Inspiration

Role-Playing Games

Classic

• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
• Ars Magica
• Champions
• Chivalry & Sorcery
• Dying Earth
• Earthdawn
• GeneSys
• GURPS, Steve Jackson Games
• HarnMaster
• HARP, Iron Crown Enterprise
• HERO System
• Freedom Fighters
• Legend of the Five Rings
• Lord of the Rings
• Palladium
• Pendragon
• Phoenix Command
• Prince Valiant
• Riddle of Steel
• RoleMaster, Iron Crown Enterprises
  • Middle Earth Role-Playing (MERP)
  • Bladestorm
• RuneQuest / Basic Role-Playing Game
• SpaceMaster
  • Star Strike
  • Armored Assault
• The Dark Eye
• Traveller
• TriStat
• Warhammer Fantasy Role-Playing Game
• World of Darknes
  • Changeling: The Dreaming
  • Mage: The Ascension
  • Vampire: The Masquerade
  • Werewolf:

Indie

• "Apocalypse World" by Vincent Baker
• Becoming Heroes
• Burning Wheel / Mouse Guard
• "Dogs in the Vinyard" by Vincent Baker
• FATE
• Fiasco by Jason Morning Star
• FUDGE
  • The Deryni Adventure Game
• Microscope
• Nobilis
• Polaris
• Savage World
• Sorcerer
• Torchbearer
• Universalis, Ramshead Publishing

Video Games

Role-Playing

• Darklands
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Kingdom Come Deliverance
• Mount & Blade

Strategy

• Fugger
• Hanse
• Kaiser
• Pirates!
• The Guild

Books

• The Nerdist Way
• Trekonomics
• Freakonomics

The Great Courses

Philosophy

• "Argumentation: The Study of Effective Reasoning" by David Zarefsky
• "Big Questions of Philosophy" by David K. Johnson
• "Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy" by David K. Johnson

Literature

• How to Publish a Book
• "The Art of Storytelling: From Parents to Professionals" by Hannah B. Harvey
• How Great Science Fiction Works
• Great Works of Fantastic Fiction
• "Life Lessons from the Great Books" by J. Rufus Fears

History

• Late Middle Ages
• "The Art of War" by Andrew R. Wilson
• "The Era of the Crusades" by Kenneth W. Harl
• Terror of History
• Rome and the Barbarians

Science

• Joy of Science

Business

• "The Art of Conflict Management: Achieving Solutions for Life, Work, and Beyond" by Michael Dues

PodCasts

• Masterplan
• Theory from the Closet
• Have Games will Travel

Software

• TableSmith
• TheBrain
• Prezi