Books that would make good MMO's

[Grimztone]

This was on our forum www.unrepentantgaming.org and I think it is a great topic. For those of you that read (i work at an airport, people leave books all over the place) are there any books or series of book that you think could be made into a good MMO. Personally I am surprised that Harry Potter is not an MMO. 4 houses against each other would be cool. Personally the world that R.A. Salvatore has created makes me drool but might be to close to DnD and WoW of course. One of our guild suggested the Wheel of Time books or Discworld. What about the whole Horror fantasy stuff. How come no MMO's there? or a solid Western MMO. What books would make a great mmo for you guys.

[Soulken]

Fred Saberhagen's book of swords world would be great. Starting with the Empire of the East series.

[dormetheus]

Wheel of time would be too restrictive vis a vis magic ability. Also, they only fight, like, 3 different races of things, iirc.

A Pratchett mmo would be quality, but i don't know enough to give proper feedback.

I'd be down for a cyberpunk game (Shadowrun, Neuromancer) but they already failed with things like The Matrix and Tabula Rasa. I think an updated Anarchy Online could be amazing. In my head, cyberpunk encompasses the best elements of scifi, horror, fantasy, and western.

[Grimztone]

Fred Saberhagen's book of swords world would be great. Starting with the Empire of the East series.

Heck yeah. 12 swords of power. 12 different races against each other.. would that be to many? lol. it would be cool though.

[Tilliak]

Wheel of time would be too restrictive vis a vis magic ability. Also, they only fight, like, 3 different races of things, iirc.

A Pratchett mmo would be quality, but i don't know enough to give proper feedback.

I'd be down for a cyberpunk game (Shadowrun, Neuromancer) but they already failed with things like The Matrix and Tabula Rasa. I think an updated Anarchy Online could be amazing. In my head, cyberpunk encompasses the best elements of scifi, horror, fantasy, and western.

Just mentioning the loss of Tabula Rasa makes me sad. I so miss that game.

I was actually looking through the list of Eberron books on Wizards site and reading the little blurbs they put on the back of the paperbacks. I realized that a lot of the stuff you see in DDO directly corresponds to some of the events that have taken place in the novels. Pretty cool...so, now I have to go pick up some Eberron novels. lol

[Mirimon]

The premise behind the world of the dark tower books by stephen king might be interesting as well (can detail out what I mean by this if requested).
The Deadlands rpg books by pinnacle might also make for a interesting MMO if they can flesh the card playing system out.

[VtecFiend]

Dune.



Dear god I would never see the sun again....

[Soulken]

Heck yeah. 12 swords of power. 12 different races against each other.. would that be to many? lol. it would be cool though.

Wouldnt be races but different groups of humans, since thats all there was. Except for elementals, and demons.

[Grimztone]

I quite enjoyed the series by Robert Asprin "Another fine Myth" which has about 10 books in the series. some of it was DnD like but they had portals to different dimensions which would make this content endless. extremely funny to. Like that game Dungeon runners... which is halarious.

[shenthing]

There are tons of worlds from Clive barker and Neil Gaiman books I would love to see in an MMO. Imajica, Weaveworld, American Gods, and The Great and Secret Show just to name a few. How about a Hellraiser MMO?
AS much as it pains me to say it... I think there would be a lot of potential in an Anita Blake MMO.

[Soulken]

The world of the Black Company would be great. Who wouldnt want to go against The Ten Who Were Taken

[DaoJones]

I'm amazed Dune was never made into an MMO.

As cheesy as it sounds, I would totally want to play a Starship Troopers inspired FPS/MMO. And not the crappy movie version - the original powered armor bug squashing Mobile Infantry, thank you very much! Dao's Devils, ready to drop!

[toughguyjoe]

Dune.



Dear god I would never see the sun again....

This.

Benejesuit sisters would be O.P. though and cause havoc with balancing, then the Fremen would be O.P. in Melee and they'd have to juggle, but what good MMO doesn't have those problems? :D

[VtecFiend]

This.

Benejesuit sisters would be O.P. though and cause havoc with balancing, then the Fremen would be O.P. in Melee and they'd have to juggle, but what good MMO doesn't have those problems? :D

And the worms man, why do only fremen get to ride them? I KNEW I SHOULDNT have rolled a stupid smuggler....

[squeenohyoshii]

Some good ideas here, fo'serial
I would add:

- Death Gate Cycle (Weis & Hickman)
- NecroScope (Brian Lumley)
- DresdenFiles [Harry Dresden world settings] (Jim Butcher)

[dormetheus]

They never did a full on World of Darkness MMO, did they?

That one's so obvious it seems like it already happened...

[Britheis]

I can't believe no one's mentioned this, but I'd be in heaven if there was an MMO based on China Mieville's trilogy (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council). About ten really good, completely unique races and more steampunk than you can shake a fReemade at. The world he thought up was designed for an MMO, in my opinion. I would love to "walk" through New Crobuzon with an avatar, go check out the Cacotopic Stain, and battle some Inchmen.

[bartcom2000]

Penthouse forums..........great MMO potential there

[Soulken]

I can't believe no one's mentioned this, but I'd be in heaven if there was an MMO based on China Mieville's trilogy (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council). About ten really good, completely unique races and more steampunk than you can shake a fReemade at. The world he thought up was designed for an MMO, in my opinion. I would love to "walk" through New Crobuzon with an avatar, go check out the Cacotopic Stain, and battle some Inchmen.

Never heard of it or the writer might have to check it out.

[BattleCircle]

There was a thread like this sometime back. It didn't get a lot of attention, but some of us enjoyed it. :)

My thoughts are that Piers Anthony's Xanth series, or Adept series would both make excellent fantasy MMO's. Adept would have the added advantage of a game within a game. Both have dragons, and harpys, magic, zombies, and lots and lots of humorous adventure. :D

OH, and puns, tons of puns! :p

Also John Norman's Chronicles of Gor would be awesome, although it would have to be toned down a bit for the general public. :D Pirates, priestkings, outsiders, nomads, warriors, and..... Slave girls:D

[Britheis]

Never heard of it or the writer might have to check it out.

It's really amazing, chock full of originality, and the writing is so good. :D I'm a completely rabid fan of the series, if you couldn't tell already.

