#hyborian knight

[weatherman667]

rwby but set in the Hyborian age. jaune isn't a barbarian like conan but instead is a knight who actually belives and does his best to live up to the ideals of his station constantly saving damsels in distress only to return home to his oaths and shun the greater power and wealth he might gain from keeping the damsels. ruby is a destined warrior meant to fight against the eldritch gods that are utterly uncaring to humanity and it's place in the universe, supported by the sorcerer queen weiss, the cultist of the god of animals blake and her barbarian sister yang. pyrrha is queen of the kingdom jaune serves but can't seem to get through to him that she wants to be boned him. ren and nora are pyrrha's bodyguards and also want to bone/get boned by, him. but can't seem to get that idea across to him.

Much better thought out then the last one.

My first thoughts were mistakenly about the Tarnsman of Gor, or of Fire and Ice. It definitely combines the high-fantasy with the low-fantasy, which is wonderful. It's usually about OP hero, or entirely mundane heroes.

Since we're dealing with Eldritch Horrors, then Jaune's knight's resolve would help him keep his sanity, alongside with Ruby's irrational optimism. This let's them fight the horrors, (presumably Grimm, or not irrational Grimm).

Faunus is literally a Roman god, but if Blake's a Priestess, (high priestess?), then Fauna might be a better idea.

And Yang should be an Amazon. An actual Amazon. The horny for great heroes kind of Amazon.

Love the idea of this world.

[thecounci1]

Gods' & Deities,

In the owl and knight, each mythology god is real, and there is no signaler source of the first human, (example Adam & Eve) , its more like each mythos origin is true to that group of people. The Norse, The Greeks, The Egyptians ,etc. Though there is a first empire/civilization that was lost to time an "hyborian" age/empire that many still hold traces of.

[loopy777]

Thoughts on a time travel story where a scientist invents time travel and intends to use it to prove or disprove things such as exodus, jesus miracles, etc, as well as learn truth of historical mysteries, learn about dark, undocummented spots in history, etc.

Only to learn that the Conan setting of the hyborian age was actually the true(the fictional stories of conan not being a thing in this timeline obviously) past of the world, as Howard intended for it to be a historical forgotten and mythologized past just like tolkiens legendarium.

Everything he thought he knew about history, about plate tectonics, evolution, the history of mankind was a lie.

Atlantis existed, most of the world was taken over by a hyperadvanced, gene modifying, demon summoning empire after it fell, and ruled for millennia before it too fell, not only does the abrahamic god exist in some form, but so does Crom, thor, odin, Dagon, the egyptian gods, etc.

Cosmic horror is real, massive, worldchanging tectonic catastrophes can rearrange the face of the continents in one lifetime, and magic is a very real, tangible power in the world.

All of it completely destroys his entire worldview... But then he sees the possibilities, with him being able to use all of this knowledge now at his fingertips, as well as travel back to any point in the past with as much technology(as well as modern crops), and knowldge as he can bring with him on his time machine.

And so he sets himself up as a would be hyper technological barbarian warlord, aiming to conquer the grimdark world of the Hyborean age during the great apokolyptic end time period 150 years after Conans reign as king, while also ensuring that the magical catastrophe that ended the hyborean age and ushered in the bronze age never occurs.

What do you think? Does it sound intriguing in your mind? A new take on an old public domain franchise?

Continued:

Themes of conan in case you dont know, is the eternal cycle of empires, rise, golden age, decadence, fall, replaced by new empires, rinse repeat.

I haven't read any Conan (nor seen the movie, and yes, I said "the movie," as the others don't seem to matter), but I heard that Tolkien enjoyed some of them, so they've been somewhere on my Someday list.

Anyway, it's an intriguing idea, but I wonder what the actual story/stories look like. Is this an epic about the Scientist's path from lone interloper to overlord? Are they just random stories from various points in his lifelong quest?

The thing about Conan and the Hyborean Age, by my understanding, is that they're both very versatile. Sometimes Conan is a wandering hobo, sometimes he's a king, sometimes he's part of a questing group, etc. He's whatever the story needs him to be so we can get on with it with a minimum of setup, unless the setup is part of the fun. Likewise, the Hyborean era isn't really a coherent setting so much as it's a giant grab-bag that can let Conan adventure in anything from Middle-Earth to a Pirate of the Caribbean movie to a post-apocalyptic wasteland. And my understanding is that Robert E. Howard spent exactly zero time thinking about who was growing the food unless it involved naked slaves.

