(Inspired by the recent Conan thread.)

It's been a while since I read the Lankhmar books, but I'd like to reread them and possibly run a campaign. Here are the Lankhmar RPGs I found after a quick search, arranged reverse chronologically, with a few notes attached:


Dungeon Crawl Classics (2019)
Lankhmar Boxed Set. Officially licensed from the estate of Fritz Leiber! Several supplements and adventures.

Savage Worlds (2015)
Lankhmar: City of Thieves. There's a boxed set, and a PDF. Tons of supplements and adventures.

Mongoose RuneQuest (2007)
Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar.

AD&D 2E (1993)
Lankhmar City of Adventure. Other supplements and adventures.

AD&D (1985)
Lankhmar: City of Adventure. Was this a boxed set? I think I used to own it.


Let me know which one is your favorite, or if I have missed any. And if you prefer to use another system to run Lankhmar adventures, feel free to make a case for it! I'm torn between DCC and SW.

If anyone has the DCC Lankhmar, I'd love to hear about it. Especially any actual play XP.

I love Mythras, so Mongoose's Lankhmar works really well for me, and it is a pity that only one book came out.
I think that DCC Lankhmar looks like it will have the best flavour however, it seems like a perfect fit, and it's on my list to get the pdf at some stage.

There is also the AD&D Deities & Demigods section on Lankhmar.

And a board game from 76 by TSR. Lankhmar. Based on a wargame Leiber and a friend created back in the late 30s.

Oh I'm a big fan of the Savage Worlds version. I really like the way they handled magic.

Magic in Savage Worlds is normally very tactical, but they made a much more methodical version.

I still have a copy of the 1985 City of Adventure supplement in good condition. With the exception of the silliness with the map (which I complained about recently in another thread) it still holds up as one of the better city supplements I've seen.

I'd never heard of the DCC version. It sounds interesting. DCC and Lankhmar seem like an ideal match.

I actually liked the silliness with the map. Only the outer building of each city block is on the map, with a random city geomorph facing a random direction used for the interior of each city block. I considered rolling for a different geomorph every time the player characters entered a particular block. I didn't do it.

This was the map I used for Greyhawk City in my campaign in the late '80s.

The 1e AD&D City of Adventure book (it wasn't a boxed set) was a surprisingly good treatment of the setting if you used the variant AD&D rules it included.

Quote from: Mankcam;1099987I love Mythras, so Mongoose's Lankhmar works really well for me, and it is a pity that only one book came out.
I think that DCC Lankhmar looks like it will have the best flavour however, it seems like a perfect fit, and it's on my list to get the pdf at some stage.

Mythras Lankhmar... sign me the hell up for that!

Quote from: Spinachcat;1099985If anyone has the DCC Lankhmar, I'd love to hear about it. Especially any actual play XP.

I picked it up this weekend at Dragonflight. It's packed with STUFF! A map of the city, a map of the region, a DCC guide, a player's guide and GM's guide, a newspaper with tons of behinds the scenes stuff.

I haven't played DCC yet, but I plan on putting into rotation at my local game club where I'm presenting Seattle RPG Carousel, a regularly rotating GM/Game platform for the system-curious. :-D

Quote from: Brendan;1100045Mythras Lankhmar... sign me the hell up for that!

Technically it is for Mongoose RQ/MRQ, but considering Mythras is a close BRP descendant of that system, then it might as well be Mythras Lankhmar. It tweaks the char gen and has Corruption rules for sorcery and such, but otherwise the stat block would be 90% (or more) compatible with Mythras.

If you are a Mythras GM, then Mongoose RQ2 Lankhmar is certainly worth hunting down for the collection

I actually don't own Mythras, but BRP/RQ2&3/Stormbringer/MagicWorld, so I'm good with that.

Although, on further reflection, it wouldn't be hard to just convert the material from the old AD&D book.

I only have the 1e version - good stuff, ran a fun high school campaign with it in the late '80s.

Quote from: trechriron;1100092I picked it up this weekend at Dragonflight. It's packed with STUFF! A map of the city, a map of the region, a DCC guide, a player's guide and GM's guide, a newspaper with tons of behinds the scenes stuff.

When you have the chance to read the book, please post a review. I'm particularly interested how it changes DCC to make it Lankhmar, or whether they changed Lankhmar to make it DCC instead.

Quote from: Brendan;1100115I actually don't own Mythras, but BRP/RQ2&3/Stormbringer/MagicWorld, so I'm good with that.

Although, on further reflection, it wouldn't be hard to just convert the material from the old AD&D book.

Well crossing from MRQ2/Mythras to Classic BRP isn't much of a big deal either, the stat blocks would be different, but its still BRP and about 70% compatibility between those streams.
The Magic (including Corruption mechanics) could be ported straight into BRP without any dramas

But if BRP is your gaming preference, then you'll be aware how easy it is to handwave stuff and convert on the fly.
Given that, then any rpg system is useful if you are after the Lankhmar content, so yeah porting AD&D Lankhmar would not be arduous.