Could have been Mongoose was pulling from TSR’s Conan as well, I’d never gotten my hands on TSR’s stuff.
It’s fun. It’s 3X turned up louder, everybody’s a hard-ass Howard protagonist, and they make no apologies about it. Heck, there’s rules for how long you can hold a blade in your mouth while climbing.
Pretty sure there’s a rule for anything Frazetta ever painted. It’s like the Heavy Metal-cover version of 3X.
Barbarian, soldier, nomad (horseman), pirate, scholar, thief, borderer (ranger), noble, and temptress in 2nd edition are the classes I recall. They split the various nations into races, 3X-style.
There’s some light reputation and social rules, as well as ‘code of honor’.
They mixed combat up a bit; everyone has a “base defense”, then a Dodge and Parry defense they can pick from as a free action, Dodge is DEX based, obviously, then Parry is more STR/weapon based. Armor becomes damage reduction.
Shields either add to your Parry defense, or to your Dodge defense vs ranged attacks.
Sorcerers use Power Points to cast (and this would be so easy to turn into your divine/mana point thing you’ve posted elsewhere it’s silly). You can regenerate them over time, you can get a pile of extra through sacrifice of anything from holy animals to extra-prepared virgins (this demon is into left-handed redheads).
They get morale bonuses to further actions when enemies are slain by their magic, they can be ruled as obsessed (losing power points until they resolve it, at which point they get a rush of bonus points).
Spells are done as feats, essentially, scholars get bonus ones. They’re all extremely flavorful, very pulpy. There’s expanded alchemy as well.
Healing is limited but more than usual; natural healing is 3 + Con mod + level per day or regular rest, double that with bedrest. A mouthful of strong liquor will bring you from zero to 1 HP.
There’s some original stuff in the bestiary.
Pretty sure I’m rambling at this point. There’s only two versions of DND I gush about to people and yours is the other one.
If you want to see it, the two PDFs I’d recommend are MGP7800, the base 2nd edition book, and MGP7805, Secrets of Skelos, the 2nd edition sorcery expansion.