Hey, I'm looking for the best "written" RPG's. The game's functionality doesn't matter. I'm talking best artwork, best fluff, best fiction segments, most original ideas, etc. I'm on a lore hunt right now.
Hey, I'm looking for the best "written" RPG's. The game's functionality doesn't matter. I'm talking best artwork...
Luis Walker
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Nathaniel Reed
...actual literature?
Aaron Robinson
Dungeons: the Dragoning 40k 7th edition
Adrian Harris
Nobilis 2e. The best game you will never play.
Zachary Thompson
Jane Eyre adapted as a four player dungeon crawl
Logan Kelly
Pathfinder has some (surprisingly) half way decent books
Levi Taylor
List?
Ayden Russell
It's more interesting than good, but there's a timetravel RPG called Continuum with some really wild worldbuilding.
Unknown Armies also deserves a shout out for some pretty original lore. Not so much for the quality of the artwork and fiction, though.
Joshua Wood
Don't mind me, just ending this thread.
Xavier Scott
Adcenture! Tales of the Aeon Society features a short story by famed comics writer Warren Ellis. (Transmetropolitan; Red)
Agent of the Imperium is a novel by Traveller creator Marc Millar that gained some praise in SF circles. I don't even have to add "for an RPG tie-in" when I say it's a good book.
Zachary White
GURPS sourcebooks are actually really good if you want something to raid for ideas regardless of whether you want to play them or not.
Blake Torres
Well, that's why I got into Exalted. Can't think of any franchise that does more interesting demons.
Jackson Anderson
I really like Fading Suns. Its cheeseball space opera but fuck it, sometimes I want romantic noble dark future knights.
Leo Murphy
Jeremiah Scott
Also this
Matthew Ward
FS isn't really cheesy. There are very stupid ideas that sticked to the setting at the start (the Decados as... well, being Decados, for example) but as the setting went on cheesiness was very few and few in between. I think at most the game is pretty naive and idealistic (both in game and out of game), but of course that's when it doesn't give you the fucking space opera Mithra cult just like that, cause it needs to invent some secret factions.
Aside from that monkey-shit thing in the Bestiary, ok, that was terribad.
Brandon Phillips
Glorantha
Juan Rodriguez
As someone who has mostly just liked the concept of Cthulhu mythos and not actually read into the stuff, but I really enjoy the future setting. I enjoyed it so much that I've read through all of the supplement books, not just skimmed but read entirely through.
Luke Jackson
I have always liked Cadwallon for it's wacky fluff and great art. My favorite tibit is how no one taller than 1.5 meters is allowed to carry weapons in the upper city, so all of the nobles hire midgets (Children/Halflings/Dwarves) to carry oversized weapons for them.
Hunter Rogers
You've got shit taste
Andrew Morales
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Carter Clark
Is that art by the lady that got raped by john podesta or whatever? the handkerchief lady?
Aiden Butler
Art's by a person going by Scrap Princess, but I know nothing about their personal life. so no idea.
Jose Ward
Kim Noble is the person I was talking about, pretty risky google trying to find out :/
Henry Williams
This stuff is terrible. If I want future Mythos I'd rather read one of the short stories from Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's Boojum-verse anyday.
This book is fantastic, though. Creepy and evocative, I want to throw it at my players, but they'd never go underground again.
Lincoln Wilson
>Nobilis 2e. The best game you will never play.
you spelled Wraith the Oblivion wrong.
Mason Johnson
>but they'd never go underground again.
>implying that once they're in the veins, they can get out again.
Christian Lee
Exalted 2E is fun to read through.
Ethan Bell
Not OP, but definitely no misspelling. Nobilis 2e is just gorgeous prose, layout, concept and everything. Except, you know, playable by mere mortals.
Thomas Bailey
That is literally just bootleg underdark.
Zachary Garcia
You haven't actually read it, have you?
Cameron Foster
It makes that concept far more interesting than just the underdark. Even if you don't use the book as is, you can certainly steal from it.
Ryder Anderson
Noumenon or Houses of the Blooded.
Nolan Sullivan
Kult
Don't Rest Your Head
Van Richten's Guides(and a lot of Ravenloft in general, I guess)
Paranoia(Troubleshooters line and older, the new edition is apparently complete crap)
Delta Green(especially Targets of Opportunity) with the caveat that I haven't looked at the new edition yet
Since you specifically said that game functionality doesn't matter, WoD and CofD also have a lot of interesting ideas, but I don't really know which specific books to recommend.
Noah Davis
Is it really 'bootleg' when it's done better than the original?
James Anderson
> Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette's Boojum-verse
neat
Josiah Powell
Ars Magica comes to mind. Also Artesia
Cooper Brown
Cos legit underdark is so good?
Lucas Reyes
myfarog.
the lore is good
Zachary Moore
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Daniel Stewart
What actual literature best functions as an RPG handbook? I'd lean towards the Dore-illustrated Divine Comedy or Old Testament, but some of the editions of Ovid's Metamorphoses or the Kalevala would be pretty excellent as well.
Bentley Williams
Harn