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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tav_Behemoth" data-source="post: 5090004" data-attributes="member: 18017">Do you mostly play or DM? Are you more interested in rules or descriptions; rulebooks, settings, or adventures? Do you just want RPG books or are you also interested in novels that are part of D&D history? Some general favorites:- for roleplaying in general, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/1436677" target="_blank">Play Unsafe</a> is about using improv techniques as a player or a GM; reviewed <a href="http://[url=http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13728.phtml" target="_blank">here</a>- for novels that shaped D&D, Jack Vance's [ame=http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Dying-Earth-Jack-Vance/dp/0312874561]The Dying Earth[/ame] is a good source for "Vancian spellcasting" and many other elements of the D&D worldview; his style is ornate (see examples [ame=http://muleabides.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/making-vancian-spellcasting-concrete/]here[/ame]) and not for everyone but I think this is essential reading (as are Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories, Howard's Conan stories, Moorcock's Elric stories, and Anderson's The Broken Sword and Three Hearts and Three Lions).- for game books, I'll ditto the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide as a rich well of stuff to dip into and wonder at; reading it cover-to-cover would boggle my brain!- for adventures, the Judges Guild module Caverns of Thracia is exceptionally great but not available in PDF; <a href="http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=930&it=1" target="_blank">Modron</a> is short and eye-opening in how little it presents but how useful it is. Much better known and equally full of goodness is the TSR module B2: Keep on the Borderlands, which has maps of a castle, wilderness, and cave complex as well as advice about playing D&D and a glossary of those terms most people see only in D&D like "brazier" and "portcullis".</blockquote>

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