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Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:41 pm Harry Potter and Greyhawk

This one was too good and lengthy to bury in my other thread. You all thought I was crazy combining these two things? You're only partly right! It can work, check it out.

http://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/2011/07/harry-potter-greyhawk.html

Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:27 am

That sounds like a fun campaign idea. I'd also look at that other great literary wizard school, Unseen University from Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. The recent novel Unseen Academicals dealt specifically with the wizards forming an intercollegiate soccer team, and that's particularly relevant because the wizards, not being particularly athletic for the most part, recruited characters from other character classes to join the team.

I don't have a copy of the book, but I've heard some good things about The Redhurst Academy of Magic, so it might be a great source of inspiration as well.

Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:35 pm

Nice reccomendations, Rasgon. I myself just finished reading The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. It deals with a pseudo-magical university as well.

Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:55 am

I just read that, and I'd be reading Wise Man's Fear if I wasn't neck deep into A Dance With Dragons.

Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:39 pm

A Dance with Dragons. Show off! Ugh, I need to go back and re-read that entire damned series. I watched the HBO series and could barely remember any of what happened (besides the end that is). And that was only the first book!

Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:23 am

Mort, I already did go back and re-read the entire damned series. How's that for showin' off? Razz

I was going to wait to read ADWD when I got a copy from the library (#19 on a hold list for 10 copies), but my wife surprised me with one. I married very well.

Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:16 am A Dance with Dragons

I've been trying to read it all weekend. I can't put it down. I'm over 500 pages in and that's only about halfway. That's a good thing. Excellent thing!

No, I'm not watching the show because as much as I want to see a live action version of it, I want to have my imagination's version of it play out first. I don't know if I'll be able to hold out on that idea until he's done writing the whole series if the next books take six years to print. Doh!

Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:07 am

Hodor.
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Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:56 pm HP and the College of Unusual Things

You know ... I gotta say, while I haven't ever read the HP books, it should be kind of self-evident that the students of the University would be young. Maybe not as young as in the first HP movie ... but then, I've never been very clear whether Hogwarts is High School or College or both.

At any rate, it seems really cool to have adventures based on the goings-on of a Magical University. There's undoubtedly a real audience for this. I mean, it's not exactly a new trope. Even Teenwolf and Superboy had the same idea of high-school supernatural antics. But, since Rowling's success, that has become a more and more poular theme. I also remember the Myth Adventure series by Robert Lynn Aspirin there was one of the books that included the characters dimension-hopping to a place where they had something like a football/quidditch/soccer game that Aahz and Skeeve won with magical antics.

Also interesting is the Unseen Ancademicals. I just happened to see it last night at Borders while I was shopping for the new A Dance with Dragons (there were only two left on the shelf!). I can't believe how popular it is. When I started reading it, no one knew what it was. But, now ... wow!
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Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:40 pm

You went to Borders eh? Poor Borders.
http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/2011/07/bye-bye-borders.html

Tue Jul 19, 2011 9:46 pm Passing of an era

Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:30 pm Redhurst Academy of magic

Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:40 am Re: HP and the College of Unusual Things

Mon Jul 25, 2011 7:56 am A Song of Ice and Fire

So if Hogwart's is a junior high and high school and you're looking for a college, maybe a maester's program like George R. R. Martin has in A Song of Ice and Fire is something you want to check out.

There is one location where students go to become a maester. When the students graduate they wear black robes as I recall. They wear chains around their necks which have links made of certain materials which reflect their fields of study. Job placement is good as lords of the realm seem to want someone with some healing skills, communication through ravens around the realm skills, history, letters, math, etc. to teach a lord's children. To me, it's a fantasy master's program.

I finished "A Dance with Dragons" this weekend. I guess I'll go back to reading The Great Book of Amber.... ...And to digress even further, I noticed that the free module set in Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire module has a character named Corwin which is the same name of the main character in The Great Book of Amber....