So, in that vein, I can see a fun series of stories being made about this Time Traveler Dude, always working his way towards conquering this land with his future science technology, getting into various adventures. Magic could be one of the big things that pose a threat to him, since it commands powers beyond what even his technology is capable of and doesn't have the same resource limitations, as well as the sheer numbers of an army of knights or whatever charging him when all he has a laser AK-47. But some stories can also be about his setting up an advanced society after some conquests, and the challenges he faces that can't be fixed with some technology. It might be fun to have a smart 'barbarian' be one of his long-term allies and advisors, who is actually more savvy and clever than the scientist and given to a little corruption and duplicity when the opportunity comes along, but who can't just be executed due to something he has that the scientist needs. Perhaps this barbarian is the one who eventually kills the scientist and takes his empire.

The alternative, of a singular epic in which the Scientist starts with his wits and technology and chronologically goes through the story of his attempt to conquer, honestly doesn't thrill me as much. It sounds a bit more 'standard,' as a lot of fantasy starts with a hero arriving and growing in power until becoming a king of some kind, and then transitions into a wheel-spinning series of stories about defending his power or stopping the end of the world until the author gets sick of it. It also, having a structure, inherently seeks to force a structure on the setting, since the Scientist would make logical decisions about his next goals and steps, and so the world needs to be arrayed in a way that allows for a kind of logic. I'd rather just have one book start with his existing kingdom warring with Atlantis, and then another story can be about the time he and his Iron Man armor had to cross the Sea of Non-Convection Lava with a group of mindflayer-worshipping nuns or something.

It also means the ending of the scientist's story can be left vague. To play to the theme of Conan that you describe, I like the idea that he fails to preserve the Hyborian Age, and some technology-powered record of his 'unending' reign is literally the one artifact of that era which survives to be uncovered by archeologists- and it's dismissed as a work of fiction. Because ending with some Ramesses II-style irony is the easy way to do this, and fun to boot!

[n1ght-nurse]

SAVAGE AVENGERS #1 REVIEW

David Pepose - Writer

Carlos Magno - Artist

Espen Grundetjern - Colorist

vc's Travis Lanham - Letterer

Released May 18th

Marvel Comics, 24 pages

$3.99

Savage Avengers starts with a simple and nostalgic premise - Conan vs the Terminator (or in this case, Deathlok) - and has a simple mission: create high adrenaline pulp-inspired fun that's interlaced with interesting character work. What is simple isn't often easy, but the All-New, All-Different Savage Avengers succeeds in spades. Pepose draws you in with nonstop action, illustrated brilliantly by Magno, but seeds each page with an adoration for the books cast that is infectious. This is a book that'll have your heart pumping, and leave you with a brand-new favorite character.

Let's dive in.

The issue begins introducing our Deathlok in a far-flung future with a scene reminiscent of Predator comics, before quickly and seamlessly shifting to the present. There we find Conan battling the Cult of Set, who came into possession of a Madbomb - an item from Kirby's Captain America back in the 70s - which when detonated spreads insanity throughout the city and draws out the darkest parts of people's hearts. Throughout Conan's battle with the Cult of Set and Deathlok, we are introduced to the rest of the cast who are all within the vicinity: Daredevil, Agent Anti-Venom, Weapon H, Black Knight, Cloak and Dagger. The Madbomb detonates, and our heroes remain unaffected because they are already well acquainted with their darker tendencies. From there, our Avengers assemble and battle Deathlok alongside Conan before being shunted back into the past - into the Hyborian Age.

Like all the best Avengers teams, our heroes find themselves connected through circumstance, but what makes our Savage Avengers unique is that the ties that bind them, what lets them resist the Madbomb, is their past trauma and inner darkness.

Both Flash Thompson and Weapon H have their struggles with PTSD. Daredevil is textually neurodivergent and has a past marred by tragedy. Dane Whitman has struggled battling against the Ebony Blade practically since his conception, and Spurrier's latest run at Black Knight hinted at mental health issues that predated his connection to the cursed weapon (and don't get me started on how cursed objects have been used as metaphors for mental illness since antiquity).

