Books We Like Books are an excellent source for the gamemaster, providing story ideas and gameworld settings, and for the player, providing ideas for character name and development. (Because we all know the hardest thing about creating a character is finding a good name.) Douglas Adams The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series   Isaac Asimov The "Foundation" series   Richard Bach Illusions- The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah   Frank L. Baum The "Oz" series   Beowulf   Terry Brooks The "Landover" series   Orson Scott Card The "Andrew Wiggin (Ender's Game, et. al.)" series   Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales   The Diagram Group Weapons   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The "Sherlock Holmes" stories   Robert H. Heinlein Friday Number of the Beast Stranger in a Strange Land   Robert Jordan The "Wheel of Time" series   David Macaulay Castle Cathedral Pyramid   Sir Thomas Mallory Le Morte D'Artur   John Milton Paradise Lost   Michael Moorcock The "Elric" Series The "Hawkmoon" Series Fortress of the Pearl The Cornelius Chronicles   Anne Rice The "Vampire Chronicles" series   Edmund Spenser The Faierie Queen
Ex-boyfriend finds a real "bastard sword." The sword promptly possesses him and makes him feel guilty for being such a slug around his ex-girlfriend.