Quote from: Cranewings;421352Sorry, I had the name wrong. Hopefully all of these posts of people that amazingly know the same book weren't just confused, thinking I was talking about something else.

No, I meant exactly that book. (I read it in German, so I didn't even catch your mistake...!) Bought a second copy, gave it to my sister. It's that kind of story that makes a perfect gift.)

I'm told it would be bad wrong DMing to use the dragons from Patrica McKillop's The Cygnet and the Firebird against PCs.  I don't see why.  They have somewhat watered down relatives in Glorantha.

I think out of her books the only one that really reveals enough of the setting to game it would be The Quest of the Riddlemaster.  I'm not sure what you'd run it with but I'm thinking you'd have to go before the trilogy or Morgon would be able to interfere with PC plans and villain plans too much.

*I did the Marvel and DC Universes as gaming.  
*I have also done  Buffy, Angel, and Supernatural (Unisystem, Unisystem, and Cortex).
*CoC in various editions has been played.
*I have run Serenity/ Firefly (Cortex).  Ringworld campaign was interesting, through too short lived.
*Star Trek (STOS, STNG), Star Wars. I can't find anyone who wants to run Babylon 5.  
*I played Bushido in a Tomoe Gozen world... but it was more like those three novels were set in Bushido's Fantasy Japan than the other way around.
*Amber a couple of times.
*John Carter of Mars and Flash Gordon.  (Wow... that was a lonnng time ago).

Fantasy is tough. I am not a huge fantasy gamer. What fantasy I normally played was Nipon.  I own Elric, Hawkmoon, and a couple of others.. but never played them.  I have run briefly Pernish and Darkoverish worlds, but not those worlds themselves.

Turning on the Waybac, the only game I can remember that was not Middle Earth (which we were only kinda playing), is Thieves World. Other than that, I can't remember playing any adopted literary settings.

Many.

Many moons ago I played a game set in Tanith Lee's 'Tales from the Flat Earth' using the Atlantean Trilogy Arcanum 2nd Edition rules. Probably a mismatch, lots of fun. Now that Lee's series is being re-published I have been giving this setting some thought.

William Hope Hodgson's 'The Night Land'...I'm not sure how to classify this one...Sci-Fi or Fantasy, both? This was in the distant past, we used the Palladium Role-Playing Game and borrowed various ideas from setting books. A real Frankenstein's monster.

Thieves' World and Lankhmar have been long running staples. Next year I'd like to get both settings running with Mongoose RQII or BRP.

Savage World of Solomon Kane. This is a beautiful book and my first experience with Savage World. Very pleased.

Clark Ashton Smith's 'Zothique'...currently in the idea phase using Mongoose RQII.

Huh...I'm sure there are more...

I do generally like having "official" adaptations but they are not always very helpful.

-Hans

I'd love to do a Malazan campaign. I know it came from the author's GURPS campaign, but it screams Arduin to me.

I ran Black Company from the Green Ronin book. I thought it was OK, but I wasn't completely excited about it.

I'm pretty facile with Fudge, and it's not unusual for me to crap together a quick adaptation of almost anything I've enjoyed watching or reading during the week, almost as sort of a gamer's review. I don't know if there's a single more detailed generic system I would prefer if folks wanted to move to a more "serious" campaign. I'm pretty good at matching material to systems I like.

I'm playing in a campaign set in Westeros from A Song of Ice and Fire series.  We're using, unimaginatively, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying.  

I really enjoy the books, but nothing screamed "roleplay in me" as I read them.  However, the group I joined had a campaign in progress, so why the hell not?

I ran a game based in the "Max Headroom" universe when the series first came out. I chopped Paranoia to bits and then reassembled it to create a system I liked. At the time the only other systems I had that were Sci Fi were Traveller and Space Opera and neither of them seemed like a good starting point.

Also ran a "Cast a Deadly Spell" game with Gangbusters. Lots of fun and surprisingly easy to create.

Quote from: winkingbishop;423527I'm playing in a campaign set in Westeros from A Song of Ice and Fire series.  We're using, unimaginatively, A Song of Ice and Fire Roleplaying.  

Just tried to check out the Quick Start rules on that page. I FUCKING hate when pages link to PDF files but the URL is coded and you can't right click/save as. So the PDF HAS to open in your fucking Firefox window. Fuck that. Hop. Close window.

Quote from: Benoist;423533Just tried to check out the Quick Start rules on that page. I FUCKING hate when pages link to PDF files but the URL is coded and you can't right click/save as. So the PDF HAS to open in your fucking Firefox window. Fuck that. Hop. Close window.

Damn dude, brutal.  I'll e-mail it to you if you'd like.  I'm not thrilled with the system, but I like the campaign.

Appreciated, man.

Quote from: danbuter;420858Middle Earth, using MERP. Had a lot of fun back when I was a kid.

Same here.  Some of my fondest gaming memories involve running MERP, which I did a lot of throughout the late 1980s.  (Some more thoughts on MERP here.)  I also used ICE's Middle-earth material for another campaign in 2001-02 (although I did not use the MERP rules for that campaign, unfortunately).

Aside from Middle-earth, I ran a campaign using Chaosium's Hawkmoon RPG the summer 1989.  I'd like to run a campaign using Chaosium's Elric! and Corum rules someday, set in the world of Corum.

I'll be running a Call of Cthulhu in 2011 (most likely starting in January).  I've played CoC before, but I've never been a Keeper.

I'd like to run a campaign set in Howard's Hyboria someday (most likely using BRP/MRQII/OQ).

Quote from: Benoist;423539Appreciated, man.

Sent you a PM.

Quote from: The Butcher;421015...I've even considered a MRQII Lyonesse game.

Vance's Lyonesse series is one of my all-time favourite fantasy trilogies.  A game set in it would be very cool.  (Alas, probably too much work for me!)

Haven't done any. Would probably like to do Dying Earth sometime, since I've got the game--otherwise, even though I loved the series, I wouldn't go out of my way to base a game in the setting.

By the way, there were some "Midkemia" rpg materials published, but the relationship between the rpg setting and the books may not be very close.

Hm, I did play in a setting that was later turned into a (moderately successful) book series, by the GM, but I don't want to drop names--sorry for being coy. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair amount changed, although I think the broad geographical/political outline stayed pretty much the same. Nothing from the campaign per se was used although some PCs had cameos.

Quote from: Akrasia;423543Vance's Lyonesse series is one of my all-time favourite fantasy trilogies.  A game set in it would be very cool.  (Alas, probably too much work for me!)

Agreed, it might be too much work. But it would be a great license!