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Howard's Cōnǝn. Not de Camp's. Not Marvel's. Not film's. Born on a battlefield; parents weren't murdered; didn't grow up a slave; black hair; blue eyes.
Jul 29, 2022 • 7 tweets • 23 min read
Crom!

Once again it is Friday and time to thank bigger accounts and promote smaller ones.

These names are spoken of #AroundTheCouncilFires

And this week we add the 4th circle.

Warriors of many clans are found in the barbarian horde! @YoDanno
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Jul 28, 2022 • 29 tweets • 12 min read
#EverythingYouKnowAboutConanIsProbablyWrong

Part 2: Why didn't Howard write Conan's origin tale?

TLDR: He didn't want to.

Long version: The reason you’ve never seen Howard’s version of Conan on-screen is the same reason you never will; the vast majority of screenplays...

1/x ...since the late 80s have emphasized “The Hero’s Journey”.

And Conan doesn’t have one.

Howard wrote the Conan stories in the 1930s, before “the Hero’s Journey” writing method existed. Joseph Campbell did not begin championing the monomyth until 1944. Lord of the Rings...

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Jul 26, 2022 • 37 tweets • 17 min read
.#EverythingYouKnowAboutConanIsProbablyWrong

Time for Conan's origin tale.

"Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of..."

1/x ...Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet." - Robert E. Howard

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Feb 10, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
More than one mutual in the last few days has asked what D&D is and isn't.

Since my response can't fit into 280 characters, here's a thread.

I'm sure there's something in here (or something forgotten) to piss everyone off; I may add elements later as they occur to me.

1/23 Fantasy Roleplaying, created by Dave Arneson and his players, is the root of D&D.

Blackmoor existed prior to being codified in any D&D ruleset, so a ruleset does NOT define D&D; each edition's rules are what that designer thought D&D "was".

Based on what I've seen and read...