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Bestiary of the Hyborian Age

Credits and Contents

Author

Bryan Steele

Playtesters

Tina Cook, Jason Ellis,

Robert Poulin

Credits and

Contents

Introduction

Monsters

Animals

Beastmasters

Under the Skin

Index

Licence

128

159

163

172

174

Additional Text

Laszlo Cook

Special Thanks

Fredrik Malmberg and Joakim

Zetterberg at Conan Properties

Editor

Chris Longhurst

Creator of Conan

and Hyboria

Cover Art

Chris Quilliams

and Hyboria

Robert E. Howard

Interior Artists

Robin Bowles, Jim Brady, Lonny

Chant, Robin Everett-McGuirl,

Nathan Furman, Ryan Horvath,

Germán Ponce, Chad Sergesketter

HYBORIA and related logos, names, characters, and distinctive likenesses thereof, are trademarks or registered trade-

Authorised User. Bestiary of the Hyborian Age is released under version 1.0 of the Open Game License. Re-

production of non-Open Game Content of this work by any means without the written permission of

the publisher is expressly forbidden. See page 174 for the text of this licence. With the exception

of the character creation rules detailing the mechanics of assigning dice roll results to abilities

and the advancement of character levels, all game mechanics and statistics (including the game

mechanics of all feats, skills, classes, creatures spells and the combat chapter) are declared open

content. First printing 2008. Printed in the UK.

Author

Playtesters

Additional Text

Special Thanks

Editor

Creator of Conan

Cover Art

Interior Artists

Introduction

The world of Robert E. Howard’s Conan was rife with

savage beasts and craven men that made readers shiver to

think of in their mind’s eye or inwardly cheer when the

great Cimmerian hero plunged his sword into them. From

wild apes as large as mythic giants to ancient serpent-

men ﬁ lled with the blood of very real dragons, the stories

of Hyboria showed us a primal world that thrilled and

terriﬁ ed all at once.

Finally, the book is ﬁ nished off with a look at the rules

that underlie all the creatures presented here and a detailed

description of how to create unique creatures through

adding Hit Dice and character levels.

Creature Entries

With the update to a second edition of the Conan

Roleplaying game, we have decided to streamline the way

creatures and encounters are presented to our readers. A

new look to our creature entries makes them easier to

utilise quickly, but also gives our readers the ability to use

these monsters elsewhere, even perhaps in other similar

roleplaying games. What each piece of a creature entry

means is detailed in the list below.

With this tome in their hands, Games Masters can hope

to ﬁ ll their Conan campaigns with the same horriﬁ c

creatures and visceral challenges that the characters in the

stories and novels had to overcome – and many more.

How to Use

This Book

Much like any other collected sourcebook for a

roleplaying game, The Hyborian Bestiary is dominated by

the vast number of individual creature entries that make

up the meat of its contents. From the deft aaryx to the

alien yaggite, this book covers dozens upon dozens of

different beings, animals and creatures. Some might be

useful as pets or companions to Player Characters; others

are designed to be the ultimate foes for sword or sorcery

alike. There is no corner of Conan’s world that we did not

go to in order to ﬁ nd these beasts, and Games Masters

can rest easy knowing that their adventures no longer

always have to revolve around Picts, polar bears or wolves

in the night.

Basic Information

The ﬁ rst section of every entry details the identity and

introductory information about the creature.

Name

This is what the creature is generally known as. There

could be more deﬁ nitive labels in the creature’s description

text, especially in the case of titles or names that would be

greatly unknown to the general populace (demons, exotic

creatures, etc.).

Size

This line explains how large (or small) the creature is

generally, and what manner of creature it happens to be.

The size of a creature determines how physically large it

is in comparison to a normal human being. Creatures

receive a modiﬁ er to both their Defence and their attack

rolls against other creatures as shown on the table opposite.

Just as it is easier for a human warrior to strike a house

than another human, and more challenging for him to

swat a ﬂ y, a house-sized Hyborian dragon is easier to hit

for human-sized foes and ﬁ nds it more difﬁ cult to retaliate

against these smaller antagonists.

After the reams of creature entries that make up the body

of this book, we decided to give readers and collectors a

little treat. With the newly designed beastmaster prestige

class, a role caught somewhere between huntsman and

trainer, characters can learn to deal with many of

the creatures in this book in a way that does not

always require a sharp arrow or stiff spear.

If a player has ever wanted a pet

nordwolf or a trained hyena,

the skills and abilities of the

beastmaster will be perfect

for him.

Ty p e

All creatures also have a type – perhaps animal, or

humanoid, or elemental – and some have subtypes as well.

How to Use

Introduction

Sizes and Modifiers

Size Example Base Defence

Modiﬁ er

Colossal Dragon of the Mountain – 8

Gargantuan Son of Set

Environment

– 4

This entry section shows what part of Hyboria, in

geographical descriptions, the creature can generally

be found within. This is their natural environment, if

they have one, and Games Masters should check if they

have some kind of special beneﬁ ts within this natural

surrounding.

