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Glorelendil wrote:That's why I liked it for Conan. TOR actually has lots of magic, just not so much for the players. Which is similar to Conan's world, where he is often battling sorcerers and magicians and supernatural baddies but almost never using it himself. (Some exceptions, and he always finds it distasteful and risky.)

Yes, REH's Hyborian Age is a relatively low-magic setting. However, it places much more emphasis on combat and high adventure, versus role-playing. I don't think that the TOR rules complements those aspects of the Age of Conan.

Otaku-sempai wrote: Yes, REH's Hyborian Age is a relatively low-magic setting. However, it places much more emphasis on combat and high adventure, versus role-playing. I don't think that the TOR rules complements those aspects of the Age of Conan.

Huh, I wouldn't have thought of it that way. While the stories have more frequent combat (and described in more detail) than Tolkien's stories, there is no shortage of colorful personalities and shifting relationships. A combat-heavy fiction isn't a reason to use a roleplaying-light game system.

The bigger problem, imo, is that TOR combat for the most part restricts you to one attack per turn, and Conan has a knack for killing a dozen men before they have a chance to react.