Munchkin Conan is a 168-card core set in the Munchkin family of games; with 101 Doors and 67 Treasures. Unlike other core sets; it lacks unique card backs; instead using the standard card back from Munchkin. The included Munchkin-head d6 is yellow with dark red print.

In Munchkin Conan; Robert E. Howard’s epic hero gets the full Munchkin treatment. Play a Cimmerian Warrior or a Stygian Wizard! Wield the Sword of the Phoenix and poison your foes with Black Lotus! Slay Thoth-Amon’s minions; Pict raiders; and abominable monsters; and hear the lamentations of their women! On many of the cards; the publisher provides context by including relevant quotes from Howard’s work.

Munchkin Conan has a new type of card birthright and the mechanisms are similar to that of classes and races in that you can have only one in play at a time; you may discard a birthright at any time but may play one only on your turn or when you first get it. The Munchkin Conan core set comes with two birthrights: Noble; which allows you to have an extra Comrade (see below); and Barbarian; which allows you to ignore all Usable By and Not Usable By restrictions on items. There is no birthright analogue to Super Munchkin or Half-Breed.

Speaking of races and classes; the races in Munchkin Conan are Kushite; Zamoran; Cimmerian; and Stygian; when playing a blender game; they are all considered to be human unless the other sets have non-human races. The classes are Cleric; Thief; Warrior; and Wizard; and are identical to the fantasy Munchkin classes with the same names.

The Munchkin Conan hireling is called a Comrade. Comrades fall in the same class as the Hirelings; Minions; Mooks; Sidekicks; etc. that come with other flavors of Munchkin. Each Comrade is associated with a class or birthright; and gives you some of the advantages of that class/birthright. Comrades can carry an item for you; even some that you can’t legally use yourself; and their gender matters. They also have the standard Hireling ability to sacrifice themselves to give you an automatic escape when running away.