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<blockquote data-quote="Kobold Stew" data-source="post: 8098137" data-attributes="member: 23484">Re: Moorcock. For influence on AD&amp;D, the six DAW volumes that appeared in 1977 are all relevant and (for the game's first players) &quot;essential&quot;. They all collect earlier material, but present it as a continuous narrative. The most recently written (book 2, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, 1976?) might be the most coherent of all six volumes, though probably was written after AD&amp;D was being drafted. The earliest stories (from '62-'64) became the last two of these books, which (in Canada at least, and I presume the US) were published as Bane of the Black Sword (which included &quot;The Stealer of Souls&quot;) and Stormbringer. Re-reading them now, it's possible to see the order of composition (some of the stories in the earlier books are clearly filler and work to tie with other Moorcock creations; I didn't know that at the time, and was fine).These earliest stories were also collected in a Fantasy Masterworks series just called Elric (early 2000s; there's good Conan collection there too, as well as Anderson, Leiber, and Vance). All of these are out of print, though, and so need to be found second-hand; the current complete Moorcock has too much &quot;b&quot; material to make me want to buy it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kobold Stew, post: 8098137, member: 23484"] Re: Moorcock. For influence on AD&D, the six DAW volumes that appeared in 1977 are all relevant and (for the game's first players) "essential". They all collect earlier material, but present it as a continuous narrative. The most recently written (book 2, Sailor on the Seas of Fate, 1976?) might be the most coherent of all six volumes, though probably was written after AD&D was being drafted. The earliest stories (from '62-'64) became the last two of these books, which (in Canada at least, and I presume the US) were published as[I] Bane of the Black Sword [/I](which included "The Stealer of Souls") and [I]Stormbringer[/I]. Re-reading them now, it's possible to see the order of composition (some of the stories in the earlier books are clearly filler and work to tie with other Moorcock creations; I didn't know that at the time, and was fine). These earliest stories were also collected in a Fantasy Masterworks series just called [I]Elric[/I] (early 2000s; there's good Conan collection there too, as well as Anderson, Leiber, and Vance). All of these are out of print, though, and so need to be found second-hand; the current complete Moorcock has too much "b" material to make me want to buy it. [/QUOTE]

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