tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post4676126804249634400..comments2024-03-29T20:04:30.755+08:00Comments on Monsters and Manuals: Project Gutenberg Appendix NUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-36916659084024803452014-07-17T21:39:08.435+08:002014-07-17T21:39:08.435+08:00Let me add Gulliver of Mars. Kind of predecessor o...Let me add <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/604" rel="nofollow">Gulliver of Mars</a>. Kind of predecessor of the Barsoom novels, but the protagonist is not a perfect hero.Jorgemánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12761298504034051707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-17255536434167534832012-01-18T06:18:25.367+08:002012-01-18T06:18:25.367+08:00Australia is a "Life+70" copyright natio...Australia is a "Life+70" copyright nation, so works like R.E. Howard's are public domain in Australia, but not in the U.S.<br /><br />I'd add some H. Rider Haggard to the list, even though it's not strictly fantasy. It's fantastical adventure fiction, though, and I find it fun to read.Dennis Laffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03053699552003336733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-78475571808326142872012-01-18T04:27:45.876+08:002012-01-18T04:27:45.876+08:00There's also Project Gutenberg Australia, whic...There's also <a href="http://gutenberg.net.au/" rel="nofollow">Project Gutenberg Australia</a>, which seems to have a number of books not on the standard Project Gutenberg (presumably due to the nature of copyright law in Australia).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-88718585123420902902012-01-16T10:59:15.327+08:002012-01-16T10:59:15.327+08:00I forgot to mention that each 'sourcebook'...I forgot to mention that each 'sourcebook' tends to contain a pile of new rules and several new adventures as well. The author is a one-man OSR-type movement.Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909909813154375839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-54683962135821759492012-01-16T10:56:02.106+08:002012-01-16T10:56:02.106+08:00Allen, this Forgotten Futures thing is incredible....Allen, this Forgotten Futures thing is incredible. One core rule set and...what...eleven giant "sourcebooks", most of them containing one original slant on Victorian adventure setting based on a certain series of works, the works being open source and also THEREFORE INCLUDED with the book. Look at the research! So much information about both the real and fictional versions of the place and period. I've never seen anything quite like this.<br /><br />Everybody, try to read the setting blurb here and NOT run a game based on airship-using British soldiers fighting vampires and werewolves. It seems so...reasonable...! SO. COOL.<br /><br />http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff9/hussars.htmJessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909909813154375839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-33294127382714238132012-01-16T03:38:47.297+08:002012-01-16T03:38:47.297+08:00I have been quite disappointed in the past with th...I have been quite disappointed in the past with the quality of many of the Gutenberg files. Personally, I have had better luck with files from <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/" rel="nofollow">ManyBooks.net</a> (which often use the Gutenberg files as source, but clean them up a bit).<br /><br />I find their interface also much easier to use. Examples:<br /><br />- <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/authors/burroughse.html" rel="nofollow">Edgar Rice Burroughs</a><br />- <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/authors/howardr.html" rel="nofollow">Robert E. Howard</a><br />- <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/authors/lovecrafth.html" rel="nofollow">H. P. Lovecraft</a><br />- <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/authors/stokerbr.html" rel="nofollow">Bram Stoker</a><br />- <a href="http://www.manybooks.net/authors/eddisone.html" rel="nofollow">Eric Rücker Eddison</a>Necropraxishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12716340801054739658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-23336888171563996032012-01-16T01:39:30.038+08:002012-01-16T01:39:30.038+08:00Thank you for organizing this. Already transferri...Thank you for organizing this. Already transferring some of them to my kindle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-56085858839235796932012-01-15T07:43:07.414+08:002012-01-15T07:43:07.414+08:00I'm Dr. Obscure, and I approve of this Project...I'm Dr. Obscure, and I approve of this Project. Also, I'll jump on the Cabell bandwagon.Theodric the Obscurehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18201793290118146978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-45974965969570538392012-01-15T05:37:03.395+08:002012-01-15T05:37:03.395+08:00Allen Varney: Thanks for the advice, will check ou...<b>Allen Varney</b>: Thanks for the advice, will check out both. The Baron Munchausen game looks right up my alley, I have to say.