This an Avengers team that, possibly just through happenstance, is something that I've been waiting for for a long time.

A neurodiverse team that finds community by lifting each other up.

Savage Avengers hooked me with its nonstop action - and it IS non-stop, even under the most critical lense only 23% of the book is "devoid" of action (trust me I counted) - but what I'm staying for is brilliant character work that focuses on those that the rest of the Marvel Universe tends to forget about.

I give Savage Avengers a 10 out of 10.

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

The last book “felt” like a Conan story, but now we have Busceme on art, and he was like one of THE Conan artists. So his style is like synonymous with that type of book as is, so now it really feels like a Black Knight pasted over Conan story with just bits changed to fit that time frame instead of the hyborian age.

[graphicpolicy]

It's Sword-and-Sorcery Infused with The Terminator. David Pepose Talks Savage Avengers

It's Sword-and-Sorcery Infused with The Terminator. David Pepose Talks Savage Avengers #comics #comicbooks #marvel #marvelcomics @Peposed @TroyBrownfield

Announced in February, Savage Avengers returns this May with a whole new lineup and a whole new creative team. Writer David Pepose guides Conan the Barbarian, Daredevil (Elektra), Anti-Venom, Black Knight, Cloak & Dagger, and Weapon H along with Carlos Magno in a whole new adventure. They’ll fight their way through the Hyborian Age with an evil Deathlok hot on their trail! We got to talk to…

[awerewolfborn]

the curse of the werewolf, jack’s family, and early life:

in 1795, grigory russov, a distant ancestor of jack’s and minor wallachian nobility, changed the course of his bloodline forever when he drove a stake through the heart of dracula himself to avenge his wife, louisa. however, grigory was bitten by a werewolf in the service of the vile count, and forever cursed the russov line to transform into a fearsome werewolf on the nights of the full moon. grigory’s children were spared his genetic curse, as they had already been born before than night in castle dracula. the curse was reawakened nearly 200 years later by jack’s father, gregor russov. gregor was a transylvanian baron and scholar, who’s dabbling in the dark arts and forbidden sciences already distanced himself from others. gregor possessed the darkhold, a mystic tome that carried the power of cthon, the demonic god. this timeless book predates humanity, and even survived through the hyborian age of conan the barbarian. his reading of the book awakened the lycanthropy curse and turned him into a werewolf. shortly after, he met laura, an american co-ed studying abroad in the balkans. she and the baron met, married, and had two children-- jacob and lissa russov gregor was hunted by monster hunters, mobs, and clashed with dracula. by the time he was killed, laura took jacob and lissa to america and americanized their names to jack and lissa russell. jack was five years old, and lissa was three. laura married gregor’s brother, philip. jack’s step father is also his uncle. gregor was a kind husband and father, from what jack can recall. werewolf by night leaves jack’s childhood mostly unexplored. his mother inherited gregor russov’s fortune and holdings, which were coveted by philip russell. philip russell has ties to a shadowy organization known as the committee, who would later outfit and create moon knight in their quest to dominate the werewolf. philip himself was already a wealthy man, and moved the russells into his cliffside california home. jack and lissa were the best of friends and children-- jack defended her from the other children, and would go to great lengths to stop her curse from ever starting. the russells didn’t want for much, and jack was able to live a carefree childhood. his early teenage years were a bit rebellious-- jack took a liking to his step father’s classic cars, and pushing them to their limits on the winding roads around their home. he was never a great student, but he was carried by his sports abilities-- jack was a star tennis player at his upper class high school.  near his 18th birthday, philip russell enacted his plan to kill his wife and take over the russell fortune. the beginning of the curse and the fruition of the plan would overlap-- jack would learn than the step father was involved with the plot, and the werewolf would tear his mother’s killer to shreds. jack leaves home, and is taken under the wing by buck cowan, a writer who would work with jack extensively to beat the curse and offer him guidance (until his death at the hands of the werewolf)

[biggoonie]

CONAN: SERPENT WAR #4 (OF 4)

JIM ZUB (W) • LUCA PIZZARI & VANESA DEL REY (A)

Cover by CARLOS PACHECO

Variant Cover by CHRISTIAN WARD

CONNECTING VARIANT Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI (4 OF 4)

VARIANT COVER BY MIGUEL MERCADO

• At last - AGNES, KANE, and MOON KNIGHT join CONAN in the Hyborian Age for the final showdown between SET, the WYRM, and…KHONSHU?!