[Grimztone]

There was a thread like this sometime back. It didn't get a lot of attention, but some of us enjoyed it. :)

My thoughts are that Piers Anthony's Xanth series, or Adept series would both make excellent fantasy MMO's. Adept would have the added advantage of a game within a game. Both have dragons, and harpys, magic, zombies, and lots and lots of humorous adventure. :D

OH, and puns, tons of puns! :p

Also John Norman's Chronicles of Gor would be awesome, although it would have to be toned down a bit for the general public. :D Pirates, priestkings, outsiders, nomads, warriors, and..... Slave girls:D

Maybe there could be a filter version and an adult version.

[Mithran]

One could do well with Zelazny's Amber series as an MMO (with emphasis on pvp; Amber v. Chaos).

Dune is an excellent idea. I expect the son is making enough money by publishing the notes as separate novels so that he isn't particularly interested in further marketing. There were some pretty good Dune computer games (Emperor being the last).

The world of Neuromancer would be interesting to see, at a minimum. We'd all have to be hackers, which is a bit politically incorrect.

[Ciaran]

Even though it'd compete with DDO:

Ravenloft
Dragonlance (especially set either just after the Cataclysm or during the time Chronicles takes place)

[BurningDownTheHouse]

Song Of Ice And Fire by George R. R. Martin.
Not the PG 13 version.

Lots of factions.
Rare but existing magic.
Ubelievably brutal.

I'd totaly play that one.

[VonBek]

Lieber's Lahnkmar/Nehwon would port well as a classic setting.

Burroughs' Martian Tales could blend steampunk flavored Sci Fi -fantasy, on mars.

[donutfromouterspace]

I can't believe no one's mentioned this, but I'd be in heaven if there was an MMO based on China Mieville's trilogy (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, Iron Council). About ten really good, completely unique races and more steampunk than you can shake a fReemade at. The world he thought up was designed for an MMO, in my opinion. I would love to "walk" through New Crobuzon with an avatar, go check out the Cacotopic Stain, and battle some Inchmen.This. I've read a lot of stuff that might make a good mmo, but any time the subject comes up these books loom so large nothing else has a chance to come to mind.

[TitanIapetus]

What the hell is a book?

[moops]

Maybe too cutsie for most of you, but I think Redwall could be a decent MMO--20 books, tons of different enemies, time periods, and lands.

I for one would love to play a mouse wielding a sword :)

[Arvess]

Westeros from A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin. The only thing is that we'd all be waiting 3 years for an update pack.

[Varhann]

Riverworld by P.J. Farmer

Played the GURPS RPG version of this for 2 years and it was a blast. Just think of playing anybody you want, from any time. Hell, one of our gaming groups players was Judas.

or Dune

I'd have to have a custom built computer chair to accomodate my needs while I play. :)

[rpasell]

Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels would be fun.

[Varr]

Thieves world setting could offer alot
Would require a heavy consideration for diety struggles, but constant power pulling in that setting.

[Zynthar]

Honestly, most original worlds just wouldn't work so well for MMO's. Pratchett might, just because of the pure randomness of his amazing works, but then again..it wouldn't be a TRADITIONAL MMO. Heck, fighting in general isn't really a big thing in the books. I just can't see it really.

Another issue with books converted to MMO is that you will get the purists. People that know every little detail down to the authors interview when they were just starting out printed in a coffee magazine that mentions some little detail that the game maker did different. I think that's a reason I like the Eberron setting for the game. It didn't have all of the restrictions a very large and well established mythos and setting has.


ahem. Back on topic.

I want a Dark Sun MMO.


I'll probably get mocked... Mercedes Lackey's various "worlds". They have good premises and established limits and a good availability of magic. That's the key to a lot of it to me. Lets see, what else... Simon Green.


Simon R. Green's anything series. Probably the Empire books, the Nightside one's are a weeeee bit much for an MMO. And the secret war ones are too..secret!

oh!!

Michael A Stackpole's Chaos books! Those are PERFECT. Heck, I thought they WERE novelizations of a game world at first! They have built in ranks, a suitable realm of enemies...actually it would be PERFECT. Down to the fact that only a few books were written, and never finished so you have some built in storylines WITHOUT resolutions.

If any developers are reading this and want to start their own game, DO IT!

[Velexia]

Altered Carbon

[Aesop]

Song Of Ice And Fire by George R. R. Martin.
Not the PG 13 version.

Lots of factions.
Rare but existing magic.
Ubelievably brutal.

I'd totaly play that one.

Now we are talking.

Freakin awesome series would be great if it was an active combat and not standard MMO combat.


Another one that would be really cool is the other Jim Butcher Series.

Codex of Alera... everyone has Magic there :D

Aesop

[dormetheus]

What the hell is a book?

To quote Brian from Family Guy: "It's like the internet, but it's made out of trees."

Also, not everyone in Neuromancer was a hacker. Think more Shadowrun era cyberpunk. Too bad they made that terrible FPS game, WT EFF!

[Woundwolf42]

Stepping outside the fantasy/science fiction genre, I would love to see a western themed MMO, Think Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Gamblers, Outlaws, Lawmen, Entertainers, Ranchers, Bounty Hunters, Miners. Could be alot of fun.

[Giraffie]

I vote Ender's Game.

The class system would be a little funky/limited, but it'd be an interesting concept.

[Giraffie]

Maybe too cutsie for most of you, but I think Redwall could be a decent MMO--20 books, tons of different enemies, time periods, and lands.

I for one would love to play a mouse wielding a sword :)

I enjoyed those books. I'd be terrified it'd turn into creepy furry breeding grounds, though.

[Zynthar]

Another one that would be really cool is the other Jim Butcher Series.

Codex of Alera... everyone has Magic there :D

Aesop


Except Tavi!


Shh! Don't spoil it for those that ain't read! I'm waiting for library to kick me the last one.

[Grimztone]

Stepping outside the fantasy/science fiction genre, I would love to see a western themed MMO, Think Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. Gamblers, Outlaws, Lawmen, Entertainers, Ranchers, Bounty Hunters, Miners. Could be alot of fun.

YESSSSSSS. totally agree.

[oberon131313]

I've always said that Battletech/Mechwarrior needs to be fully fleshed out as an MMO...

[donfilibuster]

Terry Prattchett's Discworld have been made into a successful MUD game.
Add Turbine to create a MMO.

There's also a less known but excellent MUD game based on the Dragonlance series.
This one is a good proof of concept and can be very inmersive for a text based game.
It also shows that you don't need to fully stick to the novels to make it work good.
Krynn has the right mix of world size, dungeons, wilderness and cities for a MMO.

