So, here’s a list of resources, for DM’s who might be interested in dropping a group of player’s into Conan’s world!
Our first stop, is Jason Vey’s Classic Edition Fantasy Resources Page. There, you will find his OD&D 
Next we come to The Hyborian Age page, by Thulsa. This site really has everything you need. Gods and Demons, a Gazetteer and Maps! Plenty of Maps! Not to mention magic items, famous sorcerers and other personages. The crunch is d20, but if you’re playing an Old School game, it’s easy enough to make your own and truth to tell, you would probably prefer to anyway! The site also reproduces Howard’s The Hyborian Age essay and a ton of other stuff I haven’t mentioned. Including rules for using Black Lotus!
Dragonsfoot # 13 has an AD&D Conversion of Thulsa’s Tower of the Elephant adventure.
Mongoose Publishing has a free Map of the Hyborian Age available for download, here.
For some scholarly information, you may find Mysteries of the Hyborian Age by Dale Rippke, to be inspiring.
This one’s rather interesting. Someone put up the Hyborian Age Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe. It’s rather large and contains a ton of Marvel Pictures! 
Hyborian War is an archive of an old Play-by-Mail game, which contains Kingdom Reports and what-not, which you may find useful. No idea if this is still going on or not. The various kingdom reports have some detailed maps of the regions and are in pdf format.
The above links should provide more than enough maps, but if you crave more, a Google Image Search will turn up quite a few.
Conan: Savage Hyboria is a Savage Worlds Conan conversion, which might provide some useful tidbits.
Of course, Howard’s stories are the richest source of Hyborian knowledge. Scroll down this Project Guttenberg index, to find a ton of Kick-Ass Conan Adventure!
Lastly, if you haven’t decided upon a system to use for your Swords & Sorcery gamefest, there’s always ZeFRS – The Retro-Clone of the rules from TSR’s old Conan RPG by David Cook. You can download it here.
Thanks for the tips! Lately I've been more interested in a more gruesome setting, with tainted magic and what not, so this is a perfect start.
ReplyDeleteVery nice assortment of resource links. Excellent work.
ReplyDeleteCool! Thanks for the links.
ReplyDeleteGlad you guys found it useful!
ReplyDeleteThere's a large colour map on Wikipedia:
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Thanks, James!
ReplyDeleteI have been thinking of fleshing out some of the Conan mythology for use, and these links are just great for it.
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Oh, man, I had almost forgotten about Hyborian War. That was a really awesome PBM game; I played in a few different games, as I recall. Almost won the game as Turan one time.
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