[Ladykisa]

I read on Wiki (and had heard) that originally the Malazan world began as background for rpg, as a collaboration between Erikson and that other guy, with the long name. I have been searching for an interview with him where he speaks about this but haven't found it yet. Do you know where I find a reliable source about the start of the series? Somewhere where this is mentioned? I'm writing a thesis on rpg and novels come into it so I'd like to include Malazan there, if this is the case.
Hope someone can help me out.

[Varunwe]

Have you checked the FAQ & Wiki and Questions for the Authors threads already?

In the introduction to my copy of Night of Knives (by Ian Cameron Esslemont (ICE)) Erikson writes that the Malazan world came about by his gaming with ICE, but it's only a very short piece.

[xUntoldLegendx]

 Ladykisa, on Jan 19 2009, 10:10 AM, said:

I read on Wiki (and had heard) that originally the Malazan world began as background for rpg, as a collaboration between Erikson and that other guy, with the long name. I have been searching for an interview with him where he speaks about this but haven't found it yet. Do you know where I find a reliable source about the start of the series? Somewhere where this is mentioned? I'm writing a thesis on rpg and novels come into it so I'd like to include Malazan there, if this is the case.
Hope someone can help me out.

That would be awesome if the Malazan world was turned into an rpg(if it was paper based)

[Saeniti]

I would like to build my own RPG for the SE's world. Is there a precedent for this? has anyone else done it? Any suggestions?
I was thinking of using the DnD 4.0 system (I know that's controversial but I like 4.0)

[RangerSG]

 Saeniti, on Jan 24 2009, 11:32 PM, said:

I would like to build my own RPG for the SE's world. Is there a precedent for this? has anyone else done it? Any suggestions?
I was thinking of using the DnD 4.0 system (I know that's controversial but I like 4.0)

4.0 is useless.

Anyway, I honestly think that since Erickson has specifically stated in interviews that he uses Warrens and holds to make his magic system more "Animistic" and move away from D&D-style magic, changing the setting into a D&D style magic-system would be unfaithful to the setting. I love the idea of Wu as an RPG setting, P&P, cRPG, or (preferably) both. But it deserves it's own ruleset. And not d20 or GURP either, as many races have skewed abilities and deserve to have that taken into account.

[Nomad Santiago]

I'm sure I read somewhere that the original system was GURPS, but I may have made it up.

A few years ago, I set out to convert the BRP rules from RuneQuest etc for the world of The Malazan Empire. Now that Mongoose have got the latest incarnation of this system up and running, I might have to dust off my abandoned notes on this project...

[Hi btw long time lurker, first time poster...]

[silentmaven]

This might be conjecture, I don't know. I am pretty sure that I read from some offical looking source that the Malazan setting was the what came first. SE and his buddy there created the world, rule set and all and attempted to sell it but it never flew. SE loved the setting so much that he decided to hone the craft of writing to breath life into the setting and create his own novel set.

I am going hunting for this source.
Here we go:

Quote

The Malazan world was co-created by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont in the early 1980s as a backdrop to their GURPS roleplaying campaign^[1]. In 2005 Esslemont began publishing his own series of five novels set in the same world, beginning with Night of Knives. Although Esslemont's books are published under a different series title - Novels of the Malazan Empire - Esslemont and Erikson collaborated on the storyline for the entire fifteen-book project and Esslemont's novels are considered as canonical and integral to the series as Erikson's own.

From wikipedia.org (search Steven Erikson)

This post has been edited by silentmaven: 16 March 2009 - 08:02 AM

[Stiehl9s]

my d&d friends and i have discussed roleplaying in the Malazan world and we all agreed GURPs would be the best. in d&d its close to impossible to kill a god or high powered character (ie ascendant) but not so in GURPs. Best representation was when a very inexperienced Ganoes almost killed a hound of shadow with one swing of his sword

[Old Magic]

last I heard Erikson was into playing 'Age of Conan' and would love to see his series adapted to the MMO world.. under his strict scrutiny of course..
I'm not too familiar with GURPS but assigning stats to all the characters could be an interesting companion to the reading experience..

[Silencer]

'Strict scrutiny' isn't necessarily the best word to use! XD

If you want to read the interviews, then Encyclopedia Malazica is your best bet. There is a whole series of them up on that wiki (fan-run) and it also has ones where he talks about both the origins of the setting and how he's open to the idea of a cRPG set in the world.

[The Grippled Cod]

http://encyclopediamalazica.pbworks.com/Th...ng+of+the+MBotF