The Age of COnan

for major deities, monsters, and treasure of the Hyborian Age, as well as for
King Conan himself. It should be noted that despite having hit points and
statistics, true gods in the Hyborian Age are distant and aloof; they never show
their faces amongst men to battle and be killed.
Supplements I through IV and Swords & Spells all have useful information in
them, be it character classes such as the Thief, Assassin, and Druid, monsters
that are applicable to a Hyborian game, or stats for using spells in mass
combat. The Strategic Review contains several new and variant character
classes such as the Ranger and Illusionist which are highly useful in a
Hyborian game. Finally, Return to the Road of Kings and the Conan
Roleplaying Game both have excellent and invaluable gazetteers of the
Hyborian Age.
With all that said, on with the show!
Men and Magic
Character Races
There are NO demihuman races at all. However, certain cultures have
(optional) benefits similar to those granted by demihuman races. Fans of other
versions of Hyborian Age
role playing will note that
the racial divisions herein
disagree somewhat with
some of the others—
particularly Mongoose's,
which is an exceptionally
detailed breakdown of
races, sub-races, and
pseudo-races. For D&D,
it's best to try and keep
things simple.
This book will not contain
detailed writeups of
societies and cultures here,
as these can be found in
Mongoose's The Road of
Kings sourcebook, which
is an invaluable and largely
system-free resource to
anyone wishing to run a
Hyborian Age game using
any system.
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