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The tables of contents for Volumes I to V are attached as PDFs.

The table of contents for an imaginary D&D monster book published in the 1980s. Volumes I-IV also included as PDFs.

Excerpt from Folk-Lore Society, The Denham Tracts (1895), quoted in Katharine Briggs, An Encyclopedia of Fairies (1976): Grose observes, too, that those born on Christmas Day cannot see spirits; which is another incontrovertible fact. What a happiness this must have been seventy or eighty years...

ELEMENTAL MASTER Prerequisite: Elemental Adept Spells you cast ignore immunity to damage of the same type you chose for Elemental Adept. If you have more than one Elemental Adept feat then choose one damage type from the types previously selected. What do you think of this? Too powerful? Too...

An example of the former would be taking vengeance on the murderer of your PC's parents. An example of the latter would be a bounty hunter PC choosing to track down the same murderer but lacking any personal connection, at least initially. The former makes for a more emotionally engaging story...

The original Appendix N in the 1e AD&D DMG includes a large number of authors and works. To prioritise my own reading I have created a shorter list. Anderson, Poul: Three Hearts and Three Lions Burroughs, Edgar Rice: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; The Warlord of Mars de Camp, L Sprague...

The regenerating troll in D&D derives from Poul Anderson’s Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953). A possible source for the regeneration aspect of Anderson’s troll can be found in Thomas Bulfinch’s Legends of Charlemagne (1863). In the chapters about Ogier the Dane, Bruhier the Sultan of Arabia...

John Cassian (b. ca. 360) followed Evagrius as the key author on desert monasticism... He declares that demons vary in aggression, power, and persistence, so that weaker demons are allocated to the younger and more inexperienced monks, while hardened desert warriors are beset by the most...

What are the most important textual sources for religious practices, belief, and worship in default D&D and the worlds closest to default D&D such as Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk? I know about 2e AD&D's Faiths & Avatars for Forgotten Realms. What else is out there? EDIT: I'm thinking of this...

Listening to a lecture series, Religion in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Professor Glenn S Holland. There have been several "Aha, so that's where RuneQuest got that from" moments so far. This is from the lectures: In The Iliad the gods obey Fate not because Fate is unavoidable, not...

Real world historical with the addition of some supernatural elements. Particularly medieval or early modern Europe. Is this something Zweihander can do?

"They might seek refuge in woods or caves, perhaps where a site had been prepared. These might just involve makeshift huts and were only a short term solution. Others were much more substantial dwellings. Some were subterranean, some extended into quarries; others were tunnelled beneath...

Dungeons & Dragons is a major one. Michael Moorcock and possibly also RuneQuest for the concept of Chaos. The real world geographic analogues are fairly obvious, I think, but what real world historical period or periods does WFRP draw on?

I'm interested in rpgs that offer balanced PCs, and combat that has lots of decision points but without the necessity of the battlegrid or use of minis. They can be any genre, they don't need to be fantasy.

These are some very inchoate thoughts. Get rid of verbal, somatic and material components. Restrict each sorcerer to a much more limited spell selection such as all necromancy or all cold spells. All sorcerers get the feat Elemental Adept. Increase spells per day significantly, perhaps...

The Imaginary Bestiary was imaginarily published sometime after the Monster Manual 2 (1983). Volumes I and II.

Elemental – purified nature Giant – power of nature Nymph – beauty of nature Hag – destructive nature Dryad – nature (oak) Treant – nature (tree) Nixie – nature (fresh water) Savage humanoid – bestial man Lycanthrope – bestial man within civilised man Undead – rejection of nature Aberration –...

A table of contents for an imaginary 1e AD&D monster book. Volume I also included, both attached as pdfs.

There are two main PC motivations in rpgs. Firstly, the pursuit of personal gain, usually money and/or magic items. Secondly the desire to defeat evil. The first motivation, personal gain, works well with sandbox play because the game world typically contains a great many opportunities to...

I'm considering playing up the conflict between Law and Chaos in a Three Hearts and Three Lions, Keep on the Borderlands, OD&D, red box D&D stylee. Will my (British) players just think I'm ripping off Warhammer?