I really need to re-read this. I read it back in the 90s, but it's sat on my shelf ever since. Getting the solo adventure from my brother sort of re-awakened my desire to dive back in.
I got the full range of modiphius Conan range and the art and character building system was wonderful as was the amount of detail into the world. However I just did not like the 2d20 system seemed to get in the way of the game. Did not know about GURPS Conan so may check it out. Personally I think the DCC system would be awesome for Conan and would love to see them do a setting box like they did for Dying Earth.
I'm willing to bet that they might all be sourced from the same place, just sold in different ways. But I could be wrong. No difference in quality, IMO.
You will need GURPS 3e core book. The Conan Books are Source Books for GURPS. Its nice that SJG does PoD of "most" of the GURPS 3e material. You can't play GURPS Conan without the GURPS 3e core books. I'm an old GURPS GM since 1987. My prefered GURPS version is 2e/early 3e. (basically up to 1994). Not a fan of later stage GURPS 3e or GURPS 4e overall at all. I never ran GURPS Conan because I had my own long running campaign that I migrated to GURPS when GURPS released, though I did take things from the Conan Sourcebook because there is a lot of good stuff in there to use. My own long running campaign which ran from 1981 until 1999 (first with RuneQuest then Palladium Fantasy Rpg and finally GURPS), was based upon Thieves' World books and Chaosium's box set that released in 1981. Which today would be considered Grimdark if it had to be labeled. If I wanted to use GURPS Conan today, I'd use that source book along with some of the material (lore/background and maps) from Modiphius' Age of Conan. There is a lot of good stuff in Age of Conan to mine for your own campaign, but man is the layout and editorial with those books bad. Definitely if you own them, it's worth mining them though for lore etc. Personal aside, I truly detest the term "splat book" ever since it first started popping up via White Wolf's Vampire The Masquerade rpg. Source book, it's a source book people. Truly I am not a fan of "splat" as a term for source book.
I really need to re-read this. I read it back in the 90s, but it's sat on my shelf ever since. Getting the solo adventure from my brother sort of re-awakened my desire to dive back in.
I got the full range of modiphius Conan range and the art and character building system was wonderful as was the amount of detail into the world. However I just did not like the 2d20 system seemed to get in the way of the game. Did not know about GURPS Conan so may check it out. Personally I think the DCC system would be awesome for Conan and would love to see them do a setting box like they did for Dying Earth.
How do Amazon Print on Demands compare with Drivethrurpg print on demand?
I'm willing to bet that they might all be sourced from the same place, just sold in different ways. But I could be wrong. No difference in quality, IMO.
You will need GURPS 3e core book. The Conan Books are Source Books for GURPS. Its nice that SJG does PoD of "most" of the GURPS 3e material. You can't play GURPS Conan without the GURPS 3e core books. I'm an old GURPS GM since 1987. My prefered GURPS version is 2e/early 3e. (basically up to 1994). Not a fan of later stage GURPS 3e or GURPS 4e overall at all.
I never ran GURPS Conan because I had my own long running campaign that I migrated to GURPS when GURPS released, though I did take things from the Conan Sourcebook because there is a lot of good stuff in there to use. My own long running campaign which ran from 1981 until 1999 (first with RuneQuest then Palladium Fantasy Rpg and finally GURPS), was based upon Thieves' World books and Chaosium's box set that released in 1981. Which today would be considered Grimdark if it had to be labeled.
If I wanted to use GURPS Conan today, I'd use that source book along with some of the material (lore/background and maps) from Modiphius' Age of Conan. There is a lot of good stuff in Age of Conan to mine for your own campaign, but man is the layout and editorial with those books bad. Definitely if you own them, it's worth mining them though for lore etc.
Personal aside, I truly detest the term "splat book" ever since it first started popping up via White Wolf's Vampire The Masquerade rpg. Source book, it's a source book people. Truly I am not a fan of "splat" as a term for source book.