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BRP Elric! vs Mongoose Elric? (vs Stormbringer?)

Started by Akrasia, November 22, 2009, 04:08:06 PM

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Jason D

Though I am not one to pimp my own stuff, the Slaves of Fate adventure for Dragon Lords of Melnibone has gotten a lot of praise. It's for the d20 version, admittedly, but stats adapting it to Stormbringer are available on Chaosium's website somewhere.

If it means anything, the adventure was written for Elric!, then I ported the stats over to the d20 version, then when Stormbringer 5th edition came out, I asked Chaosium to publish the adapted stats for NPCs, monsters, etc.

Unfortunately, the fiasco between Chaosium and Wizard's Attic meant that a ton of the books were dumped straight into the remaindered book market, which means you're more likely to find new copies at a Half Price Books than to be able to order them new from your FLGS or local bookstore.

Akrasia

Mildly surprised to see some minor necromancy cast on this thread... :hmm:

In the unlikely event that anyone here is interested, I ended up tracking down everything published for Elric!/Stormbringer 5e over the past five months (I originally posted my query last November).  I also obtained the main adventure books for SB4e (I don't own the rules for SB4e, but there are notes on converting SB4e material into Elric! in the book).  I'm tempted to purchase a copy of Stormbringer 3e (which is, I believe, essentially 1e + all the supplementary material in one book), but doubt that I can justify the expense to myself...

The Corum book is indeed very good.  It radically changes the core magic system in some interesting ways.  My only disappointment with it is that it includes only three adventures.  I was hoping for a more complete campaign.  Nonetheless, a great piece of work.  I was naturally disposed to like it: I prefer Moorcock's 'Corum' stories over anything else written by him that I've read (including the Elric stuff).
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Akrasia

Quote from: jdurall;381122Though I am not one to pimp my own stuff, the Slaves of Fate adventure for Dragon Lords of Melnibone has gotten a lot of praise. It's for the d20 version, admittedly, but stats adapting it to Stormbringer are available on Chaosium's website somewhere.

If it means anything, the adventure was written for Elric!, then I ported the stats over to the d20 version, then when Stormbringer 5th edition came out, I asked Chaosium to publish the adapted stats for NPCs, monsters, etc.

Unfortunately, the fiasco between Chaosium and Wizard's Attic meant that a ton of the books were dumped straight into the remaindered book market, which means you're more likely to find new copies at a Half Price Books than to be able to order them new from your FLGS or local bookstore.

Thanks for mentioning this, Jason.  I'll pick up a copy if I come across one at a reasonable price.  :)
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Mojius

Am I right in thinking that when n encounter occurs that the GM assigns everyone's turn-order based on DEX. The highest DEX goes first, the lowest last... is that's what meant by DEX ranks???
sorry if this sounds dumb:confused: