Everybody’s been writing about it and I thought I would take a crack at it as well.

RPG Blog II asked readers: What is your Appendix N? 

For those of you who don’t want to click away, he basically asks, “what inspires your campaigns, play stiles and writings?” In Appendix N in AD&D 1e, Gary Gygax (“Long may he roll 20’s!”) listed the different things that inspired him in making his campaigns.

Here now, is mine:

David Eddings (The Belgariad, Mallorean, Redemption of Althalus), Dragonlance (The original few series), Neil Gaiman (Coraline, Good Omens, American Gods), Star Wars (Pretty much anything), H.P. Lovecraft (Cthulhu), Brian Jacques (Redwall), Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), J.R.R. Tolkien (Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia, Screwtape Letters), Ursula K. LeGuin (Earthsea), George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones), Dan Abnett’s 40k books, Christopher Moore (Lamb, Stupidest Angel, A Dirty Job).

That’s not all, of course, just what I could think of. What about you? What’s your Appendix N?