On December 9, 2022, Mythic Games posted a short update on the status of several crowdfunding campaigns, as well as its plans for the future:
Mythic Games has set a goal to deliver, one after the other, the other pending games that were successfully launched on Kickstarter, of which HEL and Anastyr are the flagship projects the company plans to build on in the future.
The phrase “flagship projects” suggests that other titles will be of less importance, and in fact Mythic has jettisoned several of its game lines:
Not coincidentally, that same day CMON announced that it had acquired the Super Fantasy Brawl, Enchanters and Steamwatchers brands from Mythic Games: “CMON intends to continue publishing the existing titles while exploring new avenues for games and storytelling set in each of these worlds.”
What’s more, Monolith announced that it had acquired the Reichbusters and Solomon Kane brands from Mythic Games. Here’s most of Monolith’s announcement:
Concerning Solomon Kane…it is way too soon to talk about it in details, but as you saw on our last Conan RPG announcement, we have many, many plans going on in the Robert E. Howard universe.
Note that Monolith has no connection with the Solomon Kane pre-orders made on Mythic Games store.
I don’t normally cover RPGs, but to fill you in on part of the announcement above, on December 2, 2022, Modiphius Entertainment announced that it was ending its Conan RPG line — Robert E. Howard’s Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of — as of the end of 2022, with all remaining stock to be sold by June 30, 2023.
The license for a Conan RPG from owner Heroic Signatures will now lie with Monolith, which debuted the Conan board game by Frédéric Henry in 2016. Here’s an excerpt from the Modiphius announcement:
We’ve said it before, Howard’s stories are part of Monolith’s DNA, and so we happily accepted Heroic Signatures’ offer to develop our own Conan roleplaying game — one we can infuse with our passion and unique creative vision. While we prepare our next Conan board game project, which will offer new, long-awaited features next year, we wanted to let fans know it is not the only Conan game we’re bringing to the table — or rather, your tables.
So…Monolith will bring back the Conan board game, then an all-new role-playing game! And who knows — it’s certainly possible that our admiration for Robert E. Howard’s work will lead us beyond the borders of the Hyborian Age.
Nice foreshadowing of the Solomon Kane deal in that last paragraph!