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.

 

Very nice!
Thank you for the update.
  
 

Great adventure!  
Are the characters going with Safrax "Toughs" or "Hero" level, just curious as to the set up.
Also, was the final battle between the Barenstarks and the Wolf Clan theatre of the mind, or did you guys run it with the Land Battle rules - or something else?  It's always interesting to see how different people run things.

Sounds like Allison really ran a good session.  My compliments!  

 

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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.