Created by Fred Johansen
This is my version of the Appendix N "Inspirational Reading" list from the AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide, Appendix N. (I'm using the 1983 edition.)
A personal version of this list is required, for the original in Appendix N lists only some specific works, while others are indicated by author names only, and including the entire bibliography of certain of these authors would probably be overkill.
The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an army to join King Edward …
The Face in the Frost by John Bellairs
The Face in the Frost is a fantasy classic, defying categorization with its richly imaginative story of two separate kingdoms …
The Secret of Sinharat by Leigh Brackett
Enter Eric John Stark, adventurer, rebel, wildman. Raised on the sun-soaked, savage world of Mercury, Stark lives among the people …
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Barsoom series (aka Martian series), #1)
I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but …
Pirates of Venus by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Venus, #1)
Pirates of Venus is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first book in the Venus …
The Warrior of World's End by Lin Carter (Gondwane (World's End), #1)
"I see Gondwane as it shall be in the untold ages of dim futurity, near the time when the Earth …
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp
Archeologist Martin Padway is visiting Rome in Italy. He is struck by lightning and catapulted back to Rome of the …
The Fallible Fiend by L. Sprague de Camp
The Fallible Friend
The protagonist, Zdim, is an indentured servant, some reptilian traits, who engages in something akin to rule-book …
