Appendix N

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 Welcome Hearthside to The Dripping Tap, traveler.

Here's a list of some of my favorite books, ttrpgs and historical sources that inspire me to run and make TTRPGs. In no particular order:

BOOKS:

  • The Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
  • City of Brass (and the Daevabad Cycle) by S.A. Chakraborty
  • The Black Company by Glen Cooke
  • Terry Pratchett's Discworld
  • Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. by Mike Mignola
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

TTRPGs:

  • Primal Quest
  • Gubat Banwa
  • HIS MAJESTY THE WORM
  • Mothership
  • Oops All Draculas!
  • Errant
  • Cantrip
  • Here, There, Be Monsters!
  • MÖRK BORG
  • Frontier Scum
  • PIRATE BORG
  • Wyrd Science magazine
  • Ghosts of the Sierra Verde & Wolves Upon the Coast
  • Everything SandyPug Games does, but especially HELLPIERCERS
     

ART: 

SOURCES:

  • God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail
  • Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Mutual Aid: A Factor of Human Evolution
  • The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow
  • FYMA: A Lesser Key by Ezra Rose 
     

     
     

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