Hyboria's Fiercest, Finest, Fallen - Crunch vs. Fluff?

[quigs]

I was just curious as to the content of these three books. What is the ratio of crunch vs. fluff in these?

The reason I ask is that I love Conan as a setting, but I use a different set of d20 rules to run my games, so the only sourcebooks I tend to buy are the ones with setting information and stuff about the various cultures and combat styles they use.

Things I don't care about: new feats, skills, spells, prestige classes, other Conan RPG crunch.

Things I do care about: popular combat styles, feats, skills, classes taken by the various hyborian races. Setting and background information about the different races and regions of Hyboria. Also stuff to help with PC/NPC creation and backgrounds.

If the emphasis tends to be on the fluff side, I am thinking of grabbing these off of amazon.

 

[Clovenhoof]

Funny, I do it the other way round -- Conan system in homebrew setting. ^^
Hey, we could buy them together and split the books. You get the fluff part, I get the crunchy bits.

 

[Krushnak]

im curious what d20 system do you use to run conan? so far for me conan d20 has been the best.

ive got H Finest and its a fairly even mix between rules and fluff leaning abit on the fluff side.

 

[Lord Jolly the Scribe]

I would say also it is a good even mix of the two, with good ideas on what the races have and take, as well as new feats and such. So I would say go for it, cause the ideas and such alone would be very helpful.

 

[Auggie]

I would also say that it is a mixture of the two. I have found all of the supliments helpful and use them regularly in my campaign.

 

[Ankhe]

I use the three of them all the time, the extra rules for specific class combinations are cool, people actually look forward to getting a new combat formation now where it used to be a bit meh. They expand on skills nicely and describe the different races tendencies towards the various classes too.

I tend to like having heaps of info on hand though because alot of the Conan sessions Ive run have been made up on the spot when we've opened up a bag of goon and started 'getting into character'.

 

[quigs]

im curious what d20 system do you use to run conan? so far for me conan d20 has been the best.

ive got H Finest and its a fairly even mix between rules and fluff leaning abit on the fluff side.

Conan d20 for me was a disaster as far as the rules go. I moved back to basic D&D d20, kinda what Thulsa uses on his site, but I plugged in some rules from Green Ronin's "The Black Company" campaign setting.