Stormbringer rpg Fifth Edition, CAS's Zothique, and Chaos - - Further Mediations on The Stormbringer rpg & OSR Campaign Memories

 The year was 2001 & things were very chaotic for our Rpg group. Folks were getting married, moving away, marriages were breaking apart, and more. A new fifth edition of Stormbringer was hitting the shelves. And it was a switch up for our group, we had aquired  a scaling ship & a playing piece in the grand game of time. Where we had grabbed one completely outside of the Moorcockian mythos within the wastelands of Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique. 

This came down after we transferred off several other ships after the events of the Rogue Mistress campaign. And then served aboard a crews aboard a couple of  scaling ships. We lost a ton of players to the D20 explosion of 3.5 D&D but there were just as many folks completely disenchanted with the system. And this led to the second book that brought at few folks to the table the Corum rpg supplement. Corum was completely different then other rpg supplements on the market during this time. The maps were incredible, the mythology true to the source material, and the supplement worked very well for Stormbringer fifth edition. 

While Moorcock hasn't exactly been full of praise when it came to Clark Ashton Smith. This didn't matter to our group as our co DM figured that Zothique was a far future Earth where the powers of Chaos has almost full sway. 

/Deep in the wastes of Zothique we found a plain filled with the wreckage of scaling ships. Zothique was also one of the worlds where you as a magus didn't want to summon demons. Several would answer the call of the mage and then it was a battle to control the horror. 
There was also the fact that any demon weapons were far easier to forge and bind. The works of Law however after several months would begin to gain corrosion and simply evoporate back into the ether. 
There was also the fact that entering Zothique from the 'Million Spheres' was easy. Leaving the world was another matter entirely unless one had a scaling ship. 
Zothique was also the site for numerous species of demons and other creatures of Chaos. Little did we realize that we were on the edge of the latest villain  about to rear his head. So did a couple of things to make Stormbringer fifth edition go quicker. And the first thing we did was to bring the combat system from the Elric rpg into our campaign. The next thing was to make magick easier to learn in Zothique & make the demons even more deadly..