Post originally by Andy K at 2005-05-31 11:34:19
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I completely agree, but I held my tongue because the review was clearly written from a POV of "Conan for the d20-phile" or "Conan for the gamer who will never leave D&D". By that POV, these comments really don't stand. For the strict D&D-er, Conan really does do things in new ways that makes the battles more deadly,and I totally agreed with the reviewers comments and critique.

For those of us who don't mind using another system as long as it gives us the feel of a Conan game, then Conan OGL is pitiful. As the reviewer said, it seems like you can't get three pages in a Conan story before there's a fight. Not entirely true, but totally fitting impression of the Conan universe. :-)

However, with Conan OGL, my group Stopped. Getting. In. Fights. They took far too long compared to vanilla D&D even, what with the armor piercing stuff and all. Character creation took forever. To take the quote above, it would be like saying "it seems you can get three pages ina Conan story before there's a fight... that lasts for a dull, tedius forty pages before it ends."

Again, I love the background info and all, but even the biggest REH-Manwhore in my group, who has purchased all the new Conan comics, Conan republications, and Conan sourcebooks for the Conan RPG, cannot bring himself to run another game of it because of the complexity and tedium of character generation and combat.

-Andy