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

[Monolith]

Only known to true slavs from Czech Rep. or Poland, the Koniáš series by Miroslav Zamboch would be a perfect setting for an RPG. Low on magic, high on intrigue, backstabbing and proper swordmanship. It would be difficult to match the witty writing but I'd love to play an RPG in that world.

 

[Sranchammer]

Another Blood Meridian game would be cool

 

[vazha]

Another Blood Meridian game

Is there one?

 

[Wulfric Pinewood]

Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

 

[Sranchammer]

Another Blood Meridian game

Is there one?

There's a NES game based on the book that came out in 1992 - extremely rare.

https://cartridgelit.com/2016/04/27/blood-meridian-nes/

 

[Life of the Party]

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/lp-cyoa-pilgrimage.79488/

 

[Egosphere]

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You could greatly simplify things simply by setting it in pre invasion Kiev, with the various internecine intra-dynastic fighting between Chernigov, Turov, Pereyaslavl for the 'iron throne'.

 

[vota DC]

Terra! is about Europe+China VS Arabs+USA+Russia VS Japan, they all used different technologies for example the japanese used superintelligent mice. They fight even the crocodile of Elton John in the first part of the book.

Orlando Furioso cRPG would be cute too.

Pinocchio cRPG maybe?

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

 

[Cael]

Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

Dang. I always read that as Chronicles of the Black Widow Company, for some reason...

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

Dang. I always read that as Chronicles of the Black Widow Company, for some reason...

Lady (and her relatives) have that effect.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

Especially since so many people here are such huge supporters of TunFaire’s human rights movement.

I’d gladly pay fifty bucks for the chance to sneak past the thunder lizards into Chodo’s mansion with Morley Dotes, Playmate, Saucerhead, Winger and a suitable red headed bimbo

It wouldn’t even have to be a noir style game, although playing as Garrett P.I. would be a lot of fun, or even better you play as the Dead Man mind controlling various individuals of lesser intelligence. It would let you build in a lot of standard RPG mechanics as appropriate to the setting, like leveling your minions is just the Dead Man using his psychic powers to improve improve them.

But you could set the whole thing in the Cantard, maybe riding around with Glory Mooncalled and his centaur army—really anywhere in the war.

 

[Mikeal]

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

Tactical cRPG in style of Jagged Alliance 2.

 

[Falksi]

 

[Cael]

They already made a whole series for that:

 

[Ovg]

The Road by McCarthy, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Trainspotting by Welsh. I want some sad rpgs.

 

[Talby]

Inverted World, a story about a giant city on tracks that travels across a strange planet, shadowed by madmen who live in the wilds.

 

[undecaf]

King's Under the Dome could provide a rather interesting setup for a loosely adapted RPG.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Why people keep saying this?
Garret P.I is where real weirdness and possibilities are in Glen Cook's novels.

Tactical cRPG in style of Jagged Alliance 2.

Something that's structured like Shadowruns could also work in TunFaire setting.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Egosphere]

 

[hilfazer]

I agree with TimCain that: “Roger Zelazny's "Lord Of Light" would make a great CRPG.”

So that's why Pillars of Eternity takes inspiration from Lord of Light. I wanted to know whose idea it was and it seems it was Tim Cain himself. Thanks.

 

[bataille]

 

[Egosphere]

Of what we cannot play, we must pass over in silence