Goodman Games Appendix N entries

darjr · Post by **darjr** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 6:27 am

I've just realized that Goodman Games doesn't have a fiction line for DCC. I now seriously want one. GG should add their own books to Appendix N!

I want to read about Hugh and his parties exploits in novel form! Pretty please?

Post by **finarvyn** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:09 pm

darjr wrote:I've just realized that Goodman Games doesn't have a fiction line for DCC. I now seriously want one. GG should add their own books to Appendix N!

I want to read about Hugh and his parties exploits in novel form! Pretty please?

A neat idea, but a few things come to mind here.

(1) Most novels about RPGs are (in my opinion) nowhere as cool as what I hope for. None are as good as Howard or Leiber or Moorcock or others from Appendix N.

(2) While Goodman Games has a great staff of module writers and artists, I don't think they have any experienced writers. That could be a problem.

(3) Goodman Games has some neat modules, but no coherent game world for which novels might be written.

darjr · Post by **darjr** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:33 pm

They have the default setting for DCC modules.

There is probably room to print Appendix N books that otherwise wouldn't see print. Maybe revive old classics and be a house for those new AN type novels, maybe not necessarily related to the RPG.

Doug Kovacs · Post by **Doug Kovacs** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 5:12 am

(2) While Goodman Games has a great staff of module writers and artists, I don't think they have any experienced writers. That could be a problem.

You have such faith in the writers Marv.! (sarcasm)

That is like saying Doug can paint covers…….. but can he do maps? You know the answer , don't sell the writers short.

GnomeBoy · Post by **GnomeBoy** » Fri Apr 25, 2014 10:54 am

I'm pretty sure multiple DCC authors have published fiction in one format or another.

I'm drawing a blank, but I know one wrote a D&D novel, for what that's worth...

Ravenheart87 · Post by **Ravenheart87** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 4:15 am

Well if they can write one that feels like a sword & sorcery story and not a long session/campaign report, then so be it. With so many good illustrators it might be a good idea to make an old-school black & white sword & sorcery comic.

Doug Kovacs · Post by **Doug Kovacs** » Sat Apr 26, 2014 5:27 pm

Ravenheart87 wrote:Well if they can write one that feels like a sword & sorcery story and not a long session/campaign report, then so be it. With so many good illustrators it might be a good idea to make an old-school black & white sword & sorcery comic.

Thats not entirely impossible with me, but I don't think Joseph has much interest in it currently.
However, that doesn't mean I might not just do it anyway, but with so many other projects in the pipeline it could take a little while… it's not like I haven't spent a season or two thinking about it.

Post by **finarvyn** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:05 am

Doug Kovacs wrote:
(2) While Goodman Games has a great staff of module writers and artists, I don't think they have any experienced writers. That could be a problem.
You have such faith in the writers Marv.! (sarcasm)

That is like saying Doug can paint covers…….. but can he do maps? You know the answer , don't sell the writers short.

I wasn't suggesting a lack of talent, only that as far as I knew none had actually written and sold a fantasy novel. Big difference.

GnomeBoy wrote:I'm pretty sure multiple DCC authors have published fiction in one format or another.

I'm drawing a blank, but I know one wrote a D&D novel, for what that's worth...

News to me. I'll have to search around and see what I come up with. It would be nice to find a Howard or a Leiber "in the rough" waiting to do this for DCC.

GnomeBoy · Post by **GnomeBoy** » Sun Apr 27, 2014 6:38 am

finarvyn wrote:News to me. I'll have to search around and see what I come up with. It would be nice to find a Howard or a Leiber "in the rough" waiting to do this for DCC.

https://www.google.com/search?num=30&bi ... bAi4fiXAyw

http://www.ashlock.org/writing.php

Post by **michaelcurtis** » Sat May 10, 2014 8:45 am

Harley had a short story appear in "Realms of the Dragons II," a Forgotten Realms anthology of fiction published back in 2005. I've also had fiction published, but not in the fantasy vein.

You never know what we get up to when Joseph's not keeping us busy.

Raven_Crowking · Post by **Raven_Crowking** » Mon May 12, 2014 11:47 am

Among others:

http://www.ideomancer.com/fl/Bishop-Nol ... Noldus.htm
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/200 ... king.shtml
http://www.danieljbishop.ca/Darkfire.PDF
http://www.danieljbishop.ca/Ivy%20and%20Sorrow.pdf
http://www.danieljbishop.ca/Heaven.pdf
http://www.danieljbishop.ca/CoffeeStains.pdf
http://www.danieljbishop.ca/Nicholas.pdf

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?339697

All of which is as likely to be indicative that I should not be writing fiction as it is otherwise.

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