Star Metal...

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 1:51 pm

I have resently found my old Conan the Adventure cartoon tapes.

I am considering using the ideas of the snake men and the star metal in a PBEM game or by chat on the yahoo groups. Which ever's more conveniant for everyone. Though, if chat, I would advise a microphone/head sets.

Play 3rd-4th level characters. I will give you guys gold and a chance to shop for whatever you might want. You will all be starting in the kingdom of wisdom. And backgrounds will definetly be apprisiated.

I will shall post something on the group a bit later.

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:21 pm

What about the magic formula "Ka nama, kaa lajerama"?

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:46 pm

Just hope it's not metallic hydrogen, and if it is, stay away from fires, water, oxygen... :lol:

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 11:13 pm

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 12:49 pm

For those of you who haven't seen the cartoon...Set (the snake god, not the Egyptian God) ruled the Earth tyrannically. All the Earth magicians at the time united their strength and banished him into another dimension. Set is an evil serpent God who was, for most of the episodes, trapped in the Abyss. His servants, Wrath-Amon and the serpent men, were trying to free him by collecting Starmetal, turning it evil, and creating magical disks. When there were seven pyramids with star-metal discs on the tops of the pyramids, Set was freed from the Abyss.

The Serpent Men are Set's henchmen. They can take the form of humans, but if they got too close to Star Metal, their disguise is ruined and they were revealed as the reptilian beings they truly are. If tempered star metal cuts them, then they are sent back to the Abyss, all that stays behind is their clothing, etc.

I going to use some of the very basic elements. Metiorites hit the planet on the summer solstice. Blacksmiths, alcemists, etc find it and make weapons, horseshoes, etc out of some of it. And the serpent men are thought to all be dead.

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:16 pm

Forget the crummy cartoon, get a good collection of short stories and read Robert E Howard's The Shadow Kingdom. It's the original source for ALL the serpent-man material found throughout fantasy... If you've not read the Conan stuff, you'd be well inspired to do so too ... Just make sure you read the true Howard stuff and not the countless pastiches ... a 2 volume collection of it has been published in 2002 by Millenium in their Masters of Fantasy collection, but I fear that is a british print, not very available in the states. The other option is the 8 volume edition committed by lin carter and sprague de camp, but it contains a lot of inferior and adulterated material.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 3:41 pm

svartalf wrote:Forget the crummy cartoon, get a good collection of short stories and read Robert E Howard's The Shadow Kingdom. It's the original source for ALL the serpent-man material found throughout fantasy... If you've not read the Conan stuff, you'd be well inspired to do so too ... Just make sure you read the true Howard stuff and not the countless pastiches ... a 2 volume collection of it has been published in 2002 by Millenium in their Masters of Fantasy collection, but I fear that is a british print, not very available in the states. The other option is the 8 volume edition committed by lin carter and sprague de camp, but it contains a lot of inferior and adulterated material.

I have read it and the Conan books. Heck, I have an unadulterated verition of them.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:43 am

Anyone interested in an on-line game?

Nekira Sudacne · Fri Jul 30, 2004 2:27 pm

pblackcrow wrote:Anyone interested in an on-line game?

knowing what times you had in mind would help. . .

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 10:04 pm

Any time, it's up to you guys to decide time, but if it's going to be a PBe-M game you don't have to worry about the time.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Sat Jul 31, 2004 4:18 pm

it's going to be on yahoo groups.

Spook · Unread post by **Spook** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:20 pm

But Set from Conan is Set from Egypt (formerly known as Stygia)

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:27 pm

Spook wrote:But Set from Conan is Set from Egypt (formerly known as Stygia)

Since when is the Egyptian Seth a serpent god?
sure, both are gods of evil, and Stygia *is* inspired in part from Egypt.
But even in Howard's works, the Serpent did not have that much to do with its egyptian namesake, and I fear that the cartoon being just went farther away.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:07 pm

I said "not the Egyptian God"!!! ARGGG! It's a different mythology in the cartoon.

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 8:16 pm

yeah ... I know ... seems not everybody does, though.

I'll not ask to be in your game, I'm too much of a Howard fan to take the risk of playing in a modified world.

The Immortal ME · Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:41 pm

svartalf wrote:What about the magic formula "Ka nama, kaa lajerama"?

A hollow voice says, "Fool!" (*)

(*) This allusion may be a bit esoteric for ya'll. You never know, though.

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:35 pm

The Immortal ME wrote:
svartalf wrote:What about the magic formula "Ka nama, kaa lajerama"?

A hollow voice says, "Fool!" (*)

(*) This allusion may be a bit esoteric for ya'll. You never know, though.

Uncle... too esoteric for me.

pblackcrow · Unread post by **pblackcrow** » Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:04 am

Get real...I am pagan.

Well, sort of...I believe in God/Ra/YHWY/whatever he is called as beinf the creator, but I also believe in other Gods as the many aspects of the one.

I don't wish to get into a polytheological discussion or debate on here. So, except it and move on. Or post in here about wanting to play or not play.

Paul. :sleep: