Roleplay Stuff

[rowyn]

Last night, Lut re-read Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October. He promptly recommended it to me, and added, "I think it'd make a good campaign, too."

I finished it this morning, and I have to agree. It's got lots of campaign potential. Because I'd be using the same theme, but not the characters or specific actions of the book, it wouldn't matter if my players had read the book or not. So I was all set to type up a blurb about the game as part of a proposal for it, and see what people thought.

Then I realized, "But that would spoil the book."

And this is a really good book. It's also quite a quick read, page count notwithstanding; the chapters tend to be short, and there are illustrations by Gahan Wilson that add to the white space. Don't read the backcover and for goodness's sake, don't read the reviews at Amazon (which not only spoil some of the book's many fine surprises, but say some things which are outright falsehoods. ) Just read the book. Trust me on this one. You needn't even buy it; your local library system probably has a copy somewhere. Lut plucked it off the shelf while browsing at our nearest branch of ours.

In a couple of weeks, I'll do up a post with campagn concepts and include a decription, complete with spoilers, of this idea. So those of you who don't want to read it don't have to. But I'd highly recommend it. Not because you'd need to for the game -- it won't make a difference to the game, really.

But it's such a good book. :)

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Carpe baculum!

[rowyn]

See, you can vouch for me -- good book, huh? :)

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Fantastic, fun book! Extremely silly, well thought-out, and a fun ending. Very light reading for Zelazny!

Just Bought It

[telnar.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, it appears to be out of print. On Amazon, there was no current paperback edition for sale, but it was available used and in hardcover, so we should be able to buy it (although my experience is that Amazon vendors tell me that they don't actually have a copy about half the time I try to order a used book which is out of print).

Re: Just Bought It

[rowyn]

True. I'd probably better allot a couple of weeks just for copies to arrive, given the ordering-online-thing. :) This is one reason that I recommended libraries. At least with my library system, pretty much any book that had a run in hardcover appears to be available at some location, and shippable to mine. I haven't heard about the experiences of other people with this, though.

Some Data on my Progress

[telnar.livejournal.com]

The first vendor wrote me the next day to say that they didn't have a copy. The second vendor said that they would ship by yesterday and I haven't heard anything else (which isn't unusual -- most Amazon vendors don't notify me when they send something USPS).

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Read it, liked it, it definitely plays along Zelazny's whole 'mythic characters being down to earth' theme.

[rowyn]

So, d'ya think it'd make a good campaign? :)