Crom is a skirmish game set in the Hyborian Age "...Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas..." that enables players to recreate the stories of Robert E. Howard and similar authors of heroic fantasy. Crom is designed primarily as a multiplayer game but can be played with two players or even solo if desired. One or more players will play heroes, Conan and his companions for instance, and one or more of the other players will play the antagonists, Thulsa Doom, minions, monsters etc. The ideal set up would be three Hero players and a single Antagonist player. Each scenario should be a short, sharp encounter that takes no more than an hour to play, usually much less. These scenarios can be strung together to form a campaign or story. Character actions and combat are resolved using an initiative card (chit pull) system and dice pool mechanism. Scenarios introduce special events and action cards.