A Dragons at Dawn Appendix N?

[akiyama]

Here's my attempt at an "Appendix N", inspired by this thread:

www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=43054

*Confirmed*
Robert Adams
Poul Anderson
Robert Heinlein
Frank Herbert
Robert E. Howard
Fritz Leiber
John Norman
J. R. R. Tolkien

*Possible*
Homer
Edgar Rice Burroughs
H. P. Lovecraft
Michael Moorcock

*TV & Movies*
Monster movies: King Kong (1933), The Wolf Man (1941), The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Them! (1954), Godzilla (1954), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), Tarantula (1955), The Blob (1958), Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), Mothra (1962), Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Star Trek (1966-1969)
Kung Fu (TV series) (1972-1975)
Bruce Lee movies: The Big Boss (1971), Fist of Fury (1972), Way of the Dragon (1972) and Enter the Dragon (1973)

Star Trek is the only thing on this list that I'm sure Dave Arneson watched; everything else here is included because just it seems like the sort of thing he *might* have watched and enjoyed.

In the interview in Fight On #2 Dave Arneson also mentions Mike Stackpole, Gordon R. Dickson and M. A. R. Barker as being among his favourite authors or game designers.

Mike Stackpole was a friend of Dave Arneson. He has written many rpg products (e.g. for Flying Buffalo the Citybooks series and many Tunnels and Trolls books) and tie-in novels (particularly for Battletech and Star Wars). He has also written some original fantasy novels.

Gordon R. Dickson is primarily a science-fiction writer but also wrote some fantasy novels, notably The Dragon and the George (1976).

M. A. R. Barker is of course the author of the Empire of the Petal Throne RPG, and refereed the Tekumel campaign in which Dave Arneson was a player.

Anyone have any ideas for any other fiction with a "Blackmoorish" feel to it?

Such as the film Outlander (2008) which havard mentions on his blog here:

blackmoormystara.blogspot.com/2010/06/outlander-2008.html

[aldarron]

Very Cool. I'm sure the blob is one he saw because a Svenson specifically mentions a blob like the one in the Japanese movie as being one of the first monsters he encountered. I thought about including a blob in the DaD monster section but I haven't seen the movie and had no clues from any Arsonian material about what it might have been like in the game. I think I will take a stab at it for the supplement though.

[akiyama]

"The Blob" isn't a Japanese film.

I am 95% sure there *is* a Japanese film about a blob - but my google-fu isn't up to the task of finding it.

EDIT: This webpage details quite a few interesting Japanese films featuring slimy aliens, but I don't think any of them are the one I'm thinking of:

www.sixtiescity.com/SciFilm/JSF.shtm

[Deleted]

Godzilla vs Hedora (in the US Godzilla vs The Smog Monster) big blob-like alien that feeds off of pollution? Released in the US in '71...

[aldarron]

Hard to know at this point but maybe Greg was misremembering the national origen of the movie.

[Falconer]

Mike Stackpole got his start writing Battletech novels in the late ’80s, so he can’t possibly be considered an influence on FFC. I guess a list of “books Dave liked” is okay, but I assumed you wanted to list the influences on Dave’s classic ’70s works?

[bluskreem]

Jul 4, 2010 15:05:50 GMT -6 aldarron said:

Very Cool. I'm sure the blob is one he saw because a Svenson specifically mentions a blob like the one in the Japanese movie as being one of the first monsters he encountered.

I know I'm really late to the game, but perhaps he was refering to the classic The Green Slime?

[aldarron]

Greg has since said he was probably misremembering that the film was Japanese. Those campy old sci-horror films do tend to blend together.