History
The game has evolved through several editions over the years:
- 1st edition (1981) by Ken St. Andre; boxed set; cover art by Frank Brunner
- 2nd edition (1985) by Ken St. Andre; boxed set; cover art by Brunner
- 3rd edition (1987) by Ken St. Andre; book; published jointly with Games Workshop, cover art by Peter Jones (“PAJ”)
- 4th edition (1990) by Ken St. Andre, Steve Perrin, and John B. Monroe; boxed set; cover art by Michael Whelan (from the 1977 DAW and 1986 Grafton editions of Michael Moorcock’s Stormbringer)
- Elric! (1993) by Lynn Willis, Richard Watts, Mark Morrison, Jimmie W. Pursell Jr., Sam Shirley, and Joshua Shaw; book; cover art by Brunner (same as 2nd edition). The purpose of the “!” was to distinguish the role-playing game from the Elric board game published by Chaosium in 1978 and subsequently by Hobby Japan in 1981 and Avalon Hill in 1984.
- 5th edition (2001) by Lynn Willis, book, cover art by John T. Snyder
In 2001, Chaosium also published a d20 System version of the game as Dragon Lords of Melniboné, with cover art by Brunner.
As of November 2007, “Chaosium no longer roduces new books for the Stormbringer roleplaying game”, but in August 2007, Mongoose Publishing published the Elric of Melniboné RPG by Lawrence Whittaker, which is based on the RuneQuest rules system.
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