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]

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

I heard a story on the radio the other day that said Gen X and subsequent generations are much less likely to have accents than their predecessors. I'm not sure why Gen X is the inflection point, but there you go.

 

[Autumnal]

I’ve had Australian friends remark about that. There’s this story from when Dad went to Australia for a couple weeks to oversee a hardware and software upgrade at the Deep Space Network station, then at Woomera. This was 1972 or so.

After arriving and doing some typical nerd tourist things (being disappointed that the sink and toilet didn’t really drain the other way in the southern hemisphere, admiring kangaroos crossing the road), he arrived at the station for his first day. The assistant director gave him a tour. As noon approached, the asst director handed him off to one of the engineers with the comment, “Mickle pie for lunch.”

Now, Dad was a very mild-mannered kind of guy and temperamentally conservative in a lot of ways. When he found what suited him, he tended to stick with it. But he did have a certain adventurous streak that occasionally surfaced, including in bouts of food tourism. So he got curious, speculating to himself that mickle pie might be something like the various exotically named British pastries.

So you can imagine his disappointment at getting to the cafeteria and learning that the asst director had authorized Mick to pay for the lunch.

Aussie friends remark that Stryne so thick there’s really no trace of an A sound in PAY is now very rare. There’s been homogenizing from mass media and mingling of spoken sources.

 

[Some Dude]

I heard a story on the radio the other day that said Gen X and subsequent generations are much less likely to have accents than their predecessors. I'm not sure why Gen X is the inflection point, but there you go.

Accent Neutrality: It's not just for Kansans anymore

 

[Rainbow Scissors]

I heard a story on the radio the other day that said Gen X and subsequent generations are much less likely to have accents than their predecessors. I'm not sure why Gen X is the inflection point, but there you go.

With my younger players, I notice they sound more similar in tone. They follow a lot of the same social media and streaming content, so maybe it is an effect similar to when I was young and everybody watched the same 2-3 channels. Where the differences seem to come up is in the slang and terms they may use depending upon which personalities they follow or online communities they are in.

 

[Metroido]

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

Ah, I see. I'm sorry, I guess I just assumed you had, given all the YouTube videos and LiveStreams he puts out. He also put out several videos specifically addressing the CSIO controversy, so I just figured you had watched them.