For my Hyborian Age "Hammer of Æs" campaign I stated out King Conan for our characters to run across - they me him out and about adventuring on his own (he had to get out of the Castle for a bit...) back in 2015.

In my games, I have Heroes, Legendary Heroes (have gained 5 APs), Mythic Heroes (have gained 10 APs) and Epic Heroes (have gained 15 APs).  King Conan is an Epic Hero in my campaign.

King Conan (Epic Hero)
Strength:  3            Agility:  2               Mind:  1                   Appeal:  1
Init:   1                   Melee:  3               Ranged:  0               Defense:  2
Barbarian:  2          Thief:  1                Mercenary:  1           Pirate:  1              Noble:  0

Armor:  Custom Mail Shirt (Lt Armor)/stops 2 & Thick Skin/stops 1
Weapon:  Broadsword d6H+3 (2h) or d6+3 (1h), Dagger d6L+3
Lifeblood:  15                   Movement:  7                  Hero Points:  5                Advancement Points:  0

Boons
Weapon Mastery "Broadswords" bonus die to attack rolls
Hard to Kill:  +2 to LB
Tough Skin:  +1 to Defense

Flaws
Distrust of Sorcery

Much appreciated, Sigulf!
 

Gruntfuttock wrote:

I also use the concept of Allied PCs for my 1 GM- 1 Player games, for GM run friends of the PC. These are just generated like PCs but with no Hero Points, and they usually don't get Advancement Points. They are to emulate the competent 'best friends' of the central character in tv shows - the sort of people who never seem to get any better but start out just slightly less skilled than the protagonist.

Yeah, that sounds good for that type of a "best friends" of the central character in tv shows.  (Like the guy who ran around with Hercules...)

I run a strait up GM/PC with my wife's PC.  We run the game more like a Fafhrd and Gray Mouser, two equal heroes.  And sometimes she runs two PCs and I run a GM/PC when we need more "fire-power".  But have found that for us, the PC and GM/PC thing works really good.

We just took a break from BoL for a bit and played some adventures in The Fantasy Trip.  I actually purchased about 10 or so adventures for TFT, and I am now thinking of converting them to BoL.  (It seems that everything ends up being converted to BoL at our house .)

I told my wife that I want to run one of the TFT adventures "The Citadel of Ice" using the TFT rules, then re-run it using the BoL rules - just to see how it compares.  (We did that with a half-dozen or so Mongoose Conan d20 adventures when we were thinking of switching over to BoL back in 2014, it was pretty cool to see how the systems work vs each other.)

So many options, not enough time.  I always ask my wife what campaign/setting she wants to play in, and she always replies "it really doesn't matter, as long as it's using the BoL rules"  
 

Last edited by Sigulf (4/29/2024 10:33 am)

@Sigulf - Just supporting Gruntfuttock's comments about your Heroes, Legendary Heroes, Mythic Heroes, and Epic Heroes classification regarding APs. Nice scaling and something I will definitely plagiarise for my games