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Good point. In which case, I kinda suspect cyberpunk to have a pretty big influence, as that's even more popular in video game circles... -
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Honestly? Not the most crazy notion. Bilbo only objects to being called a "thief" because he's a genteel country squire type. Tolkien's...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.I agree with your take. Also, while published in the '50s, at least in the USA where TTRPGs were primarily invented, LotR didn't really...
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I agree with you and Pratchett, with a few significant caveats. One, see my Babe Ruth analogy above. No single baseball player changed...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.Really good analogy! Absolutely. And there are people who explicitly avoid Tolkien type worlds or tropes. They might well like Tolkien...
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I say this as a huge Tolkien fan, but I just don't think this question/inquiry is as relevant in 2025 as it was several decades ago. Or...
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Odd, as Conan is tonally quite similar to GoT. I’m glad D&D dodged that bullet though, the real world has enough grimdarkness, I want...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.The Deities & Demigods copyright violations did more to keep those titles alive than nearly anything that could have been done.
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CI was about 10, in 1980, when I was introduced to D&D. My first exposure to Tolkien was The Hobbit Rankin Bass version - I can't...
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CI've written settings with no gods but faith based power, seemingly absent gods, meddling immortals, (in the used to be mortal sense,)...
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CCF07 reacted to Voadam's post in the thread Worlds of Design: How Powerful Are Your Gods? with Like.
Small gods can also be a thing. In Greek mythology there are the powerful Olympians but also gods of lesser stature down to individual...
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My influence before Dungeons and Dragons was definitely Conan the Barbarian (Robert Jordan, et al.) I still haven't finished the Lord of...
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CSounds like an awesome career. Glad to see a fantasy reader get into literature. I liked that aspect of the game but mostly from the...
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CCF07 replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.When I first got into D&D I tried to figure out how to shoehorn Tolkien into it but pretty rapidly figured out that that wasn't actually...
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CI discovered Tolkien before D&D. Therefore I think D&D is nothing like Tolkien, despite the presence of elves and orcs et al.