Conan Role-Playing Game
 Conan Role-Playing Game Boxed set cover | |
| Designer(s) | Zeb Cook |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | TSR, Inc. |
| Publication date | 1985 |
| Genre(s) | Sword and sorcery |
| System(s) | ZeFRS |
The Conan Role-Playing Game was published by TSR, Inc. in 1985.
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
See also
References
- ↑ "Secret Origins", by Jeff Grubb
- ↑ Original 2007 ZeFRS PDF document as mentioned in the RPGnet website
- ↑ Conan: TSR's Lost Game, a review on Conan Role-Playing Game in Hill Cantons, by Chris Kutalik
- ↑ The ZeFRS system online
- ↑ ZeFRS' physical edition, as mentioned in RPGnet