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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 1303871" data-attributes="member: 7883">Back in the 70's, there was an RPG group that created a world and game called Midkemia, and played it (I think) using the old Chainmail or 1st Ed. D&D rules, heavily modified.In time, Midkemia Press created their own sourcebooks for the world....there were a few.  I think one was called the Tower of Jonril or something like that.  The sourcebooks were designed to be used with multiple systems, or be system independent.During the 80's, Raymond Feist, who used to be one of the players in that campaign, wrote the first novel in the series, "Magician: Apprentice".  It was based on the world of Midkemia that they'd played in, but something like 400 years in the past of the game campaign....so the novels detail the history of the campaign world.Over time, they diverged, as the novels were really popular, whereas I don't think the RPG setting flourished....or if it did, it slowly subsided...and that was still back in like 82 or something.The first series was Magician: Apprentice, then Magician: Master, Silverthorn, and Darkness at Sethanon.  After that were two other books called Prince of the Blood and King's Buccaneer, which were both excellent.  Then there was a spin-off series called the Empire Trilogy that took place on another planet in the Midkemia universe.  Then there was there were the two Sierra computer games, and a new series called the Serpent War Saga.  This was followed by a few novels based on the computer games, and a new series called the Conclave of Shadows started a year or two ago, with a book called Talon of the Silver Hawk.  Not sure when the next book comes out.Regardless, there have been rumours that Midkemia Press was looking to rerelease the RPG in a more organized fashion for years.  More recently, I remember hearing someone on a message board claim they'd written Midkemia Press about whether an RPG would be released and whether it would be a D&D world.  Apparently they were told that "they" were looking at options but weren't sure if D&D was the right system.  Whether there's any veracity in this, I'm not sure.I think that Feist might not be quite as popular as he used to be....but this is partly due to the fact that he hasn't written a new Midkemia series (except the computer game books) in several years, so people are focused on newer authors.But overall, it's an excellent series of books.  An RPG, whether OGL or D20, set in that world would be awesome.  I'm disappointed to hear that it won't be Green Ronin producing it, though I'll be interested to see what this new setting is.  I'm not as familiar with the literary fantasy settings of the early 80's, as I really only got into fantasy at the end of that decade.Banshee</blockquote>

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