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-350099356149625092012-01-15T05:34:47.470+08:002012-01-15T05:34:47.470+08:00Also, re Baron Munchausen, it would be hard to sur...Also, re Baron Munchausen, it would be hard to surpass James Wallis's revolutionary RPG "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_M%C3%BCnchhausen#Role-playing_game" rel="nofollow">The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen</a>," the highly admired forerunner of today's indie RPGs.Allen Varneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10751693785863649469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-85932003210911010292012-01-15T05:30:51.994+08:002012-01-15T05:30:51.994+08:00You might want to look at Marcus Rowland's For...You might want to look at Marcus Rowland's <a href="http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Forgotten Futures</a> RPG, which is based on 19C scientific romances and fantasies (Kipling, Conan Doyle, George Griffith, E Nesbit, etc.). Each disk includes not only the rules but the original source texts. It's free!Allen Varneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10751693785863649469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-29089234879432861592012-01-15T05:07:30.537+08:002012-01-15T05:07:30.537+08:00Don't forget the swashbuckling trifecta of Dum...Don't forget the swashbuckling trifecta of Dumas, Sabatini, and Baroness Orczy (creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel).<br /><br />For slightly more psychedelic adventures, you can get the complete Oz series. Baum also did a great collection of American fairy tales that is great fodder.<br /><br />And, of course, the tales of Wells and Verne are marvelous. Some day, I want to do a Victorian-era X-Files campaign based on their stories.Marshall Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647111558095583028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-4004946627366899412012-01-15T04:35:29.205+08:002012-01-15T04:35:29.205+08:00Oh, and Coopdevil, yeah - I love that paragraph.Oh, and Coopdevil, yeah - I love that paragraph.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-64570609915742821492012-01-15T04:34:52.043+08:002012-01-15T04:34:52.043+08:00I've never read that either, though I've o...I've never read that either, though I've often thought about it. Gollancz has a "Fantasy Masterworks" series, of which The Worm Ouroborus is one.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-73819554506095859592012-01-15T04:34:04.428+08:002012-01-15T04:34:04.428+08:00Another one to definitely check out is E. R. Eddis...Another one to definitely check out is E. R. Eddison, starting with Worm Ouroboros.migellitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17106614212764056058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-538227072391407642012-01-15T04:32:48.727+08:002012-01-15T04:32:48.727+08:00Dunsay in 1912's The Book of Wonder
"The...Dunsay in 1912's The Book of Wonder<br /><br /><i>"The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man. Their evil tower is joined to Terra Cognita, to the lands we know, by a bridge. Their hoard is beyond reason; avarice has no use for it; they have a separate cellar for emeralds and a separate cellar for sapphires; they have filled a hole with gold and dig it up when they need it. And the only use that is known for their ridiculous wealth is to attract to their larder a continual supply of food. In times of famine they have even been known to scatter rubies abroad, a little trail of them to some city of Man, and sure enough their larders would soon be full again."</i><br /><br />All the nonsense of D&D justified in one paragraph.Coopdevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16219253658967958289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-90451735725387080312012-01-15T02:41:35.810+08:002012-01-15T02:41:35.810+08:00I never heard of Cabell before. I'll have to c...I never heard of Cabell before. I'll have to check him out.<br /><br />I actually have a "complete works of HP Lovecraft" .mobi file that somebody compiled from Wikisource. I'll see if I can find the link to that.noismshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933436762608669966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-5665518922853604382012-01-15T02:19:24.551+08:002012-01-15T02:19:24.551+08:00With the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen saunter...With the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sauntering through.Roger G-Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08594440701279968693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-91228156362539537492012-01-15T02:05:47.223+08:002012-01-15T02:05:47.223+08:00Project Gutenberg is a great source of classic boo...Project Gutenberg is a great source of classic books. There is also Wikisource, a sister-site to Wikipedia, which has most of the works of both HP Lovecraft and RE Howard in the public domain as well as others.John Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16945534608747334150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-88645000031210534712012-01-15T01:25:44.807+08:002012-01-15T01:25:44.807+08:00WtD is completely right. Cabell is pure genius.WtD is completely right. Cabell is pure genius.Joachim von Kieselhorsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10494174099120879549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2513019539869706574.post-15555396397569086642012-01-15T00:44:54.715+08:002012-01-15T00:44:54.715+08:00I would suggest James Branch Cabell who is sort of...I would suggest James Branch Cabell who is sort of the missing link between Voltaire and Vance,Welcome to Dungeon!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14346914156633328775noreply@blogger.com