Hyborian, Melnibonean, Barsoom ranges

[swiftnick]

Eureka were talking about doing a range of Moorcock figures at one point. Nic even sent me a lovely Jerry Cornelius figure as a sample.
If I remember right the main range was going to be 10mm for mass battle style games.
I bought a load of 10mm terrain in anticipation but nothing as yet I am afraid.

[Doomhippie]

Fafhrd is IIRC more or less or confessed Conan send-off tho Leiber was good enough an author to manage avoiding pastiche with a panache. Moorcock's characters and his "pulp novel" writing in general are more properly subversive of the tropes surrounding the much imitated sword and sorcery achetype -- at a fairly different end of the spectrum from the old school Weird Tales stuff.

(I love these literary discussions. I really do.) All these author's are children of their time. Tolkien is very much a representative of the Victorian era (literarywise that is), Howard the typical culture sceptic (after WWI little wonder) and Moorcock the fantasy writer of the age of deconstructivism (in pop culture). As fascinating as all these ideas are, I have always had a little problem if there is nothing left to identify with or look up to. While I have read a few of Moorcock's works I have never been "caught up" in them as I never really felt any sympathy for any character. Hus stories always left me with the hollow feeling of "it doesn't matter if you try to be good or bad - in the end everything ends". A little too nihilistic for my taste (at least in literature).