From: Tom Zunder <tzunder@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Subject: Comments on the Elric! Preview
System: Elric!

Thanks for the note on Elric!

Sounds like Chaosium is trying to make what I thought was a good recreation of the early Elric books into something playable. To give Ken St Andre his due, his version does reflect the sheer chaos and slaughter of the original books.

Of course the new Elric that Moorcock is writing is far more considered, and Elric becomes ever nicer in each one, so maybe the game should change too.

BUT.

I guess this sounds like a differently angled RQ. Do Stormbringer players want people to have little RQ like magics? Many people I know don't like RQ access to magic and play Stormbringer because it's different.

I won't dismiss this game without seeing it and I'd guess it'll be a good game, which I might well buy for another angle on Basic Role Playing, but will it be the Young Kingdoms as I want them? Questions questions...

I felt Stormbringer was mad, dangerous, unstable and lethal. Lunatic Melniboneans rubbed out PCs and NPCs like flies with horrendous magic
that no one else had. No one quite knew if they would survive the evening and all feared the b**t**d who had rolled the sorcerer.

This was GOOD and HOLY for it accurately reflected Moorcock's books.

Nowhere in the Moorcock books do people have little RQ type spells, it has no precedence in the literature.

Can you still play a Melnibonean? Are the demon and sorcery rules still there?

I don't mind some character stability, but not at the loss of the world!

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