Fantasy Heartbreak Workshop

As usual Jeff put up another post that stirred a disused corner of my imagination: Cave man days, through the lens of a D&D fork. This is something I used to give a lot of thought to back in the day.  GURPS Ice Age seemed like such a neat idea, but I didn't love the system and couldn't figure out what to do for adventures (Fighting wolves and tribes all the time?  Hunting a lot?).  Acquisition of non-subsistence stuff isn't typically a big part of the caveman way of life. One possibility would be tribesmen stumbling across Lovecraftian horrors, but I had doubts about losing player interest while trying to build a backdrop of normalcy before contrasting it with the first unnatural discovery. Another thought was contrasting current neolithic era with finds of lost pre-existing civilizations of human or inhuman origin.  It's an idea I like, and I think it could work well used appropriately. The Lithic setting wouldn't really work as a part of the same...

The Dungeon Masters Guide for the 1st Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons contained, among many other things, the now famous " Appendix N ".  This particular section of appendix contained material which had inspired and shaped Gygax imagination and AD&D. In a similar spirit writers since occasionally included an Appendix N or equivalent recommendations in their games.  And I figure I'd like to take a crack at this as well.  So the following is an "Appendix N" tailored to the feel of the Owl Light setting. Books and short stories Arthur C. Clarke - The Lion of Comarre Glen Cook - The Black Company series Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter , also short stories, in particular:  Idle Days on the Yann , How Nuth Would Have Practiced His Arts Upon the Gnoles . Barbara Hambly - The Sundog series M. John Harrison - The Pastel City (and other Viriconium stories) William Hope Hodgeson - The Night Land Robert E. Howard - The Cona...