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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7265964" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>I'd say the end of the TSR era, or the 20th century, for round-number convenience. Of course, that'd mean Xena wasn't 'modern,' which is maybe pushing it...</p><p></p><p>...then again, D&D has always tended to lag pop culture, so maybe we could cut off RPG/gaming/hobby influences at the end of the TSR era, but cut off pop culture influences after the 80s?</p><p> Making it popular enough to finally bring in the trope outside of magic items, anyway. Both stage magicians and hermetic practitioners had used wands (and the latter, rods & staves) forever - heck using a rod to do magic goes back to Moses. D&D adapted ancient ritual-magic tools (Rod/staff/wand/scroll/almulets/talismans/athame/etc/etc) as magic items with power w/in themselves (metered, quantitfied charges, even). That was a typicaly irreverent, 70s kinda thing to do, IMHO. </p><p>So Rowling has her wizards using wands as tools - not quite as people have been doing for centuries, but in a rather silly point-and-shoot way - and D&D finally relents and gives us Wand implements and, now, wands as a spell focus? OK. </p><p></p><p></p><p> More like Elmore's illos for 2e, for instance. Not realistic, in the sense of historical accuracy, just less dramatic or stylized.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7265964, member: 996"] I'd say the end of the TSR era, or the 20th century, for round-number convenience. Of course, that'd mean Xena wasn't 'modern,' which is maybe pushing it... ...then again, D&D has always tended to lag pop culture, so maybe we could cut off RPG/gaming/hobby influences at the end of the TSR era, but cut off pop culture influences after the 80s? Making it popular enough to finally bring in the trope outside of magic items, anyway. Both stage magicians and hermetic practitioners had used wands (and the latter, rods & staves) forever - heck using a rod to do magic goes back to Moses. D&D adapted ancient ritual-magic tools (Rod/staff/wand/scroll/almulets/talismans/athame/etc/etc) as magic items with power w/in themselves (metered, quantitfied charges, even). That was a typicaly irreverent, 70s kinda thing to do, IMHO. So Rowling has her wizards using wands as tools - not quite as people have been doing for centuries, but in a rather silly point-and-shoot way - and D&D finally relents and gives us Wand implements and, now, wands as a spell focus? OK. More like Elmore's illos for 2e, for instance. Not realistic, in the sense of historical accuracy, just less dramatic or stylized. [/QUOTE]
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