Great adventure!  

Last year, my wife and I finished out two-player (her PC and my GM/PC) "Hammer of Æs" Hyborian Age campaign.  We started the campaign back in 2012 using the Mongoose 3.5 Conan game.  Then in 2014, we switched it over to Barbarians of Lemuria.  Played that game off and on till October of 2025 - numerous sessions!

I have a house rule that a starting character is a Hero.  After 5 APs they are a Legendary Hero.  Then after 10 APs they are a Mythic Hero.  At 15 APs they are Epic Heroes.  That is as far as the advancement goes.  The characters can still keep going, just no more APs.  This really suited our campaign.  

We still have a couple of long running campaigns going at this time, one is our Jalizar campaign (using the Beasts and Barbarians setting), one is a Warhammer Fantasy campaign (but that one is being switched over to Shadowdark RPG) and a Witcher campaign too.

Currently, we are on a Shadowdark RPG kick and have been using that system for the last 6 months or so.  I also started Soloplay, currently using Shadowdark, but have a couple of campaigns planned out for BoL - one set in the Border Kingdoms of the Hyborin Age and another set in the Dread Sea Dominions from the Beasts and Barbarians setting.

Yes, BoL can be used for long campaigns.  

So on 2-12-26 we played our second adventure of Dogs of W.A.R.  This one was titled "The Argentinean Express" it was set in November 1985.

The heros, Jack Danner and Viki Jensen were tasked to recover stolen bio-tec plans stolen from a Brazilian laboratory.  They had been informed that the sale was to take place on a train from Buenos Aires to Carmen de Patagones.

Both PCs had to sneak/conceal their weapons & suppresors on the train by making Concealment/Hide Objects task rolls @ 9 "moderate" they did.  Then they spent the next 22 hours on the train, interacting with NPCs to try to locate the bio-weapon thief or the purchaser.  Some Deception and Sense Motive rolls were done, as well as Perception rolls to try to see if anyone else was carrying.   Viki notice that one passenger had on body armor during one roll.  She also made a very good Sense Motive roll to realize that a male passenger was lying about his job or why he was headed to Carmen de Patagones.  This got her suspicious of the man.

Around 0200 hours, Viki headed to the dining car.  There she noticed the suspicous man passing a note to a female.  At 0400 hours, the train stopped at Bahia Blanca, the stop was scheduled for 1 hour and passengers could disembark to stretch their legs.  

Viki disembarked and watched the suspcious female and male exit the train and walk into the city, she motioned for Jack and they followed (good rolls to avoid being seen) the two into an abandoned warehouse.  The deal was going to be conducted inside.  The PCs observed the man handing the woman a satchel which contained $$, she in turn started to hand him a floppy disk.  That is when the PCs entered and a gunfight ensued!

During the gunfight, the man wearing the body armor arrived, he was an agent for the Brazilian Intelligence Agency and he started shooting at everyone!  The PCs prevailed, they got the floppy and the satchel with $10,000 cash.  Viki was wounded, so they took 10 to patch up her wounds. 

We played a good bit of BoL this year, different campaigns (Warhammer, Witcher, Jalizar, and our Hyborian Age "Hammer of Æs" campaign - that we finished after 13 years, 11 of them using BoL)

Last 3-4 months we have been primarily playing Shadowdark, but are hoping to get back to our BoL Beasts and Barbarians Jalizar campaign.  We had one session a few weeks ago, and are going to try to get some session in during the next few weeks.

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Well, last night we finished our BoL "Hammer of Æs" campaign.  This campaign was set in the Hyborian Age, we started playing this campaign back in 2012 using the Mongoose Conan d20 rules.  Then in September of 2014, we switched over to BoL and have been playing it ever since.  (With some breaks in there for other campaigns...).

Finished the final series, I adapted the Mongoose Conan "Trial of Blood" adventure path to BoL.  Finished it with a great battle in the end, the Sorceress managed to complete her ritual casting to summon a greater demon (5 rounds worth of chanting, slicing a baby's leg for his blood, slicing her own hand, more chanting in ancient stygian and then ritually sacrificing the child - her own ).

Then she needed to make her spell casting task roll - a "15" she failed the roll (she rolled an 8 + 3 Mind & 2 Mage for a 13 total).  She had used her VPs to block several attacks with the Shattered Shield/Weapon maneuver.  So she didn't get to try a re-roll.  My wife's PC then finished her off with her dual-wielding attacks.

During the Epilogue, our PCs got titles of Nobility from King Conan and a Barony to control - they will first have to remove the current Baron (with King Conan's blessing!) who is a traitor to the Crown and is trying to separate from Aquilonia.  But that is a tale for another telling, maybe even a tale that will never be told... 

A long campaign for us, but a good ending.  (If the stygian sorceress would have made her summoning roll, to summon the greater demon, it would have been curtains for the PCs, my gm/pc was down to 2 LB and 1 HP and my wife's PC was down to 3 LB and 1 HP.)

Going to play a little Shadowdark now, then back to our BoL Jalizar campaign for a while.