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Your Appendix N

Started by Mishihari, April 07, 2022, 05:15:40 AM

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Quote from: Doc Sammy on April 15, 2022, 10:00:20 AM
I've got a few Appendix N's, depending on which game it is.

Well said.  If it's a post-apocalyptic game, Harlan Ellison's story "A Boy and His Dog" is a big influence.  Superheroes?  Silver and Bronze Age Marvel Comics. For Warhammer, you can't do better than the Black Library books for Warhammer Fantasy.  C. L. Werner's books for that line are the closest modern equivalent I've found to the great old fantasy pulps of the 1930s-1960s.

HappyDaze

Quote from: I on April 15, 2022, 10:56:06 AM
Quote from: Doc Sammy on April 15, 2022, 10:00:20 AM
I've got a few Appendix N's, depending on which game it is.

Well said.  If it's a post-apocalyptic game, Harlan Ellison's story "A Boy and His Dog" is a big influence.  Superheroes?  Silver and Bronze Age Marvel Comics. For Warhammer, you can't do better than the Black Library books for Warhammer Fantasy.  C. L. Werner's books for that line are the closest modern equivalent I've found to the great old fantasy pulps of the 1930s-1960s.
I can't really agree with recommending Black Library stuff even for Warhammer. The novels, the tabletop stuff, and the RPG stuff are three alternate universes that only share names and the basics of the world. I would not want to run or play WFRP like the BL novels portray. This goes doubly so for WH40K.

David Johansen

Ursula K LeGuin, The Language of Night a collection of essays on fantasy writing.
Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Science a collection of essays on chemistry and physics
Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Science Fiction a collection of essays on science fiction
Friedrich Heer, The Medieval World a work on culture and society in the middle ages
JRR Tolkien, On Fairy Stories an essay on writing fantasy
Diagram Group, Weapons
Fantasy Adventure Comic, games, and more http://www.uncouthsavage.com

Visitor Q

Quote from: Zalman on April 07, 2022, 10:13:20 AM
Just off the top of my head:

#1 for me is Fafhrd & Gray Mouser (and it's not even close!) There's so much D&D there it oozes out of the book binding.

After that:
Robert E. Howard's Conan
Thieve's World
Lyonesse
Dying Earth
Stainless Steel Rat

If my Appendix N can include films, I'd add:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Star Wars

Absolutely this list for me.

And interestingly as much as I am a Tolkien fan I don't really want or try to have my rpg games run like Tolkien.

jeff37923

Quote from: David Johansen on April 15, 2022, 02:37:50 PM
Ursula K LeGuin, The Language of Night a collection of essays on fantasy writing.
Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Science a collection of essays on chemistry and physics
Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Science Fiction a collection of essays on science fiction
Friedrich Heer, The Medieval World a work on culture and society in the middle ages
JRR Tolkien, On Fairy Stories an essay on writing fantasy
Diagram Group, Weapons

Have you read Indistinguishable From Magic by Robert L. Forward or A Step Farther Out by Jerry Pournelle?
"Meh."

MeganovaStella

Most of these are manga or visual novels. Some are video games.

Full Metal Daemon Muramasa
Berserk
Hunter X Hunter
Dragon Ball
Animal Farm
Shinza Bansho (Dies Irae)
Megami Tensei