Frederick  | 24 Apr 2017 4:44 a.m. PST |
Interesting choice Tolkien is clearly a favourite for Lord of the rings for a lot of reasons – the Silmarilion, while it could make for some good gaming, is a fair bit tougher read The Peshawar Lancers also is made for great gaming |
| Weasel | 24 Apr 2017 4:55 a.m. PST |
Lyonesse is fantastic but not particularly war-gameable. i'll say Tolkien with "Chainmail" as supporting evidence :) |
| charles popp | 24 Apr 2017 5:52 a.m. PST |
No Guardians of the Flame? It is about a group of gamers sent into the fantasy world they are playing in,wow total poll fail! |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 24 Apr 2017 7:50 a.m. PST |
Lord of the Rings "series"? What series was that? |
| e4warde | 24 Apr 2017 7:57 a.m. PST |
The battles in the Wheel of Time are vividly detailed. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 24 Apr 2017 8:07 a.m. PST |
Yes,and I'm surprised it wasn't nominated. Maybe because he decided to milk it more than originally planned,to the point that reading the latest one became a chore:
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| rmaker | 24 Apr 2017 11:37 a.m. PST |
Other. Poul Anderson's "Three Hearts and Three Lions". |
 Parzival | 24 Apr 2017 12:32 p.m. PST |
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| Winston Smith | 24 Apr 2017 2:00 p.m. PST |
No Guardians of the Flame? It is about a group of gamers sent into the fantasy world they are playing in,wow total poll fail! Balderdash. Why didn't YOU nominate it if you like it so much? You've been around a while. Poll Suggestion thread ran last September. You should know how polls operate. If a book (which I never heard of, by the way) isn't nominated, it doesn't make it to the poll. |
| robert piepenbrink | 24 Apr 2017 2:53 p.m. PST |
I love Peshawar Lancers, and it has ganeable bits--but they're colonial or VSF bits, not fantasy. And I wear out copies of Lord Kalvan--but it games as straight pike & shot. It's Tolkien and Howard that bring forth the fantasy armies. Oh, Winston. You'd have to work a bit at not hearing of Rosenberg's Guardians of the Flame in some circles, but from my point of view it has the same problem as many others---plenty of derring-do, but no battles larger than a so-so D&D encounter. Same thing with Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions. |
| darthfozzywig | 24 Apr 2017 3:40 p.m. PST |
As terrible as most of the Shannara books are (I gave up after the third one), I did a Battlesystem miniatures campaign of the battles against the demon horde in Elfstones of Shannara. |
| Mithmee | 25 Apr 2017 12:06 p.m. PST |
Surprised that Fiest is not getting more love. His early books were perfect for Wargaming. |
| Hafen von Schlockenberg | 25 Apr 2017 9:07 p.m. PST |
I agree with that. You could probably use Samurai, Chinese,and maybe Aztecs,for Tsurani. And of course,Petal Throne figures. But the Riftwar Saga wasn't nominated,so. . . |
| Weasel | 26 Apr 2017 11:08 a.m. PST |
Shoot yea, Riftwar would make great gaming. The first book was fantastic, by the second, I stopped reading. |
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