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Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:21 pm  
Conan the Barbarian in Greyhawk?

Would you all think it's heresy if I introduced Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian in Greyhawk? I think that Conan would thrive in Greyhawk.
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Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:05 pm  

These may also interest you if you’re a big REH and pulps fan:

- A Gazetteer of the Hyborian World: https://reh.world/howardworks/about-reh,paperbacks/a-gazeteer/
- https://hyboria.xoth.net/ and https://xoth.net/publishing/
- https://www.hyperborea.tv/store/c4/HYPERBOREA_Adventures.html
- TSR Conan: http://www.tsrarchive.com/cn/cn2.html
- http://www.tsrarchive.com/add/add-cb.html
- http://www.tsrarchive.com/add/add-rs1.html
- GURPS Conan: https://rpggeek.com/rpgseries/1469/gurps-conan

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Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:11 pm  

Gary Gygax also wrote an article detailing Conan in The Dragon #36 (April 1980) too.

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Mon Sep 30, 2024 3:18 pm  

grodog wrote:
These may also interest you if you’re a big REH and pulps fan:

- A Gazetteer of the Hyborian World: https://reh.world/howardworks/about-reh,paperbacks/a-gazeteer/
- https://hyboria.xoth.net/ and https://xoth.net/publishing/
- https://www.hyperborea.tv/store/c4/HYPERBOREA_Adventures.html
- TSR Conan: http://www.tsrarchive.com/cn/cn2.html
- http://www.tsrarchive.com/add/add-cb.html
- http://www.tsrarchive.com/add/add-rs1.html
- GURPS Conan: https://rpggeek.com/rpgseries/1469/gurps-conan

Allan.


I also got the Conan d20 rulebook. Smile
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Tue Oct 01, 2024 11:00 am  
Dragon 36

I looked up that Conan article in Dragon 36. I compared the stats to Conan from CB1. They are similar to the stats in the article for Conan at 25 years old. The stats don't match up exactly but I think it's interesting that Gygax says don't quibble over a couple of points on a stat and then the 25 year old stats are within a couple of points compared to Conan from CB1.

What is also interesting is that Gygax gives limits in the PLAYERS HANDBOOK for humans at 18 for ability scores but there is no justification in the article for scores over that in the article. CB1 doesn't have ability scores over 18.

CB2 has the same stats as CB1 for Conan.

I think someone playing in the Greyhawk setting has a lot of options. Either use Conan as presented or re-skin him to be another barbarian. You could even use Sagard which appears to me to be a Conan stand-in. I've been trying to convert the Sagard books to adventure modules, but that project has stalled. Those books seem to be set in what might be Oerth and then they are set in Yarth which has a similar map to Oerth. Either way, those books feature locations on the eastern shores. I like the idea of a Yarth based on Oerth but with a big sea in the south per the Yarth maps which are given. You can use the rest of Oerth as you know to fill in the gaps.

Also, there are the RS1 module, the TSR Conan role playing game, Hyboria (a Hyborian Age/World of Conan Campaign Setting), Modiphius Conan (free quickstart), and Xoth modules which can all be played on Oerth's/Yarth's Hyperboria.
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Wed Oct 02, 2024 10:50 am  

Thank you, Raymond.
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Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:33 pm  

Two ways of effecting this crossover spring to mind:

1 Conan is zapped by a sorcerer and sent to the Oerth.

2 a party of Oerthian adventurers travel through a 'rabbit hole' and reach Earth during the Hyborian Age.


Either one could work well.

Creating a Conan-like barbarian and thief, much as Raymond suggests, also looks fun.

It might be interesting to take the Conan stats from Dragon and run some low-level published modules as solos with just Conan instead of a party of several 1st level guys.

And of course, the stories are full of stuff to nab. In particular, Rogues in the House would make an excellent D&D adventure.
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Sun Oct 06, 2024 7:00 am  

FormerlyKnownasNorker wrote:
Two ways of effecting this crossover spring to mind:

1 Conan is zapped by a sorcerer and sent to the Oerth.

2 a party of Oerthian adventurers travel through a 'rabbit hole' and reach Earth during the Hyborian Age.


I figured that could happen. Being zapped by a sorcerer and sent to Oerth is a possibility. A little overhanded, though. "Conan, Thulsa Doom throws you into a Stargate and you travel to Oerth!"

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Creating a Conan-like barbarian and thief, much as Raymond suggests, also looks fun.

It might be interesting to take the Conan stats from Dragon and run some low-level published modules as solos with just Conan instead of a party of several 1st level guys.

And of course, the stories are full of stuff to nab. In particular, Rogues in the House would make an excellent D&D adventure.


Yep. After reading God in the Bowl, it seemed to me to be an adventure in and of itself.
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