What Game Has The Best Fiction

[Parmandur]

Honestly, D&D most likely, just because of volume and consistency over time as much as anything.

 

[Parmandur]

We could also add the legendary light novel series and I believe manga and anime, Record of the Lodoss War, which started out as actual-play of a D&D campaign (Japan was publishing actual-plays in zines back in the '80s quite regularly).

The might lead us the Critical Role TV show, the name of which escapes me, (mid, sadly - but not bad! Watchable, imho!) which is of course directly based on a couple of D&D campaigns.

I doubt it is accidental that the biggest success TSR had in fiction, the original Dragonlance trilogy, was grounded in actual plays of the module playtests they ran as a team.

 

[Argyle King]

Do the Lone Wolf choose-your-adventure books count?

They are simultaneously novels and games.

31 Total Books

 

[Tonguez]

Do the Lone Wolf choose-your-adventure books count?

They are simultaneously novels and games.

31 Total Books

Fighting Fantasy had its own RPG spin off too, including a source book for Port Blacksand, City of Thieves.

As far as I'm concerned The Night Prince Zanbar Bone is the greatest lich in fantasy literature

 

[MGibster]

I sometimes forget in the 80s and early 90s just about every entertainment franchise had novels as marketing tie-ins. I remember reading a book from the Photon Book Series. And by Photon, I referring to the competitor of Laser Tag. They have a few novels for some reason. For gaming, I think D&D is a solid choice as are the 40k books.

 

[Velderan]

Shadowrun is probably the game that the premise of the game is setup to have some great fiction to accompany it and for some reason the novels I picked up as a teenager never really grabbed me the way the Dragonlance novels did at the time. Maybe I just read the wrong ones. I read through at least 2 but at this point I have no idea what they were.

 

[Deset Gled]

Baseball.

Movies: Field of Dreams. A League of Their Own. The Sandlot. The Pride of the Yankees. Moneyball. Bad News Bears. 42. Major League.

Books: The Natural. Shoeless Joe. Blockade Billy.

Plus, think of how things have a baseball "episode", from Encyclopedia Brown to the X-Files. How many superhero comics have an issue based on baseball. Heck, even the newspaper comics get in on baseball, from Peanuts, to Calvin and Hobbes, to Foxtrot, to Far Side. And don't forget "Who's on First".

 

[payn]

Baseball.

Movies: Field of Dreams. A League of Their Own. The Sandlot. The Pride of the Yankees. Moneyball. Bad News Bears. 42. Major League.

Books: The Natural. Shoeless Joe. Blockade Billy.

Plus, think of how things have a baseball "episode", from Encyclopedia Brown to the X-Files. How many superhero comics have an issue based on baseball. Heck, even the newspaper comics get in on baseball, from Peanuts, to Calvin and Hobbes, to Foxtrot, to Far Side. And don't forget "Who's on First".

Whats that now? Cant hear you football is on.

 

[Parmandur]

Whats that now? Cant hear you football is on.

Sorry, @Deset Gled is right, baseball has better fiction than football.

 

[Willie the Duck]

Baseball.

Knew it was coming the instant the OP didn't state TTRPG.

Sorry, @Deset Gled is right, baseball has better fiction than football.

Oh, let's be clear, if sports are included in applicable games, then clearly dodgeball, ping pong, and figure skating have the best fiction.