Genre(s) Sword and sorcery | System(s) 2d20 System | |
Designer(s) Michal E. Cross, Timothy Brown, Jeffrey Shanks, Nathan Dowdell, Benn Graybeaton, Jason Durall, Mark Finn, Vincent Darlage, Kevin Ross, Chris Lites, Lou Agresta, Scott Oden, Jeb Boyt, Jesse Scoble, Sam Johnson, Mark Carroll, Anne Toole, Miri Weaver, Richard August, Steffie de Vaan, Sally Christensen Publisher(s) Modiphius Entertainment Publication date PDF: January 31, 2017Physical book: still pending | ||
Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, or simply Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, is a sword and sorcery British pen-and-paper role-playing game set in the world of Conan the Barbarian, the fictional Hyborian Age. Both the character and the setting were first imagined by American author Robert E. Howard (1906-1936) as of 1932 and until his suicide in 1936. Howard's original literary work has since spawned a vast franchise of novels, comic books, films, video games, board games, role-playing games, etc. Following this tradition, Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of is the third officially licensed Conan role-playing game. The two precedent games were Conan Role-Playing Game (1985-1988) and Conan: The Roleplaying Game (2004-2010), although there also had been supplements for independent generic systems, like GURPS Conan (1988-1989).
Contents
Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of was developed by a team of game designers, writers and artists, all led by Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment. The rights to publish this derivative work were licensed from Conan Properties International.
Development
In February 2015, British game company Modiphius announced that it would be releasing Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of for launch August of the same year. Actually, the core rulebook was not launched until a whole year later, via Kickstarter, on the 16th of February, 2016. The Kickstarter was fully funded within hours of launch and on March 2016 it's planned duration expired with a huge success (45,000 £ required / 436,755 £ reached). Despite that the Kickstarter ended successfully in Summer 2016, the core rulebook was still being the subject of printing tests in January 2017.
Publication
On the 31st of January 2017, Modiphius Entertainment released Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of in PDF form through DriveThruRPG. The printed edition is planned for public release on the official Modiphius website.
The first adventure supplement, Conan: Jeweled Thrones of the Earth, was also released in PDF form via DriveThruRPG on the same day as the core rulebook.
Core rulebook
The core rulebook for Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of is a 368-page full colour hardcover book containing everything needed to adventure in the world of Robert E. Howard’s hero, Conan. It is based entirely on the canonical Conan stories, and uses the 2d20 system developed by Modiphius and used in Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition, Corvus Belli's Infinity, and the forthcoming John Carter: Warlord of Mars and Star Trek Adventures role-playing games.
Jeffrey Shanks, award-winning Robert E. Howard scholar and essayist (Conan Meets the Academy and The Dark Man: The Journal of REH Studies) has been hard at work guiding the Modiphius team during initial development in 2015.