Conan: The Roleplaying Game

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 date	2004
Genre(s)	Sword and sorcery
System(s)	D20 System/OGL System

Conan: The Roleplaying Game is a sword and sorcery British role-playing game first published in January 2004 by Mongoose Publishing, mainly designed by Ian Sturrock and set in the fictional Hyborian Age of Conan the Barbarian, created by Robert E. Howard in the 1930s.

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, 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, 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.

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