HeadWound

After playing Pendragon for a long time, we tried this recently with another BRP game we played over the Summer and it worked well. It reduces the amount of dice rolling and made combat more streamlined and did away with initiative/dex ranks altogether.

We did it pretty much full Pendragon style:

All actions declared before rolling any dice.

if you were unopposed, just make your action.

If you faced multiple opponents, you could divide your weapon skill among your opponents as desired and make opposed rolls against all you faced.

I enjoyed that there was less dice rolling in general and I am strongly considering doing it for a Magic World game that we are about to start.

I recently read the entire Howard Conan works - I don't remember any Cthulhu mythos in his Hyborian work. Sure he wrote Cthulhu stories, but they didn't take place in Hyboria.

(face saving caveat: my memory isn't what it was when I was younger! :ohwell: )

Here is a decent article talking about some of the connections, however, it does include some non-Howard Conan stories.

http://kingsofthenight0.tripod.com/mythos.htm

There are always the 6th or 7th sons of a noble who have no inheritance left for them, although "the fall of the household" could be a rich source for a background.

it REALLY brings the feeling of early gaming. Very, Very tempted to run some of the ancient modules (Caverns of Thracia, Giant series, Temple of Elemental Evil)...you wrote a great game.

Looking forward to purchasing other games in that series.

My best,

Mark

I am currently running ToEE, and it is going pretty well. Classic Fantasy definitely a fun way to revisit some classics, while retaining the BRP feeling.