In my previous post I wrote about after reading an adventure module, in my case Tomb of Horrors, and wondering what the story was behind it. I'm not talking just the background, but to the point where you were interested enough to want to read a book or short story about it.
So what adventure module have you read that you wanted to see expanded into a novel?
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Unfortunately, I think my answer may be "none." That's not to say I couldn't see a decent novel being written from one, I just haven't run across one yet that struck me that way.
ReplyDeleteI'd have to agree with Trey, although I didn't even own any modules until a few years ago. I could imagine "The Secret of Ronan Skerry" turned into a short story.
ReplyDeleteEveryone I know is still shuddering from the Rose Estes and T.H. Lain novels.
ReplyDeleteSo, for me, it would depend upon the author chosen for the task, not the Module.
Death Love Doom by Clive Barker. Isle of Dread by Joseph Conrad.
ReplyDeleteI always thought there was some decent material that could be fleshed out for B4 - The Lost City. The back story is bare bones and there are many ways you could flesh out the history of Cynidicea without making the published adventure unncessary. There's also a lot of places to go with 'So, Zargon is dead... how does Cynidicea rise from the ashes?' but I never found a party interested in that sort of campaign.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna say none. My general feeling is that an adventure module is its own thing. It's like if someone were to try to make a movie out of a reference book, like making a movie out of this (that is, one could make a movie using that Encyclopedia, but what would a movie made out of it look like? I don't think it can be done).
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, there are adventures written that are basically stories themselves. Those hardly need to be expanded into a novel, since they are pretty much novel sketches to begin with, and anyone reading them already is filling in the details. Me, I don't care much for that style of adventure design, though I have had some love for the Space 1889 ones.