(both games show up in google search easily)

[Aesop]

Except Tavi!


Shh! Don't spoil it for those that ain't read! I'm waiting for library to kick me the last one.

just got it from our friends at amazon... need to start reading it ... but Family is interfeing

Aesop

[Kaldahr]

I've always thought the Dream Park series (including California Voodoo Game) by Larry Niven and Steve Barnes would make a good MMO. You wouldn't be confined to one particular genre and could even blend genres in a particular quest / quest series. Easy enough to establish different meta-areas as different places around the world that host games at any particular time. This was the first place that I read about different types of gamers being able to see things (i.e. rogues) that other players couldn't. You could even have a "second-sight" type of thing where VR visors could be taken on and off to see the real world behind the VR one (perhaps giving you a quick advantage but leaving you open to VR attack).

Multiple team contests (CTF, completion, whatever), PVP, ladders, etc. could be built-in. Notoriety could be built as status in the world grows giving access to better equipment, etc.

Might be tough because you'd almost have to create two type of characters. The human (real world) and the VR world type of character - though you could build in a Traveller type character creation system (professions per year, etc). Bonus that there's already a PnP game it.

I did enjoy the series though. Could be good.


I'll probably get mocked... Mercedes Lackey's various "worlds".
Not mocked at all. I did enjoy the Obsidian Trilogy books. Personally, it's one of the best depictions of Elves I've read. The only thing that might difficult is the magic system (the whole mage price thing might be really difficult but could be cool at the same time; interesting mechanic to say the least). But ready made enemies depending on where in the timeline you start. I've yet to read the second series so I don't know where it leads.

[Danneskjold184]

I'm amazed Dune was never made into an MMO.

As cheesy as it sounds, I would totally want to play a Starship Troopers inspired FPS/MMO. And not the crappy movie version - the original powered armor bug squashing Mobile Infantry, thank you very much! Dao's Devils, ready to drop!

Dune would be great. However, which era would you pick? I may be outing myself as a Dune Nerd, however I think the Typhoon Struggle time would be the most epic.

[Dexxaan]

Michael Moorcock`s -

Elric of Melnibonè - Imrryr`s New Kingdoms would simply rock.

.

[Zynthar]

I'm not much of a Dune geek, but would it work well? I've read several of the books, and they're more of a..a individual story. For a MMO setting, you need a reason for large groups of random people to be having adventures or what not.

[DANTEIL]

Hrm, I'm a total MMO newbie so I don't know all the various things that already exist... but the first thing that came to mind was A Song of Ice and Fire, which a couple of people have already mentioned. But then I realize that there are probably already too many fantasy/scifi worlds out there, so my second thought would be to use some kind of modern-day spy setting, like James Bond or even better (because you need a group) Mission Impossible. You could have skill specializations, weapons and gadgets, missions, bad guys, skill levels etc etc. I don't have a specific book in mind, so that's not really answering the original post, I guess..

EDIT: and no one's mentioned Twilight?? :) ;p

[Xenus_Paradox]

I'm not much of a Dune geek, but would it work well? I've read several of the books, and they're more of a..a individual story. For a MMO setting, you need a reason for large groups of random people to be having adventures or what not.

Set it in the time after Children of Dune and before God-Emperor of Dune. Plenty of unexplored story there, and if you set it closer to the former than the latter, most of the cool and iconic elements of the first 3 novels (badass Fremen, worms, Mentats, etc.) could be preserved.

[Mithran]

Set it in the time after Children of Dune and before God-Emperor of Dune. Plenty of unexplored story there, and if you set it closer to the former than the latter, most of the cool and iconic elements of the first 3 novels (badass Fremen, worms, Mentats, etc.) could be preserved.

For me, the best Arrakis setting would be before the Atreides moved in. I think the terraforming of Arrakis was a terrible error (with all due respect to Liet).

[Hendrik]

This was on our forum www.unrepentantgaming.org and I think it is a great topic. For those of you that read (i work at an airport, people leave books all over the place) are there any books or series of book that you think could be made into a good MMO. Personally I am surprised that Harry Potter is not an MMO. 4 houses against each other would be cool. Personally the world that R.A. Salvatore has created makes me drool but might be to close to DnD and WoW of course. One of our guild suggested the Wheel of Time books or Discworld. What about the whole Horror fantasy stuff. How come no MMO's there? or a solid Western MMO. What books would make a great mmo for you guys.


Fun question....

Larry Niven's Ringworld. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld)

[Arnya]

Rifts

http://games.sub-standard.com/Motivational%20Posters/Shadowrun-rifts-Btech/Rifts-glitterboy.jpg

[Hendrik]

I quite enjoyed the series by Robert Asprin "Another fine Myth" which has about 10 books in the series. some of it was DnD like but they had portals to different dimensions which would make this content endless. extremely funny to. Like that game Dungeon runners... which is halarious.

+rep for reminding me of some GREAT books!!!!

[ghettoGenius]

Dune was an excellent suggestion. As for setting I would have to say the original book would be most appropriate as more people could relate to it.

Shadowrun is something I have been looking forward to for years but I hear there is significant copyright issues with that one materializing.

Something that just popped into my head was Transformers. Autobot? Decepticon? Battles on Earth, Cybertron, deep space and other locations. This is doable ... and the marketing interest is already in place (Megan Fox promo notwithstanding).

As for original ideas I propose something involving Patrick Rothfuss's last book, The Name of the Wind. I absolutely fell in love with his story as many others have. Two more books that are part of a trilogy are forthcoming (talk about pressure lol). I have no idea how you would handle classes in this one and wouldnt even attempt until the story is complete, but were looking at a new cult classic here so watch out. I highly suggest you check it out.

Aside from that I've always been fond of a old west style MMO. Think Young Guns style (minus the Bon Jovi soundstrack). Classes such as gunslinger, rancher, cowboy, blacksmith, mystic/medicine man etc. could be relevant.

[Aesop]

Think Joss Whedon would let someone use the Firefly Universe ... not that whoever did it would do it justice... but hey we can always hope


Set it during the war or just before/after.

All about the Brown Coats

Aesop

[Zynthar]

I could definitely second or third Shadowrun. The possibilities would be near endless with that setting! Im a huge fanboy for the "Urban fantasy" genre and the post apocalypse with magic settings.


