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]

The most liberal place on the planet?
Granted, San Francisco is pretty liberal socially, but looking outside USA might be worth considering? Brighton, UK,
Hebden Bridge, UK
St Pauli, Germany
Amsterdam

Hold on, there are other countries?

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Well I have Dying Earth and Lakhmar so I'll be getting this for sure to use with DCC.

 

[Imaro]

Well I have Dying Earth and Lakhmar so I'll be getting this for sure to use with DCC.

Yeah I have those as well...not interested in anything else they produce at this point. Hopefully someone else does a 5e take but if not... Dragonbane and Free League it is.

 

[mamba]

You all want to support goodman you should know what they are about.

jeez, any fantasy that has the Confederates as the heroes is immediately very suspect to me, no matter how far you remove it in other regards (dinos…)

 

[Some Dude]

Heres a sample of what Joe Goodman was writing and publishing in 2001:
“Although technology is a driving force in the year 2202, the powerful accomplishments of heroic individuals are still important. The Confederacy, in particular, is renowned for its daring, dashing young heroes, and many of them routinely perform incredible feats.”

“The Confederate States of America fights for America as an ideal of liberty, not a geographic place. Led by dashing heroes (not politicians or bureaucrats), the Confederate member states shun the crass, “everything is for sale” attitude of the commercial and industrial Union. Instead, they prefer an aristocratic, paternalistic, agrarian lifestyle. Individualism and self-rule, liberty and independence, free will and hands-off governments are the marks of rebel lands.”
All the fluff in the book is like this.

You all want to support goodman you should know what they are about.

Yeah I am not too proud to admit that I was totally wrong about that. That's a whole lotta yikes.

 

[Riley]

No, Goodman is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, i.e. the most liberal place on the planet. Chew on that.

The San Francisco Bay Area includes Silicon Valley, which, when chewed, does not taste particularly liberal.

 

[Gradine]

The San Francisco Bay Area includes Silicon Valley, which, when chewed, does not taste particularly liberal.

One the one hand, SF is extraordinarily liberal, on the other hand, a deeper dive into this would require explaining the difference between "liberal" and "leftist" and what makes the region far more one than the other, which even I think would be outside the bounds of this discussion/forum (in brief; SF is the former and Oakland is the latter), beyond stating that "Broncosaurus Rex" as a product was not entirely out of phase of the "liberal" thought pervasive of the region at the time (in that thinking that "no look see they ended slavery so it's all good" was perfectly fine; because the "states' rights" argument was still highly prevalent at that time, despite being deeply ahistorical).

 

[Argyle King]

Well I have Dying Earth and Lakhmar so I'll be getting this for sure to use with DCC.

There was some talk of beginner/starter sets for DCC being a project in the future. I think they are intended to be for vanilla DCC, but it will interesting to see if there are other authors who influence the contents of those.

 

[Stormonu]

No, Goodman is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, i.e. the most liberal place on the planet. Chew on that.

Where'd you get Texas from? Did you just make it up? He doesn't even have any kind of Southern accent.

I've never heard him speak (and for the record, my wife, a native Mississippian, doesn't have an accent either)

Not sure why I thought they were in Texas, maybe a mailing label I saw once or just conflated it because of their Bronosaurus Rex line.

 

[Some Dude]

I've never heard him speak (and for the record, my wife, a native Mississippian, doesn't have an accent either)

Not sure why I thought they were in Texas, maybe a mailing label I saw once or just conflated it because of their Bronosaurus Rex line.

My wife is a lifelong Texan, born to two heavily accented lifelong Texans. She has no accent.