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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3433437" data-attributes="member: 20741">The biggies to me are the ones which have probably more to do with D&D (certainly D&D thieves & rogues) than any single other literary inspiration:  Fitz Leiber's Fafrhd and the Gray Mouser series.It bothers me that this series has slipped off the radar of today's gamer. It bothers me a lot.  I've never understood why Ill Met in Lankhmar was never turned into a movie. It seemed a natural for the big screen.I had heard these were to come back in print via Dark Horse - but if so, it's taking a bloody long time.  Maybe Dark Horse has has second thoughts? I'm sure you've considered those anyway - but you asked...The original published versions of Lovecraft are cheap (read, free) to reprint as well. And here I'm all about the packaging. This was something I had in the early 80s in a bunch of tiny thing books. Seems worthwhile to put it all in one single solid fat book or maybe -  two. There are some novels by Paul Edwin Zimmer - the first Dark Border novels, from the early 80s that are somewhat adult in nature but really extremely worthy candidates and very much out of print. The two of note are The Lost Prince and King Chondo's Ride. Zimmer passed in the 90s - but his sister, Marion Zimmer Bradley ,would know what's up with those.  They were published by Ace and then later Berkley if I have it right. They have been out of print for 20 years or so Erik. Amazing stuff and very underrated.  If nothing else - read them if you get a chance. (The other two novels set in the Dark Border world are less than inspiring though.)In fact - I'd go so far as to say the the setting of the Dark Border would make an *ideal* campaign world. (And I'm sure many homebrews did just that with it, back in the day.)I almost hesitate to mention it - but I might dare to also suggest the  earliest 6 or 8 Gor novels. Putting aside the whole pseudo-BDSM subculture that has grown around them over the years since, there did have a cachet and feel all their own. I think they've been out of print quite a while.  Daw was the publisher I believe.Last up -the late Brian Daley's Doomfarers of Coramonde and Starfollowers of Coramonde.  Published by Del Rey in 1979-80 and long out of print.  I loved these books as a kid. Very underrated stuff.  The first book opens with a squad of US army draftees in an APC - plucked out of Vietnam and drafted to fight a dragon.  Awesome stuff. I loved it.</blockquote>

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