Sphinx asked Genevieve Cogman:

Considering that you already were an experienced GM before you started writing the invisible library series, and how the world(s) within the book is (are?) built, have you considered releasing an RPG system based on it?

Genevieve Cogman I have thought about it, but at the moment I prefer to leave some areas of the background blank - the names and personalities of the three other dragon queens, for instance - and those are areas that probably should be in a rpg background for a game based on the series. Also, I'm not fond of rpg system design. (My favourite game is Amber the Diceless RPG, which says a lot...)

If it were to be a game, it would probably require that players with Librarian characters would be restrained about not abusing the Language - I can see possible powergaming issues there - and that the GM gave any mixed group good reasons to tolerate each others' presence. I would probably try to write up the abilities as "packages" of powers and disadvantages - that is, for instance, a dragon PC would have powers (a degree of elemental control, able to take dragon shape, able to travel between worlds) and disadvantages (duty to family, inability to tolerate too much chaos), etc.

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