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Sounds like a great campaign. One thing I like about DCC is that general "every monster unique" philosophy and it looks like you have captured that totally. Love the fact that you make your monsters "canon" to your campaign so that if one is encountered later it will be the same ...

Today's "New Release Wednesday" email from Goodman Games had something perhaps relevant to this thread. The suggestion is that five adventures written by Harley Stroh could make a nice campaign. While they mention "adventure path" I think it could also be a sandbox if a GM were t...

The PDF has been released to backers. PDF says page count of 34, but that probably includes covers and such. (1) Short introduction of how Nehwon fits into the history of D&D (2) Chronological listing of source material (books, stories, poems, and where to find them) (3) Part One: Nehwonian Nast...

I thought that part of the interview was interesting as well, but I never quite understood Moorcock's position on the use of the Melnibone mythos. If he gave TSR permission to use it, and also gave Chaosium permission to use it, why back off when litigation happened between the two? Why not just say...

Watched the Moorcock interview. Fun, but I really had hoped for a DCC Elric announcement, which never happened. I think Elric (and Moorcock's other Multiverse characters) would make an excellent DCC setting. Fingers crossed that someday we get this.

I will confess that I don't _know_ anything here, but I have a couple of thoughts to put together.... (1) Michael Moorcock interview on twitch. (2) Goodman blog on monsters in the Elric books. So ... connecting the dots I'm speculating that we may see DCC Elric soon? :shock: Thoughts? Am I nuts here...

Thanks for the "from the source" information. I'll probably buy a copy through Indigogo to support Lankhmar and support Goodman Games, but I'm still kind of bummed.

Well, I had really hoped for a 5E hardback chock full of Lankhmar goodness. A bit different from a 20-24 page pamphlet. Not sayin' the thing won't be good stuff, but I had this mental image which is hard to reconcile with the actuality. :-( That plus Indigogo instead of KS... well I may wait until t...

I would have liked to have seen a DCC version. :? I'm confused. There already is a DCC Lankhmar. Is that what you are looking for? Over a dozen modules, Lannkhmar campaign boxed set, "Greatest Thieves of Lankhmar" boxed set, and so on. This was a 5E adaptation of some of the same content....

True, so the cost is in line with those products. I guess I had hoped for a hardback like a lot of other 5E stuff on the market.

Just looking at the Indigogo page, which just went live today.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/magi ... ar-for-5e/

Print plus PDF is only $10? Any idea why this book is so cheap? Softcover at 20-24 pages isn't quite what I had hoped for.

I have some old maps from the TSR RPG Gamma World and I use those as the basis of my setting. I think you can really do a campaign anywhere, but I like to start my players out near their home town so it starts out familiar, yet changed.

ragartan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 29, 2022 12:44 am https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goose

There‘s meaning 4 which might make more sense in context of Lankhmar and Leibers stories.

Nice, and not at all what I was expecting!

GothmogIV wrote: ↑Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:18 pm I am re-reading these now for the first time in 30 years. Really fun!

What I find interesting is that everyone seems to equate "swords & sorcery" with fantasy, but Leiber's stories are clearly a mix of fantasy and horror.

I know you mentioned "Stalking the Night Fantastic" but the attached image reminds me that DCC Cthulhu would be pretty neat. Lovecraftian New England has a lot of fun places -- Arkham, Innsmouth, Dunwich, and others -- and it would be interesting to have creatures from Lovecraft's mythos s...

Typo. Meant 100%. Old guy needs to learn to proofread.

Exactly. That's the only reference for "long goose" that I can think of.

GnomeBoy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:34 pm The Lankhmar campaign set is very faithful to Leiber's stories. So if those match what you want from your game, I'd say that boxed set is the one to go with...

I agree 10%. Lahnmar is pretty much "low fantasy" from the get-go and it's a fun set of rules as well. Give it a look!

I think it's a style of men's winter coat. I'm not familiar with any Lankhmar-specific meaning.

Since we're talking old (pre-DCC RPG) modules, I would love to see DCC RPG conversions of all the old material! Seems like a low-effort move that would dramatically increase the amount of DCC RPG canon, especially for those of us who aren't as into Lankhmar and the other product lines that have bee...

Their best material is top-notch, their worst is highly cringe-worthy. JG was known for being very up-and-down as far as the quality of their products, so I wouldn't just look at one random product and then make a decision about the company. Both Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia are considered to ...

Growing up I never even knew about JG. I'm willing to give them a look over, but I don't have like.. an excitement of them being republished like some people do. I can see why some people would want them to be published though so I think its alright. Ultimately the sales on these will determine if ...

Since WotC did their own Giants hardback not so many years ago, I suspect that GG has less enthusiasm for that project compared to a few others. No advantage in competing with WotC on this.

I think that many of the best TSR modules have already gotten OAR treatment, and some of the others have gotten WotC treatment. (For example, look at Tales From the Yawning Portal and see some awesome modules already converted into 5E. I can imagine that Goodman Games would avoid doing those since t...

The downside, of course, is that Goodman Games will only invest a certain amount of resources to the Lankhmar IP, so if they are producing more 5E Lankhmar that means probably less DCC Lankhmar. :( There are separate 5e and DCC creative teams, so I don't imagine it actually slows anything down -- i...