Book related settings

[Sidran]

Just wandering along reading the Setting proposals and I had this need to post this question to every one else.

We have seen Tolkien's novels changed, we've seen Shannara, and tid bits of other great works but which book-series would you like to see turned into a Setting.


My List from most wanted to least is

1.Witch World by Andre Norton ( GURPS SOURCEBOOK OUT THERE)
2.Riddle master of Hed by Patricia A. Mckillip
3.To the King a Daughter Andre Norton, & Sasha Miller
4.The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle ( The best fantasy book written about Unicorns IMO)
5. Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin
6. Bardic Voices By Mercedes Lackey
A The Runelords Dave Farland
7.Rhapsody, Prophecy, and Destiny by Elizabeth Haydon
8. Riverworld By Philip Jose' Farmer (GURPS HIT THIS ONE TOO)
Jandar of Calisteo by Lin Carter ( Good action adventure Sci-fantasy)
9. Harts Hope by Orson Scott Card
10. Song of Fire & Ice by G.R.R. Martin
11.Soul Singer of Tyrnos by Ardath Mayhar
12. Windhaven by G.R.R. Martin

Other honorable mentions

13. The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. Mckillip
14. Pern By Anne McCaffrey
15. Harmony by Orson Scott Card
16. Brave new world By Aldous Huxley


With good elements to be had in...

17. Jackal of Nar by Dave Marco
18. A Sorcerer and a Gentleman by Elizabeth Willey
19. The Tree of Swords and the Jewel by C. H. Cherryh
20. Wayfarers Redemption by Sara Douglas

 

[Eternalknight]

A few of us are working on the Lone Wolf gamebooks right now, but I would like to see Earthsea done, as well as the Dragon King saga by Stephen Lawhead. A proper, full-blown Shannara game would be great, and - call me crazy - Discworld by Terry Pratchett.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

I would heartily endorse:

1.Witch World by Andre Norton
5. Earthsea by Ursula K. Leguin

 

[Aeris Winterood]

Worlds?

I would like to see...

1. Game of Thrones, George RR Martin...

2. Barsoom, Edgar Rice Burroughs

3. Eternal Champion, Michael Moorcock. ( I know it was doen, but poorly)

4. Gord of Greyhawk novels by some dude named Gygax...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Not exactly a book, but I want an RPG based on the comics by the Belgian artists Schuiten and Peeters - their Obscure Cities comics, to be precise. Their architectural marvels are just plain cool, and served as a major inspiration for Urbis, my own setting proposal.

Apart from that, an RPG based on Michael Ende's "The Neverending Story" (The book! Not the movies!) would be great, too - the book has a lot more depth than it seems to have at first glance. Exploring the links between Fantasien and the "mundane world" would also make for a hell of a urban fantasy campaign - you would even have very good reasons to throw in a few Nazi Werewolves as well...

 

[Erekose]

The Drenai setting by David Gemmell would be top of my list!

 

[Allanon]

1. Discworld by Terry Pratchet just imagine dealing with the likes of Cutting-me-own-throat Dibbler and Duckman
2. Song of Ice&Fire by G.R.R. Martin
3. The Deathgate Cycle by Weis&Hickman The books give you a staggering amount of background information concerning the way of magic and the world itself
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[Jürgen Hubert]

Discworld by Terry Pratchet just imagine dealing with the likes of Cutting-me-own-throat Dibbler and Duckman

This actually exists. See here for the details.

 

[Sammael99]

Not exactly a book, but I want an RPG based on the comics by the Belgian artists Schuiten and Peeters - their Obscure Cities comics, to be precise. Their architectural marvels are just plain cool, and served as a major inspiration for Urbis, my own setting proposal.

Although no RPG has specifically exploited this, there are several resources and/or RPGs that dwell heavily in that inspiration.

In particular, there a now defunct French RPG called Ecryme which was very Schuitten and Peeters influenced. It was industrial uchronism with a touch a psi-magic. The system was extremely poor but the game world was great. It's on my list of games that I will convert to another system when I have the time, which is likely to be never

Also in French there's a hardcover half-size book called le "Guide des Cités" which describes the world of the Obscure Cities in great detail. Although not a supplement per se, it is an excellent world-resource...

In the more general scope of fantasy-literature made into RPGs, I have a lot of misgivings on the whole concept. I'm not sure it ever works well. Most of the time; it is either not failthful enough to be convincing, or so faithful it becomes anal.

Furthermore, I now loathe worlds of which the players are likely to know most of the mysteries. It really deters from the RPG experience IMO... Which is why I tend towards homebrews or obscure RPG worlds. I could well imagine some obscure fantasy book turned into RPG, but if they're obscure it usually means they are not very good

 

[Sammael99]

The Drenai setting by David Gemmell would be top of my list!

Aren't the supplements by 0one heavily Gemmel inspired ?