Well this is interesting. Why the heck didn’t you promote this here?
WTH? This will help the game somewhat and could trigger new content in the game if this takes off.
Nicely done for diversifying the brand.
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Holy F
looks like they are going all White Wolf with it. I hope it catches.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806316071/conan-the-hyborian-age-the-roleplaying-game
In all seriousness, this has turned me back from being a curmudgeon on the ‘age of fixes’. You are playing the long game here for the brand and hopefully you start merging it all. TT RPG is a great way to determine demand on designs and significantly cheaper than game development.
I see a much bigger strategy but do you have a Conan brand manager that is ensuring continuity between all of the aspects you are now introducing. You got the new comic, the video game, the TT RPG, and the board game that you could interplay together.
Was announced on X at 3pm est yesterday.
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This one saw a note of it on their Failbook page earlier.
The game looks good. This one has seen some early samples of it, and liked most of what they saw. will likey pick it up.
The Conan IP is far from dead.
Between the Mortal Kombat character and this TTRPG, it obviously still has some bite.
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Yeah I was able to check it out on the live. Thank you @Funcom
Good things ahead.
I’ve actually known about this for some time now. 
I did not know about Funcom being involved though.
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Yeah Andy was on but as a toon for the others to discuss. I’m curious if @AndyB is working towards brand manager type of thing vs just CE.
Could explain why he has been rather silent if he is working on many different projects at once. Not that he has been overly present in the past mind you.
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Uhm. Looks okay based on the quick start rules. But there are several Conan RPGs out there already. Do we need another one?
Are any of them currently active / receiving expansions? This is not meant argumentatively, I am genuinely asking.
Probably not, but I’d say they’re pretty much complete - enough material to play for years, if not decades.
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Very cool, I need to look into them then!
Barbarians of Lemuria and probably many more also capture the low-fantasy, grim genre. The new Conan RPG looks similar in concept to BoL - different rules, but apparently similarly simple when contrasted to more complex systems like D&D or 2d20.
While we’re on it: Who is into table top RPGs here?
30 years for me, anything from D&D to pure narrative, from fantasy to science fiction.
Right here. My group plays multiple, from trains to fantasy. If it doesnt depend on di, but strategy is our main style.
Used to be heavy into WoD, shadowrun, fading suns, and various others but WoD was my go-to game set. Not much anymore. My family and moved and my gaming core friends are back iny home town. Never got into it with another group.
I only have experience with D&D 5e myself, and even then not for that long (especially when compared to your 30 years 
).
It’s a pity it’s Monolith. Based on past experience, they’re very faithful to Howard’s lore, but their rules-writing varies between mediocre and abysmal. During the “beta” period of one of their Kickstarter projects several linguists, myself included, drafted a huge list of poorly worded rules and descriptions, as well as suggestions to improve them - and none of those were corrected in the final version.
I like the Conan board game, even though the scenarios are poorly balanced, some rules are written very unclearly, and the campaign mode “bluescreens” halfway through with no way forward (I think they corrected this in an online errata document).
I wanted to like their Batman board game, but the rules text is a mess of French using English words, the character sheets are a mess of very similar-looking symbols which are explained only in the rulebook (in alphabetical order, which is useless because those symbols have no indication of where in the alphabet the ability is), and the game boards look like pieces of art, and anyone with less than perfect eyesight will have difficulties figuring out where the regional borders are, where it’s possible to mode from one region to another, and which regions count as elevated.
I might be interested in the RPG just for a compilation of world lore (because they’re likelier to stick with purely Howardian sources, unlike most Wikis and fandoms), but I’ll wait until I see the quality of their English before giving them any more money.
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