Magician
by Raymond E. Feist · first published 1982
71% recommend29% neutral
At Crydee, a frontier outpost in the tranquil Kingdom of the Isles, an orphan boy, Pug, is apprenticed to a master Magician – and the destinies of two worlds are changed forever. Suddenly the peace of the Kingdom is destroyed as mysterious alien invaders swarm the land. Pug is swept up into the conflict but for him and his warrior friend, Tomas, an odyssey into the unknown has only just begun. Tomas will inherit a legacy of savage power from an ancient civilization. Pug’s destiny will lead him through a rift in the fabric of space and time to the mastery of the unimaginable powers of a s
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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.
on “The Betrayal at Krondor Help Web” ↗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
on “Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more?” ↗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…
on “How to Write a Novel” ↗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.
on “Ask HN: Which SciFi novel(s) would you want made into a TV series?” ↗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…
on “The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul” ↗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…
on “The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons” ↗> 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. The books are set 500 years before the campaign…
on “The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons” ↗