• JAMES ALLISON brought them together, but will KHONSHU tear them apart?

• The thrilling conclusion to the ages-spanning saga that will have ramifications on the future of the assembled cast!

32 PGS./Parental Advisory …$3.99

[ty-talks-comics]

Best of Marvel: Week of January 29th, 2020

Best of this Week: Conan the Barbarian #12 - Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson and Travis Lanham

“He will tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.” - The Nemedian Chronicles.

It’s been quite some time since we’ve done a Conan review and this one took a long time to come out, but it was well worth the wait. After eleven absolutely fantastic issues of sword and sorcery, blood and sex, monsters and men, we’ve reached the end of the “Death of Conan” arc and BOY was it satisfying. Jason Aaron, Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson and Travis Lanham absolutely pay off this amazing story, wrap it up in a nice neat bow for the next creative team and even prepare for the next great story.

Razza and Zazella, the children of the Crimson Witch, have been following Conan since the day he killed their mother, waiting for the perfect time to kill him to resurrect their God, Razazel. Throughout his many years of adventuring, Conan has killed and slaughtered and escaped death more times than any man in the history of the Hyborian Age could ever claim and this has strengthened the potency of his blood for his sacrifice. The tenth issue saw the kids bring Conan back to the Temple of Razazel after near fatal injuries and offering his blood to the Old God.

This issue begins with a short flashback to Conan actually saving the twins years before they meet again. Shortly before bandits try to press gang them onto a ship, Conan swoops in and makes short work of the brigands, gaining the ire of Razza in the process. The Kids are “grateful” for his intervention before walking away, but this is a grave insult to them considering their hatred towards the Cimmerian and the fact that he murdered their mother. This is made even worse by the fact that the kids made a vow to not gloat or talk at the altar when they kill him, but they do just that without confirming his death later on.

When we finally get into the swing of things Asrar, Wilson and Lanham spare no expense when giving readers the action they’ve been waiting for. Asrar shows Conan’s speed and strength as he uses a small boulder to knock Zazella’s sharp, jagged teeth out of her mouth with the rock blurring as he swings it down and Razza looks on in shock. Wilson gives the background and Razazel’s blood roots life through vibrant reds, almost as if to make the reader feel them pumping with evil. Lanham sells Conan’s yell of anger as he strikes with a hearty “RRRRGGH!” word bubble and emphasizing Zazella’s words of fear and disbelief.

After that amazing splash page, Conan rips the daggers out of his chest and faces off against the now monstrous children and the mostly revived Razazel. The fight is dynamic with Conan doing his best to avoid the many mouthed horror that is Razazel. The otherworldly demon could be absolutely horrifying for those with trypophobia as his many mouths look like a cluster of holes, but Wilson gives him a deadlier, darker red to make him amongst the background. Conan, as always, isn’t afraid of the monster and gives him hell throughout the fight.

Conan isn’t just a man, he is an extraordinary man. As stated in a previous review, Conan has fought lesser demons from the depths of hell, beasts of all kinds and monsters that dwarfed him by GREAT margins. He has slain them all and even spat in the face of his own God, Crom at the precipice of death. So Razazel is just another walk in the park for the King of Aquilonia. He thinks nothing of slicing at the fingers of the Old God and even when he’s grabbed and the many mouths are biting and gnawing at him, he just slices at the veins on the walls.

Of course, even Conan still falls prey to the numbers game and with grievous injuries, the Twins begin to overpower him after a good fight. Asrar frames their fight with a fleeting sense of hope as the shot pulls away with each successive panel and more blood is ripped from Conan. Wilson emphasizes this with the backgrounds seemingly getting more red as Conan’s death nears and Lanham excellently places Aaron’s narration of the importance of Conan’s blood out of the way of the action, but still easily readable as you navigate the panels.

