D20 Dragon Lords of Melnibone?

[King_Stannis]

I don't regret the Purchase of Stormbringer, the actual Chaosium game.

Here Here! My group for a change of pace played Elric!/Stormbringer and had a blast. Great fun and a fantasticly elegant combat system. Just detailed enough to make it realistic but in no way cumbersome.

T-Bill, do you agree that, with some tinkering to the magic system(which already expects you to make some spells up), it would be the perfect system for Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire"? After playing it, that's immediately what I thought.

 

[Teflon Billy]

...T-Bill, do you agree that, with some tinkering to the magic system(which already expects you to make some spells up), it would be the perfect system for Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire"? After playing it, that's immediately what I thought.

It would be my second choice. Pendragon (with some tweaking) would be my first.

 

[King_Stannis]

It would be my second choice. Pendragon (with some tweaking) would be my first.

Right church wrong pew

I would assume Pendragon's combat system is somewhat similar to Elric!/Stormbringer's, is it not?

 

[Ysgarran]

Right church wrong pew

I would assume Pendragon's combat system is somewhat similar to Elric!/Stormbringer's, is it not?

If I remember correctly, they are completely different. The Elric system was more akin to the original Runequest system (percentile rolls) while Pendragon bases many of its system mechanics on a roll of the twenty sided die.

I doubt that we will ever see a d20 version of Pendragon though.

Ysgarran.

 

[Neo]

I don't regret the Purchase of Stormbringer, the actual Chaosium game.

I'd concur with Teflon Billy, the original hardbound Stormbringer book is one of my fondest remembered buys over the years. All other versions and editions have paled in comparison since.

I bought the D20 version and it has "some" good ideas, but mostly falls waaaaaaaay short of what has already gone before, and gives the impression *very* little thought or work went into the D20 conversion at all.

 

[Psion]

I read on the WotC board that there's a D20 Dragon Lords of Melnibone book out.

Does anybody know if this is true? If it is, who publishes it, and is it any good?

As has already been said, Choasium publishes it.

And as Hellhound summizes, I don't think it is very good.

The background material is okay... and also pretty much a cut-and-past job from Elric & Stormbringer. The d20 adaptation is very poor, and they fail to consider several fundamental questions when it comes to adapting the setting to d20. In essence, it's not d20 Young Kingdoms, it's D&D in the Young Kingdoms with only minimal slipshod adaptation efforts.

If you want to role play in the Young Kingdoms, pick up the BRP version of the game. You get the same background material as you get in the d20 version, but you'll get a playable game out of it at least.