Conan RPG 2nd editio~*~Extreme~*~

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Hyborian Age

I'am looking to start a campaign using the rule set using the Conan RPG 2nd edition.  It will be a point buy at heroic level 32 points.   Starting level with be 4th.  It is not first come first serve.   

The gist of the campaign and how everyone is tied in.   Is the party will be a traveling performing troupe.  If you have ever read the books on the Death Dealer and the performing troupe he traveled with you will know the gist of what is being setup.   From this basic scenario of setting up.   Adventurers from being hired to perform, spying,  thieving,   investigating ruins that the troupe hires out to supplement their income.   

Looking for at least a commitment of once to twice a week.    Also to take a turn in running a adventure for the party.  As  I is setting this up.  To allow others a chance to take a turn at DM.  Which for some who might want to try their hand at such.  This would be a great opportunity to have a go at it.   Or simply you might have a idea for a scenario but not the time to run a full time campaign.   This will allow you to tryout your idea.

Alright as noted before it is not first come first serve.   I not going to list that it is open to this group or that group.  Its open to everyone,  regardless.   The reason for the not first come first serve.   If your wanting to come in with a concept that is contrary to even attempting to be part of the troupe.   Then just not going to accept.   Its not a game for lone wolf.   

Exteme;  for those gory and of course sexual scenes.   Non con and such are always done in accordance with a player's on and offs.   As far as such,  how much sex and gory details.  That is up to the collective whole of whoever joins.   After all the whole idea is to have fun and enjoyable experience in telling a story and becoming that character in role playing.   

Finally I am a virgin when it comes to running a Conan RPG 2nd edition.   So if anyone is experience and would like to co-gm it would be greatly appreciated.     

[jeflint]

oooh conan. I don't know anything about the game system, but I do love Robert E. Howard.

[TheSithChicken]

Oooo... interested. Huge Howard fan - I own literally all of his work - and you mentioned the Death Dealer novels by James Silke. I literally just started re-reading Prisoner of the Horned Helmet yesterday. I would totally be down for this. Even running adventures and while I have not played this particular Conan game it is a d20 system and I have played and run the shit out of that system. I could be an advisor or even a Co-Gm as long as I still get to play too.

[RubySlippers]

Big fan of Red Sonya over the Conan novels but have the rules and we play it around where I live, and this would be a perfect game for a Temptress. I never played one before most GM's just don't want to go there but they can perform and are seductive would fit into such a group. I also not they have ample skills so in the long run can be quite handy or I could multiclass her in with something compatible but it shouldn't be necessary.

[Elven Sex Goddess]

oooh conan. I don't know anything about the game system, but I do love Robert E. Howard.

Thanks for the interest.

Oooo... interested. Huge Howard fan - I own literally all of his work - and you mentioned the Death Dealer novels by James Silke. I literally just started re-reading Prisoner of the Horned Helmet yesterday. I would totally be down for this. Even running adventures and while I have not played this particular Conan game it is a d20 system and I have played and run the shit out of that system. I could be an advisor or even a Co-Gm as long as I still get to play too.

Big fan of Red Sonya over the Conan novels but have the rules and we play it around where I live, and this would be a perfect game for a Temptress. I never played one before most GM's just don't want to go there but they can perform and are seductive would fit into such a group. I also not they have ample skills so in the long run can be quite handy or I could multiclass her in with something compatible but it shouldn't be necessary.

Yes the James Silks books is what gave me the idea for a campaign centered around a  performing troupe.   Instead of just a mercenary or thieves group.  Or to be tied to just one Hyborian nation.   To allow such classes as the temptress or noble to be viable in the setting.

How I envision is I start it off with a scenario once we get a group together.    An I hope that others such as yourselves DarkPrince and RubySlippers.   Can run scenarios in turn.  These scenarios don't have to be grand scheme missions that last months.   But treated as one off adventures that make up the whole of the campaign  that perhaps run a few days or a week or so in game time.     

[RubySlippers]

I have a suggestion a grand caravan the troupe would be in the hangers on like the whores, wine sellers, skilled workers and others who tend to the entertainment and social needs of a big trading expedition with armed escorts but would allow for side adventures as they stop and well parts go off on their own in key locations it would allow for building up a base but also not tie all the time to it.

Alternately marching armies and hordes always need camp followers of all kinds. 

[wander]

The book has a super similar system to my Conan d20 pocketbook, it may be exactly the same, as I'm unsure what edition my Conan d20 book is.

Either way, I'm a Conan fan and very interested to join! I used to play a Bossonian archer some time ago. Not sure if I'll keep that concept as this book may have races/classes not in my book. If so, I may see what those have to offer. 

[TheSithChicken]

It's the first edition of the system but it's not hugely different.

[wander]

Yup, the books seem super similar on the inside. I'd be working my character using the rules posted here of course. Mainly just saying I have experience with this system I guess. 