I think someone said Jim Butcher earlier. I know that there's a PnP in the works for the Dresden novels. I would be hesitant though to suggest anything that's still being written like they are. The TV show had to veer off in a different direction, a game would have to do the same.

I really wish they hadn't hosed the show...it was so good!

I don't know if there's an overall name, but William C Deitz did some really great sci-fi novels with a couple of different main characters. I think they would make for a great setting for an MMO as well. Oh! And while I'm at it, the Flinx novels by Alan dean Foster. I think those are in the universe he calls the Commonwealth? Its pretty well fleshed out and still open ended. Multitude of alien races, a rival Empire (or something) of devil like aliens to compete against, ancient lost alien secrets, and on and on and on.

I'm not a book addict either. Really. Just don't ask how many I have.

[Murderface]

I think ghost in the shell would make an awesome mmo

[Stormanne]

Wheel of Time

Harry Potter (supposedly in the works, by Turbine no less)

Enders Game

Wies and Hickmans vision for Dragonlance

Stephen King's world (considering with the last three books of the Dark Tower, he connected all of his literary works together into one universe, and several worlds within that universe)

and finally,

A real Shadowrun game, not that lame excuse for a POS game that Microsuck put out a few years ago...

[donfilibuster]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[VonBek]

Think Joss Whedon would let someone use the Firefly Universe

Hard to say what he'd do. But, who else holds the rights? Fox, Universal, or... ?

It holds up as a great setting, though. Scenarios can run with western, feudal, high-tech, "mutanty" themes, or more. Like Outlaw Josey Wales, in space, with just a hint of X Files.

[AtiumDrag]

The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson... for sure. I'd cry tears of joy.

[Danneskjold184]

Set it in the time after Children of Dune and before God-Emperor of Dune. Plenty of unexplored story there, and if you set it closer to the former than the latter, most of the cool and iconic elements of the first 3 novels (badass Fremen, worms, Mentats, etc.) could be preserved.

Actually, any Dune setting after original Dune but before God Emperor would be the most boring. The Atreides have already taken over the universe at this point.


I'm currently rereading the first book, and in it says that Atreides and Harkonnen aren't even close to being the biggest or richest noble houses. This leads me to believe that there would be roughly a dozen houses, plus the emperor, each with their own planet. With only 4 planets described in detail, there are many more left open to artistic imagination for almost whatever they want.

[Maxelcat]

dont know if its been put up:

the Emberverce series.

[HGM-Chi]

Altered Carbon

I would play this for sure. Sci Fi Noir style with body swapping? I'd even pay if it was done well :)

[eqpablon]

Kama Sutra... actually the Koreans have probably already beat me to the punch with this one.

-E

[AndyD47]

Steve Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen
I think it even started off as a crazy dnd campaign in the first place.

[brucelee82]

I have not read all the posts but something base off of William Gibson's cyberpunk books (neuromancer, burning chrome etc) could turn out very good. You could have all kinds of augments and upgrades.

[itslex1]

Game of Thrones, as mentioned above, would be interesting. There could be a lot more class diversity and new storyline for fans if it were to take place about 50-100 years before the first book.

[Kalanth]

The Kama-Sutra!

No, seriously, I would love to see some for of video game adaptation of the world used in Elizabeth Moon's The Deed of Paksenarrion. That is a great series of books and the world is so detailed that I would love to do something in that setting.

[Gunga]

Every night, in Pestilence vent, Jerkky talks about his big Brokeback Mountain MMO idea.

We all have him muted, but say "un huh" and "yeah, cool" once in a while so he thinks we're listening.

[BattleCircle]

every Night, In Pestilence Vent, Jerkky Talks About His Big Brokeback Mountain Mmo Idea.

We All Have Him Muted, But Say "un Huh" And "yeah, Cool" Once In A While So He Thinks We're Listening.

Roflmfao +1

[spyderwolf]

Brian Lumley's Necroscope Saga

[spyderwolf]

Think Joss Whedon would let someone use the Firefly Universe ... not that whoever did it would do it justice... but hey we can always hope


Set it during the war or just before/after.

All about the Brown Coats

Aesop

thatd be fun

[omastar444]

I agree that ender's game would be cool. But heres some I thought of:

-Call of Cthulhu (Surprised no one said this one yet)
-Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan (2 waring race of faeries that are human sized)
-Eragon (Thou I'm not a big fan dragon riding in an MMO would be awesome)
-Tin man (A sci-fi channel movie. Think a dark twisted version of OZ)
-A .hack MMO that actually makes it to america would be nice.

[RangerOne]

Others already mentioned Amber and The Book of Swords. Burrough's Martians could be done.

And perhaps McCaffrey's Pern. You could choose to be a crafter and never leave your guild hall. Fire lizard eggs would for for millions at the auction house. Your ultimate goal to defeat thread and fly off planet on your bronze dragon. Blue dragons would be the F2P noobs in that game.

(Tongue (somewhat) firmly in cheek.)

[Razcar]

Lots of great suggestions here, but if I had to pick one it would definitively be

Steve Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen
I think it even started off as a crazy dnd campaign in the first place.
The greatest fantasy series written in recent times IMO, with the A Song of Fire and Ice series coming second. Not for you who like Disney-type fantasy though, these books are a bit dark and brutal at times, but fantastic.

The Malazan books did start out as a D&D-campaign, but they switched to the more flexible GURPS.


They never did a full on World of Darkness MMO, did they?

That one's so obvious it seems like it already happened...
It is being developed by CCP Games since 2006 , the Icelandic makers of EVE.

[BattleCircle]

You know I was thinking. It's not a book, although there have been many books about the era and all. Given the popularity of Zanga's Mafia Wars, and worldwide romanticism of characters such as Al Capone, Bugsy Malone, John Dillenger etc. etc. I think an MMO along these lines would explode if done correctly.

[Sturge]

I could enjoy several of the suggestions made here, Dune, Pern, Mechwarrior, western, Firefly, Amber and World of Darkness being the main ones.

Other settings/themes I'd like would include:
- Robotech;
- Space 1889 (Victorian era, ether flyers, ironclads, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with a bit of the "Girl Genius" webcomic);
- Post-apocalyptic setting (Mad Max like, lots of territory sieges and pvp, or maybe a zombie apocalypse for fun :) ).

[Kiralyn2000]

I'll probably get mocked... Mercedes Lackey's various "worlds"....

No, no mockery here. I'm actually pretty surprised that the various Valdemar novels haven't been made into even a PnP game yet. Lots of backstory, well developed world, plenty of factions....

