Parmandur
Book-Friend
I agree with [MENTION=30438]Ralif Redhammer[/MENTION] above, using the 5E PHB Appendix E with the Appendix N authors removed would be fun. Appendix E is both a better, and yet more uneven list, methinks.
Survivor Appendix N Authors- LEIBER WINS!
I agree with [MENTION=30438]Ralif Redhammer[/MENTION] above, using the 5E PHB Appendix E with the Appendix N authors removed would be fun. Appendix E is both a better, and yet more uneven list, methinks.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Jinx, I owe you a beer.
Bradley Hindman
Explorer
How about the winners of the Hugo award for best book covering the years in this millennium.
Prakriti
Hi, I'm a Mindflayer, but don't let that worry you
I also thought of Appendix E, but when I saw that it retained all of the original Appendix N, I gave up on the idea. Simply removing the Appendix N authors is a great solution.
Also, don't forget that the 5E DMG has its own inspirational reading list. But it's far less exciting.
The craziest idea I had was Survivor Winners Survivor... All the winners of previous Survivor threads competing against each other. But talk about comparing apples to oranges. I don't think it would work. But you could do the Top 5 finishers of two similar lists. Top 5 Xanathar's Subclasses & Top 5 SCAG subclasses maybe?
Some other ideas:
9th Level Spells
Schools of Magic
Unearthed Arcana (all the .pdf releases so far)
Languages
Environment (as in the "Creatures by Environment" lists in the DMG and Volo's Guide -- Arctic, Coastal, Desert, Forest, etc.)
Some of these might have been done already.
Also, don't forget that the 5E DMG has its own inspirational reading list. But it's far less exciting.
The craziest idea I had was Survivor Winners Survivor... All the winners of previous Survivor threads competing against each other. But talk about comparing apples to oranges. I don't think it would work. But you could do the Top 5 finishers of two similar lists. Top 5 Xanathar's Subclasses & Top 5 SCAG subclasses maybe?
Some other ideas:
9th Level Spells
Schools of Magic
Unearthed Arcana (all the .pdf releases so far)
Languages
Environment (as in the "Creatures by Environment" lists in the DMG and Volo's Guide -- Arctic, Coastal, Desert, Forest, etc.)
Some of these might have been done already.
Prakriti
Hi, I'm a Mindflayer, but don't let that worry you
Don't you love books that start off reasonably well, then put the whole story on hold so the main character can tell us the story of his life, from the time that he was a small child, in one giant 600-page flashback?
Because I sure as hell don't.
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
First, I missed the second link in that post of yours. Sue me. I only saw the one and I wasn't going to slog through a thread for you. Second, I just went back and looked at the second link and it shows nothing like what you are claiming here. There were two quotes from Gygax, neither of which say that Tolkien wasn't a foundational influence.
The first quote just says that there are other authors he considered as well, which we all know from the list we are voting on. the second quote says that the heroes were kinda boring, but other than the ranger class lifted almost directly from Aragorn, I'm not saying that the heroes are the part of the foundation he took from Tolkien. Then the author of that article goes on to say that Gygax would often tell us which parts of Tolkien he took and which he didn't.
Your link doesn't prove your claim, and your continued "common knowledge" statement is nothing more than an Appeal to Popularity. Lots of things that are "common knowledge" are incorrect. Feel free to leave the conversation or stay, but do you really want to leave the discussion on a fallacy?
Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
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Invisible Stalker
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice 13
Carter, Lin 12
Dunsany, Lord 15
Leiber, Fritz 10
Merritt, A. 8
Offutt, Andrew J. 6
Tolkien, J.R.R. 11
Wellman, Manley Wade 10
Williamson, Jack 14
Zelazny, Roger 13
Carter, Lin 12
Dunsany, Lord 15
Leiber, Fritz 10
Merritt, A. 8
Offutt, Andrew J. 6
Tolkien, J.R.R. 11
Wellman, Manley Wade 10
Williamson, Jack 14
Zelazny, Roger 13
werecorpse
Adventurer
Burroughs, Edgar Rice 13
Carter, Lin 12
Dunsany, Lord 15
Leiber, Fritz 10
Merritt, A. 8
Offutt, Andrew J. 6-2=4
Tolkien, J.R.R. 11+1=12
Wellman, Manley Wade 10
Williamson, Jack 14
Zelazny, Roger 13
Carter, Lin 12
Dunsany, Lord 15
Leiber, Fritz 10
Merritt, A. 8
Offutt, Andrew J. 6-2=4
Tolkien, J.R.R. 11+1=12
Wellman, Manley Wade 10
Williamson, Jack 14
Zelazny, Roger 13
