literary campaign settings you'd like to see

[alsih2o]

slaughterhouse five...piecing together your past and future by roleplaying them semi-simultaneously

 

[ColonelHardisson]

For the record....

Lankhmar: Has been done by TSR back in the 2e days.


Theives World (aka Sanctuary) was done by Chaosium back in the 1e era (they had stats for a whole bunch of systems).

It was covered in the 1e Deities & Demigods, but the first city book was also during the 1e era. There was a revision in the 2e era. Overall, the city book itself is fantastic, although the art - besides the cover - is not very good. The city map, and the system for each DM to customize it and the city in general to their taste was also a big plus. The 2e revision was not quite as good, I thought; I have 'em both. The modules are OK, but nothing to write home about. I never read the boxed version they put out a few years ago.

 

[Mallus]

Gravity's Rainbow d20? Brilliant, Tom, just brilliant. "A screaming come across the players."

And then perhaps Naked Lunch D20. Greyhawk and Lahnkmar have nothing on Burrough's City of Interzone.

And the Guardian's of the Flame are by Joel Rosenberg. And the novels by C.S. Friedman are The Coldfire Trilogy. That's a good one. I'm afraid if I played it I'd just try and re-create Gerald Tarrant...

And let me second Silverberg's Majipoor, Fiest's Midkemia, and add the setting of the Book of the New Sun --and the marvelous city of Nessus {props to Gene Wofle}.

Oh, and maybe Jack Vance's Planet of Adventure...

 

[Tsyr]

George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.

Mercedes Lackey's Velgarth (Velgarth being the name of the continent that that majority of her books are set in. It encompases Valdemar, Karse, Rethwallen, Iftel, Hardorn, and a few other smaller countries).

Mercedes Lackey's Urban Fantasies setting, which would be great for D20 modern.

Wies and Hickman's Deathgate setting, or if nothing else, at least the air world from that series.

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, another great one for D20 modern.

I don't really care if they are D20, Gurps, Palladium, whatever. Just getting official rules on any of these would be great. I can convert.

 

[ergeheilalt]

Cool Campaigns Based on Books

My favorite was the Feist Riftwar/Serpentwar settings. Its a great story. Apparently it was actually a game based 500 years after the original series. The owners of the game system maintain a website, however it hasn't been maintained for 10 months. Its at http://www.midkemia.com sadly there is no info on going to d20/D&D. With enough fan input .... that could change.

I also like the Black Sun Rising books and think they would make a great campaign.

I would be very interested in seeing a game based on the game in Guardians of the Flame, by Joel Rosenburg. Although a classic RPG setting, the introduction of early 19th century technology makes it some what attractive.

 

[Desdichado]

George R.R. Martin's books.

Middle-earth done completely for d20.

Conan, from REH.

John Carter of Mars series (author's name is drawing a blank for some reason.) **edit: Edgar Rice Burroughs**

First two books of the Darksword trilogy, completely ignoring that horrid third book.

Feist's Riftwar worlds.

Robert Asprin's Myth Series.

 

[Vaxalon]

....Naked Lunch D20. ...

Oh. My. God.

I really don't think I could handle an accurate portrayal of that; I've seen the movie and I've read the book and I'm still scraping the images out of the corners of my skull and locking them in adamantine lockboxes.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Naked Lunch D20

DM: You ate the Black Meat? Make a Fortitude save.

 

[Mallus]

Thanks for the horrified response, Vaxalon...

I felt inspired by idea of Gravity's Rainbow d20.

Now how many editions of the Monster Manual will they have to go through before they include the Mugwumps?

 

[Tom Cashel]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

mmmmmmmmmmmmMugwumps.

Sooooo addictive to suck on 'em.

I'd like to see the d20 stats for Saure Bummer and Tchitcherine.