Have you converted your favorite novels into a campaign setting?

[Herschel]

I'd love to do Donaldson's Covenant series. The basic world would remain the same and offer very diverse settings throughout the world and throughout time. The Sunbane era in The Land could be an uber-wicked version of Dark Sun.

 

[jdrakeh]

For those interested in a RPG based on the Thomas Covenant novels, you may want to check out this.

 

[Moon_Goddess]

Really? What song was that? How'd that go for you?

I'm a little envious. I've based a recurring NPC --The Right Revered Don "Magic Wand"-- on a friend of Snoop Dogg --the Bishop Don Magic Juan-- but I've never gotten a whole adventure from, um... such an unlikely inspiration.

Seriously, do share!

I steal characters all the time, but rarely settings. I penciled out a campaign based loosely on the Sharpe books (historical fiction) by Bernard Cornwell but it never went anywhere.

The adventure was based on Garth Brooks' song "The Beaches of Cheyanne" The song is not only detailed enough about the events of the haunting but the house as well it made perfect inspiration to craft a ghost investigation story.

 

[kitsune9]

The adventure was based on Garth Brooks' song "The Beaches of Cheyanne" The song is not only detailed enough about the events of the haunting but the house as well it made perfect inspiration to craft a ghost investigation story.

Oh, sounds like it made for a cool adventure. I think inspiration can come at us from all sorts of sources. We flip through a monster manual, read a novel, a campaign setting, a newspaper article, or music. I remember writing all sorts of encounters when I first heard Orinoco Flow from Enya and to this day, I still listen to the song and I think of fantasy-ishy stuff to write.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The adventure was based on Garth Brooks' song "The Beaches of Cheyanne" The song is not only detailed enough about the events of the haunting but the house as well it made perfect inspiration to craft a ghost investigation story.

Awesome!

I, too, have found that ripping ideas from unlikely sources can pay nice dividends.

The campaign world I designed for a supers game set in 1900 (for HERO) and currently being used for an M&M game set in 1912 (see http://www.enworld.org/forum/genera...27-starting-new-m-m-campaign.html#post4787467 ) included adventures I "repurposed" from a few James Bond movies.

The last D&D campaign I ran was inspired by a combination of the cover art from a Stormbringer RPG supplement (Slaves of Fate) and Kodo's theme song to The Hunted.