08-04-2021



Get the PDF's of the 112 page Conan Board Game Cross-Over Book PLUS the bonus 368 page Conan RPG Core book, PLUS all four sets of planned geomorphic tiles to expand your games; Perilous Ruins & Forgotten Cities, Forbidden Places & Pits of Horror, Dens of Iniquity & Dangerous Streets and Fields of Glory & Thrilling Encounters - Add the Cross-Over supplement in print for £15 and each tile set for £20 each. A look at the Conan Tabletop RPG by Modiphius. It's a beautiful book that gives much love to Howard's world, but it's also got a fair number of problems.

In the mid-1980s, TSR published a number of games that made use of a color-coded chart to resolve character actions. The best known of these is of course Marvel Superheroes, but the chart also turned up in the third edition of Gamma World among others. One of those others was Conan, a game that many consider an underappreciated gem: compact, fast-moving, easy and fun. In the spirit of the d20 SRD, these pages were created to make the Conan rules, stripped of their franchise-related elements, available for play once again.

Oddly enough, now that Conan Properties, Inc. has declined to renew Mongoose Publishing's exclusive license to publish Conan-related materials it has been suggested in all seriousness that ZeFRS would make a good stopgap gaming solution until a new holder emerges. I consider this a tribute to all the effort the members of the ZeFRS collective have put in as well as to the rules as they appeared originally.

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The rules were written by Dave 'Zeb' Cook, so they are collectively referred to in this document as Zeb's Fantasy Roleplaying System, or ZeFRS.

Got questions, comments, complaints, or a bright idea? Head over to the ZeFRS Discussion Boards or contact me directly.

Some pages have a few transcriber's notes on them, which appear as grey boxes at the bottom of the page. Those won't appear on paper if you choose to print the page.

Table of Contents

The Original Rules

New Material

  • Make your own space barbarian adventures with a slightly reskinned version of the excellent Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerers of Hyperboriarandom adventure generator:
    • Saga Of The Space Barbarians - Battle space necromancers, monsters, cultists, gangsters & mercenaries. On the upside, you keep what you kill. Includes some setting notes, a few new talents and weaknesses, gear and creatures as well as the aforementioned reskin of the adventure generator.
    • Space barbarian quick reference sheet - A two-page summary of the talents and weaknesses available to characters in the space barbarian setting, for ease of reference during chargen.
  • It's here at last: Legends of Steel: ZeFRS Edition has arrived! Trample the kingdoms of Erisa, Evil DM Productions' smash hit campaign setting, using the ZeFRS rules. Includes creatures and characters not found in any other Legends of Steel publication.
  • Ou, si vous préférez, piétinez les royaumes de l'âge hyborien en français. Philippe Tromeur vous propose Aventures Cimmériennes. (For the anglophones in the house, that's a French version of the main rules, REH's 'Hyborian Age' and 'Tower of the Elephant', plus a brand new adventure. Now with extra Lovecraftian material. Le tout sans couvercle moche.)
  • ZeFRS Rule Book - complete rules, chart and character folio in one PDF file, courtesy of The Grey Elf
  • The original rules and the Companion in one PDF.
  • You can buy a hard copy of the combined ZeFRS rules from Lulu at cost.
  • Don't like point-buy systems? Here's a random ZeFRS character generation system by Chris Kutalik.
  • The Resolution Chart (also available in a PDF version)
  • Character Folio (special thanks to Max from RPG.net)
  • GM Screen by Adam Leisemann
  • Hyborian Character Creation by Tim Mercado, a quick way to generate characters with nation-specific Hyborian flavor. Inspired in part by Chris Kutalik's random ZeFRS character generator

For Do-It-Yourselfers

Want to change the layout, trim out sections you don't want to use, or use the ZeFRS ruleset as a basis for your own homebrew? Feel free. Here are RTF (Rich Text File) or Word versions of:

  • the ZeFRS Core Rules and

Props

Special thanks go to everyone on RPG.net who showed and is showing such enthusiasm for this effort, especially:

  • Drake2000, for getting the ball rolling with his tale of how much he and his wife enjoyed an ad lib game using the original boxed set
  • E.T. Smith, for generously sending copies of two of the three published adventures for this system, and for reliably spotting when my mind has been wandering
  • The Grey Elf, for advice on how not to end up doing time for copyright infringement, plus a masterful conversion of these web pages to a handy PDF document
  • The Evil DM, for encouragement and for setting up the ZeFRS discussion boards.
  • Max, for preparing the character folio
  • Münch, artikid, Marius, and a select group of long-dead artists for illustrations
  • hive_mind, Harmast, Insect King, blu_sponge, DMAndrew, MountZionRyan, Äkräs, hatheg-kla, Harmast, Vagabond and others for their interest and eagerness to chip in and expand the system to the whole canon of Sword-and-Sorcery literature
  • Spinachcat, whose hat of charts know no limit, for spurring the search for an alternate success formula

A special, agog fanboy thanks goes out to the man himself, Dave Cook, who gave this project his blessing.

