Corum d20?

[JoeGKushner]

So now that the Eternal Champion d20 series seems to have some support and Chaosium is supporting Call of Cthulhu with d20, will we see some other Eternal Champion d20 material? With a Corum BRP system already out there, it should be fairly easy to reproduce for a d20 audience.

 

[trancejeremy]

I doubt it. Corum was sub-licensed out to "Darcsyde Productions", not Chaosium itself. From what I've heard from from the people there, they hate the d20 system even more than the Chaosium people.

Darcsyde is also apparently working on a Hawkmoon book.


Quite frankly, I don't think Chaosium has any idea what they're doing with the Michael Moorcock license.

First they put out the rather awful DLOM, apparently in the hopes of cashing in on the d20 craze. That apparently sold fairly well, despite their lack of effort on it (it being just a quick port of Elric! from BRP to d20.

But did they follow it up with any support? No, they put out another version of Elric! Only they changed the name of it to Stormbringer 5th edition, despite already putting out ads for it as Elric 2.0.

Then, do they support the new Stormbringer? No, but 8 months later, and about a year after DLOM came out, they finally put out a module for DLOM. A module for 1st level characters, no less (and a 'prison' modules, where the players start as prisoners, perhaps the oldest and most annoying cliches in gaming). AFAIK, my local store hasn't sold any of them (they have quite a stack on their shelf).

What were they thinking? A first level adventure a year after the first book came out? That boggles my mind, especially since DLOM is probably no longer on shelves so almost no one can buy both at once. And still no errata for DLOM, despite the fact that there are more than a few parts that make no sense if you don't own the Elric! book.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I don't know what their thinking. I suspect that they've had some writers bail on them, or that the d20 Call of Cthulhu situation proved more lucrative than they originally suspected.

As far as the people doing Corum now... I grow weary of people talking about how bad the d20 system is. It's pretty open so improve it. I subscribe to Pyramid, great magazine for $15.00 a year btw, but the d20 bashing over there is pretty hi often as they lay down the praise for GURPS, a system with hardly any setting support for any of it's published or traditional settings.

Corum d20, I'm pretty sure, would probably sell more than Corum BRP.

Now the Eternal Champion... say a book broken up into three sections, Corum, Hawkmoon, and Erekose... that would sell even more than Corum d20! Of course, some sections would have to be slimmed down!