[DoctorWhofan]

Did anyone mention Dragonriders of Pern?

[Forbbidenone]

This was on our forum www.unrepentantgaming.org and I think it is a great topic. For those of you that read (i work at an airport, people leave books all over the place) are there any books or series of book that you think could be made into a good MMO. Personally I am surprised that Harry Potter is not an MMO. 4 houses against each other would be cool. Personally the world that R.A. Salvatore has created makes me drool but might be to close to DnD and WoW of course. One of our guild suggested the Wheel of Time books or Discworld. What about the whole Horror fantasy stuff. How come no MMO's there? or a solid Western MMO. What books would make a great mmo for you guys.

R.A. Salvatore's work is primarily set in the DnD Forgotten Realms. He has fantasy books set in other worlds, but his most loyal fan base is the Drizzt do'Urden which is set in Forgotten Realms.

That said Wheel of Time. The lore is massive, the world sculpted, and has a massive fan base. Really hoping the author chosen to finish the series can fill those massive shoes.

Pern is also a good one. However I'd prefer to see it minus hte last few books where they started to discover the history of their world. I'm not huge on the space thing. The world was crafted very well, only the tech part really threw me off.

Cthulhu would be great.

Someone said Elizebeth Moons deed series that is a good world.

Personally the Coldfire Trilogy. Gerald Tarrant is my hero.

[TechNoFear]

Warhammer 40K (in production)

The 'AMTRAK Wars' series would be interesting.

[Aesop]

Did anyone mention Dragonriders of Pern?

...


Did you mention Dr Who?


shouldn't you?


:D

Aesop

[Reyjak]

For those who were sugesting DUNE. There is a few problems with that, A what time period do you use (the series covers several thousand years). I was thinking like some others around the time of the orignal Dune book but with all of the inbetweenqual books there writing now it pretty much ruins most time around the first book.

[harold2560]

Terry goodkinds sword of truth series.

set in the time of the great war would be best possibility for rish class and race(faction) selection.

play as a gar, a mriswith, a boundry warden, or a war wizard!

[Talon_Moonshadow]

The Bible?

[MystDragon]

There are a couple of great suggestions that I would jump to try. Among them being the Book of Swords books, Wheel of Time, Burroughs Mars series and Necroscope.

My absolute favorite author is David Eddings. I would love seeing some of his work as an MMO - especially the Balgariad/Mallorean series.

Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga would make a great setting for an MMO, as well.

Going from books to Manga - there are several Mangas that would make awesome MMO's. I would try a Naruto MMO if one was done right.

I would also like to see an Avatar: The Last Airbender MMO (truly done right, not a hack.)

As for Pnp conversions - I know they made a Wheel of Time pnp game - but I don't know how good it is.

And BTW - Firefly as an MMO is a totally awesome idea.

[Razcar]

The Bible?
Although you'll get a similar balancing problem as in Star Wars Galaxies and the Jedi: Everyone will just want to play that imba Jesus healer build, or the awesome Peter build (Fisherman/Bard multiclass). No-one will play the Judas rogues. Too much healing/CC and too little DPS...

And if it's the Old Testament instead everyone will just want to play that uber burning-bush dude.

:D

[Judo]

R.A. Salvatore's work is primarily set in the DnD Forgotten Realms. He has fantasy books set in other worlds, but his most loyal fan base is the Drizzt do'Urden which is set in Forgotten Realms.

That said Wheel of Time. The lore is massive, the world sculpted, and has a massive fan base. Really hoping the author chosen to finish the series can fill those massive shoes.

Pern is also a good one. However I'd prefer to see it minus hte last few books where they started to discover the history of their world. I'm not huge on the space thing. The world was crafted very well, only the tech part really threw me off.

Cthulhu would be great.

Someone said Elizebeth Moons deed series that is a good world.

Personally the Coldfire Trilogy. Gerald Tarrant is my hero.

word on the wheel of time, btw have you read the Gathering Storm? my god....Sanderson pwned it dude, it was amazing...

and as for the restrictive magic, could you imagine how the magic would have to work? only thing i can think of is physically weaving a spell, a game pad would be key, using each control stick to control the flow of the weave, different hot keys to choose the element, sweet jesus that would be awesome, id love to help design that one

balefire would take literally 30 full seconds to weave for example, and if you messed up the weave, you would have start all over again....and of course you could divide it up into schools, i.e. healing, damage, cc (compulsion), cc (weather), cc defense...

not to mention you have bards (merry men), pirates, arial combat (seanchan)

and oh my god, if you program the ability to link...im literally drooling right now the possibilites are endless...

[Talon_Moonshadow]

Although you'll get a similar balancing problem as in Star Wars Galaxies and the Jedi: Everyone will just want to play that imba Jesus healer build, or the awesome Peter build (Fisherman/Bard multiclass). No-one will play the Judas rogues. Too much healing/CC and too little DPS...

And if it's the Old Testament instead everyone will just want to play that uber burning-bush dude.

:D

Lol.

I was actually thinking that that was where the missions were coming from.

God's missing pack. Go forth and get my pack.....because I said so!

(Noah had to get his tools from somewhere. :D )

[jomonkey527]

The Bible?

I wish. Also I wish there was something like bible games for my daughter.

[aradelothion]

I love the Coldfire suggestion, I just don't know how they'd pull that one off, as you have humans, adepts, and not much else as playable races/classes. Still, I'd love to see that happen.

Also, Death Gate Cycle. BattleCircle mentioned Xanth, but I like the setting of Battle Circle better :D

[Razcar]

Lol.

I was actually thinking that that was where the missions were coming from.

God's missing pack. Go forth and get my pack.....because I said so!

(Noah had to get his tools from somewhere. :D )
"LF trumpet-specced priest for Battle of Jericho raid. Need to have Crossing the Jordan prequest. No noobs or babylonians"

[rest]

word on the wheel of time, btw have you read the Gathering Storm? my god....Sanderson pwned it dude, it was amazing...


I throughly enjoyed the book. Before it came out, I read his Mistborn trilogy, and Elantris also. He's a gifted writer. Some of the parts of the new WoT book were obviously not written by RJ, but he still did an amazing job. Specifically, Mat didn't sound like Mat to me for some parts. But maybe I'm being extra judgemental because I had just finished all the previous WoT books so Jordan's writing style was still fresh in my mind.

