Appendix Alice + 1 year of Blog

Dungeon Doll is a year old today (at least, my first post is). I'm honestly still really excited/surprised by how positive the reception has been. If you're someone who's been on the fence about making a ttrpg blog for a while, I highly recommend going for it. I also want to thank everyone in the blog space who's corresponded with or about this blog, its been very encouraging!

On a slightly more serious note, I've unfortunately found out that having a social media presence isn't always great for me. I'm of two minds about it, because I love the way it enables me to talk rpgs with other rpg folks, but on the other hand I find a lot of the other aspects of being on there kind of draining. For the blog, this mostly means that I expect to post here more then I do on other socials, and that I might take more frequent breaks. 

I've also been enjoying the process of writing some of my recent microblog posts a lot. Its been a nice way to practice writing more and deal a bit with burnout. 


Appendix Alice

I'm a little late to the most recent Blog Bandwagon, suggested by Marcia B. of Traverse Fantasy, and hosted by Prismatic Wasteland, but I still wanted to share my personal Appendix N. It seems like a good way to celebrate a year on here!

I envision dungeon crawls happening in black-and-white because of Nosferatu. Reading Jack Vance made me love the magic of OD&D. Generally, inclusion on this list means that a work changed something about how I run my games. This list isn't strictly comprehensive.

Writing

  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass  (Lewis Carroll)
  • A Wizard of Earthsea  (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • Beowulf  (Trans. Seamus Heaney) 
  • Dune  (Frank Herbert)
  • Gilgamesh  (Herbert Mason)  
  • The Dying Earth  (Jack Vance)
  • The Lord of the Rings  (J.R.R Tolkien)

Movies

  • Angel's Egg and Ghost in the Shell  (Dir. Mamoru Oshii)
  • Nosferatu  (1922, Dir. F.W. Murnau) 
  • Princess Mononoke  (Dir. Hayao Miyazaki)
  • The Green Knight  (Dir. David Lowery) 
  • Throne of Blood  (Dir. Akira Kurosawa)

Visual Artists

  • John William Waterhouse 
  • Rebecca Guay
  • Yoshitaka Amano

Video Games

  • Demon's Souls  (2009) and Dark Souls  (2011)
  • Fear & Hunger  (2018)
  • Final Fantasy  (1987)
  • Hollow Knight  (2017)
  • Nethack  (1987) 
  • Ōkami  (2006) 

 

 

 

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