China Mieville is an author who designed stories with stat blocks in mind. I’ll post others and you can too.
>>97835092Steven Erikson and Ian C Esslemont started their Malazan series in AD&D then GURPS! https://youtu.be/OxxhgB4J0WY?si=hRNA2cxxINMcJcKf
>>97835115Malazan is a sprawling universe and spans many novels
>>97835092R Scott Bakker’s A Prince of Nothing series was started in a D&D campaign! It is grim dark and features many descriptions of phalluses…https://www.newsload.ca/post/insights-on-the-second-apocalypse-book-series
The setting of Disco Elysium was originally a novel that was adapted to D&D by Kurvitz!
Patrick Rothfuss based his novels on his experiences playing D&D as a child.https://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2008/03/end-of-era-2/
George RR Martin may have had his career as a writer bud before D&D came onto the scene, but he was an early gamer and even transitioned to GURPS for all his games with friends. https://youtu.be/DoIb62THIT0?si=EuB-CWwprb_mR-hi