[Elazul2k]

Wheel of Time hands down would be my first pick. It has been my favorite series for years. Sad that Jordan died though =*(

There is a text based mud(if you know what that is) that is pretty fun. WoTMUD is its name. Used to play it for a few years until I discovered Star Wars Galaxies and every so often I go back for a few months only to lose interest again to non-text based MMO.

[Malveon]

After playing Vampire:Bloodlines a number of years ago, I really had my hopes up for a world of Darkness MMO, but somehow it never came about. There are a lot of excellent setting suggestions in this post, and the only one I'd like to toss out there that hasn't been mentioned is the world after the change from Steven R. Boyett's Ariel.The second of the change novels was just released (25 years after the first). The basic premise is a modern world where technology abruptly grinds to a halt due to a magical shift in the laws of physics.Electricity, combustion engines, gunpowder, everything stops working.Magical creatures begin roaming the planet again and magic suddenly starts working.Survivalist fantasy set in the ruins of crumbling cities and derelict cars...It's easy to picture as a game falling somewhere between fantasy mmo and Fallout.

[cursedexodus]

R.A. Salvatore's work is primarily set in the DnD Forgotten Realms. He has fantasy books set in other worlds, but his most loyal fan base is the Drizzt do'Urden which is set in Forgotten Realms.


His forgotten realms novels are his most widely known, but his 10 (and counting) Corona Novels are generally, by most who have read them, by far his best works.

[moorewr]

Some good ideas here, fo'serial
I would add:

- Death Gate Cycle (Weis & Hickman)
- NecroScope (Brian Lumley)
- DresdenFiles [Harry Dresden world settings] (Jim Butcher)

Death's Gate seems like a natural for (Sartan v. Patryn) RvR - Like Aion with more settings to quest in.

Plus, think of it.. all Patryns would start in the Labyrinth.. the Patryn newbie quest arc just writes itself. :cool:

[Wren666]

Maybe too cutsie for most of you, but I think Redwall could be a decent MMO--20 books, tons of different enemies, time periods, and lands.

I for one would love to play a mouse wielding a sword :)You.
Win.
The.
Internet.


I actually once experimented with drafts for rules and Classes for such a Redwall-based MMO; send me a PM if you're interested!

[WeaselKing]

Weis and Hickman Dragonlance

Death's Gate

Xanth (for the younguns)

Firefly is a sweet idea

I wish Wheel of Time would work but I can't see how.

Dune would be problematic but more easily adapted that Wheel of Time I think.

BTW, am I the only one that finds it annoying that in Wheel of Time there is no name for the world they live on?

[Wren666]

Death's Gate

Xanth (for the younguns)
Ah still remember playing the old computer-game adaptations of those. ^^

[Kemoc]

I enjoyed this series when I was young. A lot of nice material (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_World) that could be translated over to a game if done properly. Being romantic fantasy type of game would hopefully attract more female players. Could be quite a visually stunning game.

[itslex1]

Saga of Recluce, anyone? You gain xp by completing a path of self discovery - perhaps making some furniture or steam engines along the way - and inevitability coming to terms with war and death, and sometimes singlehandedly destroying both your army and the enemies', being the only means to achieve peace in a human civilization. Sixteen times in a row. :D

[Kemoc]

Others already mentioned Amber and The Book of Swords. Burrough's Martians could be done.

And perhaps McCaffrey's Pern. You could choose to be a crafter and never leave your guild hall. Fire lizard eggs would for for millions at the auction house. Your ultimate goal to defeat thread and fly off planet on your bronze dragon. Blue dragons would be the F2P noobs in that game.

(Tongue (somewhat) firmly in cheek.)

I was thinking Burrough's Martians as well.

[Malveon]

I have a guildie that's obsessed with the idea of a PnP setting based on the Magic : The Gathering universe of planeswalkers, etc.Not really sure it'd work out as an MMO, though. Of all the listed ideas, while I've enjoyed a number of the series of novels brought up, the one I think it would be the most fun to actually play would be the Necroscope books, especially considering the wide variety of talents and abilities.After a bit of research into the WoD vampire MMO, it was apparantly " In development" in Iceland a number of years ago, and apparantly still is - currently scheduled for a 2010 release date. Sadly, they about had it right when they made Bloodlines.

[Talon_Moonshadow]

"lf Trumpet-specced Priest For Battle Of Jericho Raid. Need To Have Crossing The Jordan Prequest. No Noobs Or Babylonians"

Lol!

[ka0t1c1sm]

I concur with the earlier suggestions of William Gibson's Sprawl and Cyberspace series (Neuromancer etc.).

I'm sure some of you know R. Talsorian Games made a great RPG inspired by Gibson's work called Cyberpunk 2020. It's a ready made world ripe for an MMO. Corporations rule the world. You hit the street, reflexes jacked and looking for a score.

Techie bypasses the security system and gets the team into the corporate labs. Netrunner jacks in to the system and tries to crack the ICE while the Street Samurai fight off the corporate security to buy the inert Netrunner the time he needs to hack the mainframe. Med-Techs keep the Samurai patched up.

It's a high-tech version of Fighters. Rogues, Clerics, and Wizards. Large urban sprawl full of unlicensed clinics where you can get black market cyberware to jack your reflexes. Bars and clubs to meet up with other Edgerunners LFG. Instanced corporate "dungeons" for the quests. PvP could be handled in the "Combat Zones" - burned out city slums where the cops are afraid to go and it's a total free-for-all.

Another one I think has potential is Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

From Wikipedia:
The story is set in the future 1000 years after the “Seven Days of Fire”, a cataclysm brought on by the excessive industrialisation that mankind has undergone. It utterly destroyed industrial civilisation approximately a millennium after it began to flourish (probably sometime in the 2700s). Although humanity survived, the land surface of the Earth has become heavily polluted and the seas are poisonous. Most of the world is covered by the “Sea of Corruption”, a toxic forest of fungal plants which is steadily encroaching on the remaining open land. It is protected by large insects, including the huge Ohmu. Humanity clings on to survival in the polluted lands beyond the forest, periodically engaging in bouts of internecine fighting for the scarce resources that remain.

[techwench]

Cyberpunk MMO FTW! :D

[Spisey]

Rifts

http://games.sub-standard.com/Motivational%20Posters/Shadowrun-rifts-Btech/Rifts-glitterboy.jpg


I would be there in a heartbeat!

That whole series actually. You could have aliens, humans with super powers, mechs, dragons, outsider evils galor! :D

And playing a technowizard would be hella fun!

