/tg-lit/What works of literature should fa/tg/uys read?Currently highly recommend Between Two Fires, it reignited my love for weird medieval shit.
A Wizard of the Earth Sea
>>97415239I really need to finish this book.I like the episodic nature of their encounters with evil.
>>97415239>ad>Buehlman>from Florida
I know the folks on /tg/ are too smart for trash like sanderson but I really hope you don't copy /lit/ and pretend pulpy trash like gene wolfe and cormac mccarthy are literary
>>97415239Everything, especially the novels their DMs/GMs want to write, because games aren't for playing, they're fit stories.
>>97415279>I know the folks on /tg/ are too smart for trash like sanderson but I really hope you don't copy /lit/ and pretend pulpy trash like gene wolfe and cormac mccarthy are literaryI'm going to copy /lit/ right now.
>>97415279Any novel is just as relevant to games as another, low brow, high brow, pulp, whatever.That is to say, completely irrelevant.
>>97415279Vance >>>> Wolfe
>>97415239Robert E. Howard and Lovecraft, to state the obvious. Edgar Rice Burrows wouldn't hurt, as well as Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, Jules Verne and Dumas.Pretty much anything from Eiji Yoshikawa, and the Arabian Nights, and for a genuine adventure, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain, the conquest of the Aztec Empire written by a lowly soldier who fought and just wanted to set the record straight.>>97415279All of those are, however, excellent works.What would you recommend, besides seething contrarianism?
I read a great little book from 1980 called Journey to Aprilioth. It's really nothing special, just one of countless fantasy paperbacks of its day, but it's an enjoyable historical fantasy that details a journey across late bronze age Europe with a tremendous sense of adventure to it. For anyone wanting a picture into this period of history that can be read in a short afternoon I should recommend it. We see the Aryan peoples of northern Europe, horsemen of the steppes, myths of the Caucasus mountains and Assyrians still walking the earth. Lots of myth, esoteric spirituality and warrior-spirit coded adventure.
>>97415951>Robert E. Howard and Lovecraft, to state the obvious.Probably should add Clark Ashton Smith's work as well, since he inspired a lot of writers with his Zothique and Averoigne short stories that were used in a lot of D&D stuff in the 80s
>>97415239If you liked Between Two Fires you should play Aquelarre.And if you're into >>>/v/ play Battle Brothers.As for reading, I recommend the Black Company series & Xenophon's Anabasis. The recent Witcher book (Crossroads of Ravens) was very disappointing.
>>97416292the guy is still making Witcher books?
Been reading for cyberpunk inspo lately, in the past few weeks I've read When Gravity Fails and Street Lethal. Street Lethal was kind of goofy, it was the book equivalent of a movie from the late eighties that I'd watch on Tubi, but it had a lot of crime and dystopia vibes that I think will translate. When Gravity Fails was a real banger though, I really great hard boiled detective story wrapped in some decent cyberpunk world building. It's a really small, street level crime story.
>>97416306Sapkowski needs cash for his coke & hookers!
>>97416320Fucking guy is 77, if he can fuck and do cocaine without his heart exploding, he can fund those activities however he likes.
>>97415239Something not fantasy/scifi/horror. Nothing wrong with "genre" fiction, at all, but all wrong with reading only those.
>>97416307>When Gravity Fails was a real banger though, I really great hard boiled detective story wrapped in some decent cyberpunk world building. It's a really small, street level crime story.I loved it and wish I could access the sequel
>>97417212Why can't you? Or do you mean the unfinished fourth novel?
>>97415279I like Sanderson. Yeah his prose are boring 90% of the time, his characters can be immature and sexless and he sometimes has his protagonists repeat the same arc multiple times. However, his world building is pretty interesting and extensive, he knows how to keep battles easy to follow and engaging (both in regards to close combat and macro scale for wars), has really interesting plotting and writes better endings than any other fantasy author ive encountered.
>>97415239My wife read that and liked it.Just go post on /lit/, your book has nothing to do with tg. tg-lit would be like Warhammer and D&D novels.
