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Howard’s CONAN THE KING System Design Publishing Director Benn Graybeaton, Nathan Dowdell Chris Birch & Jay Little Operations Director Line Development Rita Birch Jason Durall Managing Director Assistant Line Development Cameron Dicks Matt Timm Head of RPG Development Writing Sam Webb Chris Lites, Richard August, Production & Logistics Management Benn Beaton & Jason Durall Peter Grochulski Approvals Video Producer & Production Management Mark Finn & Jeffrey Shanks Steve Daldry Editing & Proofreading Sales Management Jason Durall & Chris Harris Rhys Knight Cover Artwork Sales Executive Simon Bisley Cole Leadon Interior Artwork Marketing Executive & Public Relations Gio Baroni, Shen Fei, Chaim Garcia, Panayiotis Lines Joel Chaim Holtzman, Eli Maffei, André Meister, Paolo Puggioni, Seth Rutledge, Customer Service Management Rodrigo Toledo & Justin Usher Lloyd Gyan Cartography Office Management Tobias Tranell Shaun Hocking Art Direction With Thanks to Chris Lites & Katya Thomas The Robert E. Howard Foundation, Professor John Kirowan, H.P. Lovecraft, Graphic Design & Layout Fred & Jay at Cabinet Entertainment Thomas Shook, Michal E. Cross, & Jen McCleary Published by Additional Graphic Design & Layout Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. Dan Algstrand & Malcolm Wolter 2nd Floor, 39 Harwood Road, Fulham, London, SW6 4QP United Kingdom Legal © 2020 Conan Properties International LLC (“CPI”). Conan, Conan The Barbarian, Hyboria and related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of CPI. All rights reserved. Robert E. Howard and related logos, characters, names, and distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks or registered trademarks of Robert E. Howard Properties Inc. All rights reserved. The 2d20 System and Modiphius Logos are copyright Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. 2015–2020. All 2d20 System text is copyright Modiphius Entertainment Ltd. SampleAny unauthorised use of copyrighted material is illegal. 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Printed by Standartų Spaustuvė, UAB, 39, Dariaus ir Girėno,Str., LT-02189 Vilnius Lithuania TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 4 CONAN THE KING ..........2 MYTH & MAGIC ...........50 Prophecy......................................51 Chapter 1 Mitra .........................................51 Magic and Poetry ..............................52 CHARACTERS..............4 A Question of Lineage ..........................53 Noble Homelands ...............................4 Ancrou .......................................54 Noble Castes....................................4 The Seat of Power ..............................54 Noble Stories ...................................7 The Sorcerer’s Patron ...........................55 Noble Archetypes .............................. 8 The Heart of Ahriman ..........................55 New Talents ...................................11 Noble Natures .................................14 Chapter 5 Noble Educations ..............................15 Noble Court Stories.............................16 ENCOUNTERS ............56 Finishing Touches..............................18 Creatures of the Night ......................... 56 Gear & Equipment .............................19 Court and Country ............................ 59 Chapter 2 Chapter 6 GAZETTEER ..............22 HITHER CAME CONAN......74 Aquilonia .....................................22 Being Aquilonian ..............................22 Chapter 7 Aquilonia Before Conan........................ 24 Aquilonian Geography......................... 29 WEALTH & HOLDINGS .....77 Wealth .......................................77 Aquilonian Cities ..............................31 Holdings and Social Standing................... 78 Societies of Aquilonia . 36 Aquilonian Ruins ............................. 39 Chapter 8 Chapter 3 THE ROAD OF KINGS .......81 Internecine War ...............................87 EVENTS ................ 40 Making an Empire .............................87 Events of the Court ............................ 40 Scheming and Plotting ........................ 88 Events of Kingdoms ........................... 42 Feudalism ....................................91 Natural Events................................ 44 The Cosmopolitan City......................... 95 Unnatural Events . 47 Carousing at Court ............................ 95 The End of an Era ..............................47 Kingdom Management ........................ 97 War ........................................ 102 Chapter 9 HEROES OF THE AGE ......107 Illiam Mac Glennus, "The Red Sword" .......... 