[Arnya]

......and Rifts has druids ;)

[Spisey]

......and Rifts has druids ;)

And Dogboys! :D

[Kaldahr]

I'm sure some of you know R. Talsorian Games made a great RPG inspired by Gibson's work called Cyberpunk 2020. It's a ready made world ripe for an MMO. Corporations rule the world. You hit the street, reflexes jacked and looking for a score.
I really liked the 2020 world and game system. I've still got a bunch of books downstairs... may need to start up another PnP version of it - most of my group doesn't like future-oriented through. Don't forget bards. Rocker's would fill that class as well.

It'd be a great MMO. Even the RPG part could work given the prevailing attitude on most of the internet. Politeness does not reign supreme in the world.

[Danneskjold184]

For those who were sugesting DUNE. There is a few problems with that, A what time period do you use (the series covers several thousand years). I was thinking like some others around the time of the orignal Dune book but with all of the inbetweenqual books there writing now it pretty much ruins most time around the first book.

As I think about this more and more, I don't think a Dune MMO would succeed. It would be awesome, but not successful. Mostly because of how sexual and extreme adult themes would reign.

[ka0t1c1sm]

I really liked the 2020 world and game system. I've still got a bunch of books downstairs... may need to start up another PnP version of it - most of my group doesn't like future-oriented through. Don't forget bards. Rocker's would fill that class as well.

It'd be a great MMO. Even the RPG part could work given the prevailing attitude on most of the internet. Politeness does not reign supreme in the world.

We got lucky in that all of our AD&D group jumped into Cyberpunk head first and had a blast. I still have most, if not all, of the rulebooks in .PDF format (not that I'll ever play again with the responsibilities of having a family now, but it's nice to have and look back on). I just hate how they left us hanging after Firestorm. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Cyberpunk V3.

The image of the camera panning up from your character to the black glass and steel Arasaka tower would be total awesomesauce. Dust off those mirrorshades. :cool:

[Angar]

While I agree that most of the suggestions here would make an awesome world to play in, most story lines are not compatible with the MMO system. In order for there to be an MMO, EVERYONE has to be, or have the potential to be, a hero. Most story lines that we love are made up of one or a small handful of heroes, and having an entire population of them would ruin the story, or force it to change into something that would not be reflective of the book or series it was spawned from.

Look at SWG for example: Huge world(s), massive fan following, and tons of authors contributed to make it far bigger than Lucas could have ever dreamt. However, the only way to make it work was to have the players contribute to the struggle between the Empire and the Republic. The reason it failed (and yes, it failed - in so many ways), is because the stories all revolve around a handful of heroes, and while they had their armies to fall back on, nobody was interested in playing the members of the army. Everyone wanted to be a Jedi or a Bounty Hunter. In order to make it fun for more than a few weeks, they had to make Jedi acheivable by anyone, which ruined the premise of the game. The original idea of only a very select few acquiring Jedi abilities was great - as long as you were the one to acheive that goal. If people were satisfied with being the general population in the Star Wars world, it would have been a great game, but that is not human nature.

This is why a single player or normal multiplayer game can work so well but not translate to an MMO.

D&D works well as an MMO, because it was always a game where you strived to be the hero (or anti-hero as the case might be). Shadowrun is another world that would work for this, as the book heroes were never exclusive in their abilities - it was always just a story from the perspective of a specific group of people doing semi-normal things in that world.

Look at the MMO's that made it big - They all have one thing in common: they didn't create (or copy) a world where everyone was normal and a few heroes dictated the events.

Personally, I would love to see an MMO based on George R.R. Martin's Fire and Ice books, but let's face it, everyone would want dragons and magic or to rule a house or kingdom, when in fact it is the rarity of these that makes the story good.

Wheel of Time is the same way - a world where there are a handful of female magic wielders and men are not allowed to channel, except the future is dependent on one man being able to channel.. There is only a small window in the story line where an MMO could work, and that would be near the conclusion when both Aes Sedai and Asha'man were being recruited like crazy in preparation for the final battle... You could set the game in that time, but the story is that they are preparing for the final battle, after which the game would be over.. The only way I could see it working is if you waited for the final trilogy to be finished, find out how it ends, then base the game on the POST book world.

I am sure there are a few book series out there where not just the world but the story line that makes it great could translate into an MMO. However, even in those cases, there is another major problem: you have to satisfy the fans. If the world exists, you better get it right, and the story had better fit every single word that has been written about the world or you will have a mass exodus from the game. Fans are too picky, which is another reason the successful MMOs are either created from scratch or from a basic concept as opposed to an existing world that has a strong following and background story.

If you ask me, just doing a DDO:Forgotten Realms would be huge. You have the world detailed out already, but being D&D, the story is open for anyone to explore and become the hero. Make it a seamless world with more "explore and roam" area than a small city with a few instances surrounding it, and you would have people falling over themselves to quit WoW and play DDO.. Even with an open world like Forgotten Realms, you have a fan base that would be hard to satisfy, which is probably why Eberron is successful: they created the world to suit the game, rather than the other way around.

Basically, it comes down to this: I would love to play a game set in some of the worlds created by my favorite authors, but in most cases, an MMO would ruin that world.

[Ashiel_Dragmire]

John Norman's Gor. I wanna ride a tarn and stick it to the Priest-Kings.

[Trillea]

Michael Moorcock`s -

Elric of Melnibonè - Imrryr`s New Kingdoms would simply rock.

.

This.

Forever.

[phalaeo]

Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose.

[Oreg]

Erickson's Malazan Empire. I want to be a T'lan Imass.

[Oreg]

Lots of great suggestions here, but if I had to pick one it would definitively be

The greatest fantasy series written in recent times IMO, with the A Song of Fire and Ice series coming second. Not for you who like Disney-type fantasy though, these books are a bit dark and brutal at times, but fantastic.

The Malazan books did start out as a D&D-campaign, but they switched to the more flexible GURPS.


It is being developed by CCP Games since 2006 , the Icelandic makers of EVE.

Agreed. IMO best fantasy series ever penned outside of the Lord of the Rings. And even that is debatable in my mind.

Patrick Rothfuss' Name of the Wind has so much potential as a book series but need to see when the second book comes out. Not as an mmo though - too limiting.

