(Games Workshop [UK] hardcover edition)
"Available for the first time in a hardback book, and including the separately published Stormbringer Companion, Stormbringer brings alive the lands of the Young Kingdoms. Based on the same game system as the enormously popular RuneQuest Fantasy Roleplaying Adventure game, Stormbringer allows players to choose from a wide variety of backgrounds, from Melnibonean Noble to Pan Tangian sorcerer. All the characters and places from the Elric mythos are here, ready for your characters to meet and adventure with.
Complete details of the Young Kingdoms at the time of Elric are included, along with creatures, characters and 7 complete roleplaying adventures, including two solos. With this one volume, you have a complete guide to roleplaying in the world of Elric, Moonglum, Rackhir, Yyrkoon - and, of course, the soul-stealing demon-sword Stormbringer."
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Born April 28, 1947 in Ogden, Utah. Grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. Was a member of the first group of students to ever attend Maryvale High School, and graduated 13th in 1965, the first group to ever graduate from there. Became a gamer in high school. Graduated from Arizona State University in January 1970 with a B.A. in English Literature. Got my first library job at the Ocotillo Branch of Phoenix Public Library in October, 1972. Married Catherine Ellen Grote on May 25, 1973. (This union eventually produced two children--Jillian Charmaine St. Andre, born in 1979 and James Corwin St. Andre born in 1991. I separated from Cathy in 2011.) Attended Library School at the University of Arizona in 1974 and graduated with M.L.S. in December of 1974. Wrote the first edition of Tunnels and Trolls in April 1975, self-published it in June of that year, a limited edition of 100 copies. Tunnels & Trolls was the second role-playing game published in the U.S.A.--and the first one to actually include a copyright notice.
I worked as a Librarian for the City of Phoenix continually from 1975 to 2010, during which time I served at the main library and several of the branches
I seem to have spent the rest of my life expanding and elaborating on that seminal work. Tunnels and Trolls went through four editions quite quickly and in 1975 the classic 5th edition, edited and re-written entirely by Liz Danforth from my notes appeared in 1981. That remained the standard until 2005 when Fiery Dragon Ltd. of Canada produced the 7th edition, entirely rewritten by me. In 2008 the 7.5 edition modified the 2005 rules slightly, and is now my preferred edition of the game. However, I have created a number of other games including Monsters! Monsters!, Stormbringer, and was one of the designers of the computer classic Wasteland.
From about 1985 to 2010, I was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and have published 3 or 4 short stories that are really difficult to find. During my career as a librarian I also reviewed books for them, and many of my reviews are reproduced on the internet. In addition I wrote scholarly biography articles for Scribners and a collection development article for Library Journal in 2010. My total bibliography would be both lengthy and varied, and even I don't think I could make a complete list. And I am not done yet. I produced about a dozen new Tunnels and Trolls modules in 2011, and plan to continue with more of the same in 2012 and the forseeable future.
If you really want a biography of me, see the article in http://en.wikipedia.org, although even the famed Wikipedia is not completely up to date, or accurate.
I worked as a Librarian for the City of Phoenix continually from 1975 to 2010, during which time I served at the main library and several of the branches
I seem to have spent the rest of my life expanding and elaborating on that seminal work. Tunnels and Trolls went through four editions quite quickly and in 1975 the classic 5th edition, edited and re-written entirely by Liz Danforth from my notes appeared in 1981. That remained the standard until 2005 when Fiery Dragon Ltd. of Canada produced the 7th edition, entirely rewritten by me. In 2008 the 7.5 edition modified the 2005 rules slightly, and is now my preferred edition of the game. However, I have created a number of other games including Monsters! Monsters!, Stormbringer, and was one of the designers of the computer classic Wasteland.
From about 1985 to 2010, I was a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and have published 3 or 4 short stories that are really difficult to find. During my career as a librarian I also reviewed books for them, and many of my reviews are reproduced on the internet. In addition I wrote scholarly biography articles for Scribners and a collection development article for Library Journal in 2010. My total bibliography would be both lengthy and varied, and even I don't think I could make a complete list. And I am not done yet. I produced about a dozen new Tunnels and Trolls modules in 2011, and plan to continue with more of the same in 2012 and the forseeable future.
If you really want a biography of me, see the article in http://en.wikipedia.org, although even the famed Wikipedia is not completely up to date, or accurate.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
outstanding flavor for any campaign, mechanics not sure about,
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This review is from: Stormbringer: Fantasy Roleplaying in the World of Elric (Hardcover)
elric is of course one of top 5 adventure fantasy books of all timeexplosive imagination by moorcock combined with ability to cram dozens of pages of meaning into 1 page, and letting the reader fill in details unique magic system of summoning combined with ever rarer binding and thats it is enough to push the series only palladium had a summoner or diabilist no game yet has a binder D&D had spirit wrack to bind a demon to your will but not INTO and object to give ti powers alos no magic users who cant axe you forget taht magic users in elric realm come with demon plate mail thats almost impregnible and demon containing war axes to chop your horses head off and your next guardian are big as are greek god like meddling with mortals and jealouy among gods godesses and sexy ones are sadly lacking in order to publish no doubt without being called porographer in those days but a good DM can add them a la the succubus in AD&D the whole cosmic balance thing and incarnations of heroes fighting for law or chaos is kinda awesome too law being evil was not shown enuf i think in the books unless the hawkmoon books depict an evil lawful empire in granbretan, but they felt more like chaos, hmmm tuf one because they did brag about scientific sorcery and putting all under 1 rule, hmmmm evil lawful clerics are good line to inquire about
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