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From: leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper)
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Subject: Re: A way to generate fantasy?
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 13:08:12 EDT
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 >I am an avid Dungeons and Dragons player/DM, and am
 >wondering if  anyone knows if any books have ever been
 >published that were derived  from actual games.  

No books, but I know of a film that a D&D fan I know assures me could
have been written only in this way.  It was a made for TV film that ran
only once as far as I know.  It is called THE ARCHER.  It had a long
complex stringlike plot.  I kind of enjoyed it, but I never have found
anyone else who thought much of it.  One of the major problems is that
it was not constructed like a story should be with a beginning, a
middle, and an end.  It was more like just a string of fantasy
incidents.  It did have a final confrontation, but not a very
satisfying one.  Till now the only way to generate a book has been to
sit at a keyboard and think and plan, at least in my opinion.  Philip
K. Dick supposedly decided MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE's plot twists with
the I Ching.  I never cared for the novel, though others seem to like
it.

				Mark Leeper
				...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper