Inspirations
Published by wlsonheim on Tuesday, July 27, 2021
This page is a place to place a list of works and resources that I am interested in, and from which I take inspiration.
The criteria for being listed here are that I have encountered them and find them interesting/worthwhile.
RPG Resources
Databases
List of TTRPGs That Don’t Center Violence
The Internet Speculative Fiction Database — An expansive database for science fiction, fantasy and horror literature
Websites
Original D&D Discussion — A forum with many great discussions.
Philotomy’s Musings — Formative for my understanding of OD&D, particularly its descriptions of the Mythic Underworld
Products
Fire on the Velvet Horizon
Troika!
Death in Space
Orbital Blues
Wanderhome
Mork Borg
Harlem Unbound
Deadball: Baseball With Dice
Silent Titans
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG
Normality
Colonial Gothic
The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Noumenon
Lost Souls
Space Opera
Traveller
Bunnies and Burrows
Tunnels and Trolls
D&D and Supplements
Books and Media
Fiction
The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber
The Book of Weird by Barbara Ninde Byfield — Previously published as “The Glass Harmonica”
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Inverted World
Soft Machine
History
Playing At the World by Jon Peterson
“When Worlds Collaborate: The Style of Early Tabletop Roleplaying Games” by Stefan Huddleston
The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg
Movies
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Dir. Peter Weir
Stalker (1979) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Time Bandits (1981) Dir. Terry Gilliam
Poems
Opportunity by Edward Rowland Sill
Visual Works
Capacity by Theo Ellsworth — Among other things, fluffy creatures. See more of his work here.