Witches of Appendix N: Lin Carter
In today's Witches of Appendix N, I want to dive into an author I have not read since my early college days. Lin Carter left me with a mixed opinion then. Does he fare better now?
#AppendixN #ADnD
https://theotherside.timsbrannan.com/2025/06/witches-of-appendix-n-lin-carter.html

The third book is the #Weirdstone of Brisingamen by #AlanGarner which I have never read (though I listened to the #BBC #audio dramatisation once). Although published in 1960, this book didn't make it onto #Gygax 's list in #AppendixN . I'm not sure of the reason for this omission, the book was certainly known in USA (In 1970 it was given an award by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education).

#TTRPG & #Weird Fiction enthusiasts around #Boston : #PeterBebergal discusses his #DungeonsAndDragons inspired collection of stories, #AppendixN, revised and expanded edition: Weird Tales From the Roots of Dungeons & Dragons

Wednesday (tonight) in #CambridgeMA - 7pm. In Conversation with (my longtime friend) #JanakaStucky, poet, performer, and creator of projects like #BlazingWorlds and #BlackOcean.

Free, Harvard Bookstore, masks encouraged.

https://www.harvard.com/events/
https://www.harvard.com/event/peter_bebergal/ #BostonGeek #DnD #RPGs

Can anyone #recommend a #secondhand #bookshop in #London which is good for classic #fantasy / #scifi books from the 20th century?

The kind of place where one could find the #books listed in #AppendixN of the 1st edition #DungeonMastersGuide.

pavisse - an oblong shield used during the mid-14th to early 16th centuries. Often large enough to cover the entire body, it was used by archers, crossbowmen, and other infantry soldiers on the battlefield.

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires. Thomas recounts the battle of Crécy. The mercenary crossbowmen were reluctant to fire uphill into the sun at the defending English.

#AppendixN #ChristopherBuehlman #BetweenTwoFires

captious - tending to find fault or raise petty objections

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Jack Vance's short story Guyal of Sfere. The old man chastises the great metallic face for its complaints and strange spectral issuances.

#AppendixN #JackVance #DyingEarth

debouch - emerge from a narrow or confined space into a wide, open area

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Robert E. Howard's short story The Scarlet Citadel. The mailed riders under the Aquilonian banner emerge from the defiles between the hills to the east of the city in pursuit of Strabonus's spahis.

#AppendixN #RobertEHoward #ConanTheBarbarian

wrack - a mass of high, thick, fast-moving clouds

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Urth of the New Sun. Severian considers the sky above the ship from the topmast.

#AppendixN #GeneWolfe #UrthOfTheNewSun

arsinoitherium - an extinct genus of mammals, related to elephants, sirenians and hyraxes, superficially resembling a two horned rhinoceros

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. A varied group of forces aligns to hold the line of battle, and Severian notes the impressive Daughters of War amongst the all-male light cavalry.

#AppendixN #GeneWolfe #BookOfTheNewSun

admixture - a mixture, typically a main ingredient with a second minor ingredient

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Leigh Brackett's The Secret of Sinharat. Kynon sprinkles in Anglo-Saxon profanities in with his Martian swearing as a sandstorm approaches suddenly from the north.

#AppendixN #LeighBrackett #EricJohnStark

kohl - a powder, as finely powdered antimony sulfide, used as a cosmetic to darken the eyelids, eyebrows, etc

cinerary - adj, holding or intended for ashes, especially the ashes of cremated bodies

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Green Lung's "Graveyard Sun" off the album "Black Harvest."

"It was the hour of dusk, in the season of mists
On your pale neck, your fate sealed with a kiss
Kohl rims round your eyes like cinerary ash
In my cold embrace you fell into a trance"

#AppendixN #GreenLung

scarp / escarpment – a long, steep slope, especially one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan. Fuschia stares out her window at the landscape beyond Gormenghast's walls.

#AppendixN #MervynPeake #Gormenghast

skirl - a shrill, wailing sound, especially that of bagpipes

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Leigh Brackett's The Secret of Sinharat. Eric John Stark watches as Kynon of Shun's caravan approaches the city of Valkis.

#AppendixN #LeighBrackett #EricJohnStark

attitude (heraldry) - the position in which a figure is emblazoned on armorial bearings (as a "charge" on a shield, a "supporter" to the side of the shield, or as a "crest" above the shield or helm)

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Luka Rejec's system Synthetic Dream Machine. As a part of character creation, roll on the appropriate titled "What do these symbols mean?" when generating your starting equipment.

#AppendixN #LukaRejec #SyntheticDreamMachine

cephalophore - a saint depicted as carrying their severed head, often to indicate martyrdom by decapitation; "head-carrier" in Greek.

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Skerples's The Monster Overhaul .The bestiary offers up many variants of the wight, including this one that projects cones of black light with anti-magic properties from its eyes.

#AppendixN #Skerples #TheMonsterOverhaul #bestiaries #osr #ttrpg

sennight - a period of seven days and nights; a week

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Michael Curtis and Tim Wadzinski's 5E conversion of Gary Gygax's module Expedtion to the Barrier Peaks. The party embarked a week ago towards the metal valve set into the mountains to investigate.

#AppendixN #GaryGygax #OriginalAdventuresReincarnated #GoodmanGames

col - the lowest point of a ridge or saddle between two peaks, typically affording a pass from one side of a mountain range to another

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Green Lung's song Mountain Throne:

"Out of the caverns, onto the moor
Through cols and passes we process toward the pinnacle
From subterranean to summit stone
Now we pilgrims ascend, we climb toward the mountain throne”

#AppendixN #GreenLung

estafette - a dispatch rider, primarily military; a mounted courier. From the diminutive of "staffa," meaning "stirrup," in Italian.

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch. Severian hears a rider approach as he is cutting meat from a fallen mount.

#AppendixN #GeneWolfe #BookOfTheNewSun

How about an Appendix N for Inscapes, The Ink That Bleeds, and my published and yet-to-be-published journaling games?

#ttrpg #AppendixN #JournalGaming

doughty - brave and persistent

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from
Michael Curtis and Tim Wadzinski's 5E conversion of Gary Gygax's Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. The Grand Duke of Geoff sends his henchmen to lead an expedition to investigate the destroyed nearby settlements.

#AppendixN #GaryGygax #GoodmanGames #ExpeditionToTheBarrierPeaks