Conan Role-Playing Game

The Conan Role-Playing Game was published by TSR, Inc. in 1985.

Not to be confused with Conan: The Roleplaying Game.
Conan Role-Playing Game
Conan Role-Playing Game
Boxed set cover
Designer(s)Zeb Cook
Publisher(s)TSR, Inc.
Publication date1985
Genre(s)Sword and sorcery
System(s)ZeFRS

Contents

This boxed game was designed for players age 10 and up contained a full-color map, a 32-page rule book, a 16-page reference guide of talents, weaknesses, and charts, and a 48-page notebook about the land of Hyboria plus two 10 sided dice.

Game mechanics

The game's main rules are adapted from the Marvel Super Heroes rules, a role-playing game first published by TSR in 1984 and mainly designed by Jeff Grubb, although Zeb Cook brought some help, as stated by Grubb himself.[1] The system refers D100 dice rolls to a resolution table. Mark Krawec, a member of the RPGnet community, recovered the system from the past in 2007, named it ZeFRS (Zeb's Fantasy Roleplaying System[2]) and published a free PDF document where the game mechanics had been completely expurgated from any licensed Conan material.[3][4] Two years later, in 2009, a ZeFRS paperback book was printed and distributed.[5]

Supplements

The series produced three adventures, each based on novels from the Conan series.

  • Conan the Buccaneer
  • Conan the Mercenary
  • Conan Triumphant

Reception

Steve Hampshire reviewed Conan the Barbarian for Imagine magazine, and stated that " The mood of this module is different from the normal run of AD&D material, and the players and referee really need to get into the swing of the thing. It helps if one is familiar with the Conan books or films. This scenario is good for introducing the characters, but stronger plotlines will be needed if there is to be a series."[6]

Reviews
gollark: Interesting.
gollark: What units?
gollark: As planned.
gollark: Ugh, bee you somewhat.
gollark: As much as I hate to ever agree with lyricly ever, what if GPT-² Syl?

See also

References
  1. "Secret Origins", by Jeff Grubb
  2. Original 2007 ZeFRS PDF document as mentioned in the RPGnet website
  3. Conan: TSR's Lost Game, a review on Conan Role-Playing Game in Hill Cantons, by Chris Kutalik
  4. The ZeFRS system online
  5. ZeFRS' physical edition, as mentioned in RPGnet
  6. Hampshire, Steve (March 1985). "Notices". Imagine (review). TSR Hobbies (UK), Ltd. (24): 42–43.
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