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Game Magic
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Game Magic

by Jeff Howard
April 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 41m
English
A K Peters/CRC Press
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Adapting Game Magic from the Literature of the Fantastic 289
Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series, of which e Way of Kings
is the rst installment. ese books oer a late-generation view of ctive
magic systems at a mature stage of development, oen highly abstract,
systematic, poetic, and inuenced by games.
8.14.1 Malazan: Book of the Fallen
As with the much earlier Dragonlance, the process of procedural adap-
tation is a two-way street, in which tabletop gaming campaigns become
novels, which are in turn re-adapted into games. Malazan: Book of the
Fallen was originally based on Steven Erikson’s role-playing campaign in
GURPS (General Universal Roleplaying System).
Malazan: Book of the Fallen features a complex magic system ...
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ISBN: 9781466567870