Jeff, Hoi, and a rotating roster of special guests discuss the adventure, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and weird fiction that inspires our gaming
Our Patron Book Club joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “The Gods of Mars”, John Carter in a blond wig, repetitiveness in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s works, French words, female characters’ screen time, the Tree of Life, fainting characters, early examples of megadungeons, helpful ghosts, constantly escalating tension and perils, authors inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs, wish-fulfillment protagonists, and much more!
Goran Gligovic joins us to discuss Edgar Rice Burroughs’s “A Princess of Mars”, Asterix and Obelix, the Library of Wonder, Tarzan, being 30 for as long as you can remember, main characters as blank canvases, Robert E. Howard, the Fighting Man class in OD&D, when to embrace realism and when to eschew it, Frank Frazetta’s action scenes, gargoyles taking a piss, a brightly dressed Elric, and much more!
Appendix N Book Club 