Do you read non-RPG fantasy novels?

[der_kluge]

Bah. Cost Management was better in the original 1974 edition. All others are a pale imitation.

although in a pinch if you can find the old handscrawled xeroxed copies they too are rather good.

LOL!
You guys are too much...

 

[der_kluge]

Bah! I don't buy into all the 3rd Edition crap. I stick with my old 2nd edition book. Sometimes even Advanced Cost Management, ACM for us in the know. (All joking aside, I think I have a copy of one of the editions of that book. I'd need to check my shelves at home to know for sure.)

Good! I know who to call for help!

 

[Ranes]

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[Dannyalcatraz]

I read 1 or 2 rpg-related novels a LOOOONG time ago.

I didn't even bother keeping them, and I avoid that section of any bookstore I'm in.

As far as I'm concerned, though there might be some good writers cutting their teeth in fantasy novel hell, I'm not going in there to search them out.

 

[mhacdebhandia]

The same way, authors that have RPG versions of their work, such as HP Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock are RPG related.

Under these criteria, I read both. In the early-to-mid nineties I amassed a nearly-complete collection of the Dragonlance novels available to that point, plus a little less than a dozen more TSR novels from various other settings.

I don't read much fantasy, but most of what I do read - H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber - is "RPG related" according to the criteria given. The rest - Tim Powers, for instance - tends to be gameable but not actually turned into a game (yet).

Some of it isn't particularly gameable, like Harry Potter or Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels; you can roleplay it, as hundreds of collaborative fanfiction roleplayers prove every day (but then, you can roleplay anything in that fashion), but I don't think the setting lends itself to roleplaying gaming.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I don't read much fantasy, but most of what I do read - H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber - is "RPG related" according to the criteria given.

I wouldn't call any of those authors' works "RPG related"- they all predate the creation fo RPGs, for one. It would be more accurate to consider certain RPGs related to their work.

 

[River Tam]

I read all sorts of fantasy novels. Horror novels are my favorite, especially if they are about vampires.

 

[Meadred]

... The same way, authors that have RPG versions of their work, such as HP Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock are RPG related.

Well, I would like to say "yes", but at the rate that new RPGs "based upon the works of ..." turn out, I'm basically on "no" by now.

Does "Harry Potter" count? There's no "Harry Potter the RPG" yet, right?
(Apart from Redhurst Academy of Magic...)

Cheers,
Meadred

 

[Baragos]

Well, this is kinda "dangerous" ground...what exactly is an RPG-related fantasy book? Tolkien's Middle-Earth has been RPG-ized, but I'd not call LotR an RPG-fantasy novel. Likewise with Feist's Midkemia, though few realise it. Hell, many "non-RPG" fantasy novels were inspired by the author's own RPG campaign, but that doesn't necessarily make it RPG-ish, IMO.

 

[tec-9-7]

The same way, authors that have RPG versions of their work, such as HP Lovecraft and Michael Moorcock are RPG related.

Nope. This is crap. These are not RPG related because the predate their respective RPGs by decades. I don't even count Jordan as RPG related.

RPG related novels are the myriad of Forgotten Realms novels; Warhammer novels; W-o-D novels; etc. To count as RPG related, the game source must predate the novel.