Swords Against the Shadowland

I'm currently reading Swords Against the Shadowland by Robin Wayne Bailey. I'm taking my sweet time --- consuming it like fine chocolate, savoring my first return return to Nehwon in years. I can't quite tell if Bailey's work is merely pastiche or if it is truly a worthy sequel to a Sword & Sorcery classic. I'm only on chapter six and my memory of Leiber's work is as foggy as the streets of Lankhmar itself. But something feels right and I'm enjoying it immensely. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser seem perfectly characterized and the sites, sounds, and smells of Lankhmar are vividly described.

I missed Lankhmar. It holds a special place in my RPG geek heart. Back in late high-school and early college, I ran two summers worth of campaigns in the City of Black Togas using first Rolemaster and then Gurps with the AD&D 1e Lankhmar: City of Adventure supplement as my primary reference. We had a fantastic time and many of my most vivid early gaming memories came from those adventures. Rats of the under-city, a hilarious tavern encounter in Gnamph Nar, a set-piece cinematic battle in the temple of Tyaa, an epic quest through the Caves of Ningauble....

Sigh.

I think I know what I want to run next after my current games have run their course. I've been taking notes as I read Swords Against the Shadowlands and will almost certainly go back and read Leiber's original works with an eye towards gaming. I'd love to come up with a Risus or system-neutral reference to Nehwon.  The Scrolls of Lankhmar blog is certainly a great start (and I'd hate to duplicate the excellent work over there), but I'd love to go a little bit deeper. This is all but spark in my  ADD-prone brain, but I've really been bit by the Lankhmar bug. Something is going to come of it.