And the importance of Conan’s blood cannot be understated as it plays a vital role in the outcome of this battle. One of the better aspects of Aaron’s run thus far is that it has built on Robert E. Howard’s mythos of the character and his amazing feats, but he’s also added something more unexpected in the form of...a legacy, a son: Conn or Conan II. In one splash page, Aaron and Asrar turn the tables as we’re greeted with this child/teenager that’s the spitting image of his father, sword in hand and highlighted amongst his flanking soldiers as they all stare down the monstrous children and their King wounded on the ground.

Now, of course there may be some complaints that Conan having a child ruins his nomadic and loner image, but I argue that this adds a new depth to the character. We’ve seen how fatherhood adds a new layer in characters like Superman and Kratos, improving their stories for the better, so I’m fully on board with it. We’ve already had hundreds of stories of Conan being alone with his throne so exploring a newfound relationship with his boy, teaching him how to be a strong Cimmerian, is something that I didn’t know I wanted until I’d gotten a taste.

Asrar and Wilson continue to sell the horror of things as Conan’s Black Dragon Knights take the fight to the Twins and Razazel. Razza and Zazella make pretty short work of a few of them; Ripping them apart, crushing their heads and even tossing one of them into one of the mouths of Razazel’s forearm in a gruesome display. As they viciously kill and maim Conan’s men, Razza takes pride in his sister and their “soon to come” victory until Conan brutally decapitates him in the middle of his speech. Much like their mother, he survives this and hilarious asks Zazella to throw his head at Conan.

The great Warrior King wastes no time and dispatches Zazella as well, tossing them both into the hole. Conn instructs the soldiers to cut the veins, but Razazel is still hanging on. So Conan does what he does best and leaps into danger. Asrar makes him look like a madman with anger in his eyes, two gaping chest wounds where the kids stabbed him, and his sword in hand about to cut the vein that Razazel is hanging from. Victory is finally at hand when we see Razza, Zazella and Razazel falling into the abyss, defeated by the blood of Conan.

I have to say that there was not a single bad issue in this entire run and this one itself as beyond spectacular. One of the main things that I love about Conan is the simplicity of the character and how anyone can write him, but it takes a REALLY GOOD writer to make you care about him. Throughout the entirety of this series, Jason Aaron held the swinging axe over Conan’s head, dangling it closer and closer with each subsequent issue and victory. At points, I actually thought Aaron might actually do it and end the life of Conan, but deep down we all knew that Conan would emerge victorious.

Mahmud Asrar and Matthew Wilson worked amazingly together on the many issues that they had, capturing the feel of the Hyborian Age with intensity in fights, strong colors and solid inks throughout. I thought Marvel would tone down the violence of the character, but their art and the other artists throughout this book never shied away from the sheer brutality that Conan was capable of. They made sure that this felt like a genuine Conan experience like Dark Horse did during their tenure with the character and much like Marvel did in the 80s. Conan never looked weak and even in defeat he was still a terrifyingly powerful sight to behold.

All in all, I’m excited for more Conan stuff after this. Jim Zub and Roge Antonio take ver the main Conan series after this issue and both of them are very good with writing and art, but Aaron is continuing his story with a King Conan book later this year. Not only that, we’ve got Battle for the Serpent Crown to look forward to, more Savage Avengers and a Dark Agnes miniseries on the way… 2020 is looking like a good year for Conan.

[weirdsciencecomics]

Conan Serpent War #4 Preview

Conan Serpent War #4 Preview

Writer: Jim Zub Art: Ig Guara, Luca Pizzari, Stephen Segovia, Frank D’Armata, Vanesa R Del Rey, Juan Francois Beaulieu, VC’s Travis Lanham, and Carlos Pacheco Price: $4.99 Release Date: January 22nd, 2020

At last – AGNES, KANE, and MOON KNIGHT join CONAN in the Hyborian Age for the final showdown between SET, the WYRM, and…KHONSHU?! JAMES ALLISON brought them together, but will KHONSHU tear them…

[your-old-so-and-so]

What character class do i want to play next? I've been invited to potentially play an all human 5e campaign taking place in the hyborian age. I've played a Bard, have a monk reserved for another campaign and very briefly played an eldrich knight fighter.

[itkmoonknight]

Episode 128 - The Age of Khonshu

EPISODE 128:

High Priests of Khonshu Rebecca and Rey join forces to discuss the latest offering to Loonies worldwide - Conan: Serpent War #3!

