Showing posts with label conan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conan. Show all posts
26 August 2022

Fictional worlds and the RPGs that I would use for them

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Below I list some of my favourite settings from fantasy fiction that I think could serve as viable RPG settings and the rules that I would u...
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15 October 2020

Netflix Developing Conan Series

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  Perhaps inspired by the success of its series The Witcher , Netflix is developing a new fantasy series featuring everyone’s favourite barb...
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09 March 2020

Max von Sydow RIP

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Actor Max von Sydow has died at the age of 90 . His performance in The Seventh Seal ensures his cinematic immortality. It’s one of the...
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30 December 2018

Conan wanders through Canada

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By Crom! This is brilliant: artist Kris Friesen has inserted Conan (the Cimmerian with mighty thews) into a number of murals throughout west...
03 August 2018

The Frost Giant's Daughter coming to TV

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[Frank Frazetta's classic picture of Conan fighting the frost giants.] I mentioned a few months ago that Amazon is planning a ser...
07 February 2018

Conan to tread onto the small screen?

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Well this news is rather intriguing: "Amazon is developing drama series Conan , based on the books by Robert E. Howard. […] Conan r...
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29 March 2017

Mythras Swords and Sorcery Advice

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Thinking of running a ‘swords-and-sorcery’ style Mythras ( RuneQuest 6 ) campaign? This thread at the RPGsite contains some helpful advice...
30 December 2015

Crypts and Things versus Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea

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Both Crypts and Things and Astonishing Swordsmen and Sorcerers of Hyperborea  are products of the 'Old School Renaissance.'  Both g...
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29 July 2013

Cthulhu meets Conan?

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News here on a forthcoming setting entitled 'Primeval Thule', which purports to be a world in which 'Conan meets Cthulhu'....
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16 September 2011

Conan, Lecturer at Trinity College

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I taught at Trinity College Dublin for three years. And although I was a lecturer in a different department, I am amazed that I did not enc...
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25 August 2011

Conan the Insipid

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Contrary to my earlier declaration , I ended up seeing Conan the Barbarian 3D . One of my best friends was desperate to...
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18 August 2011

Conan the Barbarian 3D: not very fresh

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It's unsurprising -- but disappointing nonetheless -- that the new Conan the Barbarian film has a 'freshness' rating of only 27...
22 January 2011

Son of Crom

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Today is the birthday of Robert Ervin Howard (1906), creator of Conan, Kull, Bran Mak Morn, and Solomon Kane. " Hither came Conan, t...
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20 January 2011

Interview with 'Conan' Screenwriter

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In case you are curious about the forthcoming Conan the Barbarian film (to be released 19 August 2011), an interview with one of the film...
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25 November 2009

The Future of Mongoose’s ‘Runequest,’ ‘Eternal Champion,’ and ‘Conan’ RPGs

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Apparently Mongoose Games is now the biggest company that publishes RPGs exclusively (WotC publishes non-RPGs). My opinion of the compan...
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08 November 2009

By Crom!

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I just finished reading volume one of The Savage Sword of Conan . These volumes, published by Dark Horse Comics, reproduce the Savage Sword...
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