{"id":260,"date":"2018-12-24T00:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/?p=260"},"modified":"2018-12-24T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T06:12:41","slug":"appendix-n-popping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/2018\/12\/24\/appendix-n-popping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Appendix N Popping Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IsleOfDreadgoodman.jpg\" alt=\"Isle of Dread\" class=\"wp-image-259\" width=\"369\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IsleOfDreadgoodman.jpg 494w, http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IsleOfDreadgoodman-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I got my copy of Original Adventures Reincarnated 2: The Isle of Dread.  I&#8217;ll try to find time in the weeks ahead to read it through thoroughly (323 pages isn&#8217;t easy when you have children and are trying to learn new Web technologies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I noticed in the opening essays that both Lawrence Schick and Tom Moldvay (according to Lawrence Schick) were both big Appendix N readers.  At the time they met Appendix N hadn&#8217;t been typed up yet by Gary Gygax but a large number of authors from that list are mentioned specifically as favorite authors of both men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following <a href=\"https:\/\/jeffro.wordpress.com\/\">Jeffro Johnson&#8217;s blog<\/a>, I&#8217;ve read a number of arguments where people advance the notion that Appendix N was just a list of favorite books\/authors by Gygax.  With each passing year, Jeffro&#8217;s argument that Appendix N was a common list of books among fantasy fans in the 1960s and 70s gains more and more support.  It&#8217;s also interesting to see how two men (other than Gygax) who had a big influence on Basic\/Expert Dungeons &amp; Dragons were reading the same books.  Saying that Appendix N was in the &#8220;DNA&#8221; of early D&amp;D is sounding less and less silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my copy of Original Adventures Reincarnated 2: The Isle of Dread. I&#8217;ll try to find time in the weeks ahead to read it through thoroughly (323 pages isn&#8217;t easy when you have children and are trying to learn new Web technologies). I noticed in the opening essays that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8,6,9,7],"tags":[40,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gearsonline.net\/fantasy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}