Non-Human races in Hyboria

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

I know this is not a kosher question, and I am not trying to rewrite the games rules AT ALL!, as I love Conan and GM it twice weakly. However, I have just gotten Castles and Crucades RPG, and I find a unique commbination of AD&D, AD&D 2ed, and D20.

I do not want to write another campaign setting, as I have plenty to do with my Conan GM SCREEN and Conversions of Hyboria to Runequest.

I just need some ideas how to use Hyboria's lands to include, Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, Half-Orcs, and Orcs etc... etc...

Any ideas?

I was thinking about making Pictish Winlderness Wild Elf tribes.

I would like to place these races in specific locations... May be even substituting current races and nations for those listed above.

Any ideas would be appreciated..

Thanks

 

[Krushnak]

cimmerian= orcs
vendhyans= high elves
stygians= dark elves
picts= wild elves
hyperborians= dwarves

all you have to do is give them their appropriate low light and dark visions and your fine.

 

[Clovenhoof]

I haven't bothered about non-human races in my Conan-based Sword&Sorcery game, but I used to run a "Conanesque" house-ruled D&D game yonks ago. In that game I used Wild Elves, which I depicted as a nomadic equestrian people.
So if I wanted to implement these in Conan, I'd use the Hyrkanian template.
For by-the-book Wild Elves, Picts would be the appropriate template.

Meanwhile I actually prefer the original Hyborian approach without nonhuman player races. Elves have silly ears.

 

[DaveNC]

Howard did refer to "lost races" a lot in his works. You could make a dwarf or elf like lost civilization in an isolate mountain range or deep forest where even the Picts fear to tread. They would, of course, have to be a very dark, twisted race, full of mystery and practicers of vile sorcery. You could play up the hideousness of the deformed dwarf like race.

 

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

cimmerian= orcs
vendhyans= high elves
stygians= dark elves
picts= wild elves
hyperborians= dwarves

Now this is cool. However, I want to keep Stygia... Stygia as it is..

Dark Elves will be an underground race.

I do like this approach and have them scattered about the lands as well.

Remember, I am not using this for a CONAN game, just the world....

 

[The King]

cimmerian= orcs
vendhyans= high elves
stygians= dark elves
picts= wild elves
hyperborians= dwarves

all you have to do is give them their appropriate low light and dark visions and your fine.

You forgot halflings as Aquilonians.

 

[Strom]

I would put the dwarves in Nordheim and Orges in Hyperborea.

 

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

You forgot halflings as Aquilonians.

Halflings will have small dwellings throughout the world.

Most countries will remain Human, as they will be the major race.

 

[Aholibamah]

Have Yuan-Ti in places like Stygia and Vendhya.

 

[sgstyrsky]

cimmerian= orcs
vendhyans= high elves
stygians= dark elves
picts= wild elves
hyperborians= dwarves

I like this except Picts strike me as the orc race simply because of their brutal and savage nature. Cimmerians I would call wild elves, since even the Cimmerians of Conan are less feared than the Picts.

Also,

Hyborians = humans (obviously)
Hyrkanians = hobgoblins

 

[The King]

May be you should consider converting the Dark Sun setting to Conan.

 

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

Once again, this is NOT a conversion of Conan, it is not any conversion. I just want to use the world for another game and this game has demi-humans.

No rule changes, no house rules, just use of the world.

I play Conan and Runequest and many other games.

I play them as they are written. Although I am currently trying to convert Runequest Mongoose style to the world of Conan.

Also, VINCENT brought this up to me, "HYBORIA" is NOT the name of the world, or even the continent. Though I forgot the name, this is a big misconception. Hyborian's are a race. That is all...

 

[VincentDarlage]

The time period is correctly called "the Hyborian Age." The continent name is Thuria. The Hyborians are an ethnicity, but there is no land called "Hyboria."

 

[sgstyrsky]

Also, Simon brought this up to me, "HYBORIA" is NOT the name of the world, or even the continent. Though I forgot the name, this is a big misconception. Hyborian's are a race. That is all...

See the thread on Healers and Gladiators. Vincent gives the correct name for the continent.

 

[thulsa]

just as we have the Jewish people, but no land called "Jew."

But once, there was... Judea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea



- thulsa

 

[VincentDarlage]

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[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

Sorry, Vincent it was YOU who told me that. I have no idea why I said Simon :lol: Then I had to go back and Change it!!!!

 

[sidkfjjteidlkkf]

Actually, I do not think Judea was named for the Jews that lived there :lol:

I mean, it was under Roman Rule at the time, so it may have been...

DAMN YOU, Now I have to look it up.... :wink:

 

[pasuuli]

Actually, I do not think Judea was named for the Jews that lived there :lol:

I mean, it was under Roman Rule at the time, so it may have been...

DAMN YOU, Now I have to look it up.... :wink:

Erm, wasn't the term "Jews" a coinage from the place-name Judea? Judea is a variant on the name "Judah" whose tribe settled there.

I've never heard of a place called "Sem" for the Semites, but the word (and their lineage) comes from from Shem, a son of Noah.

 

[VincentDarlage]

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