How *mature* is your Conan?

[bradius]

Very 'mature'. Both during gameplay and offscreen.

In our last session, the party was in a long-buried ziggurat in Shem. One character, a lecherous Zamoran had sex with a stature of Ishtar. The ziggurat had a room devoted to ritual prostituion and orgies (as keeping with Shemetic religion). There was a ritual rape-room with S&M devices. Another of the characters, a formerly handsome rake who specialzied in impgregnating as many women as he could, took some of the portable sex toys with him. Another found, and kept an ebony dildo that he found in the sacred prostitute's quarters.

All this while hordes of Starved Ones hunted them through the catacombs and they were under severe time pressure to prevent the destruction of the city above them.

This wasn't meant to be gratuitious, as ancient Mesopotamian/Cannanite religion was pretty sex-obsessed.

 

[Hervé]

Clovenhoof wrote:

it is safest to AVOID any official TDE-modules at all costs. They are essentially railroading from start to finish, and the dungeons (which do occur every so often) suck ass.

Hmmm...looks like the perfect description of an official D20 adventure to me.

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

One little annotation:
Nudity is no measure for the maturity of a game. I remember an adventure which includes nudity that was written for kids. There was doorway which teleported everything someone who passed through wore and carried away.

 

[Malcadon]

Clovenhoof wrote:

it is safest to AVOID any official TDE-modules at all costs. They are essentially railroading from start to finish, and the dungeons (which do occur every so often) suck ass.

Hmmm...looks like the perfect description of an official D20 adventure to me.

Dame strait! :wink:

I agree. The way WotC did things is the wrong way, but I think that the problem is that most americans have a bigger problem with sex and nudity as they have with violence.

Most Americans dont have a problem with nudity, just a minority of over-reactionary, right-wing parent/Christian watch-dog groups, and they are safely ignored by reasonable people - unfortunately Politicians are not so reasonable. :roll:

It is interesting that according to the rulebook a loincloth is the minimal clothing to wear in polite (= civilized?) company. Does that also apply to female characters? Or have they to wear something on the upper body?

Have you EVER seen Conan art? Well, it you go by the art, then all the women would go naked. In the books, women seem to have breastplates (small round platelets, not the armor) as minimal dress - and yet, somehow it still fills formal. :wink:

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

It is interesting that according to the rulebook a loincloth is the minimal clothing to wear in polite (= civilized?) company. Does that also apply to female characters? Or have they to wear something on the upper body?

Have you EVER seen Conan art? Well, it you go by the art, then all the women would go naked. In the books, women seem to have breastplates (small round platelets, not the armor) as minimal dress - and yet, somehow it still fills formal. :wink:

Yes, I have. But I was asking with the description of clothing from RttRoK in mind.
Can (for example) a female Cimmerian wander around in a loincloth (or less) in Aquilonia or will she be forced to cover her breasts?

And another question:
What do your female characters (both PC and NPC) wear?

 

[Malcadon]

Yes, I have. But I was asking with the description of clothing from RttRoK in mind.
Can (for example) a female Cimmerian wander around in a loincloth (or less) in Aquilonia or will she be forced to cover her breasts?

Is there (for example) an Aquilonia man have the balls to go up to a female Cimmerian and force her to get dress?!?

And another question:
What do your female characters (both PC and NPC) wear?

Mind you I dont play the Hyborian setting, but I play in a world that has the feel of the Hyborian Age with a mix of Tékumel. So, the women typically dress for warm weather in in togas or kilts. Seeing how bare breasts is not an issue in my world, so women go topless freely. The style of going topless in this world is more of a statement of fertility, then anything else.

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

Yes, I have. But I was asking with the description of clothing from RttRoK in mind.
Can (for example) a female Cimmerian wander around in a loincloth (or less) in Aquilonia or will she be forced to cover her breasts?

Is there (for example) an Aquilonia man have the balls to go up to a female Cimmerian and force her to get dress?!?

I doubt that one man would try such a thing but I doubt that a female Cimmerian (or a meadow shemite noblewoman) would run around topless if the majority of the locals have objections.

 

[Aholibamah]

I think as well that even in Cimmeria they probably don't go nude all the time. Probably it's a thing done in battle as it apparently was sometimes done by people like the Celts in ancient times--battles or rituals sometimes might require or encourage it.

I'd suspect only in places like Kush or Stygia would some people truly go naked all the time, and then mostly because of the heat.

 

[Malcadon]

I think as well that even in Cimmeria they probably don't go nude all the time. Probably it's a thing done in battle as it apparently was sometimes done by people like the Celts in ancient times--battles or rituals sometimes might require or encourage it.

I'd suspect only in places like Kush or Stygia would some people truly go naked all the time, and then mostly because of the heat.

Cimmerians generally dont run around naked, it much to cold to do so.

I dont know about Kush, but its noted in the Sytgian handbook (click 'search inside'), that folks go nude all the time. From the looks of it, women of Kush are just topless (it get really "National Geographic" in the Black Kingdoms).

 

[Clovenhoof]

Cimmerians generally dont run around naked, it much to cold to do so.

Cimmerians never are cold. They shiver with rage because it isn't colder.

 

[Barbarossa Rotbart]

No, Cimmerians are so tough and awesome that even the cold fears them.

