Age of Conan Pen and Paper RPG Detailed

Funcom’s official Age of Conan website offers details on Mongoose’s Conan PnP, tied to the MMO (and Conan property, obviously).

Introduction

With Christmas approaching, many of you will be searching for a suiting present to your fellow role-player or AoC-player. Some of you will be familiar with the D20 rule-set that is used in numerous role-playing settings and has come to fame through the popular father of most modern role-playing games called D&D. The Conan world has seen many iterations of role-playing rules being attuned to it, but Conan RPG by Mongoose Publishing is one of the most complete and perfectly attuned rule-sets and the main rulebook will be the perfect Christmas present for any role-player or even people that only dabbled into role-playing within MMORPGs. To those people I can only say: its time to gather your friends, buy some chips, cola and more unhealthy food and gather around a table to feel the magic of Pen and Paper role-playing and experience the fun that inspired the creation of Age of Conan.
Mongoose Publishing

The UK located Mongoose publishing has started pushing out role-playing books and trading cards in 2001 and has quickly become the biggest third party supplier of D20 supplements. Some of their folk have helped to create Age of Conan and we greedily stole one of their great story writers to flesh out Age of Conan’s rich world with the needed detail and depth. Their creations have been and are a constant pool of ideas and inspiration for our story writers and designers. They started the creation of the Conan RPG in 2004 and the Second Edition of the main rule-set came out in 2007 together with numerous area supplements and adventures since 2004.
Changes to Standard Fantasy D20

Some of you already might be familiar with some D20 fantasy role-playing setting and are looking for an alternative to the very common tried and true D&D settings and rule-set variants of D20 and newcomers are presented with a very different start on role-playing compared to what other D20 systems are offering. This little part of the article serves as an introduction to the main important themes we have come across while playing the Conan RPG.