Conan: The Roleplaying Game
Conan: The Roleplaying Game
First Edition cover (2004)
Illustration by Chris Quilliams (2003)
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
Publisher(s)Mongoose Publishing
Publication date2004
Genre(s)Sword and sorcery
System(s)D20 System/OGL System

Conan: The Roleplaying Game is a sword and sorceryBritishrole-playing game based on the D20 System first published in January 2004 by Mongoose Publishing,[1] mainly designed by Ian Sturrock and set in the fictional Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s.

Development[edit]

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,[2] 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,[3] 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[edit]

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During the game publication's run the Atlantean Edition was translated into Spanish, in Spain, by the Spanish publishing house Edge Entertainment in 2005[4] and into French, in France, by the UbIK editor (based in Toulouse) in 2007.[5] 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.[6]

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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[edit]

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[edit]

The game's game mechanics is Mongoose's adaptation of the D20 System as licensed by the OGL System.

Character Creation[edit]

The Conan game does not feature non-human races at all. Instead, players choose a race from one of the ethnicities depicted in the fictional world.[7]


Books[edit]

Core rulebooks

  • Conan: The Roleplaying Game (1st Edition, hardcover, 352 p., January 2004)
  • Conan: The Roleplaying Game (Atlantean Edition, hardcover, 352 p., August 2004: second printing of the 1st Edition)
  • Conan: The Roleplaying Game (Pocket Edition, softcover, January 2005)
  • Conan: The Roleplaying Game (2nd Edition, hardcover, 424 p., September 2007)

Supplements

  • Across the Thunder River
  • Adventures in the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
  • Aquilonia - Flower of the West
  • Argos and Zingara
  • Bestiary of the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
  • Betrayer of Asgard (2nd Edition)
  • The Black Stones of Kovag-Re
  • Catacombs of Hyboria (2nd Edition)
  • Cimmeria (2nd Edition)
  • Cities of Hyboria (2nd Edition)
  • The Coming of Hanuman
  • The Compendium
  • Faith and Fervour
  • The Free Companies
  • Game Master's Screen
  • The Heretics of Tarantia
  • Hyboria's Fallen - Pirates, Thieves and Temptresses
  • Hyboria's Fiercest - Barbarians, Borderers and Nomads
  • Hyboria's Finest - Nobles, Scholars and Soldiers
  • Khitai (2nd Edition)
  • The Lurking Terror of Nahab
  • Messantia - City of Riches
  • The Pirate Isles
  • Player's Guide to the Hyborian Age (2nd Edition)
  • Reavers of the Vilayet
  • Return to the Road of Kings (The Road of Kings 2nd Edition)
  • The Road of Kings
  • Ruins of Hyboria
  • The Scrolls of Skelos
  • The Secrets of Skelos (The Scrolls of Skelos 2nd Edition)
  • Shadizar - City of Wickedness
  • Shem - Gateway to the South
  • Stygia - Serpent of the South
  • Tales of the Black Kingdoms
  • Tito's Trading Post
  • The Tower of the Elephant
  • Trial of Blood (2nd Edition)
  • The Warrior's Companion (2nd Edition)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  1. ^Ian Sturrock, Paul Tucker, Harvey Barker and Vincent Darlage, Conan: The Roleplaying Game, Mongoose Publishing, Swindon (England), 1st Edition: January 2004, cover art by Chris Quilliams, map by Jesús Barony, inner illustrations by Andrew J. Hepworth, Warren Mahy, Danilo Moretti, Chris Quilliams, Jason Rosenstock, Chad Sergesketter, Ronald Smith, Vebjorn Strommen and Alejandro Villén Real, hardcover, 352 p., ISBN1-904577-69-5
  2. ^Conan: The Roleplaying Game - Atlantean Edition, as mentioned in Waynes Books, a specialized websiteArchived 2014-08-26 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^Ian Sturrock, Paul Tucker, Harvey Barker, Vincent Darlage and Gareth Hanrahan, Conan: The Roleplaying Game - Second Edition, Mongoose Publishing, Swindon (England), 2nd Edition: September 2007, cover art by Chris Quilliams, map by Clayton Bunce, inner illustrations by Andrew J. Hepworth, Warren Mahy, Danilo Moretti, Chris Quilliams, Jason Rosenstock, Chad Sergesketter, Ronald Smith, Vebjorn Strommen and Alejandro Villén Real, hardcover, 1.4 x 8.3 x 10.8 inches, 424 p., ISBN978-1905850068
  4. ^STURROCK Ian, Conan, el juego de rol; edición atlántea, Edge Entertainment, Seville, February 2005, translated from English into Spanish by Antonio Rico, 352 p., 27x21 cm, hardcover, ISBN84-95830-47-7
  5. ^Ian Sturrock, Paul Tucker, Harvey Barker and Vincent Darlage, Conan, le jeu de rôle ; édition atlante, UbIK, Toulouse (France), May 2007, translated from English into French by Guilhem Arbaret, Sandy Julien, Dominique Lacrouts, Geoffrey Picard and Jérôme Vessiere, hardcover, 352 p., ISBN978-84-95830-47-0
  6. ^Archived: on October 1, 2008, Edge Entertainment Spain announces its fusion with the French UbIK publishing house
  7. ^Review posted by Jeremy Reaban on RPG.net March 5, 2004. https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10146.phtml

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External links[edit]

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  • Conan: The Roleplaying Game at Mongoose Publishing via Internet Archive
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