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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6354409" data-attributes="member: 59082">There are just too many to list. I mean, what are the criteria? Fantasy books that are in any way vaguely D&amp;Dish? That would be thousands of novels.The main charm of the original appendix is that it was Gygax's own - stuff that he said influenced him in creating D&amp;D (and presumably Arneson). I can't remember if Lord of the Rings was in the original appendix, but Gary seemed to have a strange distaste for Tolkien, to the point where he downplayed his influence in a way that spoke of some kind of hang-up with Tolkien on his part. But is this list Gygax + Mearls? Whose influences does it represent?Anyhow, with the caveat above--that the list can only ever be non-inclusive and very subjective--I think Erikson's Malazanseries should be on that list as it came from an RPG campaign (GURPS, I think). Another would be R Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series. I'm currently reading Robert V Redick's Voyages of the Chathrand series, which has a D&amp;Dish vibe. What about M John Harrison's Viriconium books or Karl Edward Wagner's Bloodstone? Or Stephen Donaldson's Thomas Covenant books? I would also have included Patricia McKillip's Riddlemaster series. There are just so many, and any list is highly subjective.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6354409, member: 59082"] There are just too many to list. I mean, what are the criteria? Fantasy books that are in any way vaguely D&Dish? That would be thousands of novels. The main charm of the original appendix is that it was Gygax's own - stuff that he said influenced him in creating D&D (and presumably Arneson). I can't remember if [I]Lord of the Rings [/I]was in the original appendix, but Gary seemed to have a strange distaste for Tolkien, to the point where he downplayed his influence in a way that spoke of some kind of hang-up with Tolkien on his part. But is this list Gygax + Mearls? Whose influences does it represent? Anyhow, with the caveat above--that the list can only ever be non-inclusive and very subjective--I think [B]Erikson's [I]Malazan[/I][/B]series should be on that list as it came from an RPG campaign (GURPS, I think). Another would be [B]R Scott Bakker's [I]Prince of Nothing[/I] [/B]series. I'm currently reading [B]Robert V Redick's [I]Voyages of the Chathrand[/I][/B] series, which has a D&Dish vibe. What about [B]M John Harrison's [/B][I][B]Viriconium [/B][/I]books or [B]Karl Edward Wagner's [I]Bloodstone? [/I][/B]Or [B]Stephen Donaldson's [I]Thomas Covenant [/I][/B]books? I would also have included [B]Patricia McKillip's [I]Riddlemaster [/I][/B]series. There are just so many, and any list is highly subjective. [/QUOTE]

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