{"id":21434,"date":"2018-12-31T05:37:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=21434"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:25:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T22:25:18","slug":"new-books-from-modiphius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/31\/new-books-from-modiphius\/","title":{"rendered":"New books from Modiphius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new 120-page book claims to catalogue all the monsters of Robert E. Howard.  <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiphius.net\/collections\/conan\/products\/conan-horrors-of-the-hyborian-age-pdf\">Conan: Horrors of the Hyborean Age<\/a><\/em> appears to be one of those PDF books for gamers that that give them the monster &#8216;stats&#8217;, but which are also rather useful for the reference shelves of writers.  <\/p>\n<p>Not sure about the cover, though. I recently re-read the Howard Conan stories in audiobook and I don&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> remember Wonder Woman fighting a T. Rex, as per this book&#8217;s cover.  Nor the distinctly <em>LOTR<\/em> orc who flanks Conan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/conangbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/conangbook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"389\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a gamebook it needs to be interflipped with the <em>Robert E. Howard\u2019s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed<\/em> core rule-book.  There appear to be other catalogue-like guide books to Conan&#8217;s world in the same series, one on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiphius.net\/collections\/conan\/products\/conan-ancient-ruins-cursed-cities\">Ancient Ruins &amp; Cursed Cities<\/a><\/em> and a guide to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modiphius.net\/collections\/conan\/products\/conan-namesless-cults-pdf\">Nameless Cults, Cosmology and Gods<\/a><\/em>.  Apparently they all have inspiring art inside, and I&#8217;d guess also some maps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new 120-page book claims to catalogue all the monsters of Robert E. Howard. Conan: Horrors of the Hyborean Age &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/12\/31\/new-books-from-modiphius\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,33,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts","category-new-books","category-reh","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53899,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21434\/revisions\/53899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}