In case, like me, you missed it, NWN community legend Savant aka Stephen L. Noland has released the first novel based upon his epic series of modules. The book is entitled "Nature Abhors a Vacuum," as with the debut module of the same name.
Like Berliad, I'll be picking up the novel via Kindle using an iPod app. It's only $2.99 -- a tiny price to pay to help support an author who has provided dozens of hours of free entertainment for the community. As it happens, I only played the first module in the series; I can't recall why I didn't continue with it, since I remember having a lot of fun. Perhaps I was too busy working on my own modules.
To answer Berliad's question on his blog, the co-author of Tortured Hearts 2, Jim Grimsley, is a novelist and playwright with several published works to his name. The prolific Stegan Gagne has also been self-publishing fiction for a while now. And like Savant, Andarian is working on a series of novels based upon his own module series, Sanctum of the Archmage.
I've often thought Crimson Tides of Tethyr would make for a decent Forgotten Realms novel, but I suspect Wizards of the Coast wouldn't be too chuffed, unless it was an officially licensed third edition D&D product . . . and that ship has sailed now.
2 comments:
:D I downloaded this book down awhile back on Kindle. Loved it as I had played through the entire series.
The protagonist he chose is an interesting person, not a shining knight but not a vile blackguard, somewhere comfortably in-between. Plus a sidekick.
<3 Love seeing all the characters in literature format rather then game text format.
For a transition like this to be successful the author has to be acutely aware of the difference in presentation of both mediums.
There are countless examples of that sort of mishaps in every imaginable medium out there.
That said, I haven't actually read the book.
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