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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wik" data-source="post: 3877662" data-attributes="member: 40177">Three words:  Clark.Ashton. Smith.Seriously, check out his Zothique stuff, or the pseudo-france stuff that wound up in Castle Amber.  (Averiogne?)  There's a whole <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/" target="_blank">Database</a> of his stories, which have been used in a variety of game settings. Seriously, it's sword and sorcery, with the usual amount of faintly lovecraftian horror.  In <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/22/the-charnel-god" target="_blank">this</a> story, we see Mordiggian, who wound up in Call of Cthulu (it's also an amazing story, and something i'd love to throw into a game!).  And <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/11/the-beast-of-averoigne" target="_blank">this</a> one was used as a whole encounter near the end of Castle Amber (though the story is much better).  And <a href="http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/15/the-black-abbot-of-puthuum" target="_blank">this</a> one makes me think of many classic D&D campaigns I've been in - two characters engaged in friendly rivalry during their "adventure".Seriously, the guy is classic D&D, pretty much, and an influence on a lot of later fantasy writers.</blockquote>