I have a penchant for creating very specific drinking games, and thought I'd turn my attention to Howard's famous barbarian. While the Conan drinking game can be played while watching the movies, it's meant with more a literary bent. So take a drink when: Conan's thews are mentioned He is compared to a panther Crom gets a shoutout x2 drinks if Crom is depicted as benevolent/ helpful (yeah... right) Conan freaks out at the mention of magic There's an allusion to another

[excerpt from Dobra Tales and Lore, collected by David Hooper] Long ago when glass was still new, there were two brothers, the older one industrious and the younger a layabout. The layabout would do no work, even as his brother labored every day as a woodsman. Neither could take a wife, the layabout because he was too lazy to earn one, and the woodsman because he was too busy working since his brother would not. But the women of the village desired the woodsman, particularly

Many fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction bemoan the fact the two share the same aisle in the bookstore, and though both genres share much of the same DNA within the realm of speculative fiction, they are utterly distinct. For the most part it boils down to that Fantasy usually takes place in a world that could never exist, while Science Fiction takes place in a world that does not exist quite yet. That said, today we’re going to take the fiction out of Sci-Fi and examine Fant