Magician

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1. comrade1234Mar 2026
   I actually do do that and we all recommend each other older stuff we read years ago. :)

   These are some of my most recent conversations: "try Raymond Feist's Magician series" "I'm reading the Book of the New Sun series now" "I read the Pendragon Cycle (she's English and obsessed with King Arthur stories) in high school and liked it but now it's a weird right-wing tv show"

   These are all old books but still super enjoyable. (Except maybe book of the new sun - kind if a bummer)

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2. jasoneSep 2022
   Books have to be rather exceptional to earn even two readings. So far only the following have gone 3+.

   Dune - Frank Herbert

   The Hobbit and LOTR - JRR Tolkien

   Magician - Raymond E Feist

   The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

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3. bencollier49May 2022
   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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4. david-givenAug 2016
   A word of warning about RPGs; basing a book around a role-playing campaign can lead to books which read just like they're based around role-playing campaigns...

   The classic example is Raymond Feist's Magician. There's a scene near the beginning where our characters choose what class they're playing, and then you can watch them level up throughout the rest of the book.

   (Not that it's a bad book; I like it a great deal. But once you know what to look for, the signs are everywhere. It is fascinating to see his writing skill get better throughout. It's also interesting to read the original version with the Author's Preferred Edition, where he put back all the bits that his editor cut out, and realise exactly what editors are paid for. The original is so much better.)

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5. mark_ellulApr 2015
   Its not SciFi, but Magician by Raymond E Feist (the Riftwar saga) would make a great tv series, there are lots and lots of books.
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6. IchthypresbyterAug 2021
   The Riftwar Saga by Raymond E. Feist (Magician, Silverthorn, A Darkness at Sethanon), while not an officially licensed D&D tie-in, is based on a D&D campaign the author played in at UCSD in the 1970s.

   I think the Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson is also based on an RPG campaign, which started out as D&D then switched to GURPS.

   Both are worth reading.

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