chtulhu-esque. The whole first three adventures are basically a "CoC" adventure fith fantasy elements. A cult of serpent people from an ancient civilization worshiping the Yellow-Sing (even ripped that one straight off didn't they?) And an evil serpent diety named Yig.... ring any bells? Freeport is all about a sunken civilisation, cultists, intrigue and preventing the cult from bringing forth their god. In a nut shell... CoC!
Why is this a good combo with Conan?
Well Robert E. Howard did a fair deal of correspondance with H.P. Lovecraft. Rumour has it they even helped eachother and stole eachothers ideas, from time to time. Rober E. Howard has used the name Yog-Sothoth in at least one place, and so on. So there definetly IS a close link between these two. The World of conan is also about lost civilisation, evil gods, cosmic voids of insanity and the players quest of trying to bring down the cults plotting to destroy the world. In a nut shell... CoC!
The name Hyperborea is taken from one of the five ancient civilizations that presumably existed thousands of years before man, when continents had still not drifted apart and so on and so forth... all this is stated in the Conan Game, what it doesn't say though is that a 19th century pseudo occult spiritualist named Helena Petrova Blavatsky was the first person that came up with the idea of this civilisation. And she took it very seriously... believed it real even. Both Lovecraft and Howard read and loved Blavatsky it seems cause their work is riddle with references to her work. Lovecraft calls his Evil Toad god Tsathogua King of Hyperborea in a couple of places... and so on...
So yeah if you ask me it is a perfect match.
You will ofcourse have to scrap all the classes and NPC's creating them anew according to the Conan system, or at least I will. But hey!? It's not that big a deal right?
This just has to be done.
/wolf
ps. I could go on for hours about this but I'll spare you the boring details.