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Books You'd Love To See Adapted Into CRPG's

ScrotumBroth

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Grab the Codex by the pussy Insert Title Here Strap Yourselves In
The Road. Dealing with a purely human motif could set up a good writer well. Plus the setting is ripe for a cRPG.
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Damn, how could I forget Cormack McCarthy? Blood Meridian would make an excellent RPG. Judge Holden is out there with the very best villains ever written.

"Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He knows too that the worth or merit of a game is not inherent in the game itself but rather in the value of that which is put at hazard. Games of chance require a wager to have meaning at all. Games of sport involve the skill and strength of the opponents and the humiliation of defeat and the pride of victory are in themselves sufficient stake because they inhere in the worth of the principals and define them. But the trial of chance or trial of worth all games aspire to the condition of war for here that which is wagered swallows up game, player, all. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god."

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Blood Meridian would be interesting, but The Road? Theres barely anything there.

What do you mean by "anything"?
 

Mikeal

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Silmarillion - playing as Noldor elf fighting with Morgoth and his lackeys,
Kalevala - land of Finnish myths is vast and unexplored. In final mission hero joins Väinämöinen, Ilmarinen and Lemminkäinen in their quest for Sampo,
Inquisitorial Series by Jacek Piekara - you play as young adept of Inquisition in world where Jesus came down from cross, conquered Rome, created Inquisition to guide humanity through ages and disappeared. Fighting with heretics, solving cases, banging chicks stopping demons and other monsters.
 

Nortar

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Pathfinder: Wrath
The Chaos Born trilogy Drew Karpyshyn churned out between his visits to Bioware already reads like a game screnario.

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RNGsus

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The Walking Drum and The Lonely Gods by Louis L'amour.
 

Akratus

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Codex 2016 - The Age of Grimoire Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy Insert Title Here Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
I would say I'd love a good rpg set in Tolkien's universe but I can not imagine a developer ever doing it justice so just insert cyberpunk book here.
 

miles teg

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Roadside Picnic, of the Strugatsky brothers.

An RPG based on exploration of a strange zone, where law of physics are totally fucked up and the goal is just survive
 

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More gay romances than in your average bioware's RPG.

Roadside Picnic, of the Strugatsky brothers.

An RPG based on exploration of a strange zone, where law of physics are totally fucked up and the goal is just survive

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DraQ

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Books? None. Any individual story will most of the time translate poorly too an RPG.
Book settings? Yes please:
  • Niven's Smoke Ring/Integral Trees (Bonus points for allowing 3D exploration and combat involving basic orbital physics in conjunction with mostly sub-medieval tech level - you don't see that often)
  • Niven's Known Space
  • Hannu Rajaniemi's "Quantum Thief" trilogy
  • Mieville's "Bas-Lag"
 
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