Any Word on Conan Quest?
- Thread starter Mac V
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Durand Durand
Banded Mongoose
The guys at the rumour mill have been working overtime on this. All the RQ combat amputations DO suit Conan though, don't they. :wink:
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Mac V said:
If you like to do some home work, its a good idea. Using the RQ system for combat and other skills is not difficult. More difficult is the spell conversion. For this I would use the Call of Cthulhu method of casting spells (of course negating the sanity loss) using the spells in the conan basic book.
Or wait until next year. Mongoose matt wrote somewhere that Conan material will appear for Runequest (but not Conan 2nd edition).
Enpeze said:
So?
They can't close what's already been opened, so the 3.0/3.5 ruleset is here to stay. All the 3rd party publishers aren't going to close up shop just because D&D 4.0 isn't open. And think of derivatives like C&C and True20; they won't just go away if D&D 4.0 goes closed.
It'll split the market, most likely, with die-hard D&D people following the 4.0 track and d20 System fans following the OGL track. But I'm not worried about D&D 4.0 upsetting what's good in the market right now.
Exubae said:
Legally they can't pull "d20 3.5" from the OGL. Whether it's the end of d20 OGL is up to everyone but Wizards/Hasbro. If people still buy d20 (non-logoed) OGL supplements and people keep producing them, it'll live on. I doubt the "generic" d20 stuff will survive - nobody is going to want to buy dungeon adventures that don't work under D&D 4th ed (yes I'm exaggerating - some people will want to, but not enough). Full d20-derived games such as Spycraft, Conan, World of Warcraft, B5, etc can probably survive well enough on their own without needing to use D&D as a crutch.
It'll probably be the end of the "generic d20" stuff that Mongoose used to produce (obviously they had the foresight to stop relying on that long ago) and a lot of publishers still do. It'll take a while to die out, but without a set of core rules to support it'll still die eventually. The diehard 3.5 fans will keep it going for a while, but eventually there will be less and less of those.
If someone used the d20 SRD to create a decent set of generic fantasy rules (effectively a 3.5 PHB/DMG replacement), maybe that would do the trick - but it would have to have something really special for RPG newbies to want to buy it rather than D&D v4 - the newbie market tends to lead sales, as they are the people who will buy maybe 60-70% of the next five years worth of releases (I believe the estimated "lifespan" of an RPG customer is about four to five years before they go do something else with their life. Those of us that have been at this for fifteen years plus are something of a rarity)
Also bear in mind that there's more than just d20 in OGL... If D&D v4 doesn't have an OGL version, all the third-party publishers are likely to look for a new line to support, and will look for other OGLed systems... such as RuneQuest (once again Mongoose appear to be ahead of the game and have something on the market ready to leap into the hole left if D&D vacates it).
JohnLokiBeard
Mongoose
It's also worth remembering that - as far as I'm aware - Mongoose doesn't actually own the Conan universe, just currently has a [presumably time-limited] licence to produce a product based on the work. If Hasbro drive a dump-truck full of money into the Conan owners back yard, a D&D 4 CONAN is likely. 