There's alot of discovering along the way as the two High Priests tease out the gems which lie hidden in this LUNAR-PICK New Comic Issue...

Amongst the gems are alot of waste, so be warned, the kid gloves are off!

  LUNAR-PICK  New Comic Book Review

  CONAN: SERPENT WAR ISSUE #3

  Released January 2020

  Written by Jim Zub

Art by Luca Pizzari, Vanessa Del Rey

Colours by Frank D'Armata, Jean-Francois Bealieu

Letters by VC's Travis Lanham

Cover art by Carlos Pacheco

Variants - Marcos Martin, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Kim Jacinto

BARE BONES (Written by Rey): 

The four fighters across space and time track down Set’s relics in the hope to destroy his coming power.

James Allison and the Wyrm convene to watch and witness the likes of Conan and Dark Agnes in the Hyborian Age, along with Solomon Kane and Moon Knight in the 1500s encounter Set sympathisers and both parties succeed well in culling Set’s followers.

The mysterious vessels which guide the two parties lead them to a bracelet - one in the Hyborean Age, and the other in 16th century Europe. The bracelets are to be destroyed simultaneously, and in doing so, would strike a massive blow to the God of Chaos.

James Allison is released from the etheral hold of the Wyrm and once he feels his spirit lifted, Allison can’t help but acknowledge his hand in helping the Wyrm’s own ends.

Back in the two time periods, Conan almost reaches the bracelet but is struck down by Satynne, Priestess of the Serpent. Elsewhere, centuries ahead, Moon Knight reaches the bracelet and it’s enigmatic words from Khonshu which compel Moon Knight to put the bracelet on.

In a dazzling array of green energy, Moon Knight is seemingly whisked away to another space/time...where the real war is raging...

MOON RATING (out of phases of the Moon):

Rebecca:  🌖 - 4.5/10, Telephone Moon /Half Moon

Rey:  🌖 - 5.5/10, Half Moon/Waning Gibbous 

SHOW NOTES:

Conan: Serpent War #3

History of the Marvel Universe #6, Galactus talks of the "Age of Khonshu"

Paint Monk's Library - Moon Knight review: Werewolf By Night #32

Paint Monk's Library - Conan: Serpent War #3 Review

True Believers: Criminally Insane - Bushman #1

Marvel Monograph  - The Art of Declan Shalvey

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[thecomicon]

A Meandering Yet Fun Adventure Awaits In Conan: Serpent War #3

A Meandering Yet Fun Adventure Awaits In Conan: Serpent War #3

Mild Spoilers Ahead

Conan the Barbarian and Dark Agnes ambush a convoy of Set’s followers in the Hyborian Age. The two overwhelm Set’s cultists with ease and learn of a vault holding the cultists’ treasures in Stygia. The two make their way to Stygia while, in another age, Moon Knight and Solomon Kane make their way into Turin, Italy. They’ve found a vault belonging to Set’s cultists as well.…

[kayawagner]

Fenix 5, 2008

Publisher: Askfageln

Ett utökat nummer med tema myter och legender. Läs om om Golems, nordiska folksagor och moderna vandringssägner. Du hittar även temaartiklar till ditt favoritspel som Western, Noir, Eon, Skymningshem: Andra imperiet, En Garde! och Saga.

Vill du kickstarta din Corioliskampanj hittar du ett scenarioskelett perfekt för detta samt en artikel om varför rollpersoner ska äventyra. Bland nyheterna tar vi en titt på Sacred 2: Fallen Angel och de kommande släppen av Wrath of the Lich King till WoW och Warhammer Online. Förutom nyhetssvepet kan du även läsa om Noir kamp med EA och Noctum som ska ges ut av Mongoose Publishing. Som vanligt innehåller Fenix massor av recensioner, t ex på Forgotten Realms Campaign guide, Hunter, Dark Elves till Warhammer och Mount & Blade.

Innehåll i Fenix nr 5, 2008

Nyhetssvepet - Vad händer i spelhobbyn?

När David slog Goliat - Rollspelet Noirs vann mot Electronic Arts advokater.

Svensk skräck på engelska - Intervju med Noctums skapare före lanseringen.

