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Member Posts: 46 | Fantasy and science fiction literature - especially sword & sorcery, planetary romance, and weird fiction - had a large influence on early roleplaying games, especially the granddaddy of them all, Dungeons & Dragons. Some of the earlier books included recommended reading lists, whose influences are still debated today (sometimes quite vociferously). My renewed interest in fantasy and science-fiction literature came about after reviewing Gary Gygax's Appendix N in the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide last year. I thought that the Appendix N list, as well as Tom Moldvay's list from the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Rules, and Appendix 3 of the more recent Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide would be of interest to other posters on this board. Here are the lists, which intermix general author recommendations, as well as specific series and books:
Anderson, Poul. Three Hearts and Three Lions; The High Crusade; The Broken Sword Bellairs, John. The Face in the Frost Brackett, Leigh. Brown, Fredric. Burroughs, Edgar Rice, Pellucidar series; Mars series; Venus series Carter, Lin. "World's End" series de Camp, L. Sprague. Lest Darkness Fall; Fallible Fiend; et al. de Camp & Pratt. "Harold Shea" series; Carnelian Cube Derleth, August. Dunsany, Lord. Farmer, P. J. "The World of the Tiers" series; et al. Fox, Gardner. "Kothar" series; "Kyrik" series; et al. Howard, R. E. "Conan" series Lanier, Sterling. Hiero’s Journey Leiber, Fritz. "Fafhrd & Gray Mouser" series; et al. Lovecraft, H. P. Merritt, A. Creep, Shadow, Creep; Moon Pool; Dwellers in the Mirage; et al. Moorcock, Michael. Stormbringer; Stealer of Souls; "Hawkmoon" series (esp. the first three books) Norton, Andre. Offutt, Andrew J., editor. Swords Against Darkness III. Pratt, Fletcher. Blue Star; et al. St. Clair, Margaret. The Shadow People; Sign of the Labrys Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit; "Ring Trilogy" Vance, Jack. The Eyes of the Overworld; The Dying Earth; et al. Weinbaum, Stanley. Wellman, Manly Wade. Williamson, Jack. Zelazny, Roger. Jack of Shadows; "Amber" series; et al.
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Member Posts: 46 | Basic D&D Inspirational Source Material (1980) - I omitted the non-fiction resources Some additional authors of fantasy fiction are: | ||
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Member Posts: 46 | Pathfinder Gamemastery Guide (2010) Alighieri, Dante: The Divine Comedy Barker, Clive: The Hellbound Heart, Imagica, Weaveworld Barlowe, Wayne: God’s Demon Beowulf (anonymous) Blackwood, Algernon: “The Willows,” “The Wendigo,” et al. Brackett, Leigh: The Sword of Rhiannon, Skaith series, et al. Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Pellucidar, Mars, and Venus series Campbell, Ramsey: Ryre the Swordsman series, et al. Carter, Lin: ed. The Year’s Best Fantasy, Flashing Swords Clarke, Susanna: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell Cook, Glen: Black Company series Cook, Hugh: Chronicles of an Age of Darkness series Dunsany, Lord: The King of Elfland’s Daughter, et al. Epic of Gilgamesh (traditional) Farmer, Philip José: World of Tiers series, et al. Feist, Raymond: Riftwar saga, et al. Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm: Grimm’s Fairy Tales Gygax, Gary: Gord the Rogue series, et al. Homer: The Odyssey Howard, Robert E.: Conan series, Almuric, et al. Hugo, Victor: Les Misérables King, Stephen: Dark Tower series, et al. Kuttner, Henry: Elak of Atlantis, The Dark World James, M. R.: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Le Fanu, Sheridan: In a Glass Darkly Leiber, Fritz: Fafhrd & the Gray Mouser series, et al. Lovecraft, H. P.: Cthulhu Mythos tales, et al. Machen, Arthur: “The White People,” et al. Malory, Sir Thomas: Le Morte d’Arthur Martin, George R. R.: Song of Ice and Fire series Merritt, A.: The Ship of Ishtar, The Moon Pool, et al. Miéville, China: Bas-Lag series Moorcock, Michael: Elric and Kane of Old Mars series, et al. Moore, Alan: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, et al. Moore, C. L.: Black God’s Kiss Morgan, Richard: The Steel Remains Offutt, Andrew J.: ed. Swords Against Darkness One Thousand and One Nights (traditional) Ovid: Metamorphoses Poe, Edgar Allan: “The Fall of the House of Usher,” et al. Rosenberg, Joel: Guardians of the Flame, et al. The Ramayana (traditional) Saberhagen, Fred: Changeling Earth, et al. Saunders, Charles: Imaro series, et al. Sapkowski, Andrzej: The Witcher series Shahnameh (traditional) Shakespeare, William: Macbeth, et al. Simmons, Dan: Hyperion series, The Terror, et al. Smith, Clark Ashton: Averoigne and Zothique tales, et al. Sturluson, Snorri: Prose Edda Stephenson, Neal: The Baroque Cycle Stoker, Bram: Dracula, Lair of the White Worm, et al. Tolkien, J. R. R.: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit Vance, Jack: Dying Earth series, et al. Verne, Jules: Journey to the Center of the Earth, et al. Wagner, Karl Edward: Kane series, ed. Echoes of Valor Wellman, Manly Wade: John the Balladeer series, et al. Wells, H. G.: The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, et al. Wilde, Oscar: The Picture of Dorian Gray | ||
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Veteran Posts: 207 | There are also a bunch of games based directly on books eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormbringer_%28role-playing_game%29 and there are also a bunch of books based directly on games eg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance Add comics and video games and even the NSA will find it hard to map all the cross pollination between these. | ||
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