June 29, 2012: Who's My Guide This Summer Vacation? Conan!

As we mentioned a few days ago, we at SJ Games will be taking our summer break soon. That leaves me with a week to relax, unwind, and search for adventure. And who better to help out with this last one than Conan of Cimmeria?

Over at e23 we've rereleased PDF versions of all five classic GURPS titles featuring the world-famous barbarian. As a fun experiment, I had the idea of playing through the four adventures in the order of Conan's personal timeline (based on the appendix of GURPS Classic: Conan). Based on the character-creation information from each of these awesome adventures, that leaves my plan along the lines of:

• Conan the Wyrmslayer -- 200-point hero
• GURPS Classic: Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast -- add 100 points, bringing him up to 300 points
• GURPS Classic: Conan Beyond Thunder River (add bonus character points based on previous adventure)
• GURPS Classic: Conan - Moon of Blood (again, add bonus character points from previous adventure)

Of course, that assumes my hero will survive each step of the way . . . but if Conan could survive encounters with the Snow Devil, the Zarkheba River ruins, barbarian Picts, and the powerful shaman Zogar Sag, my guy has a shot, right? Maybe?

-- Steven Marsh