Many roleplaying games are based on worlds described in books. In fact it is reasonable to claim that close to all averagely popular fantasy or science fiction book series have at least one game dedicated to roleplaying in the world from those books. Naturally those series, or authors, have their newsgroups dedicated to the books and the person. The aim of this and following pages is not to duplicate the work of the newsgroups. Instead we would like to foster explanation and discussions about the roleplaying aspects of the books and the worlds. Especially the finer points of how to adapt a standard available basic game to those worlds. And of course the finer points of how to roleplay on those worlds. One thing these pages are definitely not meant to be is a discussion of the individual games, unless it's done to clarify a point.

The following series are amongst the most popular stories for roleplaying games. Of course had there been a book for the dungeon and dragon games that would be by far the most popular one for muds but there isn't.

• Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern(TM)
• Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
• Paramount's Star Trek(TM)

We are looking for people who are willing to put in a brief explanation of why those books are so good, and such wonderfull worlds for roleplay. And yes, advertisements for your favorite game are acceptable. Or at least we're providing space for that elsewhere and will allow links to those pages.