Welcome to Stormbringer!
This website is dedicated to Stormbringer 5th edition (and ELRIC!), a roleplaying game previously published by Chaosium, and aims to catalogue those supplements produced for the line, bringing readers interesting and new articles and develop all new game mechanics.
Although no longer produced, some Stormbringer rulesbooks and supplements can still be purchased via the Chaosium website, or found on Ebay.
What is Stormbringer?
"Elric lifted the huge blade easily and turned it this way and that, admiring its alien beauty. 'Stormbringer,' he said . . . . it was suddenly as if he had been born again and that this runesword was born with him. It was if they had never been separate. 'Stormbringer.' And the sword moaned sweetly and settled even more smoothly into his grasp."
— Elric of Melniboné
Stormbringer is a roleplaying game based on the novels of Michael Moorcock, whose tales about Elric and other incarnations of the Eternal Champion are now classics of fantasy available everywhere in the English-speaking world.
In this game, heroes discover secrets about the world of the Young Kingdoms, the nature the universe, the Gods of Law and Chaos, and what their prophecies portend. You and your friends portray ordinary people from the Young Kingdoms who seek adventure, riches, power, and understanding.
Why Stormbringer?
So why support a game that is now out-of-print and has no prospect of ever being revived in this format?
Just because a game is no longer available, it doesn't mean that it is no longer fun or interesting. Stormbringer saw 5 editions (6 if you include its incarnation as ELRIC!) under the guiding hand of Chaosium - a publishing life spanning 25 years - and each of these offered something new and different to the game and its setting. This site is dedicated to collecting and remembering Stormbringer as it was.
What about Mongoose Publishing's Elric of Melniboné?
A fine game in its own right, Elric of Melniboné is the natural successor to Stormbringer; its rule set is similar (both utilise versions of Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying - or BRP - system, and its Pact magic system is a lot closer to the saga than Stormbringer's ever was. However, this is no reason to disregard what has come before hand, and, as one would expect, Stormbringer feels and plays differently than this new game - all good reasons to have a site like this!