Quote from: WillInNewHaven;1125421In relation to gaming, Sword & Planet has a recurring theme that gaming rarely addresses: the Princess. Of course, there is an aversion to "rescue the princess and treat her as a prize in the game." Even a Neanderthal such as I think that's sexist. However, gaming didn't much like romance right from the beginning. Or at least game designers didn't.

You're aware of course that the trope can and is inverted constantly right?

Weird, I count at least 5 Planetary Romances that became their own RPG

Quote from: hedgehobbit;1125438Romance generally doesn't work in RPGs because there is a group of players and it can get creepy fast watching it.

As far as princesses go, I play with my daughters and they have no issues whatsoever with a princess needing to be rescued or a princess falling in love with her rescuer. The idea that it is bad to have a damsel in distress is something women need to be taught (i.e. brainwashed into believing).

I'm not really sure the Romance part of the name is talking about ROMANCE of the romantic/sexual type.

Going through Kats old collection came across one book that had a collection of Manly Wade Wellmans books in it. I remember reading some of these way back. But one that recently read that had never seen before was Sojarr of Titan. And despite looking at face value like a planet romance or sword-n-planet. It harkens more to a sort of Tarzan in Space sort of tale. A daring father and son expedition to Saturn ends disasterously. Leaving only a 3 year old boy to fend for himself on the alien world of Titan which while perilous, is oddly habitable. He grows up into a near wild man alone and eventually meets natives of Titan, humans, and their implacabble foes, a race of spider-like things who are the original, and rather disgruntled, natives of Titan. Things from there go in some interesting directions and it tends to not follow the expected paths much aside from the protagonist being adept at alot of things. But that could be attributed to good upbringing, what little the poor lad had.

Theres alot of these little gems out there like that obscure Thundar book.

Quote from: Omega;1125796Going through Kats old collection came across one book that had a collection of Manly Wade Wellmans books in it. I remember reading some of these way back. But one that recently read that had never seen before was Sojarr of Titan. And despite looking at face value like a planet romance or sword-n-planet. It harkens more to a sort of Tarzan in Space sort of tale. A daring father and son expedition to Saturn ends disasterously. Leaving only a 3 year old boy to fend for himself on the alien world of Titan which while perilous, is oddly habitable. He grows up into a near wild man alone and eventually meets natives of Titan, humans, and their implacabble foes, a race of spider-like things who are the original, and rather disgruntled, natives of Titan. Things from there go in some interesting directions and it tends to not follow the expected paths much aside from the protagonist being adept at alot of things. But that could be attributed to good upbringing, what little the poor lad had.

Theres alot of these little gems out there like that obscure Thundar book.

Please, please author, full name of the books/series, etc?

Quote from: GeekyBugle;1125923Please, please author, full name of the books/series, etc?

er... Sojarr of Titan... by Manly Wade Wellman... No, really, that is his name.

Alot of his stories appeared in Weird Tales. But you can find collections of his short stories. At least one of my old Arkham House books has some of his stuff in it. The fellow coveres A-LOT of subjects from horror to science fiction, to fantasy.

A couple of his stories have been adapted to film. At least two were for the old Lights out TV anthology and Im pretty sure The Valley Was Still was turned into the Twilight Zone episode Still Valley. And Not sure but the 70s movie Who Fears the Devil seems to be an adaption of some of the "Silver John" stories that were collected under that title.

[video=youtube;UhqczAmN1Qk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqczAmN1Qk[/youtube]

If you can find it look up his collection called Worse Things Waiting which has several of his fantasy and horror stories in it. Think was by a publisher called Carcosa? Its been a few decades! Or the Who Fears the Devil collection for the Silver John stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Fears_the_Devil%3F

Quote from: Omega;1126007er... Sojarr of Titan... by Manly Wade Wellman... No, really, that is his name.

Alot of his stories appeared in Weird Tales. But you can find collections of his short stories. At least one of my old Arkham House books has some of his stuff in it. The fellow coveres A-LOT of subjects from horror to science fiction, to fantasy.

A couple of his stories have been adapted to film. At least two were for the old Lights out TV anthology and Im pretty sure The Valley Was Still was turned into the Twilight Zone episode Still Valley. And Not sure but the 70s movie Who Fears the Devil seems to be an adaption of some of the "Silver John" stories that were collected under that title.

[video=youtube;UhqczAmN1Qk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhqczAmN1Qk[/youtube]

If you can find it look up his collection called Worse Things Waiting which has several of his fantasy and horror stories in it. Think was by a publisher called Carcosa? Its been a few decades! Or the Who Fears the Devil collection for the Silver John stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Fears_the_Devil%3F

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