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Wisdom in 5e governs Insight, Perception, Survival, Animal Handling, and Medicine Checks. Often Wisdom, Charisma, and Intelligence take a hit, leaving the character with the noncombat abilities of an ignorant, witless social boar. Where most builds fall short of a true Conan are the dump stats. In fact, these three traits are the most commonly emphasized by Howard, especially in combat. In the strictest sense, Conan's primary stats are obviously Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. You can find a variety of "Conan" builds online that use traditional Ability Score setups to create the character, but none actually capture the depth of the character as Howard wrote him. If I put Conan into a group, how would he compare and still have the flavor of Howard's creation? If I were to take this build and put him in a party of level 20s and run an appropriate adventure, Conan would still have to be Conan. What I kept coming back to is contrasting Conan with character classes built by traditional 5e rules in a traditional 5e party and setting.

Rolling for them or spending points to set them at level one tend to leave Conan with stats below what he would have in a typical Howard Story. One of the problems I ran into was using the standard techniques of determining ability scores to recreate the literary Conan. King Conan would be a Barbarian 12 / Rogue 5 / Fighter 3 at maximum level 20.īefore I start breaking down Conan's 5e classes, archetypes, and feats I have to start by setting his Ability Scores. Starting the player at level 20 and with full abilities in the first module, Phoenix on the Sword, will give me a great template that I can use to roll back levels for various stages of Conan's development.Īfter pouring through the Player's Handbook, I came up with a combination of classes that I think best covers a fully developed Conan in 5e. The easiest approach I can take is the same as Howard, starting with Conan as King of Aquilonia and at the end of his adventuring days.

My goal is not to be bound by 5e rules but to use 5e to recreate the characters and stories as much as possible.

One of the first problems is balancing Conan against other NPCs and Enemies, which ultimately will require to bend some of the Character creation rules so that the stats and abilities for the Conan Character match up with what he is capable of doing in the stories. One of the biggest tasks of creating 5e modules for Howard's Conan stories is to make sure the Player gets to play as Conan along various parts of his development.