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<blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3368643" data-attributes="member: 14041">Long ago I read the first 3 Shadow Run Novels and loved them.&nbsp; The first one, IIRC, was &quot;Never Deal with a Dragon.&quot;&nbsp; That was long before i got into gaming.&nbsp; Since I then have also enjoyed the Mark of Death Eberron series and Keith Baker's as well. The Magic: Kamigawa novels really made me want to run am asian themed game.&nbsp; I have read other Magic novels (either when i got them in fat packs or someone gave them to me)but those are the best.&nbsp; I second A Game of Thrones and add the Black Company books as well as Cook's other series, Garret P.I. I am currently rereading Perdido Street Station, the best of China Meiville's Bas Lag books so far IMO and great to get the feel of urban adventuring.&nbsp; Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is, if you are willing to wade into it, truly excellent.&nbsp; It inspired one of my longest running homebrew campaigns. Several of Tim Power's books have inspired my games, but the ones that comes closest to &quot;fantasy&quot; gaming would be Drawing of the Dark, Anubis Gates, and Decalre.&nbsp; Of course there is a whole RPG system, Unknown Armies, loosly based on his modern books like Last Call.My wife loved Poison Study and Across the Nighting Gale floor, she has the sequels beside her bed in the unending &quot;to be read&quot; stack.&nbsp; I read them, very evocative of campaign settings.Those are the ones of the top of my head.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormborn, post: 3368643, member: 14041"] Long ago I read the first 3 Shadow Run Novels and loved them. The first one, IIRC, was "Never Deal with a Dragon." That was long before i got into gaming. Since I then have also enjoyed the Mark of Death Eberron series and Keith Baker's as well. The Magic: Kamigawa novels really made me want to run am asian themed game. I have read other Magic novels (either when i got them in fat packs or someone gave them to me)but those are the best. I second A Game of Thrones and add the Black Company books as well as Cook's other series, Garret P.I. I am currently rereading Perdido Street Station, the best of China Meiville's Bas Lag books so far IMO and great to get the feel of urban adventuring. Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle is, if you are willing to wade into it, truly excellent. It inspired one of my longest running homebrew campaigns. Several of Tim Power's books have inspired my games, but the ones that comes closest to "fantasy" gaming would be Drawing of the Dark, Anubis Gates, and Decalre. Of course there is a whole RPG system, Unknown Armies, loosly based on his modern books like Last Call. My wife loved Poison Study and Across the Nighting Gale floor, she has the sequels beside her bed in the unending "to be read" stack. I read them, very evocative of campaign settings. Those are the ones of the top of my head. [/QUOTE]

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