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.

 

[Riley]

Ported over from the other thread…

Goodman Games are the problomatic ones. Beyond their continued funding of judgesguild and lying about it, they have long been neo confederates. Their first published RPG was good old boy confederates riding dinosaurs to defeat the evil union industrialist on another planet Dixie flags and all.

Seriously?!? I had no idea.

 

[Riley]

Oh, look at that:

Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Wiki page doesn’t describe the game, but the cover image fits:

Sheesh. It’s hard to keep track of all the nonsense some people get up to.

 

[Riley]

And a partial review/description is here:

Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex (for d20)

“Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex (for d20)
…Written by Joseph Goodman
…Take one part Old West, one part American Civil War, and inject both into the big fleshy parts of a dinosaur or two, before adding a heavy sprinkle of space going Science Fiction and plugging this soggy mixture into the d20 System, and what have you got? Cowboys and dinosaurs and . . . Oh my! Or rather Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex, a new d20 system setting that returns to the genre last visited by GURPS Dinosaurs and GDW's Cadillacs & Dinosaurs RPG, based upon the comic Xenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz.
The setting for Broncosaurus Rex is Cretasus in the year 2202. Cretasus is a large Jupiter-sized planet with an Earth-like atmosphere and climate, as well as being only a 1-G world. Twenty large valleys, each with different range of flora and fauna last seen when dinosaurs walked the Earth; dominate the planet's surface. Further, many of the dinosaur species are intelligent enough that they can be domesticated, trained as riding beasts or even form tool-using tribes of their own. No single political faction dominates Cretasus, though because of its abundant mineral and biological resources, both the Federal Union of Planets and the Confederate States of America would like to do so.

Although it is not made clear initially, Broncosaurus Rex is actually set within . . .”

Double sheesh.

 

[Ghost2020]

I remember seeing that in game stores.

It was as stupid then as it is now.

 

[Doctor Depravo]

Oh, look at that:

Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Wiki page doesn’t describe the game, but the cover image fits:

View attachment 436558

Sheesh. It’s hard to keep track of all the nonsense some people get up to.

Ehhhh, that came out in 2001.

A lot has changed in the intervening decades of Game-O-Sphere sensibilities regarding all thangs Civil War.

I mean, the entirety of Deadlands [from 1996] can be (and often was / is) viewed as problematic. Message boards / fora were rife with gripes directed at (and often inflamed by) creator Shane Lacy Hensley. And last I recall (which could be incorrect), SLH mellowed on his various takes.

 

[Argyle King]

I remember seeing that in game stores.

It was as stupid then as it is now.

Not my cup of tea, but I don't feel that writing a ttrpg using elements of the US Civil War makes someone a Confederate sympathizer any more than a Call of Duty of duty video game proves that the programmers are Russian Spetznaz.

To be fair, I don't know much about the product pictured beyond what @Riley
posted.

What I do know is that I am excited to see Elric projects.

 

[Staffan]

Ehhhh, that came out in 2001.

A lot has changed in the intervening decades of Game-O-Sphere sensibilities regarding all thangs Civil War.

I mean, the entirety of Deadlands can be (and often was / is) viewed as problematic. Message boards / fora were rife with gripes directed at (and often inflamed by) creator Shane Lacy Hensley. And last I recall (which could be incorrect), SLH mellowed on his various takes.

In the SWADE version of Deadlands, they retconned a bunch of stuff related to the Civil War (with the in-game explanation that it was due to timey-wimey stuff done by Morgana Le Fay). There's a post about it on their website.

 

[Doctor Depravo]

In the SWADE version of Deadlands, they retconned a bunch of stuff related to the Civil War (with the in-game explanation that it was due to timey-wimey stuff done by Morgana Le Fay). There's a post about it on their website.

Thanks for that. Good to know!

 

[Mournblade94]

And a partial review/description is here:

Pyramid: Pyramid Review: Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex (for d20)

“Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex (for d20)
…Written by Joseph Goodman
…Take one part Old West, one part American Civil War, and inject both into the big fleshy parts of a dinosaur or two, before adding a heavy sprinkle of space going Science Fiction and plugging this soggy mixture into the d20 System, and what have you got? Cowboys and dinosaurs and . . . Oh my! Or rather Dinosaur Planet: Broncosaurus Rex, a new d20 system setting that returns to the genre last visited by GURPS Dinosaurs and GDW's Cadillacs & Dinosaurs RPG, based upon the comic Xenozoic Tales by Mark Schultz.
The setting for Broncosaurus Rex is Cretasus in the year 2202. Cretasus is a large Jupiter-sized planet with an Earth-like atmosphere and climate, as well as being only a 1-G world. Twenty large valleys, each with different range of flora and fauna last seen when dinosaurs walked the Earth; dominate the planet's surface. Further, many of the dinosaur species are intelligent enough that they can be domesticated, trained as riding beasts or even form tool-using tribes of their own. No single political faction dominates Cretasus, though because of its abundant mineral and biological resources, both the Federal Union of Planets and the Confederate States of America would like to do so.

Although it is not made clear initially, Broncosaurus Rex is actually set within . . .”

Double sheesh.

Honestly what's wrong with this? I wouldn't play it but lots of people would and not because it has a Confederate flag on it.a flag taking up the same space as the Union flag.

This just appears to me as people trying to stir up something that isnt there.

I dont recall anywhere where GG gave indications they were neoconfederates.

 

[jdrakeh]

I dont recall anywhere where GG gave indications they were neoconfederates.

Me, either, but they have openly admitted (after first promising that they would not and later trying to justify it) that they're cool working with virulent racists. So.