Frustration is getting bigger Bang, bang, bang, pull my Devil Trigger

that has to be coincidence......right? 🤔

Dungeon Crawl Classics is what you should check out. Magic is dangerous but powerful. It can mutate and corrupt people.

Racially motivated lol

Logic isn't the most powrrful force in Lovecraft stuff. Fish bad, tentacles = "incomprehensible paradoxes" somehow which of course is always described in anything but paradoxical terms because saying "I can't tell you what it looks like" is boring.

very cool mechanic! You'd love the power "Dominate" in Vampire: The Masquerade.

There is a spell on tabletop called enslave. So you probably could. I made a cimmarian shaman that practices necromancy and learns from communing with the dead. Often being told lies or being outright assaulted.

Conan Exiles is adding Sorcery in August or September.

A more dangerous sorcerer would bring real benefits. Peasants living in a desert, safe from marauding armies by the wastelands around them, the water they need for life provided by the sorcerer. The peasants would need no enchantments to fight to the death for the sorcerer who keeps them alive and safe.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff I feel giddy watching this - like a real sorcerer's apprentice, sitting down to absorb knowledge like a sponge takes in water, listening to the tales an old and learned archmage is willing to share.

Thank you. Written and narrated by me!

@@GrimDarkHalfOff The writing is top notch. Well done!

Recognized it immediately. Great choice.

Thanks brother! I have some stuff in the works!

@@GrimDarkHalfOff It really does scratch an itch I knew I had, but could not give a name to. There it is, crawling 'neath my skin again. It will not leave me alone unless I watch your videos, absorb all that I can, then, as if by magic, become inspired, and go to work on the notes of my own book.

Sounds very mysterious, like a tale in and of itself. Love it. Good luck with the book.

100%

Well, there is Low Fantasy Gaming and Beyond the Black Sea. Both try to give the feel of a sword and sorcery campaign. In that vein Zenobia and Cepheus Fantasy only need 2d6 to play. Plus Barbarians of Lemuria.

While TRPG systems like Low Fantasy Gaming, AS&SH, etc, bend the D&D system's themes to fit grittier sword & sorcery tropes, they still resemble D&D too much for my taste. Most notably in retaining the use of D&D's Vancian style magic in which spells are very specific both in use and amount available for use per day, and are still mostly just the same spells. There are quite a few titles which do this. Those are good games in their own right, don't get me wrong. Fortunately there are others which aren't quite so rote. For those retaining some D&D mechanics, I'd say Dungeon Crawl Classics is one which remade the magic system into a dangerous and, notably, unpredictable practice quite well. Then there are other systems not bound by D&D mechanics, such as the aforementioned Barbarians Of Lemuria and, of course, Modiphius' 2d20 Conan. Any way you go, there are more appropriate options than stock D&D for better swords & sorcery, even if you want to retain much of it's mechanics.

Look up the dungeons and dragons world of the dark sun it's conan themed.

@@adrianjuarez1162 I know. I've done alot of research on it. Not what I'm going for.

Thank you I’ve been trying to stay consistent with uploading

Your more than welcome! My next projects are the Hyborian calendar, vampires in Conan and 13 more human cultures in Conan

I'm just letting you know that this Winter I am going to work with one of my Manga Artist Friends and draw out a story in relation to this awesome video you made with a little shout out in it. Once it is done I will post the video and let you know about it brother. Keep your blades sharp and your magic strong! Shalom!

Pretty much

Also, considering the variety of magick there, it would be possible, just extremely difficult. Nothing would prevent a sorcerer from enslaving a spirit of flame and bringing it around to turn it into a occasional fireball, and a wizard who conjures a daemon of storms could do something similar, as a summoner of alien tempests. Just, it should be rare, demanding, risky and not used sparingly. Far worse than controlling a lesser horror and sending it to smash your enemy. We even got in the novels a magician Who could magically rip hearts out of people and One Who could summon earthquakes.

@@federerlkonig330 Wasn't the earthquake explicity the result of an enchanted horn?

