Have you converted your favorite novels into a campaign setting?

[Kelvor Ravenstar]

I've done this a few times, mostly back in my days of 2nd ed D&D. I ran a game in David Eddings' Belgariad/Mallorean world, played in a party of Elenic knights from his Elenium/Tamuli trilogies who were transported into Ravenloft for a short time.
Earlier this year I cobbled together a D20 Modern rules adaptation to run a game set in the world of Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files since the Evil Hat FATE system version isn't available yet. That game was one of my most successful non-D&D campaigns so far.

The next time I do something like this I want to use an existing ruleset for a G.I. JOE game, or adapt something else for a everyday modern humans transported into a fantasy world like in Guy Gavariel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry.

 

[im_robertb]

Dodec, from Dave Duncan's Children of Chaos and Mother of Lies. It's a world shaped like a d12.

 

[Dedekind]

Guy Gavariel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry.

That would be pretty slick to see.

I think Wizard's First Rule could have been a neat setting (though I wouldn't want to deal with anything after the third book).

 

[jdrakeh]

A little over a decade ago, I wrote some 200 pages worth of notes for using Dennis L. McKiernan's Mithgar with The Window (I wish I still had those notebooks).

 

[Shadeydm]

I would buy a setting based on the Malazan novels in a heatbeat. Then again since they books are supposed to be based on the author's campaign it might not be that far fetched an idea.

 

[Turtlejay]

This might sound a little too mundane, but a while back I played in a game that was very firefly-esque. No direct theft of characters or setting, but the premise was spot on. It dissolved.

Jay

 

[Wombat]

Earthsea.

I would play in that land forever.

 

[kitsune9]

Earthsea.

I would play in that land forever.

Earthsea? I'm not familiar with those?

 

[Xyxox]

A little off topic, but my favorite novels were already done. I've always beena fan of the Wild Cards shared setting and it's been done twice, once for GURPS and most recently for M&M.

That said, I thnk it would be fun to do a take-off of Mary Gentle's [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Grunts-Mary-Gentle/dp/0451454537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250004130&sr=8-1]Grunts[/ame] where everybody plays Orcs.

 

[kitsune9]

A little off topic, but my favorite novels were already done. I've always beena fan of the Wild Cards shared setting and it's been done twice, once for GURPS and most recently for M&M.

That said, I thnk it would be fun to do a take-off of Mary Gentle's Grunts where everybody plays Orcs.

I think I heard of the Wild Cards supplement. I'm a fan of GURPS, so I may have come across it. Not too familiar with M&M though I've looked at a couple of times.