These are games, blogs, and books I have used for inspiration or borrowed from to make my own fantasy heartbreaker, in no particular order. I’m sure there’s plenty of others I found and used but can’t remember exactly where that brain worm came from.
- Ben Milton for Knave and Maze Rats with their simplicity, concision, and ingenuity
- Gavin Norman for Old-School Essentials for setting the gold standard in layout and for Dolmenwood’s wonderful weirdness
- The Rise Up Comus blog for introducing me to diegetic feats
- Mausritter for the tactile inventory
- Prismatic Wasteland for the XP pool mechanic
- Block, Dodge, Parry for the sorcery mechanic
- Arnold K for the basis of hirelings
- Flagrant Factions (Wolves Upon The Coast supplement version) for the warbands and regiments framework and some epithets
- Antonio Gramsci for giving one of the best RPG names as a description of the stuggle between socialism and barbarism
My Appendix N:
- The Witcher (TV version, haven’t played the games)
- Dolmenwood / Wormskin
- Skyrim
- Beowulf
- The Wanderer
- Vikings (the TV show)
- The Last Kingdom (the TV show)
- Into the Wyrd and Wild
- Herknungr
- Y Gododdin
- Le Morte d’Arthur
- Thrones of Britannia: A Total War Saga
- Icelandic Sagas