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Messantia - City of RIches

Book I: Games Master ’ s Guide

Contents

Credits

Introduction

History of Messantia

Avenues and Alleyways

Beyond the Walls

Messantia, Day-to-Day

Power and Politics

Movers and Shakers

Games Mastering

License

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forbidden. See page 96 for the text of this license. 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. Printed in China .

Credits

The Chroniclers of Our Time

Author

Greg Lynch

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.

Editor and Line

Development

Richard Neale

Cover Art

Scott Clark & Chris Quilliams

Interior Artists

Anthea Dilly, Sergio Villa Isaza, Vitor

Ishimura, Celso Mathias, Chad Sergesketter,

Ronald Smith & Alejandro Villen

Studio Manager

Ian Barstow

Production Director

Alexander Fennell

Proofreading

Ron Bedison

Playtesters

Adam Brimmer, Andre Chabot, Simon Galea,

Kenneth Gatt, Robert Hall, Trevor Kerslake, Alan

Marson & Sam Vail

Special Thanks

Theodore Bergquist & Fredrik Malmberg

at Conan Properties.

Introduction

Welcome to the Messantia

Messantia stretches before you,

though take heed; for beyond the salt-rimed timbers,

weathered quays and gilded towers of Argos’ greatest city

lie the and clapboard shacks, riotous bazaars and cramped

alleyways, lit only by the ﬂash of knives. Messantia is a

city of intrigue and peril, a city of lords and merchant

houses, all scheming their way through The Thousand

Faces behind the gates and doors of their barricaded villas.

While honest men labour and toil to earn an honest wage

and greedy merchants hoard their gold desperate refugees

and fugitives, gladiators and adventurers kill for copper. So

make ready lads, toss a purse of silvers to the harbourmaster

and make ready to enter the Golden City itself.

Downriver on the Tybor and the Khorotas from Aquilonia,

along the famed Road of Kings and from the streets of

Messantia itself, ﬂows enough wealth to seize a throne or

cast one down. From the city’s busy docks, however, that

wealth, stowed in the holds of trade ships, sails out into the

rest of the world.

This shining metropolis, whose wealth and glory only

partially hide the underbelly of crime and corruption, is as

integral to the Conan stories as are weird beasts and scheming

sorcerers, but Messantia is far more complex than either of

those when presented in a roleplaying setting. Conveying

the bustle, the people, the very feel of a great city is a true

test of a Games Master’s abilities. ‘How do people act?’

‘Where is the best place to buy a sword?’ ‘What is there to

do here?’ ‘What kinds of inns are available?’ All of these are

questions familiar to Games Masters when the characters

enter a city for the ﬁrst time. Whether the Games Master

is bringing the characters through Messantia’s port on their

way to their next adventure, is planning to run a single city

adventure or even an entire campaign based in Messantia,

the difﬁculties of convincingly depicting a fantasy city will

arise. Games Masters who have experience running a city

know the devil is in the details, and the details are in this

sourcebook.

Like a gilded pearl gleaming in the sand that rises above

the surf, Messantia, the Golden City, capital of Argos and

home to one of the mightiest navies of the Hyborian Age,

glitters on the shore of the Western Ocean.

Standing astride the banks of the Khorotas River and

blessed with a wide, deep-water harbour, Messantia is

perfectly suited to be the trading capital it has become. In

an age as vital and deadly as the Hyborian Age, however, it

takes more than mere geography to build and hold a seat of

power like Messantia. It takes strength, it takes cunning, it

takes avarice and above all, it takes gold.

What is really going on behind Messantia’s guided façade?

These sourcebooks endeavours to answer that question.

Within is a treasure trove of detail to bring the city of

Messantia roaring to life at the gaming table. This series of

books is devoted entirely to this fascinating city, revealing

its history, culture, customs, points of interest, economy,

intrigues and people.

It is an unfortunate fact that Robert E. Howard, Conan’s

creator, left us with only a handful of details about golden

Messantia. In the writing of this sourcebook we have

striven to include all we could from both his works

and those of his successors. As for the rest, it is

all of this author’s creation. With new material

carefully constructed to ﬁt seamlessly with

the old, both players and Games Masters

will ﬁnd Messantia – City of Riches

a tremendous boon to their own

campaigns in the Hyborian Age.

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