I am wondering what books people might recommend to players to help them get a better feel for the setting of an Adventure Path.
For the Council of Thieves for example, I recommend to my players that they check out the following:
Now I was wondering what else could be useful.
Also, I will be playing in both Legacy of Fire and Skull & Shackles so if people could point me at some appropriate books that would also be most welcome.
I am sure there are pirate novels... but really, the iconic pirate is a product of the movies.
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The first book of the Wheel of Time series is good reading for the beginning of Rise of the Runelords, especially if you want to play up the small town hero trope.
Carrion Crown - HP Lovecraft, et al.
Serpent's Skull - I haven't read any, but I'm 90% sure that William S Burroughs provided a huge amount of inspiration for the AP.
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China Mieville's The Scar is a modern pirate novel and it's a really fun read. His Perdido Street Station is probably my favorite one of his novels, and it would go well with Council of Thieves, at least insofar as it has a very dark, gritty, urban setting with lots of monsters going bump in the night. Some of those monsters have actually inspired some things in the PF bestiaries, I want to say.
Anyone know of some good novels set in a arabian like setting?
Yeah, when I first read the Signet Classic edition of The Arabian Nights by Jack Zipes, it made me say "I have GOT to run a campaign like this!" which (after I got several "Arabian Nights"-type supplements that I didn't like) ultimately led me to Al-Qadim.
Yeah, when I first read the Signet Classic edition of The Arabian Nights by Jack Zipes, it made me say "I have GOT to run a campaign like this!" which (after I got several "Arabian Nights"-type supplements that I didn't like) ultimately led me to Al-Qadim.
You're a genius! I also have Al-Qadim.
Yeah, when I first read the Signet Classic edition of The Arabian Nights by Jack Zipes, it made me say "I have GOT to run a campaign like this!" which (after I got several "Arabian Nights"-type supplements that I didn't like) ultimately led me to Al-Qadim.You're a genius! I also have Al-Qadim.
And Al-Qadim leads me to ...
More recently, Saladin Ahmed came out with a very nice Middle Eastern-type fantasy, The Throne of the Crescent Moon.
Thank You! This is exactly the kinds of books I am looking for.
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Anyone know of some good novels set in a arabian like setting?
For Arabian Fantasy, you could check out the Dabir and Asim books by Howard Andrew Jones:
-The Desert of Souls-The Bones of the Old Ones
-The Waters of Eternity
Anyone know of some good novels set in a arabian like setting?For Arabian Fantasy, you could check out the Dabir and Asim books by Howard Andrew Jones:
-The Desert of Souls
-The Bones of the Old Ones
-The Waters of Eternity
Let us not forget:
And in the more Piraty vein .
And, for Serpent's Skull ...
Tower of Fear by Glen Cook
Rose of the Prophet by Weis and Hickman
Cy... by Tanith Lee
Iron Dawn by Stover
Deadhouse Gates and House of Chains by Steven Erikson, it has desert, and fanatics led by a prophet
The Prince of Nothing by Bakker is inspired by the Crusades
last Elric book
Dune
Arabian Nightmare by Robert Irwin
For Skulls and Shackles, I'd recommend Scott Lynch's Red Seas Under Red Skies. Unfortunately it is a sequel, so to get the full story you need to read The Lies of Locke Lamora. Given that they're both excellent novels though, that shouldn't really be a downside.
If your games tend towards a more comical lilt - I'd suggest The Walrus and the Warwolf for Skulls and Shackles.