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Unpublished Stormbringer material @ Chaosium!


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Chaosium has closed its brick-and-mortar office, and look at this picture of the translocation:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112389437586870813551/posts/D5eecysZKbn?cfem=1&pid=6198432447824214002&oid=112389437586870813551

Left of the Pendragon 1st edition box you can see a brown cardboard box marked as "Unpublished Stormbringer Materials". I'm very curious about its contents!

 

 

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You know someone just wrote that on there for the picture. Brilliant!  LOL.

Besides what if they decided to send it to you and you accidentally got the Cockatrice box? 

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Good sighting, that's kinda like knowing El Dorado exists! I also see that they still have a boxed set of Worlds of Wonder - I think Rick Meints will be doing something with that! 

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I hope they do a Worlds of Wonder hardback. Sadly, the Stormbringer material will likely remain unpublished. 

Just some wild guesses about what could be in there, in the early 1990s Chaosium announced two Stormbringer campaigns that were to remain vaporware forever:

River of Tears - of which nothing is known

Castle of Eyes - which was to be set in the world of Penelope Love's eponymous novel, which Chaosium published. You can see the novel in the same picture on the right! I've read somewhere that the novel itself was originally based on Love's own Stormbringer/ RQ Vikings campaign.

But maybe it's more recent stuff, like

Loz's Hawkmoon manuscript that Chaosium published only partially as a monograph.

The unfinished manuscript of 'Straits of Chaos" - if it ever existed.

  

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Ben just said on my FB page that they did have some folders with unpublished Stormbringer stuff so I stand corrected. 

(But it would have been a great cookie joke to include in the pics.)

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Well, I've sent a request to Ben to see if I could snag anything unpublished and make it available to the world via my SB site...

Marcus

 

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Well, I've sent a request to Ben to see if I could snag anything unpublished and make it available to the world via my SB site...

Marcus

 

Here's hoping they can!:D

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Well seeing that Ben is no longer a Chaosium employee, and I now know no-one in the company (to be honest that's been the truth for a while now) I think it is unlikely that I'll make any progress on this. 

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Well seeing that Ben is no longer a Chaosium employee, and I now know no-one in the company (to be honest that's been the truth for a while now) I think it is unlikely that I'll make any progress on this. 

Marcus

 

I'd approach Loz about that as he posts in this forum and knows Stormbringer inside-out and is at the same time closely in touch/ working with the new Chaosium.

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I'd approach Loz about that as he posts in this forum and knows Stormbringer inside-out and is at the same time closely in touch/ working with the new Chaosium.

Actually you're right. I forgot the Loz sits within the Chaosium structure now!

Stormbringer! - Exploring the worlds of the Eternal Champion at http://www.stormbringerrpg.com

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I've seen some of the unpublished material and really all I can say is that it was unpublished for a reason. Also, publishing this stuff on the web is going to require the consent of the authors and, in several cases, that has been lost or is out of date. Sadly, it must remain in this mysterious, eldritch state (which is kind of appropriate for Stormbringer, really).

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