Lankhmar

[Mark]

You can get the from my new favorite bookstore: The Book Depository - Homepage - Cheap books with free delivery worldwide "all books for all people"


edit: Hmm I just put in the link and it inserted the silly advertising msg.. werid...
They don't charge international shipping!!! about 10$ US each

If you preview your links, you can chop out the unwanted text before posting, I have found.


Lots of rich descriptive text in Leiber books, and they can be very fun reads.

 

[JoeGKushner]

And when I looked through old e-bay seeing if I could find a relatively cheap copy of the Runequest version, I noticed a ton of the AD&D ones that were relatively cheap.

 

[Voadam]

1e Deities and Demigods has the Lankhmar pantheon and some monsters and heroes as does the 2e Legends and Lore.

2e has Cutthroats of Lankhmar, Nehwon, Slayers of Lankhmar, Tales of Lankhmar, Thieves of Lankhmar, Prince of Lankhmar, Wonders of Lankmar,

1e has Swords of Deceit and Swords of the Undercity and Lankhmar City of Adventure.

That's it for stuff I've got. I still like the Deities and Demigods entries the best.

 

[Voadam]

I remember seeing some Lieber Mouser and Fafhrd writings in an early issue of dragon as well (an issue number below 10 I believe, I'd have to check my CD to confirm though).

 

[Dr Simon]

I haven't checked out Mongoose's version, but for a long, long time I ran a Nehwon-based campaign using RuneQuest 3 as the engine, and it worked like a charm. I'd recommend it over D&D (of any edition, although the alternative at the time was 1st, later 2nd Ed), and Mongoose RQ would probably work just as well - it's just that bit dirtier, and high-powered magic is that much harder to come by. You could also try Iron Heroes, since that deliberately tries to emulate the "golden era" stories of Leiber, Howard etc. (*).

I was disappointed with the old D&D Lankhmar guide, and preferred by own version cobbled together entirely from the stories (including interpretations of Stardock, Lords of Quarmall and the Treasure House of Angarngi from Jewels in the Forest).

(*) Ironically, original D&D was intended to have more in common with these works than the Tolkien-esque behemoths that it has become more associated with.

 

[Frost]

It wouldn't have hurt to warn folks that you just dug up a 5 year-old thread (or linked it, or forked it, etc.)...

Uhm, why is resurrecting an old thread a bad thing? The old posts are still valid.

Anywho, any more insights into why the 1e Lankhmar book is better than the 2e version?