@@theloweffortchannel7211 still a case of Conan magic that May be used for an elemental spell, albeig with the help of a magic item. And instead of Just "he caused an earthquake", they Say "he controlled the elementals of earth".

In the beginning there was Chaos, From its everywhat depths emerged the Champion of Law who battled it, defeated it, yoked it and built the world we know upon it, but the Champion did not kill Chaos. It lives still, restless beneath us. Few are those who can see it roiling there beyond the veil, fewer still can touch it and try to work their will upon it. Magic is not for the casual or the curious. Only the most driven can look upon the face of Chaos and not go mad. And even an iron will may rust in the course of time. The first tenet of magic is to never use it unless you have to. The second tenet is that when you wrestle with Chaos sometimes you will lose. So magic is manipulating the Primordial chaos underlying reality. Goes without saying that that is hella dangerous. That chaos can be visualized as a roiling mass of elemental cords and currents. When wizards wave their hands around what they are doing is tying knots in those aetherial cords. When they are speaking spells those are not words as such but sounds more akin to throat singing and those sounds help make the aetherial cords more flexible. The reason that they need wands and staves is again to extend their reach and manipulate the cords. One can imagine that specific wand and staff materials are superior for moving certain elemental cords. So who can use magic? Anyone with the right tools, but few would dare. Theoretically anyone could strap on a wingsuit and jump off a cliff, but how many people actually would? Only those with drive and intelligence would survive the magical learning process. The limits on your power would be willpower, intelligence and skill (along with a fair bit of luck). If those were on the godly level then yeah, you'd be a god, but it wouldn't take too many failures to take you out of the game entirely. Personally I've never liked it when people use magic routinely and casually (aka Potterverse). That robs it of all its specialness. There should be a price to pay for it and I think that price would be that the more you use it the more the taint of chaos builds up on you (unless you use substitutionary rites and make someone else pay the price for your spells of course).

We’ll be talking about Odin’s father in our next Conan video!

Thanks the two I have up next are going to be the Non-human races followed by the Gods or maybe in reverse order.

Thanks the next one will be on Dragons

I hope so

Did ya know you can use necromancy in Conan exiles!?! Summon the undead as thrall!

I’ve had the rough draft of that for a while

@@GrimDarkHalfOff tremendous! Looking forward to it!

Wonderful to see someone else pick up on it!

I’m glad you asked. They were most likely the higher culture or pure culture of the Giant kings before their already decayed state when they were encountered by the Lemurians in the lore of Conan Exiles. As far as how they tied into magic they seemed to have convergent evolution with humans meaning that their magic could better be described as artifacts or Eldritch technology hence why it is not on this list. At some point I will make a long form Acheron deep dive using footage from both popular Conan RPGs, but for now you can check out my giant kings video

You can take a look at the game called Outward, magic is somewhat less arcade like. You have to lay done sigil circles or cast rune patterns to cast spells.

@@TheDemeted Hear, hear!

Because how are you supposed to turn that into mechanics?

@@colbyboucher6391 runequest

@@jenningscunningham642 Still "gamey and banal" unless you'rel talking about hero questing or something, which isn't really representing it mechanically at all, any system can do that.

A wise Choice! Don’t worry there are plenty of warrior, thief and assassin positions available!

Thanks

Yes! And Elric!

@@GrimDarkHalfOff I always wondered if Sapowski planned to add Geralt to the Eldritch/Conan Mythos before his fans pushed him more to writte an own World for the Witcher ;-). Based on Witcher lore a crossover lets say in an PNP Campaign woudld be easly possible.

What a great video anyways

That is from the Elric series which is canon with in Conan. This is more from lore itself and less from any specific class. It would have to be a home brew.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff Thank you so much for the reply! I really appreciate it.

I was waiting to see if Elric was going to be mentioned. I am Not disappointed!! Since Elric appeared in two issues of Conan. Wish they brought him back. It would be nice to see them go on adventures together.

Happy to hear it and I hope you enjoy your stay on the channel!