107 SampleSir Bared . file. 109 INTRODUCTION CONAN THE KING Their present king is the most renowned warrior among the western nations. He is an outlander, an adventurer who seized the crown by force during a time of civil strife, strangling King Numedides with his own hands, upon the very throne. His name is Conan, and no man can stand before him in battle. — Orastes, The Hour of the Dragon rom strident youth to king, that is the journey of our Cimmerian. The focus of the Hyborian Age has always CHAPTER 2: Fbeen one of he who treads upon its jeweled thrones, GAZETTEER Conan — barbarian, thief, mercenary, pirate, brigand, wan- Here is presented the flower of the dreaming west in all its derer, adventurer, scout, and finally king by his own hand. glory: Aquilonia and her many provinces, including the It is during this final period of his chronicled life that he most notable of them, Poitain. The mightiest kingdom of encountered perhaps the grandest scope of his ambitions the Hyborian nations is described at the time before, during, and achieved the most. Far from the concerns of a rustic and after Conan’s reign, marking the changes the barbarian barbarian from a land thought mythical, Conan’s attentions king left in his wake. What current politics dominate this encompassed a continent in its entirety, his opponents world, here at the peak of Conan’s career? Find out within. more than single warriors, monsters, or even armies but entire countries. CHAPTER 3: It is into this grand theater that Conan the King plunges the player characters, a world where they may adventure EVENTS in the castles and courts of the noble and the mighty, and It is not enough to have power; one must retain it. Whether fight battles to sway the fate of nations. suffering the acts of the gods, plagues, famines, or the man-made horrors of bloody war, no domain goes easy upon the brow that wears the crown. Yet events transpire CHAPTER 1: in the throne rooms of each country that the masses are KING CHARACTERS never privy to. The forces that shape empires might sur- From the lowliest beginnings can kings and queens be prise those of lower station, and those elements that move forged in the Hyborian Age. More common, one is born to kings and queens might surprise even themselves. There rule, the happenstance of a coin toss by gods one will never are forces in the world, and outside it, that are greater than understand. Here, then, are homelands, bloodlines, castes, the will of any mere ruler of people, and these are described caste talents, stories, archetypes, educations, war stories, within this chapter. and natures with which to create player characters from the ranks of noble, knight, or ruler. CHAPTER 4: MYTH & MAGIC SampleLegends haunt the mind and topography file of the Hyborian kingdoms. From the artifact known as the Heart of Ahriman to creatures most believe to be myth, this chapter offers a FROM THE JOURNALS OF JACK KIROWAN I imagine him, the former king, his hair not unlike the snow-capped peaks of the mountains to which he returns, one final time, before he sets off to the Western Ocean,INTRODUCTION to that place where all our maps once enigmatically promised “here be dragons”. Some few lines in The Nemedian Chronicles indicate3 that Conan found another entire continent for which we have no name. I imagine him on whatever boat he used to cross that unknown gap, reflecting upon his life. He thinks first of the wild hills of Cimmeria which he knows he has seen for the last time in this life. He remembers the raid on Venarium, when he was but 15 winters old and already a legendary slayer of men. Yet the raids of his clan were not enough and he smiles now, the cold wind of the sea on weathered, lined cheeks, as he thinks of his first forays into civilization. A city in far off Zamora wherein he met an alien of tragic story whose life he ended as requested. Perhaps, for a moment, the Cimmerian’s melancholy is visible on his face. But that gives way to laughter and the face twists into a grin remembering the man-ape he slew, his time as a mercenary and eventually captain of the guard for many a princess. He learned war and piracy, he took then to the sea, warmer than this one, with a love that lingers in his heart still. Her name escapes chapped lips as memory marches on. The seasoned warrior becomes a general, the general becomes a king. He leaves the kingdom a better place after another host of adventures, but something restless still skitters inside, and he finally leaves the throne, perhaps to his heir. He heads into the great unknown which presages the greater unknown of his passing. I imagine him here, on the East Coast of this land we call America but
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