Stormbringer (role-playing game)
Stormbringer 4th edition box cover, 1990.
Illustration by Michael Whelan, 1977. |
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| Designer(s) | Ken St. Andre, Lynn Willis et al. |
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| Publisher(s) | Chaosium |
| Publication date | 1981 (1st edition) 1985 (2nd edition) 1987 (3rd edition) 1990 (4th edition) 1993 (Elric!) 2001(5th edition) |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy |
| System(s) | Basic Role-Playing |
The Stormbringer fantasy role-playing game published by Chaosium puts the players in the world of the Young Kingdoms, based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock. The game takes its name from Elric's sword, Stormbringer (though one edition was published as Elric!) and uses the Basic Role-Playing game system, a percentile-dice-based system used in many role-playing games designed by Chaosium.
The game uses a version of the Basic Roleplaying system originally developed for Chaosium's RuneQuest fantasy RPG, but has different rules for magic and other setting-specific elements. The first three editions are functionally similar, while the fourth edition changed the magic system extensively. Elric! was a substantial reworking of the game, and Stormbringer fifth edition is little more than a new layout of the Elric! rules with additional material from several older game supplements that are no longer in print.
The game has evolved through several editions over the years:
Chaosium no longer produces new books for the Stormbringer roleplaying game. In August 2007, Mongoose Publishing published the Elric of Melniboné RPG by Lawrence Whittaker, which is based on Moongoose's first edition of RuneQuest, though it was itself discontinued when Mongoose's license ended.
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