Conan RPG

[Nightfall]

*just figures he'll get some people back* Some day you will all bow down to the Scarred Lands! *is kidding* Sort of.

 

[freebfrost]

Nightfall, if it makes you feel any better my main campaign is still currently set in Scarn - but we usually take the summer off and do shorter games and Conan is still the current favorite...

 

[Nightfall]

It does Frost. It does. I don't mind people move on to other CS or even other systems...I just want them to come back home!

 

[Emirikol]

Other than that, your post makes you sound like an overbearing WotC fanboy.

Is that an ad hominem attack? Work harder.

Now, back to Conan RPG...

jh

 

[Azgulor]

Is the Conan RPG by Mongoose any good? I've read some reviews, and it seems all over the map. Like it's good, but chalk full of errors, typos, etc. I've heard they've made many interesting rules changes. The Mongoose site has an "Atlantean" edition, which I think is a revised copy with the typos, mistakes etc. fixed....but I'm not sure..

Banshee

The Atlantean Edition is the corrected version of the rules. In my opinion, Conan is the OGL game to beat. It captures the tone of Howard's stories through the significant tweaks to the base d20 system. The supplements are also well researched if you want to play in Howard's Hyboria.

Conan OGL has become my baseline ruleset for fantasy RPGing. Remember in the early days of your gaming life, where you wanted a session to feel like a fantasy novel you read or a movie you saw? (I did anyway.) Conan captures that in a way that off the shelf D&D never can. Conan is about what characters can DO, not what equipment they carry or which magical gew-gaw a character uses.

I use Conan for my Kingdoms of Kalamar campaign. When I read the rules, the thing that struck me was this was the system I should have used for a Scarred Lands campaign.

Conan is superior to Thieves World as a standalone game. Although I wish GR had taken TW OGL, I understand the business reasons for wanting to appeal to the whole d20 market. I've taken certain classes from Thieves' World to round out the non-warrior classes in my Kalamar campaign (Savant, Survivor) and use the TW spellcasters (Priest, Mage, Witch) rather than Conan's Scholar and the True Sorcery magic system. If I were playing a Hyborian campaign, I'd use the Conan sorcery rules as written.

By combining Conan, TW, and True Sorcery, I've got my dream system for fantasy gaming. I can pretty much pull a fantasy novel off my bookshelf and work up a viable reproduction of just about any character using these rules.

Conan is a great game - for just about any d20 fantasy setting.

Azgulor