I must make the following confessions and explanations:

 

I never intended my campaign to be shared beyond the group I originally played it with.  But over the years, I have felt a calling to share it with everyone.  This format allows me to do so.  You see, part of what makes Dungeon Mastering so fun, and what makes a home game so unique, is that you can incorporate anything you want to.  You can bring to life your favorite fantasy heroes, you can defend the keep at Helm's Deep, or you can play in the world of your favorite computer game.  Borrowing some else's campaign world to host your private daydream is what D&D is all about.  Indeed, there are literally thousands of published modules and campaign settings designed specifically with that purpose in mind.  Unfortunately, because I make ample use of outside resources when I feel that they do a better job than I am capable of (or if I am to be even a little bit honest, have time for), I can never publish my world through a traditional medium.  True, I could change names, delete and substitute content, but I would be murdering the spirit of the original.  So, I have kept all of the additional outside materials where possible, with proper referencing where possible, both to give credit where it is due, and also to help my hopeful audience find the content to fill in the gaps such outside sources were used to fill.  Some stuff I reimagined, other stuff I reworked, and other stuff I simply copied in full.  The world itself, however, remains mine.  It remains mine not despite of, but because of these outside influences and homages.  In my imagination, all of the things I have ever read or imagined blend into a single world, and that world is what I have tried to present here.

 

That said, here are some specific cases where I absolutely feel I must give credit: