Ant said:
The King said:
... Use for animals is quite easy: almost all of them were use for their skins/furs, sinews, bones, teeth, claws, intestines, and other organs. The tribes shamans took some parts (heart, brains, ..) to make whatever powder and elixir they could. From this tradition comes probably the curious aphrodisiacs.
Yes, but what uses exactly? What are their skins/furs, sinews, bones, teeth, claws, intestines, and other organs worth? And to whom?
In the stone age and even after that time, jewel cutting wasn't very common. Many used bones, teeth or claws for decoration (bones were also used as tools). Usually the chief, hunters and fighters used this. Some chiefs even adorned full animal hide (from bear, wolf).
Furs and hides were used for clothes, tents, etc. Do you know for instance that camel urin was used to dye tents and give them some impermeability and camel dung to light fire camp? (I think I learnt this in some Al-Qadim sourcebooks).
Intestines were used as water skins among other things.
It shouldn't be difficult to find some books on the use of animals after they were eaten. However I think many human parts were also used that way (the Celtic culture is very morbid in fact as skulls were commonly used as adornements).
Which monsters from the Conan stories have not been covered? New monsters should probably make their first appearances in the appropriate supplements... as you say.
It depends on whether you also used the pastiche works or not. My former Conan stories were touched by de Camp because they weren't available otherwise. There many ghoul-like monsters (ghouls from the forest on the Argos-Zingara borders, the servants of Bit-Yakins, Brylukas,..). The same is true from Apes.
Well, that could go in a bestiary. But do we really need more demons?
Here again it depends on what you want. But I have nothing against some demonic powers and feats, so a summoner can decide what he wants.
In the Hour of the Dragon, Xaltotun has 2 demonic servants which have no other purposes (we don't see them fight for him and it seems they are no bodyguards - hell, they didn't watch on his goods because the heart of Ahriman was stolen).