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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8781542" data-attributes="member: 52734"><p>While cantrips have been in the game all the way back to 1E, I strongly believe their modern iteration is based on <em>Harry Potter</em>, at least as far as making them infinitely repeatable and placing "basic" attack spells in that group. Likewise, the movement away from sympathetic material components to spell focuses was driven by the wands of <em>Harry Potter</em>.</p><p></p><p>As for fighter, I think that was much less based on Conan and more the stories of King Arthur, Charlemange and other knightly tales especially with the emphasis of "heavy armor is best". Conan, Cu Cuchulain and the Norse shield biters were more the basis for the Barbarian class. Bards are strange - they were originally heavily influenced by skalds and celtic stories back in 1E where they were more historians keeping oral history and magical secrets, but have morphed into generic minstrels of the middle ages. I'd be curious to know where the archtype for Warlock came from.</p><p></p><p>In the end, though, D&D has drawn from everything - comic books, old epics, books and movies - and not limited to mere fantasy. We've had many instances of fantasy versions of robots (warforged), terminators (living metal), aliens (yitsan) , Jason from Friday the 13th (relentless killer) and even various kiaju stand-ins for Mothra, King Kong and Godzilla.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 8781542, member: 52734"] While cantrips have been in the game all the way back to 1E, I strongly believe their modern iteration is based on [I]Harry Potter[/I],[I] [/I]at least as far as making them infinitely repeatable and placing "basic" attack spells in that group. Likewise, the movement away from sympathetic material components to spell focuses was driven by the wands of [I]Harry Potter[/I]. As for fighter, I think that was much less based on Conan and more the stories of King Arthur, Charlemange and other knightly tales especially with the emphasis of "heavy armor is best". Conan, Cu Cuchulain and the Norse shield biters were more the basis for the Barbarian class. Bards are strange - they were originally heavily influenced by skalds and celtic stories back in 1E where they were more historians keeping oral history and magical secrets, but have morphed into generic minstrels of the middle ages. I'd be curious to know where the archtype for Warlock came from. In the end, though, D&D has drawn from everything - comic books, old epics, books and movies - and not limited to mere fantasy. We've had many instances of fantasy versions of robots (warforged), terminators (living metal), aliens (yitsan) , Jason from Friday the 13th (relentless killer) and even various kiaju stand-ins for Mothra, King Kong and Godzilla. [/QUOTE]
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