colinandersbrodd 's review for:

Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons by Peter Bebergal

5.0

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This is a GREAT collection of Appendix N and Appendix-N-adjacent stories that ought to be on the shelf of any old-school fantasy RPG gamer. If you don't know, the reference is to Appendix N in the original AD&D (1st edition) Dungeon Master's Guide in which Gary Gygax listed some of the authors and stories that had been most influential in inspiring the creation of Dungeons & Dragons (and thus, indirectly, all subsequent RPGs). It's the DNA of fantasy gaming, and its worth getting back to this - things have moved so far away from these roots that they would be all but unrecognizable, I think, to anyone coming in to D&D from the 1990s onward. Anyway, there is some GREAT stuff in this anthology, and I highly recommend it!