New Post: The many faces of Durnan the Wanderer #dnd https://t.co/Ox3eaYkUAt pic.twitter.com/fAhwSq58od
— NewbieDM (@newbiedm) November 12, 2018
Nicely done, sir! My "original" Durnan, who adventured with Mirt, was a "thinking man's Conan" (i.e. a mighty-thewed, daring brawler, but no barbarian). When they struck it rich in Undermountain, he retired to buy and run the inn and marry his sweetheart…and Mirt didn't.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2018
I remember reading a while back (I think it was FR1?) a passage that described him as a “certain famous barbarian” and I figured he was supposed to be “Conan the Barbarian has retired as Duran the Bartender,” and played him that way. Future publications seemed to overlook that. He was never supposed to be Conan. He was supposed to be a smarter, more street-wise young adventurer with the thews and luck of Conan, but a good grounding in the ways of Waterdeep and "civilization." Practical, pragmatic. Which is why he retired the moment he'd made his bundle.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2018