Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of

Conan: Adventures in
an Age Undreamed Of

Conan: Adventures in
an Age Undreamed Of

(cover illustration by Gerald Brom)
Designer(s) Michal E. Cross, Timothy Brown, Jeffrey Shanks, 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 June 2016
Genre(s) Sword and sorcery
System(s) 2d20 System

Robert E. Howard's Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, or simply Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, is a 2016 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).

Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of is currently being published by a team of game designers, writers and artists, all led by Chris Birch of Modiphius Entertainment.[1] 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[2] for launch August of the same year.[3][4] Actually, the core rulebook was not launched until a whole year later, via Kickstarter, on the 16th of February, 2016.[5][6] 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[7]) leading the first core rulebooks to be on prints during the months of June and July 2016.

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 role-playing game.

Jeffrey Shanks, award-winning Robert E. Howard scholar and essayist (Conan Meets the Academy[8] and The Dark Man: The Journal of REH Studies[9]) has been hard at work guiding the Modiphius team during initial development in 2015.

List of upcoming supplements

See also

References

  1. "Modiphius Entertainment". Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. "Robert E. Howard's Conan - Adventures In An Age Undreamed Of". Modiphius. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  3. "New Conan RPG Coming from Modiphius", Table Top Gaming News, 9 February 2015
  4. "Brand new Conan tabletop roleplaying game!", Age of Conan website (News section), Editor: Funcom, 11 February 2015
  5. "All new Conan tabletop Roleplaying Game Kickstarter has just begun!", Age of Conan website (News section), Editor: Funcom, 16 February 2016
  6. "Robert E. Howard's Conan Roleplaying Game". Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  7. Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of, Kickstarter campaign
  8. Shanks, Jeffrey (2012). Conan Meets the Academy. ISBN 978-0786461523.
  9. Shanks, Jeffrey (2011). Theosophy and the Thurian Age: Robert E. Howard and the Works of William Scott-Elliot.

Further reading

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