Thulsa Doom

I think in my opinion, I would rather have the like inside baseball where me and the player are in on it and the player might not know when that is going to come up.

But for example, if it's like You know, if the player gave me a part of their backstory where it was like, you know, the great evil wizard Thulsa Doom killed my parents, and then I have NPCs show up randomly who's like, ah, yes, that damned evil wizard Thulsa Doom, the player can go, oh shit, this is my chance.

I can jump in now.

And now because me and the GM have like discussed this, maybe not even at length, but we've discussed it briefly in the interim sessions or time between sessions, I can sort of riff with the GM, and maybe we can come up with something together that we didn't have established previously.

Like, I can't do anything with that.

That's like, OK, you know, I mean, like that doesn't need to be in the one page summary.

that might come up like that's what i'm talking about thulsa doom in the one page summary npc proper noun something i can do with it something i can use as a gm dog randomly dying not really something i can do that much with but during the campaign little girl is looking for her dog character you know player in in player in character says oh i remember this dog i loved a lot one time we definitely need to help this little girl because like i'm you know i'm still beat up about my dog got hit by the wagon And then they bring up all that information in character, in scene, and then everyone is now more likely to respond to it and also more likely to remember it because it happened in context.

And so it sticks around and has more impact than if they had just like said it.

To me, that is the best villain ever.

That and Tulsa Doom.

James Earl Jones' Tulsa Doom and Conan the Barbarian.

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

We don't understand it.

But the only thing we do hear, and this is like the big hint, Thulsa Doom.

We hear the name Thulsa Doom.

And do you know who that is, John?

Okay.

So I was like, there's gotta be some.

So, so let me drop some knowledge on you, John.

So that character was like a stand-in for Thulsa Doom that was created for the comics.

So we're now moving in closer and closer to the big finish line.

Thulsa doom is back.

Um, He has reappeared in the 1920s.

And this character, although there is a character called Sailor Steve Costigan, Robert E. Howard loved repeating names.

And so he has a character who's a soldier in World War I called Stephen Costigan, who shows up in this pulp story called Skull Face.

And in that

original story, they think that this... person named cathulos is this egyptian crime lord and they find out that he's actually an atlantean necromancer and that's in the original story so i've now made that atlantean necromancer explicitly thulsa doom reborn in the 1920s and i seeded that two and a half years ago when i showed uh in conan number 12 i showed the origin of thulsa doom and that his original name was cathulos and so that was like

dude never never go anywhere bye for the rest of your life yeah yeah yeah

And again, we see Steve, uh, going and taking care of bad guys and trying to get the gold back from, from this town of, of just evil people.

But sure enough, uh, who's waiting in the cave, but the spirit of Tulsa doom.

So we've, you know, jumped ahead hundreds of years.

And then we get another, uh, story of a young girl named Zuleika, or at least she's a young Asian girl who, when she concentrates and meditates, she travels back in time where she is this fierce warrior Zuleika.

So there you go with that.

Uh, the other thing I don't like is, I mean, I get it.

I get why people like Tulsa doom, but why does it always got to be Tulsa doom? Can it be some other, you know, cosmic horror or something or other trying to take over? Uh, so that's my, that's my big dislike of this.

I don't mind it because again, it's like, can you tell a star? Well, I mean, you can tell a star Wars tale without a Darth Darth Vader in it, but Darth Vader always shows up as the bad guy.

And this is a question about the movie.

Does the character Thulsa Doom come from either the original novels or the comic?

I mean, I want you to ask me this before so I can research it and act like I knew the answer.

No,

James Earl Jones.

He'd be Tulsa Doom.

James Earl Jones is too scary to be a hero, I think.

Right.