D&D General What is your personal Appendix N?

[Baron Opal II]

... the Great Courses series by Edwin Barnhart. A whole bunch of civilizations are really cool and interesting, and ready for gaming.

What's this? The Great Courses made a series on worldbuilding?

 

[Autumnal]

What's this? The Great Courses made a series on worldbuilding?

For my purposes, yes.

• Lost Worlds of South America
• Maya to Aztec: Ancient Mesoamerica Revealed
• Ancient Civilizations of North America

Made in that order, and some minor benefit to consuming them in that order, though each substantially stands alone.

Barnhart also hosts the ArcheoEd podcast, which I watch on YouTube for the visuals.

These are just gold mines of useful info: lots about how people lived - what their homes were like, their clothes, their meals; who had power, how they got it, how they used it; what travel was like; on and on. It made picking up New Fires very easy and enjoyable.

 

[Voadam]

Foundational for me for D&D when I started at age 8:

The Hobbit.

Daulaire's Norse and Greek Mythology.

Disney's Robin Hood.

Professor Wormbog and the Search for the Zimperumpus Zoos.

Droofus the Dragon.

Super Friends.

Star Wars.

A library book I can't remember now on medieval and ancient weapons.

Animal books.

 

[Voadam]

Foundational for me now:

Army of Darkness.

Indiana Jones.

Conan (REH stories, Marvel comics, and the original movie).

Doctor Who.

Samurai Jack.

 

[Shardstone]

I think of all of Sanderson's books that I've read, I've liked Warbreaker the best. It's wild to me that he just has it up for free!

Warbreaker is also my favorite!