Hey, I did the same thing (my guys didn't even go to the temple, they got so involved in the house of Aram Baksh, the house was raided by angry slaves/cannibals, but Aram was able to escape the mob/the PCs, and the PCs had a close call escaping themselves. Now they'd love to go back to extract revenge on Baksh!slaughterj said:The old stories as adventures are good for many reasons, including:
1. Some people simply want them!
2. Many PCs aren't that familiar and it can be run directly.
3. With a minor tweak, they can be run without affecting the timeline (I did this with Shadows over Zamboula, simply set it before Conan was there with a different priest).
Lol. Well, I might have jumped on this years ago, but am not as inclined at present. I think I remember reading or hearing John Milius say that he & Oliver Stone worked that idea from the whole Jonestown incident, although I could be mis-remembering now?The King said:I also imagine how excellent a campaign made after the adventure of Conan the first movie could be:
- a big sect
- many serpent towers across all the nations
- conditionned people to assassinate the rulers and regents (like the short story "the Kriss").
I thought it was partially inspired from the short story "the Kriss" by de Camp, one of his best Howardian pastiche.Bregales said:Lol. Well, I might have jumped on this years ago, but am not as inclined at present. I think I remember reading or hearing John Milius say that he & Oliver Stone worked that idea from the whole Jonestown incident, although I could be mis-remembering now?The King said:I also imagine how excellent a campaign made after the adventure of Conan the first movie could be:
- a big sect
- many serpent towers across all the nations
- conditionned people to assassinate the rulers and regents (like the short story "the Kriss").
I truly disliked the CB1 module. It was a adventure solely based on encounters with no story. CB2 was somewhat better with a better Conan feeling.Anyway, TSR's first Conan adventure CB1: Conan:Unchained! could be adapted w/o too much work (maybe removing some of the monsters for brainwashed devotees), it's got a big tower, a snake, an evil sorcerer creating a power state in Turan, and an imperiled princess. Oh well, now my players are in on it. Oh well, I'll just have to make this a total party kill when I run it. :twisted:
Probably was. Not familiar with this story myself. I'm just going off of memory, replying from work while running stats for the library.The King said:I thought it was partially inspired from the short story "the Kriss" by de Camp, one of his best Howardian pastiche.Bregales said:Lol. Well, I might have jumped on this years ago, but am not as inclined at present. I think I remember reading or hearing John Milius say that he & Oliver Stone worked that idea from the whole Jonestown incident, although I could be mis-remembering now?The King said:I also imagine how excellent a campaign made after the adventure of Conan the first movie could be:
- a big sect
- many serpent towers across all the nations
- conditionned people to assassinate the rulers and regents (like the short story "the Kriss").
Well, I understand. I scanned CB1 & am in the midst of adapting it for my Saturday Conan group because I can paste some of the elements into their campaign, and I promised it to a player in our Sundays Conan group, but I haven't read the adventures you mention. I'll give them a read when I get the time, thanks for the tips.The King said:I truly disliked the CB1 module. It was a adventure solely based on encounters with no story. CB2 was somewhat better with a better Conan feeling.Bregales said:Anyway, TSR's first Conan adventure CB1: Conan:Unchained! could be adapted w/o too much work (maybe removing some of the monsters for brainwashed devotees), it's got a big tower, a snake, an evil sorcerer creating a power state in Turan, and an imperiled princess. Oh well, now my players are in on it. Oh well, I'll just have to make this a total party kill when I run it. :twisted:
In fact I prefer the 3 adventures published by TSR for its Conan game. Though the rules weren't very good IMO, the adventure made after Conan the triumphant was a real surprise: a whole campaign with military mass battle and court intrigues and many other plots in 32 pages! I am still amazed at the excellent quality of this booklet.