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<blockquote data-quote="brunswick" data-source="post: 4541631" data-attributes="member: 70189"><p>Hmm..interesting question.</p><p> </p><p>1. Dungeon Masters Design Kit (1988) (TSR adventure generator, by Aaron Allston and Harold Johnson)</p><p>2. Central Casting, Heroes of Legend (1988, 1995) by Paul Jaquays - brilliant character background generator, allows me to create in depth NPC backgrounds or to help me and my players design original back-stories)</p><p>3. My vinyl battle-mat</p><p>4. Dictionary of Imaginary Places (from wikipedia: <em><strong>The Dictionary of Imaginary Places</strong></em> (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Manguel" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Alberto Manguel</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gianni_Guadalupi&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Gianni Guadalupi</span></a>. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker or traveller's guide...a nineteenth-century <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">gazetteer</span></a>" for mental travelling.</p><p>Originally published in 1980 and expanded in 1987 and 1999, the <em>Dictionary</em> covers the terrains that readers of literature would expect—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Ruritania</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Shangri-La</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Xanadu</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Atlantis</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">L. Frank Baum</span></a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Oz</span></a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Imaginary_Places#cite_note-0" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800080">[1]</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Lewis Carroll</span></a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Wonderland</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Thomas More</span></a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Utopia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Edwin Abbott</span></a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Flatland</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">C. S. Lewis</span></a>' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Narnia</span></a>, and the realms of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Jonathan Swift</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">J. R. R. Tolkien</span></a>; and also a vast host of other venues, created by authors ranging from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Dylan Thomas</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Cervantes</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Edgar Rice Burroughs</span></a>, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Carl Sandburg</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Rabelais</span></a> to Sir <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Arthur Conan Doyle</span></a>. (Plus the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Marx Brothers</span></a>' <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Soup" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff">Duck Soup</span></a>,</em> among other non-orthodox texts.) </p><p>5. Dwarven Forge Scenery.</p><p> </p><p>Thats all that springs to mind (honourable mention goes to the Grimtooths Traps series, although I havent used them for a while).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brunswick, post: 4541631, member: 70189"] Hmm..interesting question. 1. Dungeon Masters Design Kit (1988) (TSR adventure generator, by Aaron Allston and Harold Johnson) 2. Central Casting, Heroes of Legend (1988, 1995) by Paul Jaquays - brilliant character background generator, allows me to create in depth NPC backgrounds or to help me and my players design original back-stories) 3. My vinyl battle-mat 4. Dictionary of Imaginary Places (from wikipedia: [I][B]The Dictionary of Imaginary Places[/B][/I] (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Manguel"][COLOR=#0000ff]Alberto Manguel[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gianni_Guadalupi&action=edit&redlink=1"][COLOR=#0000ff]Gianni Guadalupi[/COLOR][/URL]. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker or traveller's guide...a nineteenth-century [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazetteer"][COLOR=#0000ff]gazetteer[/COLOR][/URL]" for mental travelling. Originally published in 1980 and expanded in 1987 and 1999, the [I]Dictionary[/I] covers the terrains that readers of literature would expect—[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruritania"][COLOR=#0000ff]Ruritania[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La"][COLOR=#0000ff]Shangri-La[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu"][COLOR=#0000ff]Xanadu[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis"][COLOR=#0000ff]Atlantis[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum"][COLOR=#0000ff]L. Frank Baum[/COLOR][/URL]'s [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Oz"][COLOR=#0000ff]Oz[/COLOR][/URL],[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Imaginary_Places#cite_note-0"][COLOR=#800080][1][/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll"][COLOR=#0000ff]Lewis Carroll[/COLOR][/URL]'s [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderland"][COLOR=#0000ff]Wonderland[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More"][COLOR=#0000ff]Thomas More[/COLOR][/URL]'s [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia"][COLOR=#0000ff]Utopia[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott"][COLOR=#0000ff]Edwin Abbott[/COLOR][/URL]'s [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland"][COLOR=#0000ff]Flatland[/COLOR][/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis"][COLOR=#0000ff]C. S. Lewis[/COLOR][/URL]' [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnia"][COLOR=#0000ff]Narnia[/COLOR][/URL], and the realms of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swift"][COLOR=#0000ff]Jonathan Swift[/COLOR][/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien"][COLOR=#0000ff]J. R. R. Tolkien[/COLOR][/URL]; and also a vast host of other venues, created by authors ranging from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas"][COLOR=#0000ff]Dylan Thomas[/COLOR][/URL] to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes"][COLOR=#0000ff]Cervantes[/COLOR][/URL] to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs"][COLOR=#0000ff]Edgar Rice Burroughs[/COLOR][/URL], from [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sandburg"][COLOR=#0000ff]Carl Sandburg[/COLOR][/URL] to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Rabelais"][COLOR=#0000ff]Rabelais[/COLOR][/URL] to Sir [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle"][COLOR=#0000ff]Arthur Conan Doyle[/COLOR][/URL]. (Plus the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers"][COLOR=#0000ff]Marx Brothers[/COLOR][/URL]' [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Soup"][COLOR=#0000ff]Duck Soup[/COLOR][/URL],[/I] among other non-orthodox texts.) 5. Dwarven Forge Scenery. Thats all that springs to mind (honourable mention goes to the Grimtooths Traps series, although I havent used them for a while). [/QUOTE]
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