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

[ScrotumBroth]

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."

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

What do you mean by "anything"?

 

[Mikeal]

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]

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

 

[Fedora Master]

Silmarillion - playing as Noldor elf fighting with Morgoth and his lackeys,

Well, there's Sil.
You can even say FUCK FATE and steal not one but all three silmarils from Morgoth.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Jacek Dukaj 'Inne Pieśni'
Jacek Dukaj 'Lód'

 

[CyberWhale]

Exodus - The Bible.

IMO game similar to The Kings of Dragon Pass would be a better fit for that theme.

 

[Lady_Error]

Vance's Gaean Reach setting

^This x1000.

 

[RNGsus]

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

 

[octavius]

Silmarillion - playing as Noldor elf fighting with Morgoth and his lackeys,

I think Silmarillion would have been perfect for a Birthright kind of game.

 

[abnaxus]

First Law is p. cool setting, but everyone would roll barbarian or monk.

 

[Somberlain]

My Twisted World

 

[CyberWhale]

First Law is p. cool setting, but everyone would roll barbarian or monk.

Nine-fingered barbarian of course.

 

[Life of the Party]

 

[Alex]

 

[Jason Liang]

Oh. Duh. Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea.

 

[Akratus]

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.

 

[Bladeract]

Bot a book, but this.

 

[Ibn Sina]

Children of Men.

 

[miles teg]

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

 

[Wysardry]

An RPG set on Terry Pratchett's Discworld would be interesting.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Another one i would like to see is something inspired by Quantum Thief -series by Hannu Rajaniemi.

 

[RNGsus]

The Man of Gold and Flamesong, MAR Barker.

 

[Citizen]

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

Spoiler

 

[DraQ]

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"

 

[DraQ]

Jacek Dukaj 'Inne Pieśni'
Jacek Dukaj 'Lód'

'Perfekcyjna Niedoskonałość',
'Aguerre w Świcie'
and
'Czarne Oceany'
could also have a lot of potential.