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From: jagardner@watmath.UUCP (Jim Gardner)
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Subject: Re: A way to generate fantasy?
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 10:52:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 10:52:03 1985
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>In article <2886@topaz.ARPA> brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA writes:
>>From: brendan%gigi.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (From the terminal of Brendan E. Boelke)
>>
>>	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.

Steven Brust can correct me if I'm wrong, but from the afterword
to Liavek (edited by Emma Bull and Will Shetterley), it seems apparent
that many books coming from Brust's circle of writers are
derived/influenced/whatever by role-playing campaigns those people
played.

In particular, it is suggested that the worlds of Liavek, the Vlad
Taltos books (Jhereg and Yendi, by Brust), Cats Have No Lord (by
Shetterley), and Shadow Magic (by Patricia Wrede) were all settings
for these fantasy campaigns.  Some of the characters in such books
were role-played by members of this group, although most book
characters are naturally authorial creations.

Also, I suspect that it's hard to set the order of cause and effect
here.  The writers may well have created their worlds already and
were in the process of writing stories in those worlds when the
role-playing began.  As a GM, it would be much easier (and maybe more
interesting) to set a campaign in a world that was already on your
mind than to create one from whole cloth.  However, I'm sure that the
game influenced the writing (and vice versa).

Comment, SKZB?  Have I misinterpreted the situation?

				Jim Gardner, University of Waterloo