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Games Based on Books
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Please add. A simple list of games based on books.
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Posted Wed Jun 1, 2005 11:51 pm
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Expansion to the first game
Second book in the series
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Based on Stephen King's "The Shining"
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Board Game: Thud
[Average Rating:6.20 Overall Rank:2167]
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Based on the battle of Koom Valley in Tery Pratchett's Discworld series. Also the title of the next book in the series, which I am assuming will also deal with the battle.
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Based on Anne MacAffrey's series.
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There have been numerous games based on The Three Musketeers. None of them match the book, though ...
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Based on a Chinese classic novel.
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Saw this one at a local game shop but couldn't figure out how they'd made a game out of a philosophical novel.
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Board Game: Dune
[Average Rating:7.69 Overall Rank:56]
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Dune and its myriad serials...
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I'll bet there are dozens of games based on the Bible.
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Board Game: Odyssey
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
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And probably over a dozen based on Homer's books. I think I'll stop now - there are WAY too many games based on books ...
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One of the Harry Potter Books, and a movie too.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
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One of Jules Verne's books, and also a movie.
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Board Game: Elric
[Average Rating:5.50 Overall Rank:4387]
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Based on Michael Moorcock's Elric series.
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The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Based on the excellent "Hammer's Slammers" series by David Drake, my favorite author of realistic military sci-fi!
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Posted Wed Jun 1, 2005 11:51 pm
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/catbrowse.php3?id=93
Now how do you shange games to be included in this category?
Forest Wars of the Haven. This was published by Dave Casciano (Attack International), as I recall, and was based on fantasy novels by a Graham Diamond. The game is almost guaranteed to be wretched (and got a very bad review in The Space Gamer), no idea about the novels.
The Land. A self-published game by a chap named (I think) Kenneth Lusaszewski, based on Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books. The thought of this boggles me somewhat.
Really? Interesting. I'd love to find out more about this.
Or would, for example, any James Bond game be allowed: A game based on a movie series based on Ian Fleming's book series?