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CONTENTS

Across the Thunder River

Credits

Introduction

At the Ends of Civilisation

Life on the Aquilonian Frontier

Salt of the Earth

Ligureans

The Picts

Tribes of Pictland

Tricks and Tools

Savage Magic

Bestiary

Prestige Classes

Gamesmastering

Defending the West

Index

License

Contents

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CREDITS

The Chroniclers of Our Time

Author

Vincent Darlage

Credits

Playtesters

Morgan Nash, Chiara Mac Call, Hayden Nash, Adam

Taylor, Ian Over, Simon English, Rafael Dei Svaldi,

Guilherme Dei Svaldi, Gustavo Emmel, Leonel

Caldela, André Mendes Rotta, Harvey Barker, Wesley

R. Gassaway, Betty Gassaway, Danny Gordon, Raven

Gordon, Michael Dunmire, Vincent Darlage, Bob

Probst, Chris Bradley, Craig Pekar, Jason Durall,

Mark ‘Neo’ Howe, Mark Billanie, Mark Sizer,

Michael J Young, Alan Moore, Jamie Godfrey, Daniel

Scothorne, Daniel Haslam, Christy Ward, Jason

Ward, Jason Hohler, Kevin French, William Dvorak,

Jack Cox, Brent Strickland, Melissa Strickland, Adam

Crossingham, Alex Aplin, Paul Evans, David Little,

Nick Lowson, Dougal McLachan, Mark Steedman,

Sam Vail, Alan Marson, Robert Hall, Trevor Kerslake,

André Chabot, Antonio Eleuteri, Emilia Eleuteri,

Francesco Cascone, Claudio Mormile, Angelo

Mormile, Paul O’Neal, Patrick O’Neal, Chuy

Hernandez, Butch Mercado, D’Angelo Ramos,

Jay Hafner, Eric D. Schurger, Geissler G. Golding,

Brian Fulford, Richard D. Cserep, Jason Waltrip,

James Williams, Scott Bradley.

Editor and Line

Development

Richard Neale

Additional Layout

Ted Chang

Cover Art

Chris Quilliams

Interior Artists

Anthea Dilly, Stephen Cook, Stacy Drum,

Chris Quilliams, Chad Sergesketter, Ronald

Smith, Ursula Vernon, Alejandro Villen & Forge

Studios (www.theforge.pl)

Studio Manager

Ian Barstow

Special Thanks

Theodore Bergquist & Fredrik Malmberg at

Conan Properties.

Production Director

Alexander Fennell

Proofreading

Jason Durall & Sarah Quinnell

Support

Continuing support for Conan the Roleplaying

Game can be found at

www.conan.com,

www.mongoosepublishing.com

and in the pages

of Signs and Portents magazine.

Welcome to the Pictish Wilderness

refrain from reading the

When thinking

chapters about the Picts,

villains for the

remaining safe and sound

Hyborian Age, what

Virgin’s wail and a babe is

within the chapters of the

comes to mind? For many,

whining

Westermarck. The fun

Nailed like a fly on a gory lance;

the ﬁrst ideas to come to

part of reading about or

White on the skulls the stars are

mind are the Stygians

shining,

playing against the Picts

and Acheronians: Thoth-

Over them sweeps our demon’s dance

is their dark mystery. Let

Amon in his loathesome

the Games Master reveal

towers of ancient evils

Heritage of the world is ours,

the world of the Picts for

where gruesome relics

Gods of all evil grant us rule –

their players, learning

of past ages lurk; Great

See where they hang from the flaming

about these savage people

Xaltotun and his horrible

towers,

as they go.

dreams of Acheronian

Woman and prelate, priest and fool.

resurrection.

Are they

This book will also be

Robert E. Howard,

Empire: A Song for All

the worst the Hyborian

useful for players who wish

Exiles

Age has to offer? This

to play a Pict in a standard

book suggests that they

Conan

game. A Pict in

are not. There is a darker

Zamora would be as out

and more sinister presence

of place as Conan and would make for an interesting

in the world, a savage power prowling the edges of the

story. This book should provide enough background

Hyborian landscape, unseen by most of the world.

information to allow a player to portray an exciting and

Who are they?

believable Pict who is more than just a dull-witted and

bloodthirsty savage.

They are the Picts.

Dark and mysterious, lurking in dim forests and dank

swamps, the Picts of the Hyborian Age are a primal

force that will ultimately unleash its collective rage

against civilisation and bring the whole of Hyboria

down in ﬂames and savage devastation.

This book is intended to give Games Masters the

resources to bring these terrible adversaries to life and

break their misconception as idiotic savages who whoop

and jump around a lot, ﬂinging arrows and tomahawks

at people. Picts are dangerous. For those who intend

to play characters in the wild Westermarck, take a word

of advice – beware. The Picts are out there, and they

will hurt you if they ﬁnd you. Although this advice will

be largely ignored, perhaps it would be best if players

Be prepared to enter one of the ultimate lost worlds

of fantasy ﬁction: the Pictish Wilderness. Be prepared

to journey to the strange places where hidden tribes

ﬂourish, untouched by the gilt decadence of their

more civilised neighbours. Be prepared to travel weird

valleys where mesmeric shamans rule uncontested by

the painted men of a savage culture. Be prepared to

ﬁnd new skills and uses for older skills. Be prepared

for uncover their secrets and magic. The Picts have

stalked in their wooded fortress long enough. They

will emerge in blood and ﬂame, and only a trail

of corpses will mark their passing. Prepare to

unleash upon your campaign the darkest and

most sinister villains of the Hyborian Age.

Introduction

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