Reply To: Interesting News From Monolith

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Lots of games share common mechanics but this is different.  Monolith aren’t proposing a common framework, they’re proposing a full common rules set.

I can think of lots of games that are based on common frameworks, where there are some common elements and mechanics between them.  But I can’t think of many examples outside of RPGs where you buy a set of rules which you then add settings too and all the ones I can think of are Historical Wargames.

@kantor72 It very much sounds like a Conan V2 is coming in the new year.  Mythic Battles Ragnarok is a given, they already teased that in Mythic Battles Pantheon.  There was a free Norse Warrior hidden away in the miniatures, much like there was a free Spartan Warrior hidden away in Conan.  Plus they gave a free Ymir model away with all the copies of Mythic Battles Pantheon 1.5 as well as adding Frost Dice as an add on.  I would say Mythic Battles Ragnarok is a given, the only question in my mind is whether that’s before or after Conan v2