[Thorboar]

Moby **** would rock.....just think.....harpooning whales....butchering whales......chase moby ****......kill more whales......upgrading your harpoon....finally after a year or so you can do the raid to face Moby **** himself.......oh the fun times.....

[Newtons_Apple]

Haven't read the whole thread, so if this has been posted already, apologies.

Ender's Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_Game)

[Eladiun]

- DresdenFiles [Harry Dresden world settings] (Jim Butcher)


Agreed, it already has a table top game. Also, there was an old role playing box set called Rifts which I always though would make a good MMO.

[Diarden]

"Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?" ... Just would be a bad ass world

[Thorboar]

"Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep?" ... Just would be a bad ass world

That was the book Blade Runner was based on right?

[Diarden]

Yes, Blade Runner was based on that book.

[Drakos]

This was on our forum www.unrepentantgaming.org and I think it is a great topic. For those of you that read (i work at an airport, people leave books all over the place) are there any books or series of book that you think could be made into a good MMO. Personally I am surprised that Harry Potter is not an MMO. 4 houses against each other would be cool. Personally the world that R.A. Salvatore has created makes me drool but might be to close to DnD and WoW of course. One of our guild suggested the Wheel of Time books or Discworld. What about the whole Horror fantasy stuff. How come no MMO's there? or a solid Western MMO. What books would make a great mmo for you guys.

I often wish we had a MMO based on the D&D 3.5 game books :).

Seriously, I would like to see several Fantasy series make it into an MMO type setting:

Saberhagens 'Book of Swords' series.
Donaldson's 'Chronicles of Thomas Covenant' both series
Feist's 'Riftwar' series
Lyndon Hardy's 'Master of the Five Magics' and its sequels

[Chai]

TMNT (and no not the cartoon version lol)

Palladium already made a tabletop RPG where you roll up your own mutant, give it characteristics and distribute points using a bastardized palladium dice system choose a disposition alignment etc.

Robotech

Again Palladium made a pen and paper version that enjoyed minor success for a minute.

Transformers

Yeah, as my move action id like to transform to my robot form, and as my standard action I would like to issue the standard greeting: Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong.

[Shiler]

Steven Ericcson - Malazan book of the falen, Nice Big detailed world, whole lot of action, may factions battling against each other.

[Thorboar]

Fun question....

Larry Niven's Ringworld. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld)

Great book....my physics teacher in college had read this and write a paper.....

[Doomcrew]

Wow, scanned the whole thread, lots of cool input but my personal fav,
Gemmel's Drenai saga. Perhaps some of the best fiction in recent memory.
A great world setting, only really lacking in races....


Cheers

[die]

Some good ideas here, fo'serial
I would add:

- Death Gate Cycle (Weis & Hickman)
- NecroScope (Brian Lumley)
- DresdenFiles [Harry Dresden world settings] (Jim Butcher)

cool in 3.5 yrs of playing this game ive mentioned these books before(death gate cycle).. and your the first person ive seen too do it also cool.. sorry not too derail thread . HAPLO -ALFRED THE NEXUS

[lord_of_rage]

Id love to see the Dragons of Arrongoth series made into an mmo or a single player game of this style. There is just something about the idea of playing A sword wielding dragon in full battle armor taking on imps, trolls, and ogres.

[Ashurr]

Seconding -

Coldfire Trilogy
Necroscope
Dune
Dark Sun
Dresden Files

It could just be because I've developed D20 PnP systems for them all *grins*

[Red_Onyx]

There was a thread like this sometime back. It didn't get a lot of attention, but some of us enjoyed it. :)

My thoughts are that Piers Anthony's Xanth series, or Adept series would both make excellent fantasy MMO's. Adept would have the added advantage of a game within a game. Both have dragons, and harpys, magic, zombies, and lots and lots of humorous adventure. :D

OH, and puns, tons of puns! :p

Glad you mentioned this I personally think it would be so awesome a game world. I just wonder how they would make it so every person has a different magical abilitly!

[greylady14]

The books by Tad Williams "Otherlands" is being made into a MMO
http://pc.ign.com/articles/915/915261p1.html

http://www.otherland-game.com/en/index.php

can't wait for it to come out!

[Cam_Neely]

now... not quite on topic, as this would NOT make a good one, but I bet it will happen before any of the above happen

Harry Potter :(

[Daliyn]

The books by Tad Williams "Otherlands" is being made into a MMO
http://pc.ign.com/articles/915/915261p1.html

http://www.otherland-game.com/en/index.php

can't wait for it to come out!

Greylady, you just made my day. Amazing!

A lot of great fantasy stuff in here, but personally I'd drool for a real cyberpunk MMO.

Other suggestions:

Baroque cyle by Neil Stephenson (or alternatively, Cryptonomicon)
or the Night Watch-Day Watch-Twilight Watch-Trilogy by Sergej Lukjanenko.

[Sharzade]

Song Of Ice And Fire by George R. R. Martin.
Not the PG 13 version.

Lots of factions.
Rare but existing magic.
Ubelievably brutal.

I'd totally play that one.

Me too!!! George Martin's Song of Ice & Fire series is even getting it's own HBO TV series (starting with Book I, A Game of Thrones).

:p I wish George Martin would floor it and put out the next book in the series tho'.

Here are fun links about the coming series. :cool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_%28TV_series%29
http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2009/10/game-of-thrones-cast-with-photos-.html
http://www.tv.com/game-of-thrones-is-on/story/21695.html
http://asoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/topic/42197-westeros-blog-game-of-thrones-budget/ Wow! $5 million per episode!! Groovy!

Sharz
;) :) :p :D

[SaisMatters]

I'd like to see The Sword of Truth MMO. NOT THE LEGEND OF THE SEEKER!!!! Wide range of classes, large world, fantasy creatures(would love to fight some Gars).
Dragonlance and forgotten realms are a gimmie and would be easy to do considering all the video games made from these books.
And I know it wasn't a book to start, but my inner child wants a TRON MMO :)

[SaisMatters]

Oh and another good mmo could be based on an old R.A. Salvatore series, whose name eludes me right now. The world was called Fairy, I believe, and had Kelsey the elf, a leprechaun, a human named Gary, etc etc. Anyone rember this series title??

[Eladiun]

Oh and another good mmo could be based on an old R.A. Salvatore series, whose name eludes me right now. The world was called Fairy, I believe, and had Kelsey the elf, a leprechaun, a human named Gary, etc etc. Anyone rember this series title??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._A._Salvatore#The_Spearwielder.27s_Tale