GURPS Conan returns

[Tyneras]

My joy is incalculable! This is one of those things I assumed was forever doomed to the abyss by licensing.

[AOTA]

Cool I have them in paper but wouldn't mind them as PDF's. Hope they might do a 4th edition version.

[b-dog]

The fact that so many people are happy about GURPS Conan being released makes me feel happy as well. I already own this product but I feel that it shows there is a real interest in a high powered fantasy world. I think that DF does its job for killing monsters and taking their stuff type of game world but there are many gamers who use DF as a tool-kit to create players, monsters and adventures that are part of a larger fantasy gameworld. The amount of excited posts gives me hope that GURPS may try to develope some high powered fantasy setting that would be compatable with the DF series.

[mhd]

Cool. I have the core Conan book, but nothing else. Are the adventures any good?

I have to admit that the Mongoose Conan version has some very interesting books with a pretty high standard (IIRC almost everything was done by the same author). The two "Road of Kings" books present a good gazetteer version of the Hyborian realms, with almost no useless D20 crunch in the way.

[Rasputin]

Originally Posted by copeab

My guess is that the book was scanned.

I guessed that, but I can't look, being on 3G at the moment.

But I no longer feel so bad that I loaned out my copy years ago and never saw it again. I should have learnt after The Prisoner.

[Ronnke]

Purchased, printed, bound and beautiful. I think I just had a geekgasm. :P

[Lord Carnifex]

Originally Posted by ULFGARD

I'd love to see something like Will To Live for Conan, possibly with some original content. Though possibly a brief conversion guide could be the basis for a Pyramid article?

Amen, brother! Preach it! I nominate Strength to Slay instead of Will to Live as the title.

Now that I think of it, there probably isn't a huge amount to update*, crunchwise: maybe an adaptation of the ritual magic rules, updated mass combat, and new character sheets. All of the atlas and timeline stuff should translate as is. It's not like there's a lot of racial or character templates or world-specific tech floating around.

Still, for the license to go from "it'll never happen" to "it's happening, albeit in a limited way" is terribly exciting.

*In the core book. The solo adventures might need a more extensive re-write.

[B9anders]

As someone who has only recently begun delving into Conan, this is something I wholly approve of.

[Michael Hopcroft]

Is this a limited-time offer (in that the Conan material will only be available for the five weeks) or a permanent addition to the e23 catalog (or at least until the people who own Conan find yet another RPG publisher to work with)?

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Michael Hopcroft

Is this a limited-time offer (in that the Conan material will only be available for the five weeks) or a permanent addition to the e23 catalog (or at least until the people who own Conan find yet another RPG publisher to work with)?

Such questions are answered here.