Publisher(s) Mongoose Publishing Genre(s) Sword and sorcery | Publication date 2004 System(s) D20 System/OGL System | |
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Designer(s) 1st edition (2004): Ian Sturrock, Paul Tucker, Harvey Barker & Vincent Darlage
2nd edition (2007): Ian Sturrock, Paul Tucker, Harvey Barker, Vincent Darlage & Gareth Hanrahan | ||
Conan: The Roleplaying Game is a sword and sorcery British role-playing game first published in January 2004 by Mongoose Publishing, mainly designed by Ian Sturrock and set in the fictional Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s.
Contents
Development
The project of the game started in Mongoose Publishing when the British company acquired in 2003 a license for a Conan role-playing game. In December 2003 the first printing was ready and the publication and distribution of the game started in January 2004. This first printing of the core rulebook was published including an illustration map of the Thurian continent during the Hyborian Age, painted by Spanish artist Jesús Barony, but very soon in 2004, in August, a reprint of the first edition was released, subtitled as the Atlantean Edition, and Barony's map was replaced by another one, this time made by the well-known American cartographer Clayton Bunce. Bunce's map was included as an illustration among the pages of the Atlantean Edition rulebook and almost simultaneously released (in a folded poster format) with the Conan gamemaster's screen. A second edition of the game was published in 2007, with numerous supplements compatible with both editions and finally, in 2010, Mongoose dropped the license and stopped the line of all its Conan gaming products.
Translations
During the game publication's run the Atlantean Edition was translated into Spanish, in Spain, by the Spanish publishing house Edge Entertainment in 2005 and into French, in France, by the UbIK editor (based in Toulouse) in 2007. The following year, in September 2008, both editors, the French UbIK and the Spanish Edge Entertainment, folded in a single company, but the French partner moved its headquarters from France to Spain and adopted the Spanish name as Edge Entertainment France.
In addition to the Spanish and French translations, in 2006 the Atlantean Edition was also translated into Italian (as Conan il gioco di ruolo) by the publishing houses Stratelibri and Wyrd Edizioni.
Setting
The core rulebooks include an important volume of useful information and data dealing with the world of Conan, sourced on Howard's material and literature.
System
The main game mechanics is based on the so-called OGL System, a Mongoose adaptation of the D20 System for a series of role-playing games.
Core rulebooks and supplements
Core rulebooks
Supplements