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Fucking Europeans plastering their vastly superior artwork and production values all over our solid, reliable, drab games. Who the fuck do they think they are? It's like they invented Western civilization or something.

Quote from: The Butcher;604899Fucking Europeans plastering their vastly superior artwork and production values all over our solid, reliable, drab games.

I greatly prefer the current US cover (which is an edit of Grümph's French cover):

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And I like the Portuguese cover:

I can't stand the German cover (or interior artwork).

I like BoL in principle, although I find that taking combat-specific careers ends up short-changing the character, since careers don't generally directly affect combat.

Quote from: APN;604541Think I was the first to run a play by post game on the BoL forum (or if not the first, the first to have a clearly defined finish to the game, though that was as much down to the player drop out you get in play by post games as anything else). (...)

As a matter of fact I took part in that game and I do believe you were the first. I was really enjoying it, intent on not dropping out, but alas... Still, it was a fun game and I think everybody really enjoyed it.

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;604909I greatly prefer the current US cover (...)

I also think the German cover sucks. The girl on the Portuguese one turned out looking rather emaciated. I like the US/UK one, of which, by the way, there is a topless and a "bikini top" version . Not sure which version was distributed where.

Quote from: HombreLoboDomesticado;604975I also think the German cover sucks. The girl on the Portuguese one turned out looking rather emaciated. I like the US/UK one, of which, by the way, there is a topless and a "bikini top" version . Not sure which version was distributed where.

I actually prefer the German cover, which vaguely reminds me of those lush color covers on Marvel's Savage Sword of Conan.

The French cover is very cool too, the style reminds me of Mike Mignola which I think is a great vibe for a swords-and-sorcery RPG.

The Brazilian one is crap, though. Forgive me, fellow countrymen, but this is some stiff competition.

Quote from: APN;604541I would have liked to have seen the system adapted to a Superhero setting but Simon turned Supers! out instead.

League of Heroes (the BoL supers game) is now being playtested. Simon posted a link to download it on the BoL forums a month or two ago, iirc.

Quote from: Dan Davenport;604970I like BoL in principle, although I find that taking combat-specific careers ends up short-changing the character, since careers don't generally directly affect combat.

I'd disagree with this. Careers do so much, not effecting combat isn't such a big deal imho. When I played it, not being able to use those careers to aid combat didn't really make us any less bad ass S&S heroes.

In our BoL Lemurian campaign the players overthrew the corrupt ruler of a city state and put the rightful queen on the throne. As well as lots of spying and a few 'special ops' jobs, there was an army to raise, equip and feed - and two battles to fight. So the Soldier career came in very useful in our games.

Quote from: urbwar;605196I'd disagree with this. Careers do so much, not effecting combat isn't such a big deal imho. When I played it, not being able to use those careers to aid combat didn't really make us any less bad ass S&S heroes.

They definitely do a lot, and I actually love that approach; I'd just suggest that the more combat-oriented a character is, the less bang for the buck he's going to get out of his careers.

Quote from: Gruntfuttock;605214In our BoL Lemurian campaign the players overthrew the corrupt ruler of a city state and put the rightful queen on the throne. As well as lots of spying and a few 'special ops' jobs, there was an army to raise, equip and feed - and two battles to fight. So the Soldier career came in very useful in our games.

So, couldn't the Soldier career be used for stuff like knowing the palace guard's patrol schedule, examining a battlefield to see what transpired before the heroes arrived, recruiting mercenaries for a big job, or getting in good with the city guard?

It sounds as if the careers are pretty broad in what they can apply to as written in the text; is that a correct assumption?


OK, to change it up a bit here, can someone give me a clear example of what each level of magic might contain, and what the cost would be for each?

Quote from: Zachary The First;605220So, couldn't the Soldier career be used for stuff like knowing the palace guard's patrol schedule, examining a battlefield to see what transpired before the heroes arrived, recruiting mercenaries for a big job, or getting in good with the city guard?

It sounds as if the careers are pretty broad in what they can apply to as written in the text; is that a correct assumption?

That's exactly how it works.

It's the stuff you know, also using the career to get a job/get in touch/make friends with similar professionals, and having some idea of what has happened/might happen next (e.g. predictions based on 'military science' in the case of the Soldier career).

Quote from: Dan Davenport;605217They definitely do a lot, and I actually love that approach; I'd just suggest that the more combat-oriented a character is, the less bang for the buck he's going to get out of his careers.

In the game I played in, one of the characters was able to get a lot of mileage out of his hunter career, and he was pretty bad ass in combat. Even though we were in the jungle, my pirate career came in handy, as I could still navigate by the stars, and when we captured some people, I was the one who secured them (tying knots is a skill a pirate would have). I'd say from my experience, that just isn't true.

What good adventures are out there that are usable for BoL? The Conan d20 modules and those done by Xoth Publishing seem good, but what else is out there?

In Post 26 on Page 3 of this thread Soylent Green provided a link to G-Man's free BoL scenarios on Downloads page of the Strange Stones site. There are three Lovecraftian themed fantasy adventures, and two Hyborian adventures (double stated for BoL/BRP).

There is another G-Man Hyborian adventure on the site, but the link hasn't been posted to the Download page – you can find it here:

http://www.strangestones.com/hyborian-bol-adventure-ghosts-of-acheron/

Aside from these six adventures, there is very little around, specifically written for BoL. Follow the link to The Lords of Lemuria site I put into Post 28, and you will find a few outlines here and there if you poke around.

Dicey Tales 2 is worth getting (cost $10 pdf download) as it includes two scenarios (one Lemurian and one more standard S&S fantasy) and also a real world bestiary – you can buy it here:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/108110/Dicey-Tales-%232

If you want to use it for Hyboria (as many do) then the best thing is to get the out-of-print Road of Kings from Mongoose and eyeball a conversion - you can do that easily with BoL and it's better than trying to do anything more involved.

Legends of Steel - BoL Edition has a few scenarios for a standard (non-Lemurian) S&S world - you can buy it here:

http://www.rpgnow.com/product/81748/Legends-of-Steel---Barbarians-of-Lemuria-Edition

But BoL is very easy to write adventures for in my experience.

Just go with the careers on your player's sheets and bring in consequences from their past lives. PCs will start with four careers, so why did they leave the three in their past?

The default Lemurian setting has little detail (which I regard as a plus, while others find this an issue), and also many find it too weird (no horses or other familiar animals). One thing that is clear is that two of the major city states are keen rivals, so I used this as background - the drift to an inevitable war. I then took on the PC's interests and played to that against the political situation. They are now known in the world and high in the court of a middle ranking city state. Both major powers are after the support of the Queen they serve, and they will soon be knee deep in spies, assassination attempts and the need to bolster the Royal Treasury for the coming conflict.

This all evolved quite organically - but I do have pro-active players and I'm an improvisational GM, so it was easy for us to play this way. If you are looking for a series of one-off/episodic adventures you will either have to write then yourself, or if you don't have the time adapt the Mongoose material for Conan.