[tormentedmale]

I'm not familiar with the specific rule set but I'd be interested in this - the low fantasy genre has always been a firm favourite of mine. My character concept would be a thief, preferably a female one who supplements her thieving with some whoring.

Scenario wise I have a low fantasy scenario that I ran for a D&D 5e game on another site that could probably be adapted if people were interested.

[TheSithChicken]

Part of me wants to go with a Stygian mystic. Play the role of fortune teller with a penchant for drugs and decadence.

[wander]

Feeling an archer type rogue, so debating on going with ol' faithful Bossonian or Shemitish for that. May go Himelian or Zamorian for the thief buffs though.

I guess looking over the classes when I am able, I'll figure what would fit given a preferred class or restricted ones.

[RubySlippers]

Temptress, still mulling over from the acceptable races and such. 

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Well there is good amount of interest.    So here is the next step the preliminary character submission.   

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[float=right][img height=300]Character Picture[/img][/float][b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Race:[/b]
[b]Class:[/b]

[b]Description:[/b] self explanatory

[b]Personality:[/b] "           "

[b]Sexuality:[/b]   "           "

[b]Role in troupe:[/b]  Example a nomad Shemite might be a trick archer from horse back to wow the crowds. 

[b]Motivations:[/b]  Fairly simple what is your motivations within the performing troupe.   And also outside of the troupe

[b]Backstory:[/b]  This is the basically for your characters backstory in how they joined the troupe.   Plus what they did prior to the troupe. 
You can use this part also to put hints of perhaps a possible hunter hunting the character and future scenario as example. 

[b]On & Offs [/b]   

Note:  Not asking for character sheets yet.   Like to have concepts in first.   Then we will go from there.

Also not going to ask people to forge backstories  that they come in before as knowing each other.  The troupe will have had sufficient time to have gotten to know each other.  So there not strangers to each other.

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Oh and Rubyslippers,   did not ignore about camp followers suggestion.   A great idea,  and as such with various scenarios.  The troupe could very well find itself tagging along as camp followers.  As soldiers and mercenaries always have bountiful gold to waste away quickly lol.   After all Conan had no problem finding wars to fight in.  Or simple put part of from time to time great caravans.   Or even transporting across the sea for that perhaps pirate at heart within the troupe.   As the basic guise of the performing troupe is to bind all the characters together.   

Plus  I am not going to hold people to their concepts.  I mean if after a week or so,  one finds that the Stygian or perhaps the nomad or temptress just is not what they had hoped for.  Try another idea,  the character doesn't have to be killed off just is part of the troupe.   As a player tries out a new concept for within the troupe.   

[jeflint]

I think I'll back out, best of luck with your game.

[RubySlippers]

Wars, campaigns against bandit kings or other scenarios plus well how many armies in ancient times didn't have them if you watched the Spartacus TV series the Roman army in the last season had a clear camp of support as in entertainment, wine, women and likely luxury foods the army proper didn't offer. And just was part of the needs of good army operations. 

[wander]

I'm going to go with a Zamorian Thief here I think. I can use the preferred class bonus feat to help with ranged combat stuff.

Essentially I'd be going with the concept of a stage magician, doing sleight of hand, using ranged weapons to fire at (and miss!) a lovely assistant, escape artistry, some dude like that basically. I'll likely trim this down to something more specific once the sheet starts to form, though that's the general concept atm. :)

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Name:  Rajni Bhatu
Age: 28
Gender:  Female
Race:  Vendhyan
Class: Noble

Description: As a Vendhyan she is brown skin with long straight silky black hair.  That drapes her slender lithe frame like ripples of the night.  Her eyes are a exotic dark brown.  Through lithe of build her sensuality is magnified because of such.  Rajni dresses as a performer from her homeland.

Personality:  Expansive in being extrovert.  Fun loving, optimistic outlook on life.  Yet quite devious in she uses that outward fun loving spirit to cause people to misread her.   

Sexuality:   Open as she is Bi in her sexual preferences.   A good man or woman is always welcome to her bed.

Role in troupe:  Bucko/Matron of the troupe.   Also performs as a singer.

Motivations:  To see the kingdoms beyond her home.  To seek knowledge and turn that knowledge into information for her king.  As she is a spy for her country.   To ensure her country's safety and security.   Which details passing information to other nations spies to turn kingdoms that might eye her home for conquest, toward other goals.   

Backstory: There is two backstories the one the troupe know.   That Rajni is indeed a noble.   However,  she had runaway for she had been promised to a man three times her age some twelve years ago.  Instead of being suffocated in such a marriage bed.  The Vendhyan  beauty had run off.   The king had forced this marriage for the king is her second cousin.    Her family still aides her by supporting her as best they can.   

