Thanks! I myself use my holidays to read a few superbad Midkemia novels, but who gives. :)

Can't recommend those highly enoughto the educated D&D nerd, because they're oh so close to original potpurri that eventually begat the 74 game.

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-Havard

...Meaning, Feist really gets the tone of 70s fantasy perfectly right; sometimes, when a reference to his own home game, he's silly,but even so, he manages to show, well, a game we surely all would have loved to play in as characters.

For others, it's Martin, or Harry Potter. For me, Feist is my Twilight. ;) I shall always read and deviously enjoy him, regardless of how stupid his stuff really gets. :)

I am not really familiar with Midkemia at all beyond then fact that it is the setting of Raymond E. Feist's novels. Perhaps you could give a brief summary of the origin the setting had within roleplaying before the novels?

Also, if you don't mind I will split this off as a separate topic as we are moving away from Tom Webster at this point. :)

-Havard

Thanks. I have always wondered why there was so little contact between the gamers in California and the ones in the Mid-West.

Given that Feist's campaign didnt start untill after the publication of D&D and that his first novel wasn't published until 1982 it seems unlikely that he would have had any influence on Arneson's early campaigns?

-Havard

Question, or statement, there? :)

In gaming terms, I value the Midkemia series as first-hand, first-hour reception of the tropes established by D&D.

Feist and his group use similar sources to ourselves with our stuff, here, and for me personally, it's very interesting what they do about it.

Now, Feist is notorious for, ahem, "borrowing", and Blackmoor also gets a few quite substantial "nods".

As to the contact, well, Feist got a license by TSR to use their Tekumel stuff after the problems with the IP first surfaced, and Dragon Mag promoted Midkemia pretty heavily in the 80s. That points to some exchange, at least.

I'll make a list one of these days, I think.

Mainly, similarities in geography, and placenames. Also, the proto-Elves, and the Eastern-style barbarian invasion is there.

Nothing Feist could have got from the FFC, though. Likely, the tropes of the time, or due to the Tekumel connection.