My "Appendix N"
I've started playing and running Joseph Goodman's excellent Dungeon Crawl Classic Role-playing Game (DCC RPG for short). Its a wonderful mix of old school rpgs, modern (ie functional) game mechanics, and a weird fantasy fiction feel. I recommend it - for what that is worth. An interesting item in DCC, other than fantastic artwork, is the listing of Appendix N - an inspirational reading list originally from Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson's First Edition Dungeon Master's Guide. An admission; I've always been a fan of reading lists, and miss the one's that Amazon used to have. You can tell a lot from the book content and Appendix N is no different. The list is by the main fantasy novels from the 1970s and earlier - written before most of the stereotypes of modern fantasy were set. As a result, drawing from these inspirations, adventures, characters and creatures have a different feel than later fantasy. They also formed many of the games played in the earl...