Elminster's Fan Boys

[Thunderfoot]

Bigby, Leomund, Otto, et al - They all have spells named after them (or at least they DID until WotC flaked).

Elminster? Raistlin? Fizban? - Hacks - one and all.

 

[the Jester]

Before drizzt-clones there were raistlin clones.

There were never any Elminster clones.

Because Elminster is a Gandalf clone.

 

[evileeyore]

Because Elminster is a Gandalf clone.

And a bad one at that.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Because Elminster is a Gandalf clone.

			Is Gandalf a Merlin clone?

 

[Relique du Madde]

			Is Gandalf a Merlin clone?

Wait a minute...

OMG! JRR Tolkien is a talentless hack of a plagiarist! < /insanity>

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bilbo has epic pipe smoking down to an art.

Cheech & Chong would beg to differ.

 

[Diamond Cross]

Cheech Marin is a bad Tolkein clone?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

No, he's gooood at "tolkein."

 

[Dice4Hire]

Thinking of Elminster and his 'fanboys' makes me think of the wizard's apprentice in Fantasia.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Where in any of the novels was Rasitlin and indeed Dragonlance acknowledge to be inspired by Dungeons And Dragons? Until there is an actual acknowledgment from the authors, the only person who can say with any certainty that Dragonlance and Raistlin were inspired by D&D are the authors.

In the Annotated Dragonlance Trilogy, they do just that over and over again in the authors/designers/players sidebar commentaries.