CaptAdventure wrote:

Anyway, hope folks are keeping well and getting in some good S&S gaming too.

My wife and I are still running some BoL.   Taking a break from our long running Hyborian Age "Hammer of Æs" campaign and playing a BoL Warhammer Fantasy game.

Also have been checking out the Shadowdark RPG, running some one-shots and going to run some side-by-side adventures using BoL and Shadowdark, to see how they compare vs each other.

Have some Savage Worlds Beasts and Barbarians adventures to run with BoL too.  We did run the Tower of the Elephant a while back in Jalizar, it was fun.  My GM/PC died during the battle with the Mage Yara!  (Not the same ending as the Conan story at all )

Have a Warhammer Adventure using BoL tonight.  Got the counters and maps ready.
 

I've yet to play/run anything in Lemuria, going to have to rectify that.  Maybe down the road we will get the chance, but I have so many other campaigns ongoing and planned for the future already.  Just not enough time.  

My wife and I have been watching different You Tube videos of people ttrpging, we always discuss how much better (at least in our minds) the sessions would have been with the BoL mechanics.   

Hopefully with the Ludospherik English Mythic+ edition a lot more people will give BoL a chance.  

I agree, sometimes it's tough to decide what adventure series/campaign to go with next.  The 1930s treasure hunter series does sound good, even if you only run a couple of one-shots with Ze Ze, it buys you time to figure out what your next campaign will be.  You do a good job of coming up with different campaign themes/genres with BoL/Everywhen, etc...

After some time off, my wife and I continued our Hyborian Age "Hammer of Æs" campaign.  We are in the middle of the "Trial of Blood" adventure (from Mongoose d20 Conan), we are at a fun junction point at the moment.  Our characters took out the three Lord Barons of Tor (actually took out two, the other one was done in by one of the other Barons...) and my character stated "maybe we can set ourselves up as the new Lord and Lady Barons of Tor?"  My wife's character, said that it did sound interesting, but what about the rest of the mission?   Our characters are currently trying to decide what their next path will be.

We left off that campaign and went back to TFT, we were running a Monster Hunter campaign.  Last night our characters met their deaths at the hands of a High Nosferatu and his pet Dire Wolf.  I informed my wife that she could continue to play her character as a Nosferatu, but she declined - she doesn't like vampires/vampire themes etc... at all.  So that ended that storyline...

Next week we are going back to the Jalizar campaign, her character; Anya the Whitemouse Thief is going to be recruited to attempt to steal the Elephant's Heart from a strange tower in the city that belongs to a powerful (so it is rumored) mage.

We ran the Tower of the Elephant with the Mongoose d20 Conan rules years ago and I'll be running it now using BoL rules.  Should be interesting.

 

I GM the campaign and run my GM/PC character.   Her character gets to make the decisions, but sometimes I will give a clue or make a decision that would be appropriate for my PC to make.  

This works for us really well, we try to game once a week.  But there are times when we don't game for a month or two.  We have been gaming like this since the 90s.  We have only played with other people a half dozen times or so, they were usually short campaigns (4-6 sessions only.).  Just too difficult to get schedules together with other people on a regular basis.

After starting down the BoL journey, my wife really does not want to play any other system - she loves the system.  She will give in sometimes and play The Fantasy Trip, that is the game that I started my gaming with back in the late 70s, to make me happy though.

We have several different campaigns ongoing using the BoL rules.   One is a Beasts & Barbarians -  Jalizar campaign, another is a Witcher campaign, and we also have a Warhammer campaign, all three are sitting around waiting for their turn in the bucket.  I also have a modern era (1980s time frame) setting for use with the BoL Dogs of W.A.R. rules, but have not gotten around to playing it.

I've also been working on a BoL "Hellfrost" (Savage Worlds setting) campaign and a World of Xoth campaign (I've used about 3 or 4 of the Xoth adventures already in our Hyborian Age campaign, and really like them.)

Just not enough time for everything....

My wife and I have a long running Hyborian Age BoL campaign called "The Hammer of Æs", it started as a Mongoose d20 Conan campaign and was converted to BoL a few years later.

This is the story of two companions.  The first, a large, blond haired barbarian warrior; he hailed from the frozen lands of Asgard.  The second, a dark haired, athletic female; originally from a tribe of desert nomads in Shem, fleeing her homeland; she arrived in a strange decadent city called Shadizar, where she learned the talents and skills of a thief.
 
The two would meet in that strange city, a city full of thieves, murderers, pimps, rogues, and renegades of the world over.  After joining together to defeat a common enemy, the two realized that they worked well together.  From there, the many adventures and journeys that the two shared would fill several volumes of books to re-count.

Sigulf of Asgard (Status = Epic Hero)
Strength: 3                   Agility: 2                      Mind: 1                        Appeal: 1
Init: 1                           Melee: 3                       Ranged: -1                  Defense: 2
Barbarian: 2                 Mercenary: 1               Thief:  1                       Pirate:  2                                             
 
Armor:  Light Mail Shirt/stops 1 & Thick Skin/stops 1
Weapons: “The Hammer of Æs” (Akbitanan War Maul) d6H+3 (2h) or d6+3 (1h)
Lifeblood: 15               Movement:  7              Hero Points: 6              Advancement Points:  0
Languages:  Nordheimer, Aquilonian, Zamoran, Argossean, Shemitish
 
Boons:   Trademark Weapon: “The Hammer of Æs”, (Akbitanan war maul, can be used 1h or 2h) wielder