Stormbringer (role-playing game)
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The Stormbringer role-playing game (aka Elric!) from Chaosium puts the players in the world of the Young Kingdoms, based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock. The game takes its name from Elric's sword, Stormbringer. The dice system used is a percentile system similar to another game made by Chaosium, Call of Cthulhu.
The game has evolved through several editions over the years:
- 1st edition (1981), boxed set, cover art by Frank Brunner
- 2nd edition (1985), boxed set, cover art by Brunner
- French edition (1987), boxed set, published by Oriflam
- Japanese edition (????), boxed set, cover atr by Yoshitaka Amano
- 3rd edition (1987), book, published jointly with Games Workshop, cover art by Peter Jones ("PAJ")
- 4th edition (1990), book, cover art by Michael Whelan (from the 1977 DAW and 1986 Grafton editions of Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer)
- Elric! (1993), book, cover art by Brunner (same as 2nd edition)
- French edition (1994), hardback, published by Oriflam, cover by Herbert de Lartigue
- 5th edition (2001; ISBN 1568821522), book, cover art by John T. Snyder
In addition, Chaosium published a d20 System version of the game in (2001) as Dragon Lords of Melniboné (ISBN 1568821506), with cover art by Brunner.
External links
- Chaosium.com —
- Stormbringer (http://www.chaosium.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=39&products_id=62)
- Dragon Lords of Melniboné D20 SYSTEM (http://www.chaosium.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=39&products_id=62)
- Chaosium's Nifty Stormbringer Links (http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=92)
- ABCdaire des Jeux de Rôle Stormbringer (http://perso.club-internet.fr/kefi/jdr/Stormbringer/stormbringer.htm) (list of French editions and supplements)
- ストームブリンガー／エルリック！ ゲームコレクション (http://homepage2.nifty.com/Majin_no_Tamago/elric/elr_col.html) (list of Japanese editions and supplements)Template:Game-stub