Im doing a map in Warcraft 3 where all the best sword and sorcery universets is merging into one world with each world as different continents. I want you guys input which universes should i include to make it the most sword and sorcery. It can be from any medium: books, comics, movies, tv, games, boardgames of course. Obscure niche universes is welcome too

New issue of Just The Axe, Ma'am now out! A concise look at a She-Devil with a Sword, A new Solomon Kane comic, and a quadruple feature of movies in the spirit of Robert E. Howard and much, much, more!!!

https://open.substack.com/pub/justtheaxemaam/p/just-the-axe-maam-16?r=7yj3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I am putting together a pile of books to purchase and read through Kindle (this part is important) and curious as to who are your top picks for Must Read of the genre.

This can be classics like Conan or Jirel of Joiry or even someone new on the scene, but I am looking for some good, fast and entertaining Sword and Sorcery books to buy on Kindle.

Bonus Points if the main character is a Strong Female lead.

Thanks in advance for helping me put together my Christmas Wishlist!

Hi everyone! Excited to share an indie S&S movie I wrote, produced, and directed that is out now on streaming platforms!

It's about a knight and a priest infiltrating a masked cult in medieval Germany. Check out the trailer in the link below:

https://geni.us/tearsofblood

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Hi everyone! I produced an indie passion project that I’ve been working for the last 8 years! It’s about a knight and a priest infiltrating supernatural cult in medieval Europe. It’s an original story, so I hope you guys might be interested in it! I wrote, produced directed and even acted in the thing, so it’s a real labor of love!

It’s online now, so feel free to check it out and the link in the trailer below. And if you like, share, because it would help a lot. I’m not a marketing expert or anything but I’m trying to grow my audience. I hope to make another sword and sorcery film someday, so hopefully I can grow and gain some traction here! I’m not a studio or anything, just a dude with a near suicidal amount of passion 😅

Enjoy!

https://geni.us/tearsofblood

I am in the midst of arranging an interview with the ultimate sword-and-sorcery comics writing legend, Roy Thomas. I am not counting my chickens before they hatch, but I have gotten a response from him and he said he's open to it, so at this point I feel it's reasonably likely that it's going to happen.

I am putting in a lot of effort to avoid asking questions that he gets asked in most of his interviews like how he got started, what Stan Lee was like, why he switched companies, how he brought Conan to Marvel, etc. I really want to focus on getting new information for the fans.

I am a huge fan of Arak, Son of Thunder and since I can count the number of interviews he's done in which he was asked about the series on one hand, I am trying to come up with the best questions for him about it that I can. I already have several ready to go, but I'm sure there are folks out there who can suggest things that I haven't thought of.

So this is my clarion call to all my fellow Arakophiles:

What would YOU ask Roy Thomas about Arak: Son of Thunder...?

I hope the mods here don't mind but I am putting up a refreshed invite link to the Discord server I made for discussing sword-and-sorcery in film, television, comic books, and audio exclusively. This is NOT to compete with New Edge Sword & Sorcery or the Sword & Sorcery Tavern, which are two great Discord servers where you can discuss the genre in prose literature and have general discussions about any topics with your fellow fans. The purpose of the Sword & Sorcery A/V Media Arena is to be able to talk about the genre in audio and/or visual formats without wading through conversations about those formats in all other genres. The extra-concentrated focus is also nice for anyone like me who tries to minimize their social media time.

So please send me your best questions for Roy Thomas about Arak, Son of Thunder here, there, or to this email:

araksonofthunder@gmail.com

If I use your question(s), I would be very happy to credit you for asking them in the interview.

"By the thunder that birthed me!"

https://discord.gg/CJ4485qDmg

I'm planning to run a S&S game in the near future for my table. When I run games I tend to have some encounters and adventures I want to run, but, as I re-read my favorite S&S books, it feels very much like "Conan heads south to the Black Coast..."

So, what I am imagining is overlaying a hexmap over the setting map and creating adventures/encounters/interesting events on the hexes. I want the players to be aware that where they go makes a difference in the story.

Thoughts?

edit: What is hexcrawling?

The next game I am running at my table will be Sword and Sorcery. System is irrelevant, I have a lot of options.

Half my table are women and they love to do research on their characters. I am very lucky to have players that are deeply invested.

Here's a list of the top novel/movie/comics S&S badass women that I can think of. Help me out with who I am missing. (Please and Thank you)

• Red Sonja (mainly the comic book version because of the huge body of work)
• Belit
• Valeria
• Jirel of Jory
• Dark Agnes
• Tiger (of Tiger and Del)

In Chicago for Front 242's black out shows. Made time to visit Buckets of Blood records and books, found these beauties.

A while back, I saw a movie that had a warrior and a witch summoning a demon to help him win a kingdom. There was an altar with faces carved on it. As the demon was summoned, the faces came alive and started moaning and crying out. Has anyone here seen that movie? What was the name?

I'm asking because finding a physical one for either of these is a near impossible

Has anyone read Rogues of Merth? Just got them. They sound like a lot of fun!

I recently finished the excruciatingly prolonged adaptation of The Frost-Giant's Daughter in the recent Titan comic books. (And I mean excruciating. I really did not need a full issue of Conan hunting.) Naturally, I found the rape-attempt scene upsetting. When I first heard fans calling it that (many years ago), I hadn't thought of it that way, but going back and rereading the REH version doesn't really provide one with much means of denying the accusation.

I don't want to debate that whole topic necessarily. I just have to admit Conan was trying to rape Atali, as much as I hate it. I guess I could try to argue that he only did so because she was using her godlike powers to mess with his brain, but even that is debatable, and doesn't make it an easy scene to stomach.

Anyway, this got me thinking about a broader topic. Is that the worst thing Conan ever did? I know he sometimes killed people who he didn't necessarily have to or who didn't necessarily deserve it, which is kinda part of the charm even if it's not noble, but what am I forgetting?

I know him throwing the woman later named Jenna by Roy Thomas off a roof and into a cesspool in Rogues in the House gets pointed to frequently, but I have no problem with that. She just betrayed him and tried to profit on his death. I actually think she kinda got off easy.

I realize that part of what makes sword-and-sorcery a unique genre is that the protagonists aren't purely heroic, but I still am not a fan of certain lines being crossed by characters I am supposed to be rooting for, rape being a pretty obvious example.

So what were the worst things Conan ever did?

Another aspect of this that intrigues me is the notion I have that most of Conan's ignoble acts were concentrated in stories of his youth and become fewer and farther between the older he gets. But I don't have all the specifics necessary to justify that committed to memory, it's just a hunch, so I am curious what y'all think of that.

I know Tower of the Elephant is one of the earliest of his yarns chronologically, and I think he's quite altruistic in that. He could have just been like, "Hey, this alien is weird, I'm grabbing this jewel and getting the hell outta here." But he feels really bad for Yag-Kosha instead and goes far out of his way to help and avenge him. So I am satisfied that he had an altruistic streak even in youth, but I still wonder if I am correct that he got more altruistic with age.

What say YOU?

Figured since everyone was so nice with their comments on my last art piece here, I would post another one. Today is my first time messing around with acrylics. I hope you like it.

ResAliens Zine Issue #12 (Residential Aliens Magazine) https://a.co/d/aXW2atG

Moving in two weeks and packing up so I snapped a shit of these to share. Anyone else here still into the tapes?

I am only officially releasing this on 9th November elsewhere, but you guys can have it early.

Here is the first story for my new book Blade of the Wanderer. It should be a free download for all ereaders: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/i6bp7n8nqb

This is the first in a massive sword-and-sorcery series which I have been writing for over 9 long years now. Blade of the Wanderer will be released on 02.02.2025, and is available for preorder today. If you enjoyed the first stoy, maybe grab a copy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/justtheaxemaam/p/just-the-axe-maam-15?r=7yj3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Happy Halloween!