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Hyborian War is a play-by-mail game published by Reality Simulations, Inc. It takes place during the Hyborian Age in the world of Conan the Barbarian created by Robert E. Howard . The game has been continuously available for worldwide play since its inception in 1985 and has changed little in its overall format.
Hyborian Age: Sword and sorcery: Earth during the Hyborian Age: Conan Role-Playing Game, GURPS Conan, Conan d20, Conan: The Roleplaying Game: TSR, Steve Jackson Games, Mongoose Publishing: 1985, 1988-1989, 2004-2007 Based on Robert E. Howard's Conan stories Incunabuli: Gothic fantasy: The Coast Incunabuli system playtest, Various systems ...
Conan the Mercenary, a sourcebook focusing on mercenary characters and adventures, including company-level mass combat rules and featuring the Hyborian fictional lands of Koth, Ophir and Shem; The Book of Skelos, a magic sourcebook providing additional spells, rituals, alchemy, herbalism, astrology, enchantments, artifacts, etc.
The core rulebook was written by Curtis M. Scott, with a cover by Kirk Reinert and illustrations by Butch Burcham, and was published by Steve Jackson Games as a 128-page book. [2] Three other solo adventures followed this setting supplement, all of them also in 1989: GURPS Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast , GURPS Conan: Moon of Blood and ...
Conan Unchained! is an adventure scenario that takes place while Conan is a Kozak raider and pirate operating on the Sea of Vilayet. [2] The module includes rules for using the Hyborian Age with AD&D rules and provides game statistics and descriptions of the characters Conan, Valeria, Juma, and Nestor from the Conan novels. [3]
The name "Hyborian" is a contraction of the Greek concept of the land of "Hyperborea", literally "Beyond the North Wind". This was a mythical place far to the north that was not cold and where things did not age. Howard's Hyborian epoch, described in his essay The Hyborian Age, is a mythical time before any civilization known to anthropologists ...
The Conan books are sword and sorcery fantasies featuring the character of Conan the Cimmerian originally created by Robert E. Howard.Written by numerous authors and issued by numerous publishers, they include both novels and short stories, the latter assembled in various combinations over the years by the several publishers.
The book was published in 2000 by Gollancz as eighth volume of their Fantasy Masterworks series. The book, edited by Stephen Jones , presents the stories in their internal chronological order. Most of the stories originally appeared in the magazines The Phantagraph , Weird Tales , Super-Science Fiction , Magazine of Horror and Fantasy Fiction .