Now I'm reading the elric of melnibone game which is basically elric with RQ2 rules. Magic World is a direct successor to SB5. All in all, Elric!/SB5 feel more streamlined and realised compared with SB1-4. Along the way, editions move away from Sanity and to Elan before they end with Allegiance in Elric!/SB5. The nation a character comes from have a lot more impact (with bonus and penalties to characteristics) and skills having skill categories and modifiers (which I prefer even if I am not too excited about how they are implemented in SB1-4). Stormbringer 1 to 4 are also very similar. I also prefer the extra detail given around cults and gods.
Elric! has a better layout, some of the art in SB5 is better and I prefer how the nations are integrated into character creation in SB5 (by giving clear, languages, culrural weapons and cultural skills pointers). Stormbringer 5 and Elric! are basically the same game. Not sure which version of Stormbringer you are comparing Elric! with. What's peoples thoughts on the pros and cons of the different versions? I started running stormbringer again last summer after a break of 35 yearsįor our group it felt a bit clunky so I moved to elric. I find the Elric! and Stormbringer 5 rules just right for me, but Elric of Melnibone can't be beat for setting description. And frankly, whatever particular flavour of D100 rules one prefers, Elric of Melnibone is the best starting point. if I was to ever run a game in the Young Kingdoms again, I'd use the Elric! rules, with heavy borrowings from Elric of Melnibone for the setting, magic and cosmology. But the Elric of Melnibone game and its supplements do the best job of all the D100 versions of capturing that problematic "canon" of the Elric saga I alluded to above.īasically. MRQ2 is not a flavour of D100 I particularly enjoy: for all it fixes the IMO huge flaws of MRQ1, it does so by adding detail and intricacy in areas I no longer find such things satisfying. But, even in its re-packaged form of Stormbringer 5th edition in the early 2000's, it wasn't hugely accurate even to that portion of the saga.leaving aside the philosophical conundrum of "canon" for a series by an author who's fundamental approach is antithetical to the the sort of codification and coherence the notion of "canon" rests on. I am hugely fond of Elric! - it is pretty much my favourite incarnation of BRP, and it is mostly focused on the era of of the Elric saga (original early 1960's novellas up to circa 1980) that I actually enjoy I'm not a fan of the 1990's and more recent additions to the saga.
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