The Blue Rose vs. Conan Debates

From the ancient crypts of the RPG.net archives:

Subject: Blue Rose is the anti-Conan


NPC JPL
And thus the cosmic balance endures.


Cith
I thought Cat Fancy magazine was the anti-conan?


NPC JPL
No, man --- Cat Fancy is raw, pulpy stuff. Not for the faint of heart.


Bailywolf

Originally posted by NPC JPL
And thus the cosmic balance endures.

Yes, but can you slam them together and thus power a starship? Can the Conan/Blue Rose drive flip a vastly and beweaponed star-fortress across the galaxie magestic?



Future Villain Band

Originally posted by NPC JPL
No, man --- Cat Fancy is raw, pulpy stuff. Not for the faint of heart.

My cat has gigantic mirths and gigantic melancholies.


Phantom Grunweasel
I vow never to rest between four walls until I have run a Conan/Blue Rose crossover.

It will be the roleplaying game of mighty-thewed, silver-haired barbarian gay mages looking for love in a savage world. And I will run it. Yes, I will.


Bailywolf
Glam-Fantasy!


Chris Aylott
Man, you so have to check out Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman's The Fall of the Kings. Conan + Blue Rose would be perfect for that setting...

(The book is actually a sequel to Kushner's novel Swordspoint, which is a minor classic in its own right, but is sadly lacking in shapechanging gay barbarian wizard kings. The Fall of the Kings corrects this oversight. :D)


budman
I am sure my group will turn it into screw the hot princess


NPC JPL
Apparently this subgenre requires that you hold her afterwards.


ascendance
And if you must sneak out to go adventuring, you really should return her calls. Or at least, the calls from her psychic horse.


mathey
Who is named "Starflame" and poops rainbows.


Cam Banks
Stir in a healthy dose of anthropomorphic pegasus-stallions and unicorn-maidens, and you're good to go.


CleverName

Originally posted by Cith
I thought Cat Fancy magazine was the anti-conan?

And the difference between Cat Fancy and Blue Rose is?...

Actually, you get a trial subscription of Cat Fancy with each purchase of Blue Rose. Conan comes with a choice of either ManDate or Soldier of Fortune.


Phantom Grunweasel
"Conan! What is greatest in life?"

"To have someone truly sensitive to your needs. To have someone who'll laugh at your jokes and hold you when you cry. To have a magical psychic blue-eyed bunny rabbit named Floppy to follow you around"

And the antidote:

Eilonwy
This whole thing kind of confuses me. Because, sure, there are big happy animal familiars with deep shining blue eyes in Mercedes Lackey. But there's also brutal gang-rape in store for approximately half her protagonists, judging from the Valdemar books. So are the people making the game taking out the supergritty fantasy world where rape, childhood sexual abuse, and other such things run rampant, and just focusing on the happy jumbly bits?

Eilonwy, scarred for life by a Valdemar book at age 12.