Rogue Mistress

	Rogue Mistress ''Rogue Mistress'', subtitled "An Epic Campaign Across the Multiverse", is a collection of adventures published by Chaosium in 1991 for use with either of the fantasy role-playing games '' Stormbringer'' or '' Hawkmoon'', both based on the Elric of Melniboné stories of Michael Moorcock. Description ''Rogue Mistress'' is a campaign of nine chronologically-linked adventures in which the player characters travel to various planes that make up Michael Moorcock's "Million-Sphere Multiverse." Travel from sphere to sphere is accomplished on the pirate ship ''Rogue Mistress'' captained by Maria de tres Pistolas. Adventures The campaign consists of eight adventures that are played in sequence: * "Dark Eyes, Cold Hearts": On the plane of Styyxx, the characters must find and deliver a prisoner to a demented witch, or die from the living demon hearts that have been implanted in them. * "The Prisoner": On the plane of Ildaron, the characters must sneak into the palace of Queen Media in dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Keith Herber Keith Donald "Doc" Herber (January 3, 1949 – March 13, 2009)"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch: accessed October 25, 2013), Keith Donald Herber, March 13, 2009; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing). was an Americans, American author, editor, and musician. Career Keith Herber was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He began working on the fourth edition of Chaosium's '' Call of Cthulhu'' role-playing game in 1989; he was the line editor for the game for the next five years, including the change to the fifth edition of ''Call of Cthulhu'' in 1992, until he left Chaosium in 1994. While there he wrote and edited such award-winning books as '' The Fungi from Yuggoth'', '' Trail of Tsathogghua'', '' Spawn of Azathoth'', ''Arkham Unveiled'', ''Return to Dunwich'', ''Investigator’s Companion'' Volumes 1 & 2, and the ''Keeper’s Compendium' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lawrence Whitaker Lawrence Whitaker is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games. Career Lawrence Whitaker had worked on Chaosium fanzines. Whitaker gained experience with the ''Basic Role-Playing'' system of ''RuneQuest'' while working on the ''Eternal Champion'' games from Chaosium in the 1990s. Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, publishing material since 2001. Its licenses include products based on the science fiction properties '' Traveller'', ''Judge Dredd'', and ''Parano ... hired Whitaker in 2007, where he wrote their fourth ''RuneQuest'' setting, ''Elric of Melniboné'' (2007). Whitaker authored many books for Mongoose in their ''RuneQuest'' line, particularly throughout their universal, ''Second Age'' and ''Elric'' lines. Whitaker and Pete Nash began to revamp the ''RuneQuest'' game for Mongoose in 2010, which resulted in ''RuneQuest II''. Whitaker left Mongoose later in 2010 after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Chaosium Chaosium Inc. ( ) is a publisher of tabletop role-playing games established by Greg Stafford (game designer), Greg Stafford in 1975. Chaosium's major titles include ''Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game), Call of Cthulhu'', based on the horror fiction stories of H. P. Lovecraft''; RuneQuest Glorantha''; ''Pendragon (role-playing game), Pendragon'', based on Thomas Mallory's ''Le Morte d'Arthur''; and ''7th Sea (role-playing game), 7th Sea'', "swashbuckling and sorcery" set in a fantasy 17th-century Europe. Many of Chaosium's product lines are based upon literary sources. While Stafford himself has been described as "one of the most decorated game designers of all time" and "the grand shaman of gaming", multiple other notable game designers have written for Chaosium. These include David Conyers, Matthew Costello, Larry DiTillio, Paul Fricker (game designer), Paul Fricker, David A. Hargrave, Rob Heinsoo, Keith Herber, Jennell Jaquays, Katharine Kerr, Reiner Knizia, Charlie Krank, Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Stormbringer (role-playing Game) ''Stormbringer'' is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game published under license by Chaosium. Based on the Elric of Melniboné books by Michael Moorcock, the game takes its name from Elric's sword, Stormbringer (though one edition was published as ''Elric!''). The rules are based on Chaosium's percentile-dice-based ''Basic Role-Playing'' system. Description The campaign starts when the world is only ten years from utter and inescapable destruction. Like Elric in the original Moorcock novels, the player characters will, during the course of play, be offered weapons, powers, spells, and quests that offer great power, but always at a cost. By engaging with these pacts, a high-level character might reach the stage where they can no longer miss a sword swing, no longer take damage from weapons or poisons, nor be outwitted. As RPG historian Stu Horvath noted in his 2023 book ''Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground'', the world's oncoming doom and the ability to create pacts with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Hawkmoon (role-playing Game) ''Hawkmoon'' is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game designed by Kerie Campbell-Robson and published by Chaosium in 1986. Description ''Hawkmoon'' is a science fantasy game based on Michael Moorcock's '' The History of the Runestaff'' novels. It is linked to the '' Stormbringer'' game in the "Eternal Champion" series. The rules are a variation of the standard Chaosium skill-based system from ''Basic Role-Playing''. The "Players Book" (52 pages) describes Europe in the "Tragic Millennium," an age in which a loathsome magico-technic empire gradually brings the world under its control. The book also covers character creation, skills, weapons, and combat. The "Science Book" (16 pages) covers the history of the Tragic Millennium, technological items, and mutations. The "Gamemaster Book" (48 pages) explains how to run the game and also includes monsters and NPCs, treasures, statistics for the main characters from the novels, sample character record sheets, and two introductor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Elric Of Melniboné Elric of Melniboné is a fictional character created by English writer Michael Moorcock and the protagonist of a series of sword and sorcery stories taking place on an alternative Earth. The proper name and title of the character are Elric VIII, 428th Emperor of Melniboné. Later stories by Moorcock marked Elric as a facet of the Eternal Champion. Elric first appeared in print in Moorcock's novella " The Dreaming City" (''Science Fantasy'' No. 47, June 1961). Moorcock's doomed albino antihero is one of the better-known characters in fantasy literature, having crossed over into a wide variety of media, such as role-playing games, comics, music, and film. The stories have been continuously in print since the 1970s. Description Elric is described in 1972's ''Elric of Melniboné'': Elric is the last emperor of the stagnating island civilization of Melniboné. Physically weak, the anemic Elric must use drugs (special herbs) to maintain his health and vitality. From childhood, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]