As someone who is trying out running Mongoose's OGL CONAN rpg tonight, I wouldn't wish for anything else! Who needs erudite exposition when you're standing 'thew deep in gore' or crushing a dusky-skinned wench with your 'fierce love' (now look here, those are REH's words, not mine...).
But seriously there are a couple of alterations that would probably make it a little more palatable in your view... Indeed, there are many CONAN-specific tidbits which are great fun. Nevertheless, it was a huge shock approaching it from the HeroQuest view of things, not least of all with respect to the relative lack of flexibility and number of context-specific rules in d20.
It also triggered the first 'high spam count' [***SPAM***] message on my freeserve mail that I've ever received, courtesy of a post of character descriptions to a rpg Smartgroup. Note to self: next time, go easy on the 'ivory bosoms'.
Cheerio,
Stu.
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