@@GrimDarkHalfOff I am/will do!

Yep being a sorcerer is much more viable than most people assume

@@GrimDarkHalfOff Or go the Chinese route, go up in the mountains, meditate and suck up as much magic as you can and hope you don't go mad or blow up before actually progressing.

It would publish the long running iconic comic series that many would consider to be the definitive adaptation of the character. As a result the Conan universe often effected Marvel canon: Namor, Dracula and Dr. Strange being good examples. However, other than an addition of a Sorcerer Supreme or a Ghost Rider being present in the Hyborian Age (NOT Dr. Strange) there isn’t much difference.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff ok... it's sounds like a bad combo on paper.

@@zacharyrodriguez4348 He explains it better in another video, basically you can think of the "Hyborean Age" as it's own thing besause it's so old, but it leads to one of three futures depending on who you ask: Lovecraft's world (more or less), the "real" world, or Marvel's world. The lack of "cannon" as a hard concept back then has led to a long tradition of writers associating their stories with Hyborea somehow (hence Marvel, and Elric for that matter). Your Hyborea May Vary.

I know that feeling. Hosav is trying to make it more beginner friendly through the EEWA mod, but I don’t think the devs will ever truly care enough to ass it.

Magicka has a FANTASTIC magic system. It serves as half of the basis for a magic system of my own creation which I'm making for a story of mine.

In this context the fire and lightning were coming from Dr. Strange’s sorcery. However, through Xotli one could easily call upon fire like powers as demonstrated in Age of Conan and through Ymir one could easily call down lightning provided they have the god’s favor as seen in The Frost Giants Daughter short story. There really is no definitive Conan canon so you’ll find that my videos use original works mixed Cthulhu mythos information mixed the parts of the Marvel mythos that compliment or expand on that information. As far as Necromancy the lore has always been horribly unclear on its origins.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff That was incredibly informative, thank you very much. It seems as though there are as many varied forms of magic as there are people in the world, lol

@@headwyvern11 yes! The new King Conan Comics have given us the first instance of animal conjuring. So that’s cool.

Lol

Elric and Witcher is what it’s meant to be an homage too

I understand the confusion. Deep ones are born from Dagon, but Dagon is not himself and entity. Rather he is created by Cthulhu in the very material world specifically for the environment of earth. Deep ones are themselves mostly material beast men and are only really descendent from something created by something the elder sign would hurt. Plus they have Shoggoth tamers in their culture which implies both knowledge and regular application of the Elder Sign.

Ah. Ok. Bit different rules then.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff should the Elder sign even work on Shogoths? The whole point of the elder things was to portray a alien buy mostly mundane technological society at the height of its of power so it could serve as a foil to humanities budding pursuit on the path of science and you know hammer home no matter how advance you get time destroys everything given long enough. Shogoths should as an elder thing creation be like humans and most life on earth in the Mythos be a product of conventional if highly advanced genetic engineering not occult sorcery. The only outright eldritch things mentioned in at the mountians of madness is there war with Cuthulu and his star spawn and whatever dwells in the unknown Kadath that drives the main characters friend mad as they fly away from the elder things city. The elder things themselves are referred to as the humans of another era and their creations the product of the peak of mundane sciences.

I honestly prefer it to CE

@@GrimDarkHalfOff Same!

Good! It’s a horribly dangerous act!

@@GrimDarkHalfOff I can see that. But if I just swing a sword, I'll have to go up against Conan. I gotta learn how to make bows and arrows.

Yes this, but like a nomadic Celtic barbarian written by a suicidal Texan.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff Samson is a bible character which is a little similar to conan 👉 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f7KBd5h6v5bLmnU.html

@@randomguy6974 just was watching it and I was put in mind of Samson, specially with his flowing locks

I’m never gonna get those right. I still pronounce Thoth with a th sound, so this is all I got.

@@GrimDarkHalfOff And those are easier than H.P. Lovecraft monster names. Those are hell to pronounce.