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Raymond Feist built Midkemia around a RPG campaign. So did a lot of other Fantasy authors of his generation, Elizabeth Moon (Paksenarrion), and Robert Asprin (T
by vajrabum 8y ago
Raymond Feist built Midkemia around a RPG campaign. So did a lot of other Fantasy authors of his generation, Elizabeth Moon (Paksenarrion), and Robert Asprin (Thieves World) are two. Might be obvious but I'd say those games are partly behind the explosion of fantasy starting in the late 1970s. It made world building a lot easier, but there was a landmine. Feist either accidentally or on purpose included elements of the game Empire of the Petal Throne without acknowledgement or renumeration. He apparently wasn't the GM and claims he didn't know where it came from.
- projectramo 8y agoDragonlance too
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoEnh, the Dragonlance novels were RPG tie-ins published by an RPG company. I'm not sure that counts.
- projectramo 8y agoThe first three were based on the authors’ personal D&D game
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoThey were based on a series of published modules that Hickman developed while working at TSR. He developed the world through a D&D campaign he ran for other TSR staffers, but it was still an official D&D product from the beginning.
- projectramo 8y agoI didn’t realize it was for TSR but does that count less or more?
- aetherson 8y agoThere are a lot of genre works built off roleplaying campaigns, including but surely not limited to: Steven Brust's Dragaera George R. R. Martin's Wild Cards Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont's Malazan Daniel Abraham and Ty Bank's Expanse
- PhasmaFelis 8y ago> Feist either accidentally or on purpose included elements of the game Empire of the Petal Throne without acknowledgement or renumeration. What sort of elements? RPGs and fantasy novels have always borrowed liberally from each other; unless it's particularly blatant/wholesale, I'm not sure it's a major issue.
- kemayo 8y agoThere's a not-bad summary of the controversy in this review: http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-134.html http://ferretbrain.com/articles/article-134.html