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Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of core book

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WELCOME TO THE HYBORIAN AGE!

KNOW, O PRINCE, THAT BETWEEN THE YEARS WHEN THE OCEANS DRANK ATLANTIS AND THE GLEAMING CITIES, AND THE YEARS OF THE RISE OF THE SONS OF ARYAS, THERE WAS AN AGE UNDREAMED OF, WHEN SHINING KINGDOMS LAY SPREAD ACROSS THE WORLD LIKE BLUE MANTLES BENEATH THE STARS...

Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of takes you into the world of Conan the Barbarian, where heroes raise blood-spattered swords against dire sorcery, exotic lands beckon to the daring, danger and treasure lurks in forgotten ruins, and where loathsome creatures haunt the spaces beneath the earth… as well as in the throne-rooms of mighty kingdoms!

Seek your fortune in forbidden tombs or upon blood-soaked battlefields. Cast dark and terrible spells of unimaginable power, at the price of your soul. Sail upon untamed seas to lands where no human in living memory has walked. Fight for the fate of civilization — or barbarism — on a savage frontier!

  • Create your own legend in this decadent and violent world.
  • Complete 2d20 game system, including combat, skills, talents, sorcery, and equipment suitable for adventuring in the age before history.
  • An extensive gazetteer covering the whole of Conan’s world: featuring fair Aquilonia, gloomy Cimmeria, magic-haunted Stygia, all the way to the far-off steaming jungles of Khitai.
  • Extensive guidelines for running scenarios and campaigns in the Hyborian Age, allowing gamemasters to create suitably Howardian adventures.
  • Fearsome foes, ranging from bandits to sorcerers, apes to giant serpents, Children of Set to frost giants, forest devils, and characters of renown such as Conan or his most deadly foe, Thoth-Amon.
  • Art a team of iconic Conan artists, including Tim Truman, Simon Bisley, Esteban Sanjulian, Maroto, Mark Schultz, Tomás Giorello, and more.
  • Developed in close consultation with award-winning Conan scholars, this is the most authentic depiction of Conan and his world ever published for games. 

" I do love this game.  It has an ability to make a cohesive group of players out of any group (herd of cats) in my opinion.  The feel of this game is brilliant.  The system is smooth, the book is beautiful and the subject is compelling.  I like this game so much that I am even considering purchasing the Conan Official d20’s and d6’s.  I use poker chips of different colours for tokens but I want everything in hard-copy and official. In my opinion this is probably the best fantasy(ish) RPG on the market today." RPG Knights Review

"If you really want the freedom to explore Howard's world on your own, you should pick up Modiphius' Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed. It is a true labor of love, filled with quotes from Conan stories and explanations of how the mechanics are meant to embody the spirit of the Howard’s world." Polygon Review 


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Timothy J June 05, 2022 1:26 am UTC
27 dollars marked from 24.99?
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Micah R April 19, 2020 5:11 pm UTC
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Of the entire line, this is the only title that will not open on a kindle. It can only open using pro-suite which looks and acts like garbage for an rpg book. I have reached out to Drivethru multiple times and have never gotten the courtesy of a response. Has anyone else come across the same issue? I want to enjoy this game but simply cannot in its current format. Any help is appreciated.
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Christopher H October 18, 2017 8:54 pm UTC
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I got a Sorcery question, and the forums aren't populating today.

If I cast normally (not for consequences), can I just roll Sorcery and build my spell based on the difficulty and amount of momentum I generated, or do I have to build the spell before I roll and the momentum spends add to the base difficulty?

Also, is Duration a separate spend if I want to increase it?
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Johnny A February 08, 2019 3:11 pm UTC
i play sorcery as you pick the level of momentum spends , i feel that your crafting your spell at the exact moment. i also make it very dangerous. each complication allows me to take possession of the sorcerer for one round each.
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Dean S July 16, 2019 3:36 am UTC
I believe if you cast normally (without consequence) you roll against the sorcery difficulty of that spell depending on what you want to accomplish and determined at time of casting and listed on the tables of each specific spell. You then spend any momentum generated on effects listed under that spell (or for casting in whispered tones etc.). From my understanding it works the same way as many of the combat options. Remember though that ANY failed rolls in Sorcery generate complications. Extended duration is a momentum spend.
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May 24, 2017 5:03 pm UTC
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The update contains "Conan_-_Character_Sheet_-_Basic_-_No_background.pdf" which, unfortunately, does have a background. Please provide a character sheet with no background.
Also, it would be very helpful to have a "no background" compendium of the essential combat tables.

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Ingolf S April 25, 2017 6:39 am UTC
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Modiphius released optimized PDFs of the Core Books for the Kickstarter Backers that are about 70 MB on March 31st. Is it possible to update the PDF here as well to the optimized format? It will save a bandwidth and a lot of trouble.
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Sam H February 22, 2017 1:58 am UTC
Quick question for the publishers/developers. I backed at the PFD Master level after the Kickstarter concluded and have already received the final PDF. Because it's distributed outside DriveThru it obviously isn't on my library here, I can't rate or review. Is there a plan to address this?

It's a minor issue (after all, I do have the game), but I've been enjoying Conan tremendously and would like to write a review.