Huge

Elephant

– 2

Large

Giant-kin, Grey Ape

– 1

Medium

Human

+ 0

Small

Badger, Dog

+ 1

Organisation

This line details the average number of the creatures

that should appear in a single encounter. There could

be a variable amount, meaning that the Games Master

must roll or decide how many appear. There could also

be different levels of encounter, from a single random

crocodile swimming by to the communal basking dens on

the shores of the Styx.

Tiny

Raven, Housecat

+ 2

Diminutive Rat

+ 4

Fine

Insect, Mouse

+ 8

Types and subtypes function as ‘hooks’ for game rules.

For example, when an ability affects ‘any animal’ it can

affect any creature with the ‘animal’ type. Further details

regarding types and subtypes, including some special

rules, can be found on page 163.

Initiative

This shows what sort of modiﬁ er, if any, the creature gets

to its Initiative checks in combat.

Terror of

the Unknown

Many of the creatures in this book inﬂ ict

the Terror of the Unknown as described as

page 376 of Conan the Roleplaying Game.

As a general rule of thumb, any creature of

the following types (see page 163 for more

about types) will provoke a Terror check:

Sensory Traits

This line shows any special abilities that might help the

creature see or otherwise sense their surroundings.

Languages

This line shows any languages the creature might

understand or speak, if any.

Defensive Information

Aberration

The next section of every entry details how the creature

fares when attacked and how well it can shrug off any

damage.

Construct

Elemental

Ooze

Defence

The Defence entry gives the Dodge and Parry defences for

the creature. Most creatures only have Dodge defences as

they are either unskilled or unequipped for parrying.

Outsider

Undead

Other creatures may provoke a Terror

check if they appear sufﬁ ciently unusual or

frightening to the character – an elephant

is quite normal to Vendhyans, but an

Aquilonian who suddenly ﬁ nds himself

face-to-face with one may be considerably

less sanguine. Other good candidates for

this are the various magical beasts, any of the

larger animals such as the great shark (see

page 56), and large gatherings of monstrous

humanoids.

Hit Points, Hit Dice and Damage Reduction (DR)

The hit points of a creature are self-explanatory. The

number of Hit Dice it has is used to determine the difﬁ culty

of resisting its various special abilities and also as the basis

for advancement (see page 167). The damage reduction of

all the creatures presented here is natural DR

from their tough hide or supernatural

nature. None are wearing

armour, although many have the

capability to do so (adding to their

natural DR normally).

Sizes and Modifiers

Introduction

Damage Reduction and Swallowing: Some creatures

have the ability to swallow their enemies whole. Such

creatures normally have half their usual damage reduction

from the inside – most creatures have no damage reduction

from the inside, but creatures that typically swallow prey

whole tend to have very robust digestive systems.

most do not – then that attack only threatens a critical on

a natural 20 and does double damage. If a threat range or

multiplier is listed, use that instead.

Base Attack

This line shows how proﬁ cient the creature is at making

normal attacks, ignoring any modiﬁ ers from abilities and

feats.

Saves

This entry line gives the creature’s Fortitude, Reﬂ ex and

Will save modiﬁ ers.

Grapple

This shows the creature’s total modiﬁ er for making a

grapple check – something that many creatures do in

order to better bring other attacks to bear.

Immunities

This line describes any forms of damage that the creature

is wholly immune to. Further detail can often be found in

the creature’s detailed write-up.

Sorcery

Some demons and creatures can have access to sorcery.

Any creature that has the ability to cast spells will have its

abilities detailed here.

Weaknesses

Conversely, this line describes any forms of damage that

the creature is specially vulnerable to and what form that

vulnerability takes. Once again, more details can usually

be found in the creature’s detailed write-up

Special Attacks

This entry shows whether or not the creature has any

special abilities that they can call upon to aid them in

combat. For most special attacks, the creature’s entry

will detail the ability listed and how it works in game

mechanics, but many special qualities are commonplace

throughout the book and are listed in greater detail in the

section starting on page 166.

Offensive Information

This details how well the creature can perform when

placed in an attacking situation. All normal combat

options should be detailed here.

Speed

This entry gives the creature’s tactical speed. If a creature has

an alternate form of movement it will be noted separately,

and with a description as to what that movement is.

Other Information

This section explains any interesting game mechanics and

useful details about the creature.

Space / Reach

This entry line shows how large the creature is for the

purposes of combating it. A creature’s space is a square

of the indicated length on each size, and its reach is the

indicated distance.

Abilities

This line details the average basic Strength, Dexterity,

Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma of the

creature. These numbers are determined from an average

score of 11 or 10, meaning that exceptional and sub-

standard versions of the creature exist on both sides of the

given average.

Some creatures do not have a space or reach entry – these

creatures have a normal 5 foot space and 5 foot reach.

Special Qualities

This line shows any speciﬁ c traits or qualities that the

creature has that were not detailed elsewhere. As with

special attacks, these will either be described in detail in

the creature’s entry or will be a common quality described

in the section starting on page 166.

Attacks

The attack line assumes a full attack is made. In cases

where a creature can only make a single attack, such

as when it has made a move action already in the

round, only a single attack can be made

(usually the ﬁ rst one listed, with

the highest attack bonus).

Feats

This line shows any feats the creature has access to.

If an attack form has no

critical threat range

listed – and

Skills

This section of the entry gives any skills the creature

has. The listed modiﬁ er already includes any ability or

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