Elric of Melniboné

Mongoose Publishing acquire the Eternal Champion License from Chaosium in 2006, and published new versions of both Elric of Melniboné and Hawkmoon. The initial editions of these games utilised the Runequest rule set (itself licensed from Greg Stafford), while the 2nd edition Elric of Melniboné was built on both the Runequest II and latterly Mongoose’s own Legend game system.

Although no official announcement was ever made, the license for Michael Moorcock’s games expired around 2013, although in reality their production had almost completely ceased by the time authors like Lawrence Whitaker and Pete Nash left Mongoose Publishing in 2011.

In this catalogue, you will find the listings for:

• Elric of Melniboné 1st Edition
• Elric of Melniboné 2nd Edition

Elric of Melniboné – Signs & Portents

Between 2003 and 2011 Mongoose Publishing produced Signs & Portents magazine, a monthly periodical that supported the company’s various miniature and roleplaying game lines. During the reasonably short run, Elric of Melniboné (both 1st and 2nd Editions) had a number of articles, adventures and support material appear in this ‘zines pages.

Issue #45 (June 2007)

Article Title – Elric and Hawkmoon
Description – Announcement/Introduction
Author – Richard Ford & Lawrence Whitaker
Page Count – 3 pages

How are the new Eternal Champion games different from standard RuneQuest?

The Eternal Champion! Michael Moorcock’s enduring saga of heroism and tragedy comes to a tabletop near you very soon, as Mongoose plans to release both Hawkmoon the Roleplaying Game and Elric of Melniboné, roleplaying games based on two of Moorcock’s most famous characters. Now you can play in the world of Europe in the Tragic Millennium or the Young Kingdoms (or both), throwing your own characters into the fray as they battle against the Dark Empire of Granbretan or struggle to overcome the foul gods of Chaos.

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Issue #50 (November 2007)

Article Title – Younger Kingdoms Explored
Description – Supplement
Author – Lawrence Whitaker
Page Count – 8 pages

This article explores two cities of the Young Kingdoms mentioned in the novel ‘The Dreamthief ’s Daughter’ and the short story ‘A Portrait in Ivory’. The former, Cesh, is nothing more than a name  and a brief reference, which I have expanded here for use in the Elric of Melniboné game. The latter, Séred Öma, is more detailed, and offers a new people, the Na’äne, to complement those already present in the Elric canon. There are other lands and places too, such as fabled Xanardwys, and these will be explored in future Signs and Portents articles.

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Issue #51 (December 2007)

Article Title – A Young Kingdoms Digest
Description – Supplement
Author – Charles Green
Page Count – 12 pages

A collection of game stats for the denizens of the Young Kingdoms most likely to interact with a group of player characters. This is divided up to sections for Men at Arms, People of the Sea and  Religious People, and covers seventeen non-player character types.  In addition, some mechanics are provided for modifying the more generic archetypes like Soldiers and Sailors. Each character receives a detailed description, Elric of Melniboné 1st Edition statistics and a variety of special rules.

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Issue #56 (May 2008)

Article Title – The Mereghn
Description – Supplement/Teaser
Author – Lawrence Whitaker
Page Count – 8 pages

As a taster for the forthcoming Cults of the Young Kingdoms, we present for you here the Mereghn, a secretive and clandestine group of information-brokers and assassins at large throughout the Young Kingdoms. This article describes the Mereghn in-depth, offers a range of new Advanced skills and defines assassins as a profession for Elric of Melniboné adventurers.

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Issue #57 (June 2008)

Article Title – A Created Life is one with Purpose: Automata
Description – Supplement
Author – Charles Green
Page Count – 13 pages

A detailed list of automata and machines created by the Cults of Law in the Young Kingdoms. This includes rules of animating these creations, and range from the simple (such as an automatic abacus) through to war machines (such as clockwork Warhorses).

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Issue #61 (October 2008)

Article Title – Love, and Hate
Description – Supplement
Author – Lawrence Whitaker
Page Count – 3 pages

Love, devotion and hatred are a central theme of the Eternal Champion saga: tragically doomed love; unrequited love; passionate love; love across the Million Spheres; lost loves, slaughtered loves and love regained. So too does Hatred figure: Yyrkoon and Theleb K’aarna’s hatred for Elric, motivated by greed and jealousy; Elric’s hatred of his own fate; the beggars of Nadsokor’s hatred for Tanelorn.

Just as the game mechanics for Elric of Melniboné provide a way of dedicating one’s soul to a god (the Pact), so too can Love and Hate be quantified. This section provides an optional set of  mechanics for Games Masters to use to simulate the effects of love and hate in their Elric of Melniboné campaigns (and, equally, in Hawkmoon and the forthcoming Corum game).

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