Ingenting är heligt - Fenix tittar närmare på Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

War vs. WoW - Kan Warhammer Online: War of Reckoning utmana World of Warcraft?

Golem - En djupdykning i myterna runt de av människor skapade varelserna.

Vad hände med den nya D&D-licensen? - Varför släpps inte mer?

Myter och legender - Hur man kan använda nordisk folktro i spel.

Thunderbird: Western - Åskfågeln i western. Myter och äventyrsfrön.

Gudinnans tre ansikten: skymningshem: andra imperiet - Hemligheten avslöjas.

Rollspelsshopping på Manhattan

Vandringssägner och moderna myter - Legender att ösa ur för rollspel i nutida setting.

Pärlemorhovet: Eon - Dimmornas hav, Havsdjupens moder och mer.

Legender och myter i Imperiet: Noir - Äventyrsfrön från Imperiets Sandukar.

Myter och legender i Arcaria: Saga - Spelinspiration i sagans och mytens form.

Den osynliga formeln - Om konsten att skapa en bra berättelse.

Sagan som verklighet: En Garde! - Jakten på sanningen bakom myten om jättar.

Död till vrakpris: Coriolis - Scenarioskelett till Järnringens nya sf-spel.

Varför skall rollpersonerna äventyra? - Vad har de för drivkrafter och motivationer?

Tävling - Vinn Mount & Blade.

Tävling - Vinn Sacred 2.

Recensioner

Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide

Hunter the Vigil

Rites of Spring

The Spinward Marches

Mercenary

Purge the Unclean

Bestiary of the Hyborian Age

KOTOR Campaign Guide

Pyramid of Shadows

World of Warcraft the Adventure Game

Micro Mutants Evolution

Batavia

Dark Elves armébok

Mordor bok + Troll

D&D Miniatures Game Starter Set

Against the Giants Booster Pack

Knights of the Old Republic

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Preview: Conan: Serpent War #4 (of 4)

Conan: Serpent War #4 preview. The thrilling conclusion to the ages-spanning saga that will have ramifications on the future of the assembled cast! #comics #comicbooks

Conan: Serpent War #4 (of 4)

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• At last – AGNES, KANE, and MOON KNIGHT join CONAN in the Hyborian Age for the final showdown between SET, the WYRM, and…KHONSHU?! • JAMES ALLISON brought them together, but will KHONSHU tear them apart? • The thrilling conclusion to the ages-spanning…

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Sensor Sweep: John Myers Myers, Dave Duncan, Mental State, Warcraft III

Publishing (DMR Books): We’re now open for submissions! You have until the end of November to send us your best sword and sorcery stories. All the details can be found here. We’re looking forward to discovering some talented new authors!

  Fiction (DMR Books): Author John Myers Myers passed on thirty years ago today. If for no other reason, his novel, The Harp and the Blade, would justify a blog post about him here on the DMR blog. However, Myers wrote many other interesting works and the arc of his life holds some interest as well.

  Fiction (Hillbilly Highways): Bauserman pitched an advanced copy of Some Dark Holler to me because I reviewed a collection of Manly Wade Wellman’s Silver John stories.  I get a lot of these, usually with the author comparing their work to some colossus in the field.  But I couldn’t resist, being a huge fan of both country noir and speculative fiction.  I didn’t remotely expect Bauserman’s work to live up to that of Wellman, a master unequaled today in my eyes.

  Fiction (Sacnoth’s Scriptorium): So, now that I’ve wrapped up my current research trip among the Tolkien papers in the Marquette Archives, I’m amazed as always by how fluid and flexible the story-line of LotRs was when Tolkien was drafting the book. What really strikes me this time are the small details that seem so out of place, when their spurious sense of inevitability only comes from the fact that Tolkien did in the end pick A instead of B  at a given spot.

  Authors (Black Gate): Locus is reporting that Canadian fantasy writer Dave Duncan died yesterday.

Duncan was born in the small town of Newport-on-Tay, Scotland, but spent his adult life in Western Canada. His debut novel was A Rose-Red City (Del Rey, 1987), published when he was 53 years old.

In later years Duncan wrote that entering the field using his own name was a risk, due to the lingering popularity of 50s SF writer David Duncan (Dark Dominion, Beyond Eden), who published his last novel in 1957. Duncan was a vocal fan of the elder Duncan, and used “Dave” for his own published work.

