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How many books/authors of the original AD&D Bibliography have you read? Do you feel you see D&D differently than people who have not read any?
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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8772579" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Of those I've read some or all of</p><p></p><p>Edgar Rice Burroughs</p><p>August Derleth (sadly)</p><p>Lord Dunsany</p><p>REH</p><p>Fritz Leiber (hooray!)</p><p>HP Lovecraft (duh)</p><p>Michael Moorcock</p><p>Tolkien</p><p>Jack Vance (quite recently - it was pretty much exactly what I expected except way more rape-y)</p><p>Zelazny</p><p></p><p>Do I think I see D&D differently to people who haven't read them? Only in one major respect, oddly enough - Moorcock. I think there's like a stark divide between people who have read Moorcock and how they understand Law/Chaos, and well, everybody else. A lot of the rest are pretty cool books, but I don't think any of them fundamentally change how you see a major aspect of D&D. Tolkien is easily substituted by watching LotR. The only thing you'll get from the books that isn't there is a lot of singing and the scouring of the shire, which has nothing to do with D&D, and may even be antithetical to it, and Tolkien's self-insert character, Tom Bombadil, who is fascinating and I can talk about all day (basically the good-guy version of the Unabomber), but is DEFINITELY antithetical to D&D.</p><p></p><p>I think D&D itself hasn't derived much from any of those except really Tolkien, Moorcock and Leiber in a serious way for decades. Like 30 years easy. Leiber only because Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser were, in many ways, ridiculously ahead of their time (not in all ways, but many), and are still sort of in tune with the vibe of a lot of fantasy. Tolkien and Moorcock because they both inform vast swathes of D&D's world design.</p><p></p><p>But tonally 3/4/5E owed nothing to that list, basically, and 2E barely did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8772579, member: 18"] Of those I've read some or all of Edgar Rice Burroughs August Derleth (sadly) Lord Dunsany REH Fritz Leiber (hooray!) HP Lovecraft (duh) Michael Moorcock Tolkien Jack Vance (quite recently - it was pretty much exactly what I expected except way more rape-y) Zelazny Do I think I see D&D differently to people who haven't read them? Only in one major respect, oddly enough - Moorcock. I think there's like a stark divide between people who have read Moorcock and how they understand Law/Chaos, and well, everybody else. A lot of the rest are pretty cool books, but I don't think any of them fundamentally change how you see a major aspect of D&D. Tolkien is easily substituted by watching LotR. The only thing you'll get from the books that isn't there is a lot of singing and the scouring of the shire, which has nothing to do with D&D, and may even be antithetical to it, and Tolkien's self-insert character, Tom Bombadil, who is fascinating and I can talk about all day (basically the good-guy version of the Unabomber), but is DEFINITELY antithetical to D&D. I think D&D itself hasn't derived much from any of those except really Tolkien, Moorcock and Leiber in a serious way for decades. Like 30 years easy. Leiber only because Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser were, in many ways, ridiculously ahead of their time (not in all ways, but many), and are still sort of in tune with the vibe of a lot of fantasy. Tolkien and Moorcock because they both inform vast swathes of D&D's world design. But tonally 3/4/5E owed nothing to that list, basically, and 2E barely did. [/QUOTE]
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