The author has died some 70 years ago and the copyrights are free domain.
The name Conan and the names of Robert E. Howard's other principal characters are claimed as trademarked by Paradox Entertainment of Stockholm, Sweden, through its US subsidiary Paradox Entertainment Inc. Paradox copyrights stories written by other authors under license from Conan Properties Inc.
However, since Robert E. Howard published his Conan stories at a time when the date of publication was the marker (1923 through 1963), any new owners failed to renew them to maintain the copyrights.[17] The exact status of all of Howard's Conan works are in question.[18]
The Australian site of Project Gutenberg has many Robert E. Howard stories, including several Conan stories.[19] This indicates that, in their opinion, the stories are free from copyright and may be used by anyone, at least under Australian law, which was 50 years from author's death until 2005. Subsequent stories written by other authors are subject to the copyright laws of the relevant time.
In the United Kingdom, 70 years after the death of an author his works fall into the public domain and as such the works of Robert E. Howard have now fallen into the public domain there.
OK, here is my proposition to any established map maker here, that has quenched at least one map. I would like to do the graphics, and turn over all game play development to a veteran. I have whipped up a first draft, and will be very quick to render all updates that you will require.
Please express your interest here, or in a pm.
Here is the insperation-
Here is my first draft
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