"Know, O Prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas, there was an Age undreamed of, when shining kingdoms lay spread across the world like blue mantles beneath the stars." - The Nemedian Chronicles.
Such half-legendary fragments are all that remain to tell of the Hyborian Age and its greatest hero, Conan.
This Campaign combines and updates the three individual Conan modules I uploaded earlier. There are many bug-fixes and enhancements, including a full Hyborian world range of items and fully custom Character creation, including custom races and deities.
You can play the Campaign as Conan, or as a hero of your own design, following your career from its beginning as a youth among the barbarian Aesir, to your eventual rise to claim the throne of Aquilonia, the most powerful Hyborian kingdom.
"Legions of the Dead", the first adventure in the "Conan Chronicles 1 - The Barbarian Chronicles" campaign, describes the first recorded exploits of the young Conan, when as a youth of sixteen summers he fled his home in Cimmeria to join with a band of Northern barbarians in the frigid land of Asgard. The original short story was written by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, based of course on the collection of Conan stories by Robert E Howard.
But you do not have to be Conan. Any class or race may be played. However in the Hyborian Age there are generally no demi-humans and classes that use magic are rare, and those that use priestly magic rarer still.
You do NOT have to be a barbarian; the name of the campaign simply refers to your exploits in the barbarian lands to the north of the Hyborian kingdoms.The Barbarian Chronicles continue with "The Scythian Pits" and "The Thing in the Crypt".
The adventures will take a single starting 1st level PC up to around 13th level.
This adventure continues with a second campaign, "Conan Chronicles 2 - The Zzamorian Chronicles" describing your exploits carving a niche for yourself in the civilised kingdoms and often at odds with local authorities.
Good luck.
IMPORTANT NOTE: When finished with the adventure, as for all modules with custom races, please remove your PC from the localvault folder when you remove the Conan custom 2das from the override folder. Otherwise, it can crash subsequent games when you enter the select/create character screen.
25th July 2010:
Fixed non-opening doors in the arena with Scythian Pis v1.25
16th April 2010: Updated to v 1.24.
Overhauled outdoor areas and changed to standard textures.
Improved day-night lighting.
Removed need for installing any override files.
More new Hyborian weapons and items randomly available.
More reliable cutscenes, and can click through them more quickly.
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