Prep for Setting Poll - Good Settings

[VenomousFiligree]

The Thomas Covenant stories made a lasting impression on me years ago ... interesting how it is one of the few fantasy worlds that did not spawn an rpg.

Yes, I'd forgotten these books, a great read indeed!

[Malovech]

Middle-Earth set in the time during the Children of Hurin

[Stuart]

Middle-Earth set in the time during the Children of Hurin

Sadly, merely mentioning the intention to set an rpg in Middle-earth tends to invite the black breath of the Tolkien legal team

[Oberoten]

Hmmm... Black breath of the Tolkien legal team only makes me think of the dental status of the Mouth of Sauron you know.

[Malovech]

Fair use, non-distributed and for personal use, I think the minions of Tolkien have better things to do.

[Sigurd]

I just want to brainstorm. Legal concerns are serious but not something that should stop us from dreaming a little.

Speaking of the heavily copywrited, What about.

Tintin
Asterix
Lucky Luke
Rupert
even Beno!

Any long running cartoons I'm missing. I'm thinking about something deeper than GI JOE!. Something written for adults or adults and children.


- Sigurd

[Waldo Pepper]

Oh dear ... discussing books and settings
Similarly the "Dying Earth" setting of Jack Vance.

Robin Laws wrote a RPG using Vance's setting: The Dying Earth

[Stuart]

Yup ... 'twas that very thing I was referring

I guess the Dying Earth books were so refreshing in their handling of magic and so well written (the "wordsmithing" is beautiful) narratively, that any rpg attempt would struggle.

The Lyonesse trilogy were very good too ... has anybody else ever come across the Horse Lord, Demon Lord, Dragon Lord books (the author's name eludes me) ? I think the writer wrote these and then vanished ... the books do not seem to be in print anymore ? My first ever campaign used his setting ... and was basically a flagrant re-write of the first book

[Toadwart]

Yup ... 'twas that very thing I was referring

I guess the Dying Earth books were so refreshing in their handling of magic and so well written (the "wordsmithing" is beautiful) narratively, that any rpg attempt would struggle.

The Lyonesse trilogy were very good too ... has anybody else ever come across the Horse Lord, Demon Lord, Dragon Lord books (the author's name eludes me) ? I think the writer wrote these and then vanished ... the books do not seem to be in print anymore ? My first ever campaign used his setting ... and was basically a flagrant re-write of the first book

Can remember that the "Horse Lord" books were very good, though my aging braincells can't dredge up any details of the actual storyline.
Peter Morwood was the author.


Also just stumbled across https://www.dyingearth.com/ . . .

[Griogre]

I'm shocked I haven't heard Paranoia yet, where reporting to the briefing could be an adventure.
Some of Andre Norton's Witch World books fit in well for Fantasy settings.
Some of her SciFi Solar Queen novel settings do well for space.
Lois McMaster Bujold's Space Opera books could be a great SciFi Setting.
The X Men World of the Movies could make a gritty Super Hero/Vigilante Setting.
Tim Duncan’s Seventh Sword series would be a different caste based Fantasy Setting.
The Mad Science World of the Girl Genius Comics
Space 1889 for more turn of the century “Science”.
TORG for a great multi genre setting (love those cards mechanics too).