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Hello there! Welcome to Valdorn's Book of Wonderous Entertainment! In this guide you will find many things that should interest you!

Below is a list of out of game items pertaining to the Games Of Adventure including movies, books and computer/video games, that are really inspiring for GOA or are just cool in general!

Stars (*) by things state my opinion on how good the item is. Four stars (****) is as good as it gets, you can figure out the rest from here, even the ones rated one star (*) are worth looking at for entertainment value.

So check out these books, movies, videos and songs/cds etc!

Movies.Videos.

  1. Braveheart w/ Mel Gibson: ****
  2. The Princess Bride: ****
  3. Labyrinth: ****
  4. The Conan Films: ***
  5. Men in Tights w/Carey Elwes: ****
  6. The Hobbit, Animated: ****
  7. The 13th Warrior w/ Antonio Banderas: ***
  8. Rob Roy w/ Liam Neeson: ***
  9. Legend w/ Tom Cruise: **
  10. Ladyhawke: ***
  11. Troll: ****
  12. The Never Ending Story: ****
  13. The Cable Guy w/ Jim Carrey: **** (Not medevial but it has a really funny medevial part!)
  14. Warlock: ***
  15. Kull the Conquerer: **
  16. Beast Master: ****
  17. Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail: **** (Theres enough material in here for a 2 hour long GOA joke fest, even if it is way overdone and cheesey!)

Books

  1. The Avatar Trilogy: **** (Shadowdale, Tantras and Waterdeep) I get most of my character stuff from these books. Forgotten Realms
    There is a 4th book that goes with this trilogy in a way called The Prince of Lies. Read the trilogy first then you HAVE to read this one!
  2. The Tolkien Books: **** (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings etc.)
  3. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: **** I want to make a real pirate character at GOA!!!
  4. Dragon Lance Chronicles: *** These are pretty good but I like Forgotten Realms alot more.
  5. The Drizzt Trilogy : **** I cant remember the name of the actual series, theres about 9 of them that are kind of on the same line but the first threee were definatly REALLY good. Forgotten Realms Basicly any Forgotten Realms book is good, in my opinion.
  6. There are many "new age" books that have really good stories in them such as the "21 Lessons of Merlyn": **** "Celtic Bards, Celtic Druids": **** and a host of other fairy tales from other lands, like Ireland and Wales.

Computer/Video Games

  1. War Craft II, strategy: ****
  2. Bushido Blade, Playstation: ***
  3. Thief, The Dark Project, stealth AND first player shoot em up: ****
  4. Jedi Knight, Dark Forces II, mix: ****
  5. Baldurs Gate, roleplaying: ****

Music

  1. Braveheart Sound Track: ***
  2. Princess Bride Sound Track: ****
  3. The Titanic Sound Track: **** I know you're saying "Oh god Jeremy, PLEASE!" But I think this is a great sound track and it has alot of Irish sound to it.
  4. Bag Pipe Music: ****
  5. Songs of the Irish Whistle: ****
  6. Natalie McMaster, Irish violin: ****
  7. Pearl Jam's Song, Ocean: **** When I played valdorn I listened to this song right before getting to GOA to inspire me, Iam not sure why I did but you can see, its on their album "TEN".
  8. Most Metallica (if you have a real evil or angry character):***
  9. Any flamenco is cool
  10. Many classical composers are really good for GOA pumping you up before the game music including Mozart, Beethoven and others, go out and get some culture!
Well that is all at this time, I will add more as I think of it. See ya next time.
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