If there's one book I'd really like to see turned into an RPG, it's Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed.
There's a tendency for fantasy novels, and by extension, RPGs, to be set in a very European feeling world. (Something similar applies to sci-fi, which is frequently set in space-America.) Even when games like D&D and Pathfinder have stretched things to some more international feeling settings, the standard fantasy races of elves, dwarves and so forth, are fundamentally European.
So it was pretty exciting to read a fantasy novel that's not based on Europe at all, but has its roots firmly in the Middle East. The author is an Arab American, of Lebanese and Egyptian descent, and based his work on Islamic and pre-Islamic Arab mythology. And that means everything is different - the environment, the religion, the politics, the monsters, the character classes as it were...
Because this book could absolutely be turned into an RPG campaign, where five adventurers set out on a quest to save the world from an evil sorcerer while political intrigue happens in the background. And there's enough of an exciting world there for countless more adventures.
Adventures which the author is either not getting round to writing due to his busy schedule as a comic author (I think he's still working on Miles Morales) or has written but can't get published (I'm not in a position to know.) Either way, if someone would pick up this IP for a licensed RPG we'd have a really exciting new setting to play in, and maybe an incentive to get the rest of the trilogy out there.
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