The truth is she had chosen the troupe to join for it entertained all over.   From the simplest of villages to the grand halls of massive palaces.   It afforded her to live and move freely about the various kingdoms.   For the troupe of performers seem always to be regarded as neutral.   It was her kings suggestion for such.    To learn and keep him inform what is happening in the world.   

As noted she had chosen the troupe to join.   Rajni is not the original bucko of the troupe.  There was another for the better part of ten years that she had led the troupe.   The first few years she had to rely on the direction the old bucko wanted.  But by the third year she had charmed and begun to influence him and sway the direction that the troupe would go to perform.   

In that time she has slowly come to look at those within the troupe to be her family.  Now with the past two years as the bucko/matron of the troupe.  Her first concern is the troupe and her family's safety.   As she is likely the longest running member of the troupe.   

On & Offs    

[wander]

WIP, will unspoiler and post below when complete. My boy's pic isn't very 'Hyborian' in atmosphere, though the outfit I felt was perfect. Google Translate tells me his name is Ukrainian for 'Sharp Eye', given that Ukraine is roughly where Zamora would be today and quite a few Zamorians have Ukraine names along with more Roma based ones.

Name: Hostryy Oko (pron: Haws-tray Aw-koh)
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Race: Zamorian
Class: Thief

Description: Hostryy has a slightly olive skin compared to most Zamorians, though keeps the dark hair colour of slight waviness that most Zamorians have. He wears his hair groomed at medium length with a trimmed beard and has chocolate brown eyes. His frame is lithe, acrobatic though he is otherwise fairly average in build. He wears a hooded garb in the style shown and clothes that are best described as having a traditional Roma, Turkish or South-East European flare.

Personality: Intelligent and talkative, Hostryy can still be inscrutable on what he's really thinking, which suits him just fine. He enjoys decadence as he knows the harshness of life in this age. A bit of a breath of fresh air compared to most people from his lands, he can be mixed bag though will show signs of loyalty to those who have earned it in his eyes.

Sexuality: Hostryy is predominantly straight, though will sleep with anyone sufficiently feminine facially, no matter their gender.

Role in troupe: Hostryy works as a performer of tricks in the troupe. His hands and quick wittedness are his greatest tools.

Motivations: Experience the sights and cultures of the various regions. In the troupe, gaining fame, coin and people to see his show.

Backstory: Hostryy was a simple street performer and thief in the City of Thieves, originally the child of a city magistrate until a plague struck. His mother was slain by the disease and his father was unable to look after his young son alone, so threw him out into the streets. This is how Hostryy became a street performer, to make ends meet and keep himself fed back then as he was but a child at this time. Keeping himself going, Hostryy found himself as a member of a Zamorian Thieve's Guild led by a kindly if money-grubbing old man where he slowly gained an education of sorts.
Life was lived day to day, sometimes things were hard, other times he came by great wealth to be burned that night on drink and whores. One night The Troupe turned up in town and celebration filled the City of Thieves. Hostryy had already caught a few eyes from there with his street performances and various talents of sleight of hand. That night, Hostryy bedded a certain young lady he had been courting and was in love with. It was only when a man burst in on the pair, that man being his own father that Hostryy realised he had bedded his own sister... Unable to face his family after this discovery, Hostryy ran and found by the Troupe left the City of Thieves with them.

On & Offs : Same as Players.

[RubySlippers]

Name: Ankhrimun
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Race: Stygian
Class: Temptress

Description: More delecately figured she is five feet and six inches tall, dark brown eyes glinted with silver, long dark hair, dusky skin and well formed with proportional breasts and hips with a natural healthy thinner build no ribs showing and the like many in her family called her "Graceful Bird" as a compliment. She has a normal triangle of pubic hair, well formed nether lips not to extreme either way and a larger clitoris pierced with a ring behind it with the sacred symbol of her patron goddess. She tends to dress down over up with some leathers at most but is perfectly fine in barely enough for modesty around children enough covered but not too much so. She enjoys the colors white and soft greens to contrast her skin and eyes OR dark black depending on her mood and the metal silver on her body. She favors a simple perfume of jasmine on her skin and smoked into her clothes when practical.

Personality: For a Stygian is actually not as aloof as one might expect she is religious devoted to her goddess Derketo with a zeal to it but more using her body to do the conversion as she mates with lovers and aids those in need finding commoners make fine converts with their dull lives enjoying the fruits of her goddess. However she is sensual, sexy and slowly growing into a proper woman whose flesh and sex are weapons and recently endowed by the goddess with magical powers as an ordained priestess even if a minor one became inside her a holy vessel from which the good of her goddess flows and gets enflamed in return turning more desirable. She is an accomplished entertainer.

Sexuality:  Bisexual plus serving Derketo won't ignore the pleasure she can get from animals also when she gets the chance and its a popular show during multiple day long orgies during breaks she found out.

