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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aust Diamondew" data-source="post: 2699038" data-attributes="member: 5156">In addition to genuine scholarly books I recommend reading historical fiction for inspiration for d&d.  I've read Michael Curtis Ford and found his books to be good.  His books are enterntaining and for the most part historically sound (although his latest book, The Sword of Attila contained a few glaring historical inaccuracies but so will any d&d game  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).  I paticuarly enjoyed his book The Last King one of the main characters of the book, Mithridates the Great, really reminded me of one of the PCs in my game, if the PC had failed at his goals (instead of succeding) the player would have probably Role played him similar to how Mithridates was portrayed in the book at the end of his life. I also enjoyed The Gates of Fire and The Last Amazon by Stephen Pressfield.Currently I'm reading a translation of The Histories by Herodotus which is actually enjoyable one you get use to the way in which history was written by a greek guy 2400 years ago.</blockquote>