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The book "Magician" by Raymond E. Feist, which this game came from, is a great read and interesting in as much as the book came after and grew out of a long-running RPG campaign, if I remember correctly.

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There's a good writeup here with some more background

https://www.filfre.net/2019/10/betrayal-at-krondor/

Magician was the start of a reasonably entertaining sword and sorcery series. The RPG campaign roots are really visible once you pay attention, but (as far as I can remember) in a better way than, say, Dragonlance managed.

I always enjoyed the political fantasy spin-off series Daughter of the Empire by Janny Wurts more, though. :D

Feist gets a lot of flak for being yet another Tolkien ripoff, but I think he's by far the best of the ripoffs. The first trilogy, anyway.

And yeah, the Empire trilogy is probably the best of his (co-)work.

Both Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon both feature a very literal party, gathering at a very literal tavern.

It is a great book, somewhat better than the competition, but being aware of Feist in the age of Tolkien, GRRM and even the Harry Potter lady, simply means a lonely childhood hah.

There's also "Krondor, The Betrayal" where he turned the game back into a book! Unfortunately not as good as his earlier works.

Yeah, the later works were very much fan service. Very easy reads if you’re on a holiday though.

That trilogy (Betrayal, Assassins, Tear of the Gods) is weird. 'Krondor: The Assassins' is 'readable' at least, but is also the only one not based on a game; it can be a little more focused, although it retains it's DnD campaign style story.

It is not from the "Magician", it is set between 4th and 5th books in the main series and later was made into a novel.

I mean to say that Magician was the book which introduced the world.

It is, would be interesting as a movie or game.

That's a good shout actually. It would make a terrific film in the right hands.

It's recently been re-optioned after the initial deal fell through to a company called Six Studios: https://www.tor.com/2022/02/03/riftwar-cycle-series-in-devel...

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