My appendix N

This is from a blog post I saw at the excellent Grognardia blog and it refers to this blog post and the A&D DMG Appendix N of literature that inspired 1e AD&D.

Asimov, Isaac: Foundation Trilogy
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: Barsoom series
Carroll, Lewis: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Graves, Robert: Greek Myths
Harrison, Harry: Stainless Steel Rat series
Homer: Iliad and Odyssey
Howard, R.E: Conan and Kull stories
Leiber, Fritz: Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories
Le Guin, Ursula: Wizard of Earthsea
Lewis, C.S. : Narnia series
Lovecraft, H.P: Cthulhu Mythos
Moorcock, Michael: Elric, Hawkmoon and Oswald Bastable series
Nesbit, E. : Five Children and It, Phoenix and the Carpet
Smith, E.E. (Doc): Lensman Series
Tolkein, J.R.R.: Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Farmer Giles of Ham and Tom Bombadil

This isn't exclusively fantasy as I didn't just play fantasy RPG, Traveller was another big game for me in the early years of my roleplaying and I also got inspiration from the following films and TV series.

Adventures of Robin Hood - Errol Flynn swashbuckling against Basil Rathbone
Dr Who
Flash Gordon serials
Star Wars: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back
Star Trek the original series

Bringing my blog back to life

Well now I'm finally getting some more time I'll try and update my blog regularly, main things will be to complete my comparative review of RQ2, WFRP2 and C&C, more RPG characters and more reviews.

Gaming Podcast Review 22 YSDC: Walker in the Wastes

Walker in the Wastes is the new set of game session recordings from the Bradford Players at Yog-Radio. It uses an adventure from Pagan Publishing set in the Canadian Arctic with the characters being part of an expedition to investigate the disapperance of the Franklin Expedition.

So far there have been 8 episodes released with the average running time being around 2 hours 30 minutes.

It has been an interesting listen and similar to the other actual play sessions from the Bradford players that I reviewed before in Horror on the Orient express.

Like most of the podcasts from Yog-Radio the audio quality is very good and I'd recommmend this podcast for anyone that enjoys hearing RPG sessions broadcast.

New Year projects

Few things to come in the new year:

1. Complete the comparative review of WFRP, RQII and Castles & Crusades
   
2. Start adding some book reviews to the site
   
3. Some more podcast reviews
   
4. More regular updates
   
5. My ideas on houserules, settings and some NPCs for various RPGs.