Ideally with the author actually writing something for it.
For me it'd have to be China Mieville, I'd love to play something set in New Crobuzon. Dark, twisted, all kinds of potential for wonderfully diverse character generation and strange feats & perks (people weirdly modified in the punishment factories, dozens of different kinds of hedge magics, a hugely ethnically diverse city with different races all living together squashed into various slums, strange steam technologies etc), lots of political intrigue and repression, drugs, violence,
For those unfamiliar with his work I'd recommend Perdido Street Station as a starting read, my favourite of his works. The slake moths are a fantastic monster too, it may be a novel that's essentially a group of heroes saving a city threatened by a big monster but it's so cleverly and originally done that it never feels cliched even for a minute.
Hopefully the witcher will be a big success and they'll start looking around for decent intellectual property to import into computer games.
For me it'd have to be China Mieville, I'd love to play something set in New Crobuzon. Dark, twisted, all kinds of potential for wonderfully diverse character generation and strange feats & perks (people weirdly modified in the punishment factories, dozens of different kinds of hedge magics, a hugely ethnically diverse city with different races all living together squashed into various slums, strange steam technologies etc), lots of political intrigue and repression, drugs, violence,
For those unfamiliar with his work I'd recommend Perdido Street Station as a starting read, my favourite of his works. The slake moths are a fantastic monster too, it may be a novel that's essentially a group of heroes saving a city threatened by a big monster but it's so cleverly and originally done that it never feels cliched even for a minute.
Hopefully the witcher will be a big success and they'll start looking around for decent intellectual property to import into computer games.