D&D General Official Elric of Melniboné TTRPG coming from Goodman Games

Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné is getting an official tabletop roleplaying game courtesy of Goodman Games. The game will be powered both by the D&D 5E game engine, as well as Goodman's in-house Dungeon Crawl Classics.

A whole line of products is planned, under the banner The Classic Era of Elric, and will be crowdfunded in 2027.

Elric of Melniboné is a classic sword and sorcery character dating back to the 1960s, featuring in a series of stories by Michael Moorcock. The titular character, a summoner, is physically weak and maintains his health using special herbs until he acquires Stormbringer, a magical sword which grnats him physical prowess, but which must feed on the souls of living beings.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I do like a lot of the dinosaur concepts. Tribes of intelligent Jurassic Park Velociraptors as alternative dangerous aggressive humanoids, T-Rexes who continue to grow throughout life and are repositories of knowledge and ancient ones becoming psionic, the whole book of made up dinosaur variants.

Yeah, their standalone (I think) 3E splatbook on velociraptors sounded pretty cool, but not like something I'd ever use.

And didn't their tyrannosaurs become psychic once they got old enough?

 

[Stormonu]

Yeah, their standalone (I think) 3E splatbook on velociraptors sounded pretty cool, but not like something I'd ever use.

And didn't their tyrannosaurs become psychic once they got old enough?

It's been about 20 years since I read those books, but I think your right. I'd just gotten them for the dinosaur stats, really.

 

[Rainbow Scissors]

It will be difficult to present Eternal Champions content. Elric fights Nazis, but the reasons why are not pure good.
Fighting Nazis should always be a good thing. It might not be good enough for a 2027 audience.

 

[Imaro]

It will be difficult to present Eternal Champions content. Elric fights Nazis, but the reasons why are not pure good.
Fighting Nazis should always be a good thing. It might not be good enough for a 2027 audience.

GG only has access to the original stories so they dont have to worry about it.

 

[Gradine]

I mean, to be honest that just sounds like the setting of Firefly but with dinosaurs.

That doesn't make it any better of course

 

[Argyle King]

I mean, to be honest that just sounds like the setting of Firefly but with dinosaurs.

Sounded that way to me too.
It fits the early 2000s timeline.
Also, the show Sliders would have been ending around that time but still hanging on through syndication.

 

[Imaro]

I mean, to be honest that just sounds like the setting of Firefly but with dinosaurs.

That doesn't make it any better of course

How so... in Firefly are the good guys or the bad guys based on southern confederates?

 

[Staffan]

How so... in Firefly are the good guys or the bad guys based on southern confederates?

There are some strong "lost cause" vibes in Firefly, with the main character and at least one of the crew having fought for "the Independents" some years (I think one of the episodes mentions 10) before the show and having lost. There's no trace of the Independents having supported slavery though – the vibe is more "We settled these moons/this land and we don't want the central power telling us what to do."

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

How so... in Firefly are the good guys or the bad guys based on southern confederates?

The pilot has a lot of pretty cringeworthy dialogue in this regard. Like @Staffan says, there's no evidence that the Independents/Browncoats were otherwise Confederacy analogues, but there's a lot of "yikes" dialogue.

 

[Imaro]

There are some strong "lost cause" vibes in Firefly, with the main character and at least one of the crew having fought for "the Independents" some years (I think one of the episodes mentions 10) before the show and having lost. There's no trace of the Independents having supported slavery though – the vibe is more "We settled these moons/this land and we don't want the central power telling us what to do."

I never associated the Independents with southern confederates though
...Im trying to understand what makes people draw that particular association.