Role in troupe:  Eye candy, but also will be a well versed entertainer in the art of the dance adding in dancers instruments the castanets and developed her skills in other areas since joining the troupe including playing stringed instruments, singing and storytelling.

Motivations: Serve her goddess, serve her ambition to gain social advantages among the powerful and wealthy, get her jollies off with many lovers and wants to start a cult of her goddess someplace she isn't worshipped someday as an act of her piety.

Backstory:  She is a commoner stock but since her mother is a temple priestess (minor) and her father is known a noble who kept her as his concubine she is of half stock leaning to her mother in appearance but with the advantages of an education nobles usually get except in the Stygian Bow which he insisted is not for commoners even if he legitimate daughter by his concubine, still she benefitted, and without desire for power of a Stygian Sorceror tempered by her station. However he was a proud father and insisted when old enough to be her first man and plundered her in her first orgy paying the temple handsomely for the honor, the virgin blood sacrifice on the alter is a most pleasant one not killing the young woman but breaking her in for later enjoyments. Her mother bedded her next then well after the end of the week with rests was well plied, plundered, defiled and properly broken in. She bedded her father in fact a few times that week. She left shortly afterwards wanting to travel and become more worldly, and with the blessing of the temple she was in, left Stygia with a caravan. Eventually she joined the troupe where the dark skinned beauty was a proper addition as she gained in her knowledge and skills more recently anointed like her mother a minor priestess of the goddess.

On & Offs   In this case not many she is happy being defiled willingly in any way that could be fun and up to the tolerance of the other players, but rape and cutting her up and chopping off parts isn't something I want to go to in the game. 

Oh and in game her background and racial abilities will be as a Stygian minus using the bow and the corruption penalty so a benefit trades off the drawback, hoping that's okay?

[Elven Sex Goddess]

Characters are looking good.   Having to re set up a new laptop.  The old one fried on me,  this past morning.  So went out and got another one here. But because yours truly was lame in backing things up having to do a lot of piecemeal  in getting stuff had on other one.   

There can be more then one noble or any other class.  So if you have a idea for a thief go for it.   Or if two people decide to play barbarians go for it.   Its all about having fun and satisfaction with the character you want to play not have to because. 

[RubySlippers]

No I'm fine I like my character so far and am thinking about her build some, not wanting to min/max her to death but some things need to be focused on due to her arena of battle being social and physical in the pleasant areas of her voluptuous life. 

[tormentedmale]

Still a work in progress...will try and finish off within the next couple of days...comments / feedback welcome

Name: T'Zhara
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Race: Zamorian
Class: Thief

Description: Five feet seven inches tall, with blue eyes and shoulder length dark hair that is usually worn tied back into a braid, T'Zhara is generally attired in leathers and homespun clothes that are skilfully cut in such a way to draw attention to her swells and curves and tanned skin, thus making it easier for her to part an unsuspecting mark from his coin purse. The inside of her vest has a number of concealed pockets, while a dagger is worn strapped to each shapely thigh.

Personality: T'Zhara possesses a self confidence that sometimes borders on arrogance. While she can be selfish, she also knows that she cannot surive in the World on her own, that she needs the Troupe and the protection that it offers her, that fact that she can hide within its ranks, so she will not do anything to jeopardise that. If that means that she has to pay due respect to the Bucko - or others - or give her a cut of what she steals then so be it, that is a price that T'Zhara gladly pays.

Sexuality: T'Zhara will feast on cock or cunt with equal enthusiasm, whether that be purely for her own pleasure or spreading her legs for a handful of coin.

Role in troupe: Thief and whore. T'Zhara serves as a lure girl, using her body and wiles to attract patrons to the shows then lightening their coin purses when their attention is elsewhere and also supplementing her income by selling her body. On frequent occasions she will combine her two skills, fucking a man - or woman - for coin then slipping away with what she can steal while her mark sleeps, a sleep that T'Zhara will on occasion induce by slipping a potion into his drink when he is not looking. 

Motivations:  Within the Troupe T'Zhara seeks somewhere safe to sleep, food in her belly, and coin and pretty trinkets, as much as she can steal. Privately, she seeks the anonymity that the Tripe provides, the protection it offers from those who would see her die a death that would be neither swift nor painless.

Backstory:  Still to be fleshed out - the basic concept is that she stole something from someone important - a wealthy merchant, an evil cult, something like that - and is now on the run. If her pursuers find her she's got nothing to look forward to except being slowly tortured to death.

On & Offs Most things are on the table except permanent death, mutilation, etc

[wander]

Thinking of some good motivations has been tough! I'd like to have something interesting there. :)

I'll likely come back to them after filling in the backstory, which hopefully will inspire something awesome. I have some ideas how he joined the troupe and some vanilla thoughts on life before it, though we'll see how I go. 

Still interested, still working on my lad. Loving the ladies also!