The OSR Pit Appendix N
- Abercrombie, Joe - Red Country [1]
- Abraham, Daniel - Dragon’s Path [1]
- Akers, Tim - The Horns of Ruin [1]
- Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake [1]
- Bacigalupi, Paolo - The Windup Girl [1]
- Barron, Laird - The Croning [1]
- Bethesda - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind [1]
- BioWare - Neverwinter Nights [1]
- Bujold, Lois McMaster - The Curse of Chalion [1]
- Bullington, Jesse - The Enterprise of Death [1]
- The CRPG Book Project [1]
- Compton, Ralph - The Badlands Trail [1]
- Cyrano de Bergerac - Voyages to the Moon and the Sun [1]
- D’Aleo, Nina - Last City [1]
- Dynamite Comics - Red Sonja [1]
- Friedman, C.S. - Black Sun Rising (Coldfire Trilogy #1) [1]
- FromSoftware - The Souls Series [1] and Bloodborne [1]
- IDW Publishing - Transformers [1] and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [1]
- Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Buried Giant [1]
- Jemisin, N.K. - Fifth Season [1]
- Jones, Howard Andrew - The Desert of Souls [1]
- Kobold Press - The Kobold Design Guides [1]
- L’Amour, Louis - Last of the Breed [1] and The Cherokee Trail [1]
- Lucas, George - Star Wars: The Clone Wars [1]
- Lukyanenko, Sergei - Night Watch [1]
- Lynch, Scott - The Lies of Locke Lamora [1]
- Martin, Gail Z - The Summoner (Chronicles of the Necromancer #1) [1]
- Martin, George R.R. - The Tales of Dunk & Egg [1]
- McCarthy, Cormac - The Road [1]
- McClellan, Brian - Promise of Blood [1]
- McDonald, Ian - The Dervish House [1]
- Miéville, China [1]
- Mignola, Mike - Hellboy (Comics) [1]
- Newton, Mark Charan - Nights of Villjamur [1]
*Roddenberry, Gene - Star Trek [1] - Sapkowski, Andrzej - The Last Wish [1]
- Stuart, Patrick - Held Kinetic Energy [1]
- Tolkien, J.R.R. - The Children of Húrin [1]
- VanderMeer, Jeff - Annihilation [1]
- Weeks, Brent - The Way of Shadows (Night Angel #1) [1]
- Wheatley, Ben - A Field in England [1]
Let’s build an Appendix N for Inspirational and Educational reading that has inspired you in your roleplaying games!
If you’d like to contribute, please only include authors or works you’ve personally used. To limit chaff, please write a short sentence or two for each resource about how they’ve impacted you and your table. In addition to a link to the product, I’ll also link your post so that future visitors can review your thoughts on that product. Feel free to recommend a product already listed - there will simply be more links available for users interested in that specific resource.
I know we have a lot of content creators here so please refrain from linking your own stuff. Remember, this is what inspires you, not the result of said inspiration.
Since this isn’t the 70s any longer, feel free to include resources outside of traditional media. Video games, movies, and blogs are fair game!