Bandwagon Roundup: The Appendices Ns

Over 69 (!) bloggers came together for the largest bandwagon of the year and I round them all up for your perusal

I put out the call for a new Bandwagon on the concept of “personal Appendices Ns” and the blogosphere answered in the greatest deluge we have yet seen for a blog bandwagon. If you follow blogs (and if you don’t, how did you find me, how are you reading this, who are you?), then you likely were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of postings circa last week. Even I, a blog devotee, was unable to read them as fast as they were coming out. But now I have digested them all and I present them for you with some light categorizing so you can read the ones you missed, or ones that catch your eyes, or just go ahead and open up so many tabs at once that your web browser gives up under the effort of it all. Enjoy!

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Using the Bandwagon as an Excuse to Give Unsolicited Advice about Inspiration

• Prismatic Wasteland: Pick Two Inspirations and Combine Them

• The Foot of Blue Mountain: Appendix M: Thoughtful Inspirations

• LootLootLore: Making your Appendix N table ready

Project-Specific Inspiration Lists

• Idraluna Archives: A Bibliography of Antarctic Lore

• Table 46: Jewelsea RPG - Inspirational and Educational Reading

• The Dododecahedron: Appendix K

• Towards the Black City: Appendix N for my Mythic Bastionland

• World Building and Woolgathering: Appendices N

• Path Unending: Appendix O

• To Be Resolved: TBR Appendix N Bandwagon - Hellbenders Playtest is Live!

• A Knight at the Opera: Appendix T&T

• Valeria Loves: From Whence Yonk Juice is Squeezed

Inspirations from Childhood that Endure into Adult Gaming

• Fail Forward: Appendix A

• DIY & Dragons: My Earliest Childhood Fantasy Inspirations

• Bommyknocker Press: Appendix K - Kids Books I Like

• Seed of Worlds: Own Personal Appendix N

• On Unnamed Horizons: Appendix O

• Fallen Constellation: Appendix S: Make-Believe

Syllabi for Your Next Book Club

• Advantage on Arcana: The AOA Fiction Bookshelf

• The Ash, the Elder, and the Hen Elm: 60 minutes of thoughts: Appendix JHGW

• Githyanki Diaspora: Appendix JK: my own Appendix N

• Billhook Blog: Appendix P: The Deed of Paksenarrion

• Patchwork Paladin: My own Appendix N

• From the Sorcerer’s Skull: Inspiration Excavation

• XP Rolls: Session Two: Leading With the Appendix

Games Inspiring Games

• Binary Star Games: An (incomplete) Appendix N

• Viridian Void Productions: 3 Important Games: My Appendix N

• Pointless Monument: Appendix N: The OSR of the first level of Deus Ex

• Harpoon Cannon Thoughts: Appendix N: Epic Duels

A Whole Mix of Media that Inspire Games

• [Missed this one originally!]: Cerulean Citadel: In Search of an Appendix M

• [Missed this one originally!]: Archon's Court: Archpendix N

• Ashes Under the Feet of Titans: Appendix A

• Dungeon Doll: Appendix Alice + 1 year of Blog

• Stigmata Profana: Anno Tenebris

• Chronicles of an Adventuring Bearwere: Appendix N: Bearly Considered

• Connecting the Fictional Dots: The Works that Made Me

• Grendel’s Stepdad: Appendix N à la Crow

• Creative Wronging: Appendix DaN

• Uncanny Ramblings: Appendix D(omopunk)

• Among Cats and Books: Appendix Elmcat

• Fight in the Shade: BandwagonN.append(self)

• Blog of Forlorn Encystment: Appendix N of Forlorn Encystment

• Love Will Find: Appendix G

• Kyward: Appendix G

• Farmer Gadda’s TTRPG Hayloft: Obligatory Appendix N Post - Gadda’s Inspirations and Reference Points

• Lonely Star: Appendix H

• Hobloglin: Appendix N, The Game Master

• Toasted Bagel: Appendix J?

• Gorgon Bones: Appendix J - Inspirations and Influences

• The Play Reports: Appendix K

• I Cast Light!: Appendix L(IGHT): Vanitas, Lightly Annotated Later

• Garmondia: Appendix L

• Magnolia Keep: Appendix Liz

• Traverse Fantasy: Appendix M, Part 1 and Appendix M, Part 2

• 1999 A.D.: Appendix M for Michael

• The Greatest Poster in the World: Appendix M

• Nobody Has Bad Ideas: Appendix N(obody)

• Oysters & Oubliettes: Appendix O(rdinary)

• Personable Thoughts: Appendix P: A very Personable Appendix N, for games both written and not

• Velvet Inks and Crystal Fires: Appendix P

• This Vorpal Coil: Appendix R

• Heroic Geology of the Limestone Obelisk God: Appendix R

• Sultan’s Musings: Appendix S

• Playthings of Mad Gods: Appendix S

• Archons March On: Appendix S: In-Flamed

• Seeding Games: My Appendix N (Appendix S?)

• Fluorite Guillotine: ==>[s] appendix

• Mediums and Messages: Appendix V

• Wayspell: Appendix N

• Roll to Doubt: Appendix W: Fantasy Edition

• Lair of the Dusk Witch: Appendix W

Appendix N in Collage Form

• The Nothic’s Eye: Appendix L

• Spiceomancy: Appendix S

• The Lovely Dark: Appendix V

Don’t Forget That Blogs Are Their Own Medium

• Rise Up Comus: My personal Appendix N

Taking the “Alternate” Prompt of Riffing on the Other AD&D Appendices

• Wandering Diejack: Appendix[Daemons]

• Sean F. Smith: Appendix F, cont.: Gambling in AD&D+

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This is neat as it is an an appendix of all the appendices. Something I would be interested to see but not interested enough to do the legwork to actually collate would be to determine, for those inspirations mentioned across multiple of the above posts, what inspirations are listed most frequently (and how frequently). If you are also curious and also blessed by an abundance of time on your hands, tag me when you post your findings as I am very curious about what is the most widely shared inspiration among this collection of posts.

If you want to talk with lots of blog enthusiasts (and have read this far down), you may want to join my discord server. To ensure only those most worthy find it, an invite is hidden in the header links on my blog’s homepage. The level of discourse there looks an awful lot like The School of Athens.

Keep on bloggin’.