Yeah, I got books and I can agree that the material is reasonable, but, it just it annoyed me, then adding it to a Conan game, but true it can be used in other setting, even CoC.

Thing about AS&SH it blends good story styles, but as for Conan 2D20, it just ruins it for me to turn a Conan game into a CoC game with Conan in the shadows in the background and taking second place.

Still will give them a reread and steal stuff from it as I usually do.

Those sound pretty cool, but I don't quite understand why these are sourcebooks for a Conan game. Lovecraft's creations don't appear in the Conan stories at all.

I would applaud the idea more if I thought it was just the writers at Modiphius being creative, rather than having no clue about what is actually in the Conan stories...

Indeed, Howard and Lovecraft contributed quite a bit of material to each other's works, and Howard did use the Cthulhu Mythos in some of his stories (such as "Worms of the Earth" and "The Black Stone"). But no Cthulhu Mythos material appears in any of Howard's Conan stories (I don't read the garbage by back-stabbing "posthumous collaborators" like de Camp, so God knows what is in there). The Outer Gods, Old Ones, and all of these alien races are nowhere to be seen in Howard's Conan stories. All of the gods mentioned are either anthropomorphic (Mitra, Ymir, Bel) or animal gods (Set, Hanuman).

Quite frankly, I'm hard pressed to think of very many examples of cults in the stories at all. Usually Conan encounters a lone sorcerer, who may or may not have any religious component to his nefarious activities. I suppose, if you want to stretch a point, he does run up against Set-worshippers in Stygia in The Hour of the Dragon. But Set-worship is the state religion of Stygia, so that's hardly a hidden or secretive cult. Honestly, the whole thing sounds like it was probably inspired by the pastiches written by hacks like de Camp, or even by pitiful trash like the Schwarzenegger movies, rather than by Howard's actual stories.

Anyway, I don't object in principle to a game adding the Cthulhu Mythos and tons of cults to Conan's world (although I do think it's somewhat incongruous to the milieu as Howard conceived it), but doing so while claiming to be presenting an authentic Howard Conan experience is pretty rich, and makes me question the credentials of the alleged scholars doing so.

I'm not sure you need a lot of secret cults when the "mainstream" gods are so unorthodox!!