With that out of the way, my group's already having great times with this system and all the obvious effort that's gone into it! It's an exciting and dynamic pulp-action game, just a ton of fun. Congratulations to everyone involved in its production.
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Dani J February 26, 2017 10:22 am UTC
I backed the same pledge during the kickstarter. If we want to write a review, we still have option for writing it down here, and phrase our rating for this book.only question is, if there should be any updated version for pdfs, would we get the same advantage as Drivethru/OneBookShelf does?
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Chris B February 27, 2017 10:19 am UTC
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Hi guys, yes backers will be updated via Pledge Manager, once all the pdf's are issued we'll add them to drivethrough accounts as well. We have a complex list of backers for each book which would require a lot of admin which is why we're keeping the books on PledgeManager for now.
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Arto S October 08, 2017 5:22 am UTC
I would also love to give 5 stars to Conan 2d20. My favorite system.
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Ralph T February 09, 2018 12:10 am UTC
What is the status on updating backers' DriveThru accounts? I would think that after a year the complex list would be done, but I have seen some complex lists so I could be wrong. :)
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Chris B February 09, 2018 12:35 am UTC
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We still have 13 books and lots of other smaller files to issue to multiple different pledges so yes it's still a complex list for now :-)
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Manuel Z February 19, 2017 10:15 am UTC
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Very good work people!
I just peeked, but both this pdf that the rules seem to be great.

To me, this is a more simple and light version of the Mutant Chronicles rules, but in a good way.
I have non played, but i'm getting ready to play one of the prepared adventures made available (which are very interesting)

Again: very good work people.
I await the paper version to buy.
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Andrew B February 09, 2017 3:50 am UTC
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I have two questions. One, is this setting potentially going to be adapted to any other systems? If it goes the way of Mutant Chronicles, that would mean Savage Worlds, and I would like seeing an "official" Conan the Barbarian Savage Worlds setting done, as it is my system of choice.

Two, and on the other hand regarding the system changing for the setting, this 2d20 system is rather interesting. Do you think there would be any chance of a "core rules" version of the 2d20 system being published? While I can understand if that is unlikely, a sort of universal version of this system would be most interesting. The lack of such a general framework is why I haven't looked into the Ubiquity System stuff, among other things, and I thing for the system itself, I would be most interested in that.

There is no urgency to these questions, I am just curious. Please get back to me if you can.
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Chris B February 27, 2017 10:20 am UTC
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Conan won't appear in other rules systems sorry :-)

Yes we are planning a system neutral book with a license to let people produce their own games.
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February 05, 2017 8:30 pm UTC
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The two main PDFs are downloading as 11 and 34 MB, neither opens in any of several programs. Whatever you've uploaded here, they aren't good PDFs.
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Luke W February 05, 2017 9:59 pm UTC
That is only a partial download as both are bigger than that. Your connection likely crashed during the download corrupting the file. Try saving to Dropbox direct, download the files separately, or try a faster and/or more stable connection.
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Jory B February 05, 2017 6:25 am UTC
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Hello I'm having issues downloading either the Regular or Printer Friendly Version, for some reason they are just failing to load.
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Luke W February 05, 2017 9:14 am UTC
It's a big download, so it may be worth trying to download it again or as individual PDFs rather than a bundle as chances of corruption are high.
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Jory B February 05, 2017 2:40 pm UTC
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I've tried multiple times on my Laptop and Iphone: on the Laptop any instance of me downloading either the regular version or the printer friendly version ends with a message saying failed to load or the files are damaged. On my Iphone they just crash the page or I end up with a black page at the end.
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Chris B February 05, 2017 4:41 pm UTC
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Hi Jory try raising it with DriveThru support, have you tried a different web browser?
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Jory B February 05, 2017 6:48 pm UTC
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Will do. I used a couple of browsers and still the same conclusion.
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Michael Wevanne S February 13, 2017 7:02 pm UTC
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Jory B have you try to download on the store page instead your library page?
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Jason M February 04, 2017 1:35 pm UTC
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The full version still does not work for me. on computer or ipad.
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Barry C February 04, 2017 3:01 am UTC
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Where are typos being reported? P100, in the belit "queen of the black coast" box; legendry->legend.
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David K February 02, 2017 5:24 pm UTC
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I can not open the printerfriendly pdf on my tablet. The Full Version looks nice, but loading the pages took forever (10-30 seconds per page).
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Luke W February 02, 2017 6:24 pm UTC
The full PDF runs fine on my aged iPad1. Might pay to redownload in case of corruption,
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Luke W February 02, 2017 6:24 pm UTC
The full PDF runs fine on my aged iPad1. Might pay to redownload in case of corruption,
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John D February 02, 2017 2:34 am UTC
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The file labeled printer-friendly seems to be the full-color copy (131MB), and the file not so labeled downloads but won't open because the file "is corrupt or not a PDF" (92MB). Just letting you know.
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Chris B February 02, 2017 2:57 pm UTC
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checking this but I've not seen any other reports - have you tried downloading again. the printer friendly version is correct .
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John D February 02, 2017 4:54 pm UTC
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Weird: I've just tried again, and suddenly it's telling me the non-printer-friendly PDF of the core rules is 156MB, not 92. Apparently, the problem was on my end, though I'd be hard pressed to explain how or why.

Anyway, thanks for following up so quickly.
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kaymakli B February 01, 2017 6:55 pm UTC
Any word on getting a physical copy of this book?
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Chris B February 01, 2017 6:59 pm UTC
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Beautiful offset print copies will be in retail in June, and available from Modiphius webstore from May once backers have been shipped.
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John P February 01, 2017 7:01 pm UTC
The official printing will be starting soon. Would keep an eye out on your favored retailers over the next few months. EDIT Chris beat me to it.

If the quality of their hardback is like that of their Mutant Chronicles 3rd Edition book, I'll be quite happy.
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Jay W February 01, 2017 6:35 pm UTC
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Benn Graybeaton, Nathan Dowdell, Jay Little, Jason Durall, Chris Lites, Richard August, Timothy Brown, Michael Coker, Rachael Cruz, Vincent Darlage, Jason Durall, Kevin Ross, Mark Finn, Jeffery Shanks, Monica Valentinelli
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