Character Creation

Discuss your concepts, but if you all want to play the exact same thing, go for it.

If I plan it, I'd veer towards a petty thief on the run from the law. However, I'm sorely tempted to just roll for everything on the tables in the core book.

Are there any preferences from the group/GM?

Preferences? Well, no not really. It's a wilderness exploration, with some possibly hostile, possibly friendly NPC tribes to deal with.

We'll need to come up with a reason for you all traveling into the far south. I can have a GMPC with you at the start of that helps. Maybe he hired you all despite your backgrounds. That's a little weak, but if left to it, I'll set up a reason to bind you to the task.

I like @Phil_Ozzy_Fer's idea of a random roll. There is a character generator here: Character Generator

Is there anything in the area that would lure adventurers? Secret knowledge? Treasure? A lost estate?

Secret knowledge and treasure are both key drivers for the mission.

I think I would prefer to choose as this will be my first time playing Conan, I'm leaning towards a pirate or maybe a mercenary.

I strongly favour every party member having a tie to at least one or two other party members.

While I'm not really opposed to random charactercreation, I have been playing around with that character creator, and the results are... unfocused.

If you all would like more background before settling on characters, I'll tackle that tomorrow morning, and post a sample introduction that you can imagine yourself fitting into.

Nobody responded so I didn't do it, haha.

Okay, seriously though, a Kushite man named Otawla has hired a team of teamsters (NPC laborers) to come with him into the the remote jungles of Zukundu. You've been hired as problem solvers, either as guards or as survival specialists or sages. Maybe one or two of you were sold to him under slavery. You took a ship to the coast of a forbidding land and were ferried to the shore. A three week journey into an unfamiliar jungle gets us to the start of the action.

That's just what we needed! Thanks

Great! I am thinking of a Zingaran Pirate - maybe the survivor of a shipwrecked freebooter vessel that has has joined the group.

@dankel, that's weird! I had randomly rolled up the same. How about we both survived the shipwreck?

My character, as it stands, is a scholar from Stygia who is plying his trade as a purveyor of knowledge between Koth and Shem - but who has plenty of reasons to put some distance between himself and his homeland, and other reasons to seek out ancient secrets - enough to brave the wildernesses beyond Kush.

Wicked ideas fit right into my memories of similar Conan stories.

A quick note of note I thought was funny, I had started sketching out my character on Friday (the 13th) and rolled 3(!) 13s.

:-O - burn the witch

Another Pirate?

Yes