 

[Malcadon]

Cimmerians never are cold. They shiver with rage because it isn't colder.

Oh, did I say Cimmerians, I was thinking Nordhelmers. LOL Cimmerians can go naked any where they want to go, who would dare tell them to do otherwise? :wink:

 

[Ichabod]

Regarding the question of what our female PCs/NPCs wear:

We've never had a true female PC, but we had someone close who usually wore a jacket, an undershirt, trousers, and riding boots. This was a character whose primary claim to fame was being smoking hot.

We had a major NPC, one of the few who survived ... (some degree of immortality helped), who wore ... I don't know. I never thought a lot about it, but I always pictured her as wearing a full length (low cut) dress or some sort of robes, though she must have worn something more practical when the party was wandering around in the wilds, not that environmental stuff affected her like it did the characters who were still human.

A NPC from North of Nordheim wore whatever was standard for freezing cold - furs, et al. A NPC from Kush that we ran into in The Wilderness wore whatever we could find her after liberating her from slavers, which probably wasn't a lot.

In general, the characters wear whatever is appropriate to the region, the weather, and the cultural norms if given a choice. Though, I can see the PCs standing out from a crowd a bit in their sense of style, whether the barbarian's necklace of teeth, the Brythunian's penchant for Asgaluni garb, the Ophirian's taste for Stygian fashion, or whatever.

Our campaign is less about sexy (non-)outfits than it is about sex.

 

[bradius]

And the Zamoran who wears faux-Khatian robes.

 

[Old Bear]

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Is there (for example) an Aquilonia man have the balls to go up to a female Cimmerian and force her to get dress?!?

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I can't quite work out at what poiunt along the line Cimmerian women got any sort of reputation for being hard. There are a few hints that some of them may have fought with the warriors but Conan stories (at least the god ones) are not replete with warrior women of any gender. Women like Belit and valeria are of such note because of their rarity.

A Cimmerian woman in Aquilonia is called a slave.

 

[Krushnak]

In the black colussus Conan is surprised the queen isnt going to take up arms and fight in the battle because thats what the women do in his homeland.

 

[Malcadon]

I can't quite work out at what poiunt along the line Cimmerian women got any sort of reputation for being hard. There are a few hints that some of them may have fought with the warriors but Conan stories (at least the god ones) are not replete with warrior women of any gender. Women like Belit and valeria are of such note because of their rarity.

A Cimmerian woman in Aquilonia is called a slave.

I dont know, I was told that Conan's Mother (Greshan) gave berth to him in the middle of a heated battle with Nordhelmer raiders, and that she kill a lot of them before she died of blood loss from battle and hemorrhaging with the berth. If what I was told is true, then Cimmerian women really kick ass!

I think it was establish in Queen of the Black Coast that even a Cimmerian woman would split the skull of a Stigyian Priest how would even think about putting her to the blood alter. So yes, Cimmerian women really do kick ass!

 

[Old Bear]

In the black colussus Conan is surprised the queen isnt going to take up arms and fight in the battle because thats what the women do in his homeland.

That doesn't make them any good at it. See Dad's Army for details. :wink:

 

[Supplement Four]

What the title says.

Let's see...our first game session, coming up in a couple of days, I plan on describing the night before the campaign starts.

We're in Arenjun, the City of Thieves. And, the governor has just married, closing the entire city for a day and a night.

The ale houses are packed, and our focus turns to our soon-to-be heroes, slamming down jacks of ale, squashed, shoulder-to-shoulder in a sea of drunkards. One throws up in a corner. Another is passed out on the floor, occasionally being stepped on.

Also drunk are the establishment whores. They wade around the sea of faces, wearing loose cut robes.

One is laying across the PC's table. Her head is back and a man poors some from his jack into her open mouth, his other hand rolling a coin across her bare mid-drift.

From the PC's side of the table, he can see straight up her legs. The silk around her crotch droops from the sweat of the night. Her legs are spread, and she's quite drunk.

And, there before them, is her cooch.

I'm curious what the players will do here. Will they make an action or just continue to my description of the night.



I'd say our game is rated *very mature*.

 

[LilithsThrall]

What the title says.

Let's see...our first game session, coming up in a couple of days, I plan on describing the night before the campaign starts.

We're in Arenjun, the City of Thieves. And, the governor has just married, closing the entire city for a day and a night.

The ale houses are packed, and our focus turns to our soon-to-be heroes, slamming down jacks of ale, squashed, shoulder-to-shoulder in a sea of drunkards. One throws up in a corner. Another is passed out on the floor, occasionally being stepped on.

Also drunk are the establishment whores. They wade around the sea of faces, wearing loose cut robes.

One is laying across the PC's table. Her head is back and a man poors some from his jack into her open mouth, his other hand rolling a coin across her bare mid-drift.

From the PC's side of the table, he can see straight up her legs. The silk around her crotch droops from the sweat of the night. Her legs are spread, and she's quite drunk.

And, there before them, is her cooch.

I'm curious what the players will do here. Will they make an action or just continue to my description of the night.



I'd say our game is rated *very mature*.

I'm guessing it'd depend on the maturity of your players. If they are older than 13 and younger than 18, they'll probably wait as you continue the description.
If they're older than 23, they'll wonder why the hell they came to a junior high school nerd's role playing game.
"Adult" isn't the same as "gratuitous".