Eddings or Fiest D20
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Patman21967
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I actually still have a mint copy of Karse...one of the best city supplements ever done...I would love to see Gemmell's world done as a setting...but Martin is my favorite right now...I love Jordan, but reading it for the last 10 years, and waiting so long for the next books really turn me off...I really don't think he'll ever complete the series
Plane Sailing
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My homebrew campaign has been going for ages now (two decades? with intermissions) and one of the distinguishing features of it is highly stereotyped nations - to the extent that most character classes are so strongly associated with a particular nation that they identify one another. If you meet an assassin, he's almost certainly from Mendonna. If you meet a Mendonnan he is extraordinarily likely to be an Assassin. Rangers are likely to be borderlanders. Paladins all come from Singh as do most priests. All druids are barbarian shamen from one of the barbarian tribes and so forth.
I've never liked the standard D&D homogenised system where everywhere is functionally like everywhere else, my campaign continues to be a reaction against that.
I remember that I enjoyed Eddings books when I first read them, although I don't remember much of them now. My recollection is sorta classic standard fantasy with the twist being sentient competing prophecies both of which are working to become the 'true' prophecy.
My *next* D&D campaign is likely to be Eberron which will be very different of course. That setting has different 'hooks' built in to it.
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I've never liked the standard D&D homogenised system where everywhere is functionally like everywhere else, my campaign continues to be a reaction against that.
I remember that I enjoyed Eddings books when I first read them, although I don't remember much of them now. My recollection is sorta classic standard fantasy with the twist being sentient competing prophecies both of which are working to become the 'true' prophecy.
My *next* D&D campaign is likely to be Eberron which will be very different of course. That setting has different 'hooks' built in to it.
Cheers
Olgar Shiverstone
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01RPG's has an adventure series starting with The Legend of the Steel General that I'm told is an adaption of Gemmell's world and work. I haven't read Gemmell, though, so I can't speak for it myself. The adventure and the following one (The Siege of Dramman Del) have to do with defending the one massive fortress protecting civilized lands from a massive barbarian horde, and restoring a legendary general from the past to do it.
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Caspian Marqine
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hmm
Eddings' archetype system leads to the impression that the same characters in each of their different series are the same people and doing similar things. I was vaguely annoyed when reading the blue rose series, finding it cool, then reading his belgariad and finding the same plot with different names.
Gemmell: read 2 of his standalone novels so far, and found them, vaguely dragonballish. Or the exact opposite of Neal Stephenson's writing style, boring exposition, explosive fight scene in the end, you win.
Jonathan
Eddings' archetype system leads to the impression that the same characters in each of their different series are the same people and doing similar things. I was vaguely annoyed when reading the blue rose series, finding it cool, then reading his belgariad and finding the same plot with different names.
Gemmell: read 2 of his standalone novels so far, and found them, vaguely dragonballish. Or the exact opposite of Neal Stephenson's writing style, boring exposition, explosive fight scene in the end, you win.
Jonathan
The biggest problem with Eddings for the Belgariad/Malloreon environment is that the only spell casters would be a small number of predefined super-high-level NPC sorcerer(/druids?). I would personally be more interested in the Elenium/Tamuli environment from what I remember of it (a decade now?); Sparhawk and the order he belonged to seemed interesting and the cultures a little more ... odd. Haven't looked into the Dreamers series yet.
I enjoyed the Fiest books I read - stopped after the fourth or fifth one. I'm a planar-phile, so I'd definitely introduce elements of the rift and the (IIRC) very different cultures on the two sides.
Melanie Rawn's Dragon Star/Prince or Exiles books would be high on my request list. Not sure how any of her brands of magic users in any of those series would best translate over, but I definitely enjoy the political/faction tension/intrigue, and of course the wells/circles(?) and the wraith area in the North touch on the "otherness" love quite well.
I enjoyed the Fiest books I read - stopped after the fourth or fifth one. I'm a planar-phile, so I'd definitely introduce elements of the rift and the (IIRC) very different cultures on the two sides.
Melanie Rawn's Dragon Star/Prince or Exiles books would be high on my request list. Not sure how any of her brands of magic users in any of those series would best translate over, but I definitely enjoy the political/faction tension/intrigue, and of course the wells/circles(?) and the wraith area in the North touch on the "otherness" love quite well.
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