http://www.modiphius.com/conan.html

using something called the 2d20 system that appears in Mutant Chronicles.  anyone know that one?

No, but you can find a brief synopsis over on a thread at TBP. I find it all very dreary — another small press with its own house system I'm supposed to learn. Why can't someone figure out how to do what everyone obviously wants: a Conan game for Runequest or some other major, well supported system that is well suited to the genre. We seem to find a way to fuck up nearly every licensed setting.

Oh Crom's Hairy Nutsack, you gotta be kidding me.  A "cinematic" system written by Jay Little?  That went so well for WFRP3, didn't it?

They wanted to charge Mongoose an exorbitant sum to re-up the Conan License because the movie was coming out...well we all know how that went, it stunk to high heaven, and I'm guessing the price went down a little (no pun intended).

Mein Gott in Himmel I hope he doesn't cock it up too much.  Of course I already have my Conan RPG - RuneQuest 6.

I am not a fan of Jay Little but the 2d20 system seems a lot less convoluted than WFRP3e from what little I know.  Modiphius has also been doing good things with the likes of Acthung Cthulhu and Mutant Year Zero, and its likely not to be small RPG publisher anymore relatively speaking.

On saying that, like most Conan fans, I already have my favourite Conan RPG being Atlantis the Second Age. So, unless its designed and packaged well I will likely only look at scenarios.

You can download the Mutant Chronicles quickstart (3e) for free on DTRPG.

I like what I've read so far. It's a nifty system.

Basically, you have 8 abilities. You roll 2d20, with a general skill using the ability as the target number(TN). You want to roll low. If you have a expertise in a skill (ranks), you add your ranks to the ability to determine TN. You also have "focus" in a skill. If you're d20 roll is at or below your focus, you get an additional success.  So say you're Ability is 10, you have 3 expertise and a Focus of 2. You roll 2d20 and you get a 2 and a 12. Since both are below TN of 13 you get 2 successes + one more because the first one was at the Focus number. Difficulty is set based on the number of successes you need to achieve. This roll would hit a D3. If you roll a "critical" (usuallya 20), bad things can happen. If you get a success and a 20, you get a complication. If you get no success and a 20, you fail with a complication and 2 crits and the GM gets Dark Symetry points to use later or hose you. :-)

Check out the QS. I think the game has potential.

The basic resolution system seems not bad, you described it well.  However, then we get all Forgey-Worgey Timey-Wimey with "complications" and "GM has system-granted permission to amp up the story with Dark Symmetry points".  Makes my friggin' teeth itch.

The Complications and Dark Symmetry could easily be used for Sorcerous Corruption, instead of STORY!!!, so we'll see.

There are some serious Howardians involved and Jason Durall can hopefully undo any damage Little might do.

Plus Sanjulian, so it will look good at least.

Meh...i have the same reaction as Lars. Why can't someone with a real system (TM) do Conan?! It's a shame.

2d20 is nothing new and also not in a good way. It's just flat and boring.

Oh and it will be a KS? Great...more "good" news :rolleyes:
Modiphius is known for its overpriced KS.

So: lame system and overpriced rip-off? No thanks.

It's such BS that there is even a Conan "license". The dude died childless in 1937. By any moral right, how does a company in Sweden own the rights to his work?

Sure, I can understand the pastiches and the comic and movies. But the original text? Bah, humbug.

Didn't TSR have it?  Conan and Red Sonja under the late 1e or early 2e rules?

A huge amount of Howard's work is in the public domain as it was published in the era where you had to keep reapplying for copyright and no one did.  Most of the Conan stuff is on Project Gutenberg.

It's not a question of whether you can legally publish Conan stuff in the US, you can.  The question is do you have pockets deep enough to fight the legal battle.

I must give WFRP 3e credit for trying something new. Personally, FFG should do a WFRP boardgame where its more boardgame and less RPG and make connected campaign scenarios that can be played in 1-2 hours.

I will still argue that Warhammer Quest was the second best Warhammer RPG experience after the glorious WFRP 1e. Even though WHQ was a dungeon crawl board game, we always got deep into the atmosphere of the setting.

Quote from: Skywalker;814936On saying that, like most Conan fans, I already have my favourite Conan RPG being Atlantis the Second Age.

Please start a thread about Atlantis:the Second Age. I'm interested in why you feel its great for Conan.

Quote from: JeremyR;814954It's such BS that there is even a Conan "license".

US copyright law is fucked and all the lobbyist cash is on the "make it even worse" side of the argument.

Here's a list of REH stuff in the Public Domain.
http://www.robert-e-howard.org/anotherthought4rerevised.html

Quote from: Spinachcat;814977Please start a thread about Atlantis:the Second Age. I'm interested in why you feel its great for Conan.

I have an extensive thread here: http://www.therpgsite.com/showthread.php?t=28094. I have also done 3 reviews here on TheRPGSite.

Atlantis is a great S&S RPG IMO. It may not be the best at replicating Conan exactly, but it can emulate Conan as well as pretty much any other S&S series with ease. The setting is well written, cultured and reminiscent of Howard's Hyboria without replicating it exactly, and the whole RPG has a wonderfully consistent tone.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;814956Didn't TSR have it?  Conan and Red Sonja under the late 1e or early 2e rules?

No.

They did Conan as its own RPG, by David Cook. And a darn good one too. It uses a percentile system. Think three modules came out for it. It was totally ripped with the defense of "OGL Allows me to!" to file off all the IP.

TSR also did three or so AD&D modules based more on the movie from what I have seen of them. At least two for Conan, with Arnie on the cover, and at least one for Red Sonja.

Jay Little seems like a genuinely swell guy, but after Warhammer3 and what I've seen of 2d20 Mutant Chronicles, I can't help but think of him as the World Eater.

Quote from: CRKrueger;814929Oh Crom's Hairy Nutsack, you gotta be kidding me.  A "cinematic" system written by Jay Little?  That went so well for WFRP3, didn't it?

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Of course I already have my Conan RPG - RuneQuest 6.

My thoughts exactly, on both counts.

RQ6 core rulebook + d20 Conan setting material (esp. Return to the Road of Kings, the ultimate Hyborian Age Gazetteer) = all the Conan RPG I'll ever need.