Friday, July 4, 2025

Good write-up of a Conan RPG campaign by Kieron Gillen and Jim Rossignol

From their newish blog, evaluating the Conan RPG rules, discussing the clever ways their GM manipulated the campaign, and offering general suggestions on how to review a TTRPG:

It’s not a straight hit-points-to-death system. If you go over a threshold in a single blow, you do an injury. If someone would go beneath zero, it’s an injury. There’s probably some more in there – but it’s number of injuries which lead to death. Oh – and to finish off my one-man-blender, this is where I spend a momentum to add an extra injury whenever I do an injury. So when I’m at all cooking, I’m doing 3 injuries whenever I attack, which kills most people.

What I’m saying, I really did feel like Conan.

(And speaking of TTRPGS, the massive TTRPG Humble Bundle is still available.) (Warhammer, Cyberpunk, G.I. Joe, etc, etc)