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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 4911272" data-attributes="member: 996">The Eternal Champion certainly had an influence on D&amp;D, mainly on the alignment system and cosmology, both of which have altered over the years.&nbsp; There's vanishingly little of moorcockian Law/Chaos/Balance in what's left of the alignment system.&nbsp; Though, I suppose, you could find vestiges of it in the divine/primordial conflict.&nbsp; Elric was concieved as an antithisis of Conan.&nbsp; Where Conan was a physically powerful barbarian usurper who pitted honest steel against wicked wizardry, Elric was a feeble scion of a decadent empire who employed vile magic gained from demonic pacts.&nbsp; He was also concieved at a time when Moorcock was probably clinically depressed, and it shows.How you want to model Elric or a character inspired by Elric depends on what you're trying to capture.&nbsp; If you want to simulate Elric in detail - or anything else, for that mater - a more simulationist system might be in order.&nbsp; If you want to bring across the idea of a feeble unhuman scion of a lost empire, still using the demonic alliances of that empire, Tiefling Warlock certainly captures that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Melniboneans are physically and conceptually more like Eladrin or Drow - effete, elegant, intellectual, beautiful to humans but distinctly un-human (or even evil).&nbsp; So those races could also be options.Elric served Arioch, a 'Lord of Chaos' and 'Duke of Hell.'&nbsp; Depending on the state of the balance in any given world, Arioch could range in power from little more than a half-remembered boogeyman to the greatest of Gods.&nbsp;&nbsp; A Vestige Warlock would model a servitor of the former, an Invoker, one of the latter.Elric did swing a sword throughout the series, but his real power came from magic, mostly the magic of ancient pacts with elementals, his relationship with Arioch, and of course, Strombringer.&nbsp; He was almost certainly well schooled in whatever decadent martial styles perdominated in the Melnibone of his day, but that hardly justifies a martial class or even multiclass.&nbsp; Plenty of non-martial classes let you whack someone with a weapon, and melee training could easily model some wierd style of Melnibonean fencing.Hmmm... 'servant' of a Deity (Arioch, in the realms where chaos i is ascendant) who chops enemies to bloody bits with a big sword?&nbsp; Avenger, perhaps?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 4911272, member: 996"] The Eternal Champion certainly had an influence on D&D, mainly on the alignment system and cosmology, both of which have altered over the years. There's vanishingly little of moorcockian Law/Chaos/Balance in what's left of the alignment system. Though, I suppose, you could find vestiges of it in the divine/primordial conflict. Elric was concieved as an antithisis of Conan. Where Conan was a physically powerful barbarian usurper who pitted honest steel against wicked wizardry, Elric was a feeble scion of a decadent empire who employed vile magic gained from demonic pacts. He was also concieved at a time when Moorcock was probably clinically depressed, and it shows. How you want to model Elric or a character inspired by Elric depends on what you're trying to capture. If you want to simulate Elric in detail - or anything else, for that mater - a more simulationist system might be in order. If you want to bring across the idea of a feeble unhuman scion of a lost empire, still using the demonic alliances of that empire, Tiefling Warlock certainly captures that. Melniboneans are physically and conceptually more like Eladrin or Drow - effete, elegant, intellectual, beautiful to humans but distinctly un-human (or even evil). So those races could also be options. Elric served Arioch, a 'Lord of Chaos' and 'Duke of Hell.' Depending on the state of the balance in any given world, Arioch could range in power from little more than a half-remembered boogeyman to the greatest of Gods. A Vestige Warlock would model a servitor of the former, an Invoker, one of the latter. Elric did swing a sword throughout the series, but his real power came from magic, mostly the magic of ancient pacts with elementals, his relationship with Arioch, and of course, Strombringer. He was almost certainly well schooled in whatever decadent martial styles perdominated in the Melnibone of his day, but that hardly justifies a martial class or even multiclass. Plenty of non-martial classes let you whack someone with a weapon, and melee training could easily model some wierd style of Melnibonean fencing. Hmmm... 'servant' of a Deity (Arioch, in the realms where chaos i is ascendant) who chops enemies to bloody bits with a big sword? Avenger, perhaps? [/QUOTE]

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