Conan The Barbarian influenced DnD, D&D

Howard is named in Appendix N and the debt shows in what the game assumes a hero is:

• A wandering adventurer with no lord, no land and a reason to enter a ruin
• Treasure as the actual goal, which is where experience points came from before combat
• Sorcery as something dangerous and other, practised by the enemy rather than the party
• A pseudo-historical world of fallen empires, which is Hyboria's structure and Greyhawk's