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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 War is a play-by-mail strategy game published by Reality Simulations as of 1985. The game gives players strategic control of a Hyborian nation. [3] There is also an Age of Conan Strategy Board Game published by Nexus Editrice. [4]
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 ...
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.
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 company stated in 1993 that there were over 3,000 people playing RSI PBM games, which included, at the time, Duelmasters, Hyborian War, and The Next Empire. [3] In the Nov/Dec 1996 issue of Paper Mayhem magazine, RSI tied for third place in its list of the Best PBM companies of 1996. [4]
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 ...
The following year, Zeb Cook adapted the rules from Marvel Super Heroes for a new role-playing game, Conan. This boxed set , with cover art by Jeffrey Butler and interior art by Jeff Easley , [ 4 ] was designed for players age 10 and up and contained a full-color map, a 32-page rule book, a 16-page reference guide of talents, weaknesses, and ...