  Publishing (Men of the West): Why is Mental State such an important book?

It’s important because powerful people want it squashed and disappeared so badly. Colleagues at the University of Chicago warned him that this novel would ruin his career and spark riots after forty-five death threats appeared recently on his voicemail. Now he’s been de-platformed and his own law school refuses to mention the book even though they enthusiastically promote books by other professors.

  Gaming/Conventions (Walker’s Retreat): It’s still a two-day convention, with all of the important stuff said on Friday, so today’s post is a roundup of what Blizzard and friends announced.

Before the show started, Bungie made Destiny 2 on PC free for all Bnet usersto keep until the 18th.

They’re doubling-down on the esports for as many of their properties as they can pull off.

Starcraft 2: Zeratul as Co-Op Commander; Google Deep Mind crew is back to show off their AI work.

  Gaming (Jeffro’s Space Gaming Blog): I still have time to get a good read in, though. Most recently I got ahold of Fenton Wood’s Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves… which pivots effortlessly between weird pulp horror, fairy stories and tall tales. Here’s my tweet-sized review:

What this book does is it takes all of the subversive, dystopian impulses of science fiction between 1940 and 1980 and it turns it all inside out. This is the kind of fiction we could have had if publishing had not been weaponized and turned toward cultural suicide.

  Fiction (John C. Wright): Rogues in the House, the seventh published Conan story, first was published in Weird Tales, January 1934.

Here, Robert E Howard has finally hit his stride: the characters, the action, and above all the theme leap vividly from the page and into a permanent place in the reader’s imagination. This is a fan favorite, and for good reason. If you want to introduce Conan to someone who has never read a Hyborian Age tale, this is the one to recommend.

And I do recommend it. Please read no further if you have not read it, because I must spoil several clever twists in order to discuss them.

Gaming (Niche Gamer): When Blizzard recently announced a remaster for their legendary real-time strategy game, Warcraft III, many fans wondered just how much of the game was being changed underneath its fresh new coat of HD paint.

Now, we’ve learned the remaster – subtitled Warcraft III: Reforged – will have an online multiplayer component that is fully compatible with the original Warcraft III online multiplayer, among other new details.

Yes, this means users loading up the ridiculous 4K remaster of the beloved RTS will be able to play it online with holdout grognards that are still logging into that same old lions gate portal – for a game that launched back in 2002.

    Fiction (Kairos): Author Yakov Merkin announces the exciting Indiegogo campaign for the third installment in his galaxy-spanning sci-fi series, Galaxy Ascendant.

Do you miss the days when grand, epic sci-fi franchises like Star Wars and Mass Effect were good? Do you want grand-scope, creative, action-packed, and FUN space opera fiction?

Then come on over to the Galaxy Ascendant! We have action, adventure, romance, space battles that are among the largest in all of space opera fiction, and truly heroic characters!

Readers have only great things to say about the series so far, and A Shifting Alliance takes it to a whole new level.

    Gaming (Table Gaming News): Funforge is running a Monumental Kickstarter campaign. That describes both the name of the game as well as is an accurate description of what the game encompasses. It’s not just your standard 4x civilization board game, but it also brings in deck-building mechanics as well. If there’s a mechanic you like in those types of games, it’s probably in here.

Game Blogging (Hack & Slash): I’m Bowing Out

Politics, Violence, Social Media, and Dungeons and Dragons I’ve not written this post several times. It will be intensely personal, brutally honest, and not directly about gaming resources. It is likely something in this post might trigger you, regarding abuse, sexuality, or mental illness. It is filled with ups and downs, trials and travails, good and evil, hope and loss.

Cinema (Noblebright): Arthur is trying to get the other knights to accept him as king.  Some of them, such as Uryens, refused to have a bastard for a king and chose instead to make war on Arthur’s ally, Leondegrance (played by Patrick Stewart in the movie clip).  Arthur rides to Leondegrance’s castle to aid in its defense.  This is his first act of feudal loyalty; he’s just one boy with a sword and not much in the way of armor, but he has a moral duty to come to the aid of his besieged supporter, so that’s what he does.  He kills some of the enemy, then leaps from the parapet and tackles Uryens in the moat.

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