Game fiction

[dreamthief]

Well I enjoy the stuff. It's a light, quick read, and there are some ideas you can strip for your game. I'll probably read the Gotrek and Felix series next.

However, I've NEVER bothered to read the stuff in Dragon mag. It never quite seems to appeal to me and the fiction comes across as 'high-brow'. The best gaming fiction makes no apologies for what it is. Fast, spicy and easily digested.

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Salutations,

I have read the L5R novel series, and enjoyed that.

I also like to read any gaming fiction Jeff Grubb writes.

FD

 

[NiTessine]

I seem to be all alone in the 'by the truckloads' category...

 

[Clint]

However, I've NEVER bothered to read the stuff in Dragon mag. It never quite seems to appeal to me and the fiction comes across as 'high-brow'. The best gaming fiction makes no apologies for what it is. Fast, spicy and easily digested.

Gosh, well there you go. I enjoy the stuff in Dragon a lot.

 

[Krug]

So... what's the best gaming fiction stuff out there?

 

[Teflon Billy]

I read a book called "The Crystal Shard" which was about Drizz't and his adventuring group and it was maybe the dumbest thing I had ever read (so much so that I didn't read another book).

I absolutely despised how much game mechanic stuff was in there (like Drizz't "sensing a secret door" in an alleyway...a secret door that ambushers were hiding behid (because who wouldn't make a secret door in an alleyway)).

Those Gotrek and Felix stories were probably the best Swords and Sorcery gaming fiction I've read.

Nigel Findley's Shadowrun novel "Lone Wolf" was fantastic! (and not just becasue I make a cameo in it)

Nigel's Mayfair Games "Demons" novel was one of the best books (game-related or not) that I had read that year.

 

[Jon F. Zeigler]

I almost never read gaming fiction - in my experience, it's been almost universally bad. No doubt I've just missed the good stuff.

One exception: Elizabeth Moon's Paksenarrion novels (and spin-offs) are pretty clearly D&D-inspired fiction. They're quite good in spite of that. Oddly, they weren't marketed as having anything to do with gaming.

 

[Mouseferatu]

So... what's the best gaming fiction stuff out there?

Paul Kidd's Greyhawk novels: White Plume Mountain, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. If you never read any other gaming fiction, read these.

And mine, of course, if and when I get the chance to write some.

 

[Sulimo]

Paul Kidd's Greyhawk novels: White Plume Mountain, Descent into the Depths of the Earth, and Queen of the Demonweb Pits. If you never read any other gaming fiction, read these.

Yeah, they are nice - with more than a few ideas that you could only see coming from someone who really is/was a gamer.

I also REALLY like Elaine Cunninghams FR stuff, although my love for her character Danilo Thann may be clouding my judgement a little.

 

[arwink]

I have two shelves of game-fiction, back from that golden period when I was thirteen and it was all pretty cool. These days, well, occasionally I'll read through something for the nostalgia of it, or to steal ideas, but the actual entertianment value of it is pretty slim.

Story-hours, on the other hand, are a completely different kettle of fish...