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<blockquote data-quote="Guang" data-source="post: 8875543" data-attributes="member: 6779420"><p>I'll check out the rpgs that reference Dickens, and try to find out more about pillow stories. Holmes could be good - hopefully someone takes that up. And of course I love what the One Ring RPG has done. I can't stomach Regency, unfortunately, since there seem to be several Jane Austen RPGS, as some of you have mentioned - the squalor and societal dichotomies of Dickens speak more to me, somehow. </p><p></p><p>But I'm thinking less Vance and more Beowulf, One Hundred Years of Solitude, maybe Dostoevsky? Sinbad. I've heard there's an RPG based directly on old Hong Kong Kungfu movies. Lovecraft is a bit too much, looking for more subtle that I can add to myself. And directly tied to a very old book or traditional story, rather than pulp-era fiction - no newer than Verne, for Western stuff. Would love to find something authentically closely representing Nigerian stories, or India, or the Pacific, or Australian Aborigine. Many RPGs have "inspirations" or are "loosely based" on a hodgepodge of sources - But are there more, perhaps slightly obscure, RPGs that attempt to bring an epic series of legends to life, without changing it too much in the process?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guang, post: 8875543, member: 6779420"] I'll check out the rpgs that reference Dickens, and try to find out more about pillow stories. Holmes could be good - hopefully someone takes that up. And of course I love what the One Ring RPG has done. I can't stomach Regency, unfortunately, since there seem to be several Jane Austen RPGS, as some of you have mentioned - the squalor and societal dichotomies of Dickens speak more to me, somehow. But I'm thinking less Vance and more Beowulf, One Hundred Years of Solitude, maybe Dostoevsky? Sinbad. I've heard there's an RPG based directly on old Hong Kong Kungfu movies. Lovecraft is a bit too much, looking for more subtle that I can add to myself. And directly tied to a very old book or traditional story, rather than pulp-era fiction - no newer than Verne, for Western stuff. Would love to find something authentically closely representing Nigerian stories, or India, or the Pacific, or Australian Aborigine. Many RPGs have "inspirations" or are "loosely based" on a hodgepodge of sources - But are there more, perhaps slightly obscure, RPGs that attempt to bring an epic series of legends to life, without changing it too much in the process? [/QUOTE]
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