Any thoughts or hopes gang?
I, for one, would hope that sourcebooks for Turan and Zamboula are finally on the agenda.
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Going Dippy for Conan Rpg in 2010
See Planet Mongoose.
Any thoughts or hopes gang?
I, for one, would hope that sourcebooks for Turan and Zamboula are finally on the agenda.
Any thoughts or hopes gang?
I, for one, would hope that sourcebooks for Turan and Zamboula are finally on the agenda.
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Saw Planet Mongoose too... It just left me eager for more.
I also hope we'll get at least a Turan book to support the campaign.
By the way, we'll starting Betrayer of Asgard tomorrow night. I bet there's gonna be blood on the snow...
Wonderful news!Well, it looks like that 'Sack a Turanian City' 200+ page campaign got approved...
I also hope we'll get at least a Turan book to support the campaign.
By the way, we'll starting Betrayer of Asgard tomorrow night. I bet there's gonna be blood on the snow...
I talk to planets, baby.
That. Sounds. Awesome.Mongoose Gar wrote:Well, it looks like that 'Sack a Turanian City' 200+ page campaign got approved...
We've been playing Trial of Blood, and its been great. My only quibbleis that the quest is a bit too "good", and may leave my players with the stench of modern heroism about them.
Hopefully this new campaign would be of a similar quality, plus be a bit more barbaric. And maybe have maps.
Scott
But does Betrayer have maps?Hervé wrote:If you want more a 'barbaric' adventure, check the excellent Betrayer of Asgard. Blood crazed Vanir berserkers, stern Cimmerian chieftains and dead hyperborean necromancers, it's all there!
I've actually had Betrayer of Asgard on order from Amazon.ca for quite a while. Apparently it'll arrive mid-March, but we'll see.
Trial of Blood has lasted thirteen sessions so far, and I think it'll last three more. I'll run Mutants and Masterminds for a bit after that, and I have Bride of the Spider-God to draw upon for when I go back to Conan. Even if I don't get or don't like Betrayer I'm still well set up.
Scott
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Well the answer has never been fully defined why...but those that hold the control over the license seem to either want to move it to another company, and/or are upset with past issues with Mongoose over quality of books and editing job done by them. No one knows for sure, heck I am not even sure if Mongoose truely even knows either. I have read in another post of mine that Matthew stated that they will discover what the future holds for Conan with Mongoose. So we will all have to wait and see.Aurore wrote:Why is it dead and gone? Not enough demand, or is there a license issue?
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I'm bored by the continous talking about possible hidden reasons why the line was stopped (the movie, the PC game, etc..) and the mixing of subjective and objective thinking...
Just let us stay to the facts!
OBJECTIVES REASONS:
From what I can remember from past posts/announcements by both Conan Properties and Matt the main reasons are two:
1) the idea of adding more systems (RQ e SW) IN THE LAST YEAR OF LICENSE (Conan properties do not care whether Conan is d20 or RQ, they just said it is dumb to switch systems at the end of the contract);
2) Series of Atlases. They would have been great (and by a great author: Vincent) but they are far beyond the limits of the contract.
As far as we know Conan Properties did not say Mongoose to stop publishing Conan books this year, but they simply said that their plans cannot be accepted.
So it was a Mongoose decision to stop publishing Conan books this year and deleting Empires & Thieves's C. (and give us just small bits of them in the S&P series).
Now, let me do some SUBJECTIVE thinking:
1) What a dumb moment to make such choices! If these decisions were taken couple of years ago (instead of giving us low-level books as Cities and KhitaI) their effect would not have been so devastating!
2) Multi-systems are proved to be failures (e.g. Alderac Rokugan d20). You must choose a system and believe in it.....if you chosed RQ I would be upset, but that was your choice, although we all know that d20 is not exactly dead...
3) The way they treated us customers last summer was, simply said, stupid. Deleting 2 products (which were ready to be published) without being sure of what they were doing, telling us to wait 4 months...and then the bad news!
I’m sorry for Mongoose but I will never buy any other of their products.
Conan was my game. I bought Mongoose products because of Conan, not the opposite.
I think that Mongoose people have both merits and faults.
They created the best Conan game ever....just to destroy it.
I completely dislike RQ (whose combat mechanincs are not adapt to the fast pacing of Sword & Sorcery). Without mentioning how they destroyed Empires (a product which was ready to be published…) and that we will possibly never see in its wholeness in the S&P issues.
Just let us stay to the facts!
OBJECTIVES REASONS:
From what I can remember from past posts/announcements by both Conan Properties and Matt the main reasons are two:
1) the idea of adding more systems (RQ e SW) IN THE LAST YEAR OF LICENSE (Conan properties do not care whether Conan is d20 or RQ, they just said it is dumb to switch systems at the end of the contract);
2) Series of Atlases. They would have been great (and by a great author: Vincent) but they are far beyond the limits of the contract.
As far as we know Conan Properties did not say Mongoose to stop publishing Conan books this year, but they simply said that their plans cannot be accepted.
So it was a Mongoose decision to stop publishing Conan books this year and deleting Empires & Thieves's C. (and give us just small bits of them in the S&P series).
Now, let me do some SUBJECTIVE thinking:
1) What a dumb moment to make such choices! If these decisions were taken couple of years ago (instead of giving us low-level books as Cities and KhitaI) their effect would not have been so devastating!
2) Multi-systems are proved to be failures (e.g. Alderac Rokugan d20). You must choose a system and believe in it.....if you chosed RQ I would be upset, but that was your choice, although we all know that d20 is not exactly dead...
3) The way they treated us customers last summer was, simply said, stupid. Deleting 2 products (which were ready to be published) without being sure of what they were doing, telling us to wait 4 months...and then the bad news!
I’m sorry for Mongoose but I will never buy any other of their products.
Conan was my game. I bought Mongoose products because of Conan, not the opposite.
I think that Mongoose people have both merits and faults.
They created the best Conan game ever....just to destroy it.
I completely dislike RQ (whose combat mechanincs are not adapt to the fast pacing of Sword & Sorcery). Without mentioning how they destroyed Empires (a product which was ready to be published…) and that we will possibly never see in its wholeness in the S&P issues.
I don't quite understand your reply. You seem to suggest that mongoose wanted to switch to a new system. What plans was is that Conan Properties did not accept?
Can't think of a good reason to switch systems. Some prefer RQ some d20. The choice of systems when between these two is fairly dramatic, as by and large d20 allows for much more high powered games than RQ. RQ is fine for gritty realistic games where one bad die roll results in your head coming off, and no matter what you do you can only make this less likely, not impossible. This is fine for 'low fantasy'. For heroic fantasy, d20 lets you make powerful archmages, barbarian heroes that can take down a small army etc etc. Conan would work in either system, but a RQ based one would not have you playing heroes that could one day hope to compare to Conan himself, so depends on what people want. There is an argument for either. But once the choice is made, I dont see a reason to switch.
Can't think of a good reason to switch systems. Some prefer RQ some d20. The choice of systems when between these two is fairly dramatic, as by and large d20 allows for much more high powered games than RQ. RQ is fine for gritty realistic games where one bad die roll results in your head coming off, and no matter what you do you can only make this less likely, not impossible. This is fine for 'low fantasy'. For heroic fantasy, d20 lets you make powerful archmages, barbarian heroes that can take down a small army etc etc. Conan would work in either system, but a RQ based one would not have you playing heroes that could one day hope to compare to Conan himself, so depends on what people want. There is an argument for either. But once the choice is made, I dont see a reason to switch.
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