Garth Nix Fans

I just stumbled across this place today and think it's a great idea!

I never really got onto forums when I was younger, but I've been more interested in them recently, even if I still don't spend much time on the few I've joined, so forgive me if I am rather absent from here.

I started reading Garth's work when my younger brother came home with Mister Monday from the school library, and I ended up pinching it and reading it instead haha

I got right into the Keys to the Kingdom, but didn't really check out his other works until late high school I think. Finally reading Sabriel (or I may have read Clariel first, or at least I read Clariel before Lirael) was amazing though, I loved it so much! The Old Kingdom is just such a fascinating setting and I adore it so much. I'd love to see a TTRPG made based on it to be honest (and actually asked Garth if he would be interested in that on Twitter and he said yes, if only he had the time to make it haha).

I've met Garth Nix a couple times, once at the Sydney Writer's Festival where I got my copy of Frogkisser signed, along with a pair of picture cards for it! He very kindly gave me the extra one when I mentioned I wanted to get my sister to read the book. I copped a parking ticket to get that signature after listening to the talk he was in haha

I also saw him at a book launch for Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner's Unearthed, that was pretty cool too to see him as the host asking them questions.

I'd love to go to more events he's at but unfortunately the downside of moving out of Sydney to the other side of the Blue Mountains is that it's a lot more effort to make it to such events.

Anyway, hopefully I'll go to the effort of being at least a little bit active here, and maybe share some photos of my books

Hi CuriousInsanity! Welcome to the forum

Love the introduction. I know Garth is into D&D and has talked about role playing at various points. I think the closest we'll get for the foreseeable future is just adapting his settings to existing TTRPG systems...of which there are a lot of good ones being released nowadays.

That's awesome that you've met him a couple of times. I know he's been through my area a few times over the years but I've never been able to learn about them far enough in advance to work it into my schedule lol.

Yeah I think the setting being adapted into an existing game is the most likely, but I would love an original one. Or at least I just don't think D&D would be best for it.

Yeah it was pretty cool, but sadly now I'm in a similar position where I'm just not on top of that sort of news so I miss events these days unfortunately haha

I found that through following Nix's facebook account, some subreddits, and our discord that most international events are circulated enough to catch.

Ah see my problem is I don't want to me in so many different groups and have to catch so many different things haha

Fortunately though I did spot him in the local Reader's and Writer's Festival lineup this year for one of the Sydney Festival's events that was being streamed, which I was able to go to and have just (finally) made a post about it