An anthology of fantastical tales that inspired the creation of the world's greatest roleplaying game. Drawing upon the original list of "inspirational reading" provided by Gary Gygax in the first Dungeon Master's Guide, published in 1979, as well as hobbyist magazines and related periodicals that helped to define the modern role-playing game,
Appendix N offers a collection of short fiction and resonant fragments that reveal the literary influences that shaped Dungeons & Dragons, the world's most popular RPG. The stories in
Appendix N contextualize the ambitious lyrical excursions that helped set the adventurous tone and dank, dungeon-crawling atmospheres of fantasy roleplay as we know it today.
This new edition, published on the occassion of Dungeons & Dragons' 50th anniversary, includes fascinating new stories, a comprehensive introduction, and a new foreword.
Includes work by Poul Anderson, Frank Brunner, Ramsey Campbell, Lin Carter, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, David Madison, Michael Moorcock, C. L. Moore, Fred Saberhagen, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret St. Clair, Jack Vance, Manly Wade Wellman
一本啟發了世界上最偉大的角色扮演遊戲創作的奇幻故事選集。
本書根據 Gary Gygax 在1979年出版的第一本《Dungeon Master's Guide》中提供的「啟發性閱讀」原始清單，以及幫助定義現代角色扮演遊戲的愛好者雜誌和相關期刊，Appendix N 提供了一系列短篇小說和引人共鳴的片段，揭示了塑造《龍與地下城》（Dungeons & Dragons）這款世界上最受歡迎的角色扮演遊戲的文學影響。Appendix N 中的故事為那些幫助設定冒險基調和陰暗、地下城探險氛圍的雄心勃勃的抒情探索提供了背景，這些氛圍正是我們今天所知的奇幻角色扮演遊戲的基礎。
這本新版本是為了慶祝《龍與地下城》50週年而出版，包含了引人入勝的新故事、全面的介紹以及新的前言。
書中包括了 Poul Anderson、Frank Brunner、Ramsey Campbell、Lin Carter、Lord Dunsany、Robert E. Howard、Tanith Lee、Fritz Leiber、H. P. Lovecraft、David Madison、Michael Moorcock、C. L. Moore、Fred Saberhagen、Clark Ashton Smith、Margaret St. Clair、Jack Vance 和 Manly Wade Wellman 的作品。
Peter Bebergal is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His writing on speculative and fringe cultures have been published by the
Believer, the
Times Literary Supplement, the
New Yorker,
Boing Boing, and the
Paris Review. He is the author
Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural,
Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, and
Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood.
Ann VanderMeer currently serves as an acquiring fiction editor for Tor.com, Cheeky Frawg Books, and weirdfictionreview.com. She was the editor-in-chief for
Weird Tales for five years, during which time she was nominated three times for the Hugo Award, winning one. Along with multiple nominations for the Shirley Jackson Award, she also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for co-editing
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories. Her latest anthologies include
The Time Traveler's Almanac,
Sisters of the Revolution, and
Beyond the Bandersnatch: A Modern Bestiary of Untrue Tales, a forthcoming anthology of original fiction and art.
彼得·貝伯戈爾（Peter Bebergal）是一位居住在麻薩諸塞州劍橋的作家。他關於投機性和邊緣文化的文章曾發表於《Believer》、《Times Literary Supplement》、《New Yorker》、《Boing Boing》和《Paris Review》。他是《Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural》、《Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll》和《Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood》的作者。
安·范德梅爾（Ann VanderMeer）目前擔任Tor.com、Cheeky Frawg Books和weirdfictionreview.com的小說編輯。她曾擔任《Weird Tales》的主編五年，在此期間，她三度獲得雨果獎提名，並贏得一次。除了多次獲得雪莉·傑克遜獎提名外，她還因共同編輯《The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories》而獲得世界奇幻獎和英國奇幻獎。她最新的選集包括《The Time Traveler's Almanac》、《Sisters of the Revolution》和即將出版的原創小說與藝術選集《Beyond the Bandersnatch: A Modern Bestiary of Untrue Tales》。
