FINALLY completed my set of ERB's Pellucidar series with Frazetta covers with Savage Pellucidar and Back to the Stone Age. Last Pic is my now completed set.

Kinda have a tagline for his character going,

A word from Matholwch is a blade at the throat,

A sentence a knife slithered to your back.

For he is Y Bradwyr.

Not much of a fantasy artist really, mostly draw other stuff; But I’m trying to learn cuz I wanna make a sword and sorcery game. Would love any feedback. Thanks!

I'd nominate Dwellers of the Forbidden City as the AD&D module with the most sword & sorcery vibe; it's basically Conan trespassing in a snake-haunted, decadent, pulp civilization. Cook was inspired by REH's Red Nails:

>Red Nails... [is] was what I was clearly going for. It's my favorite Conan story and the city was based off of it. It was originally something I did for my own campaign and then used it as my resume when I applied to TSR.

I love pulp stories and grew up reading a lot of the classic pulp stuff. As a kid I read Conan, Solomon Kane, most al the Tarzan novels, Doc Savage, the Shadow, Vance, Lovecraft, etc. The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories by Leiber were among my favorites -- he created this really interesting world and characters that made great stories. Laumer, deCamp, Farmer, Zelazny, Lin Carter, Bloch were a few more. Of course Tolkien, but also a lot of the golden and silver age writers shaped my imagination in junior high and high school.

Part of my recent haul at the used bookstore, two copies of Andrew Offutt's pastiche of REH's Cormac Mac Art. Both are first Ace Books printings from 1980. According to Goodreads, https://www.goodreads.com/series/58987-cormac-mac-art

Offutt penned 7 pastiches in this series. Mists is book 2 and Moonbow book 7. Tulsa Doom appears to be the main antagonist for book 7 and Cormac supposedly distantly related to both Kull and Conan before him. IG the blood feud spans generations over centuries, if not millennium.

I haven't read these or any Cormac before so I cannot accurately state whether Cormac lives up to the front cover hype of "Mightier than Conan." Conan definitely overwhelms Cormac in pop culture appeal, exposure, and recognition.

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Amazingly, REH appears the first or at least the most prolific writer creating a shared universe for his characters. Decades before DC and Marvel received accolades for a common setting or universe. I continue to be amazed both at how talented a writer REH was despite his young age and his tremendous contributions to fiction during his much too brief career.

This interview is from ten months ago from the Heroes Reforged channel, here's the link to the full one hour interview:

Why Genndy Tartakovsky Turned Down Running Lucasfilm Animation! - Heroes Reforged

I'm impressed that Tartakovsky has seemingly read everything Robert E. Howard wrote. He even namechecks Sailor Steve Costigan, a character I knew nothing about until he appeared the recent Titan Savage Sword of Conan #10. Genndy seems to really knows his REH! Bodes well for the show.

I spied these haunting my used book store the other week. Familiar with Lin Carter's Conan pastiches and Thongor books, I immediately snatched them up. All first editions, book 1 originally published 1974 with each subsequent book repectively published a year after the last.

Other than the Wikipedia entries, I know nothing about them. The series apparently consists of 6 books total, so I'm missing the final two books. The spectacular Michael Whelan painted the covers for books 2 and 3.

Anyone read these or familiar with them?

Conan amputates limbs, breaks backs, and casually knocks out teeth with his shield. In this image, his enemies aren't just defeated—they're a mass of super-f***ed despair. Grant is clearly evoking paintings by the Old Masters. Click through the images for a gallery of damned, terrified, compressed bodies.

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Khlit the Cossack is shrewd, war-hungry, loyal, physically formidable, quietly manipulative, and deeply suspicious of civilization. Sound like anyone we know? Robert E. Howard was an acknowledged fan of Lamb's. There's no magic, demons, or sensuously dangerous women in any of the Khlit stories (at least, not the ones I've read) but much of the rest of the S&S components were in place when Lamb introduced Khlit in 1917.

Bringing a fantasy world to the big screen is no easy task, and while everyone would love to turn out products on the scale of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, that is rarely the case.

At its core, fantasy relies on convincing audiences to accept entirely invented worlds, complete with their own rules, histories, and emotional stakes. When filmmakers prioritize spectacle over substance, that balance collapses.

What films, despite a good cast and decent effort, failed to deliver?

My first pick would be Seventh Son, which was based on a popular book series and had Big Lebowski alums, Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore, in its cast.

Swingin' Stormbringer, Stealin' Souls.

Sword and sorcery is often a dark and foreboding genre, and I love it for that. However, sometimes humor and levity makes its way in if not for being such a great contrast. What is your favorite moment of humor or lightheartedness in sword and sorcery?

The Fafhrd and Gray Mouser series has a lot of choices to choose from, but one of the most notable for me is the moment in The Price of Pain-Ease where Fafhrd and Gray Mouser convince a band of men while drunk to uproot and steal an entire garden house from a Duke and haul it behind the local tavern.