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Figured a good excuse to plug this free Vance eBook:

http://www.jackvance.com/news/chaschforfree

Knowing you guys, we will get to debating Vancian magic vs. spell points etc though.

rredmond wrote:Figured a good excuse to plug this free Vance eBook:

http://www.jackvance.com/news/chaschforfree

Knowing you guys, we will get to debating Vancian magic vs. spell points etc though.

Very cool, Ron!

I am a HUGE Vance fan and have read and own over 20 of his works. The original title to that 1968 work was called City of the Chasch, although the author's preferred title was simply called The Chasch. It is the first novel in the Tschai series and can be found as the first of four novels contained in a tetralogy called Planet of Adventure, which is one of my personal favorites of all his works, and right up there alongside The Dying Earth series and The Demon Princes Vol I & II.


I would highly recommend this to any Sci-Fi fans out there!



(...and no arguments about the Vancian Magic vs spell points here! )

Gygax wrote a lengthy article on Vance and his influence on the game. It's an informative read:

http://www.dyingearth.com/files/gary%20 ... 0vance.pdf

It's a fun exercise adapting Vance spells from his novels into game spells.