Eddings & Feist

[Zip]

The Belgariad
By David Eddings

Riftwar (Magician, Silverthorn etc)
Raymond E. Feist

Either would be great

 

[katadder]

IIRC the riftwar series was based off the Medkemia setting created by a group of friends for RPG and then made popular by said riftwars series. dunno what the rights would be on that setting.

 

[nezeray]

Great! Another tangent for my Gamer ADD to take. Feist's Riftwar series converted to Rune Quest. When I retire I'm going to have lots of projects.

Thanks

James / Nezeray

 

[Strom]

I've read Fiest & Eddings and concur either would be great as RPG's but why not throw Farland's Runelords in there as well. 8)

 

[The King]

Feist has been asked for some time now.

An adaptation of Midkemia to D20 rules was recently aborted. Here is the info: http://www.midkemia.com/

 

[Zip]

Feist has been asked for some time now.

An adaptation of Midkemia to D20 rules was recently aborted. Here is the info: http://www.midkemia.com/

That's a shame. Those books were awesome.

Magician
Silverthorn
Darkness at Sethanon

 

[The King]

I also loved the video games.

May be Mongoose can turn this setting into RQ rules.

 

[Sir Salt]

*bump...

For Druss' lands

 

[Cleombrotus]

Midkemia Press released Tulan and Carse, both of which feature (in name) in the Riftwar Trilogy. These were generic city packs, but the default system/skeleton stats were clearly runequest/brp.

I thought that Feist was a roleplayer-turned-author and Midkemia was their (presumably D&D) campaign world?

Belgariad? Hmmm... might be difficult to capture the flavour. Using d20 perhaps your characters could all start at 20th level, never encounter anything with more than five hit dice, waltz through every battle to a climactic final encounter which proves to be even easier than the build up and then reveal through prophecy that you weren't in any real danger of losing anyway...
And you get exponential experience for saying the same phrase again and again and again and again; perhaps something like, "Durnik you're an absolute treasure" or "One does one's best".

Still, loved it when I was fourteen...

 

[The King]

I thought that Feist was a roleplayer-turned-author and Midkemia was their (presumably D&D) campaign world?

Exact but Feist novels don't rely much on D&D rules.
I had once a discussion with one of his friends, Stephen Abrams, from Midkemia Press (at http://www.midkemia.com) (you may even find old published material for free)

Much material is already present but unpublished (including rules for an RPG) but Feist has of course the right and he isn't interested enough to publish a game, so he is waiting for any good opportunity from RPG publishers.

As far as I'm concerned I'd rather like a specific rule set or Runequest rules.

 

[Robin]

Belgariad? Hmmm... might be difficult to capture the flavour. Using d20 perhaps your characters could all start at 20th level, never encounter anything with more than five hit dice, waltz through every battle to a climactic final encounter which proves to be even easier than the build up and then reveal through prophecy that you weren't in any real danger of losing anyway...
And you get exponential experience for saying the same phrase again and again and again and again; perhaps something like, "Durnik you're an absolute treasure" or "One does one's best".

Still, loved it when I was fourteen...

Heh, spot on, as far as I remember. Mind you, I didn't read the final book of the Mallorean until years later, and I still found the characters pleasant company.

Both series can easily be summed up as a group of quite likeable people go for a very long walk in the countryside.

Regards

Robin

 

[The King]

Bump.

I'd really like a Midkemia RPG with RuneQuest Rules.

 

[Lord High Munchkin]

The 'Belgariad' was covered in a few old 'White Dwarf' articles with AD&D stats for creatures and so on in the mid 1980's.