"Farewell, friend. I was a thousand more times more evil than thou!"
@tbb40232 жыл бұрын
Moorcock did NOT give the license to both Chaosium and TSR. TSR went to Moorcock personally and got his permission to use it in Deities & Demigods, maybe even just verbally. Chaosium went through proper channels and went through Moorcock's agent who was supposed to be the one handling it and got a written contract for the rights. That is why TSR caved immediately. Chaosium was very gracious and said TSR did not have to destroy the books and remove it if they agreed to put an acknowledgement in future printings. TSR chose to just remove it in future printings.
@nicholasbielik71562 жыл бұрын
That makes sense. I heard an interview with him where he said he gave “permission” which is different than giving the license I guess. I think Moorcock appreciated that both parties were small groups of were essentially fans doing creative stuff, but was dismayed when the legal wrangling happened even if it was resolved pretty amicably.
@tedankhamenbonnah48482 жыл бұрын
That's the edition I started with! Had 2 copies gaffed out from under me. I am writing a retrospective on the old game (1st to 3rd editions) on my blog, Tomb of Tedankhamen. Your video has given me lots of hints and memories. Cheers!
@ElwoodShort2 жыл бұрын
I owned the GW edition [still intact] and played this with one group of players through a campaign and a few adventures. It was an absolute blast, so crazy so much fun, and easy to play. I wish I had been able to track down more sourcebooks for it at the time. Back then we rotated GM’s and systems/games so after that I sadly never switched back to it.
@willinnewhaven3285 Жыл бұрын
"A sword so dirty that it's actually _black_" - Cerebus the Aardvark
@trioofone89112 жыл бұрын
You really should check out DCC RPG
@coolintruddle2 жыл бұрын
Here's the story of my only interaction with the satanic panic: My mother was an Eucharistic Minister at the catholic church. She gave out the little bread discs at mass. I was 11, it was 1984. There was a book sale going on at the church and as I loved books (still do), I happily volunteered. As I was setting up a table I saw it. A shiny Red Box with the most awesome art I had ever seen on it. I asked my mom if I could get it. Another lady piped up saying no, I could not have it. She told me that it was going to get thrown out as 'inappropriate'. Mom pulled out the phb and glanced through the book. She then read the preface out loud. She handed me the box. That other lady's son became a regular at the weekly sessions in the church basement.
@the-real-Lovefist2 жыл бұрын
We played this a lot back in the day when not playing Runequest 2nd edition.
@ianoag2 жыл бұрын
I've got the Frank Brunner's Elric Portfolio with that King Grome illustration in it - It's also got a colour portrait of Elric which was also the Stormbringer RPG Box illustration
@nicholasbielik71562 жыл бұрын
Isn’t there also a painting of him standing over a certain person and howling in despair? I am pretty sure that was used as a color plate in the GW edition.
@ianoag2 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasbielik7156 I'll have to have a look later
@chriscotgrove96742 жыл бұрын
Great video, Nicholas. So many fantastic memories of playing this with friends back in the day. I laughed out loud when you were talking about your friend's mother banning D&D but not having a problem with Stormbringer!
@ianoag2 жыл бұрын
I pressed "like" almost immediately because it's awesome
@raybarlow88232 жыл бұрын
Moorcock, I loved his books- read the Stormbringer series several times, this brought back good memories of those times as a kid. Thank you!
@nicholasbielik71562 жыл бұрын
He's still going btw! New Elric book due the end of the year!
@raybarlow88232 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasbielik7156 Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
@TonyPuleo12 жыл бұрын
Very cool...I always liked this RPG, only played a handful times because all my gaming friends always leaned to AD&D...I would love to find an online group for this.
@shitmandood2 жыл бұрын
That's how I first heard of Elric was from reading my old copy of Deities & Demigods back in the early to mid 80s.
@Yobcis732 жыл бұрын
Love this game - played 4th edition extensively, as the group was looking for an AD&D alternative. Being young, we got a real kick out of the Major Wound Tables. Great video :)
@redrum3405 Жыл бұрын
It’s not DND mom, Im just claiming blood and souls for Arioch.
@billybobsac44212 жыл бұрын
“Hey niko,it’s your cousin Roman”,wanna go bowling?”
@raybarlow88232 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the good ole "satanic panic." My parents came down hard on me. They were religious after all. They watched Pat Robertson on the 700 Club. And those folks were saying D&D was demonic. So they had their priest come exorcize me, and then they poured lighter fluid on my collection of RPG books and lit it up.
@nicholasbielik71562 жыл бұрын
That's sounds awful. I read David Hajdu's book "The Ten Cent Plague" which is a book about the hysteria surrounding comic books in the 1950s, and there were tons of kids who went through something similar to what you're describing above except with their comics collections. It seems like this sort of things never goes away, they just find new targets. Ironically, many of the kids who lost their comics collections in this way became lifelong collectors trying to reclaim what they felt had been taken away from them.
@raybarlow88232 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasbielik7156 That's what I did, except with RPG's. Drive -thru RPG and Ebay made it easy to rebuild my collection, and then some.
@windmark80402 жыл бұрын
A classic game and setting for sure! I kinda wish Modiphius would maybe get the rights to make an updated version. I still have fond memories of my character fumbling his summoning and getting killed by an irritated pit-thing! Oh the desire for power!