Keith Ammann’s Making Enemies is your new essential TTRPG book
In the foreword to 2015’s Curse of Strahd (in my opinion, the best D&D sourcebook produced for 5th edition), Ravenloft co-creator Tracy Hickman explains the origins of the iconic vampire Strahd Von Zarovich. During a game of D&D in 1978, Hickman’s character entered the next room in the dungeon he was exploring, and found a bloodsucker waiting. “I groaned and rolled my eyes,” Hickman wrote, as such a mythical creature was “just another monster in the dungeon,” feeling completely out of place among the kobolds and orcs that infested the other rooms, and apparently having nothing better to do in its immortal existence than hang around in a damp room waiting for some adventures to come by.
