What is best for CONAN ROLEPLAY?

To realize that it's a terrible setting and decide not to roleplay it.

>>52091196
Is the setting really that bad?

>>52091196
What do you consider good settings?

>>52091202
It's whatever you make of it.
It's low magic, bronze age/iron age.
Some people just can't wrap their head around that.

>>52091233
When you say low magic, what exactly do you mean? Aren't Thot-Amon and Thulsa Doom really powerful sorccerers?

>>52091196
Why is it terrible?

>>52091196
Conan's setting is hawt, what objective evidence do you provide anon-shitposter?!

>>52091267
It means Magic is uncommon and generally insanely powerful

>>52091333
Okay. Not to go off-topic, but what kind of magic level is it then, if magic is rare and not insanely powerful?

>>52091360
Still low, the first part is the important part, but from a world design standpoint why do people care about magic if it's hard to get but not that useful?

>>52091360
I actually prefer to refer to thing as high/low in terms of rarity, then high/low power to define how powerful it is.

>>52091333
That's not low magic, that's one of principles of the sword and sorcery genre

>>52091450
Sword and Sorcery is low magic.

>>52091173
Roll your dice before you, hear the lamentations of the GM.

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>>52091173
>To drive NPC's before me, and hear the lamentation of the GM

To crush the NPC's, to roll your dice before you, the hear the lamentations of the GM.

>>52091512
Conan isn't sword and sorcery, it is a fictional mythology. The magic is the same as in greek myth where its the manifestations of the Gods and impossible to explain.

>>52092231
You're being pedantic and creating false dichotomies.

>>52091173
I'm partial to a D20 setting done with the OGL. The magic stays nice and true to the fluff, the classes are thematic, it's very viceral and the splats help bring your char to life.

>>52091173
Barbarians of Lemuria.

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>>52091196

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>>52092298
Didn't know those little guys were build for life of plunder.

>>52092248
no, I'm being accurate and clarifying what Howard envisioned. You are being flase if you wish to call Conan 'sword and sorcey'.

>>52091173
Riddle of Steel

>>52092231
>The magic is the same as in greek myth where its the manifestations of the Gods

The only time I can think of in the original Howard Conan stories where magic came from the gods was when Conan cast a spell sacred to Jhebbel Sag to protect him and some dude from a possessed animal thing that was hunting them in "Beyond the Black River". Jhebbel Sag took offense at that.

Yeah, Conan cast a spell.

Anyway, magic otherwise doesn't seem to have a divine source. Certainly Xaltotun was not divine in any way, and I can't see the Master of Yimsha as deigning to accept magic from something as paltry as a god.

>>52091173
What is best?

To crush your enemies, see them driven before you and hear the lamentations of their women.

>>52092400
Conan literally defines the Sword & Sorcery genre. In fact the very name "Sword & Sorcery" was originally coined in order to describe Conan stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_and_sorcery

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>All those fags talking shit about Conan setting

>>52092428
Most magic users in Conan are cultists or occasionally aliens or primordial creatures. In any case the parallels between greek or norse myth and Conan is pretty clear to see. There's plently of Babel and Atlantis references for a start.

>>52092466
You're feeding an obvious troll. Either get his number or stop.

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>>52092231
>>52092400

>>52092466
Don't really give a fuck about what other author's called it, it's a fictional mythology. What it inspired is irrelevant.

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>>52092002
thank you anon, have a frozen dairy treat

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>>52091202
Nah. Some people don't like that Conan is a world where all the real world analogues are really clear, but for me that's the charm. Howard was essentially using historical fantasy as a way of mixing historical periods and playing fast and loose with details while keeping the same flavor of whatever period he wanted. So you can be a 17th century pirate, go to ancient Egypt and fight a snake cult, and then hang out with some Vikings and pick a fight some Germanic barbarians if you want to.
If you're feeling /tumblr/, yes, there's a lot of sexist imagery, and yes, Howard was a social Darwinist racist, but none of that is fundamental to the setting in a meaningful way. Clash of cultures is important, but Conan befriends Afghanis, Vikings, Zulu sailors, and falls in love with a Jewish Pirate Queen over the course of his adventures.
Really, it's a very loose, freewheeling setting that's ripe for HIGH ADVENTURE, and anyone who doesn't like it clearly hates fun.
>>52091173
I hear good things about Barbarians of Lemuria, but haven't tried it. Some friends were homebrewing Conan for a while, we decided that the best system would be fast and loose, have a distinction between "Civilized" and "Barbarian", and have messy critical hit tables.
Have you tried the Conan boardgame by Monolith? I think it's rad, but rather pricey and the rulebook is a bit messy.

>>52092534
>Don't really give a fuck about what other author's called it, it's a fictional mythology.

Not according to Robert E. Howard. He just called them "yarns", for the most part. I don't think he ever tried to define what genre his Conan stories fit into.

>>52091173
Barbarians of Lemuria

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