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Could be. Now, as an adult, it is obvious to me that it is a religious allegory. However, I never felt that Lewis was using Narnia to...

Imagine if the first RPG was based on Narnia, aka portal fantasy. Still had troupe play; but so many of the tropes are different.

Absolutely. The same happened everywhere that TV and radio came, which is to say pretty much everywhere. The nationalist projects of...

While I did read Tolkien (The Hobbit) way before playing D&D, I would say that C.S. Lewis had more of an impact on me. So much so that...

It's true that many Americans are as clueless about dialects from different parts of the country. I currently live in NYC, but I've...

I'm pretty sure I saw him last time I was in Glasgow.

I was more referring to works that came after Tolkien himself. His imitators, and the people who adapted his works to other media.

Yes. At the very least, by Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, both the singular Dwarf unit (the Demolition Squad) and the singular Dwarf...

Convergent evolution, like carcinization. Everything eventually ends up a crabby*, stocky parody of a Scotsman. *pun thoroughly intended.

Certainly. It also might have simply been a parallel development.

Dwarves were faux-Scottish in 1990s Warcraft games, I believe.

Good point. As influential as THaTL is in D&D, though, I think it wasn't what made things shift, though. Hugi was early.

Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953/1961), by Poul Anderson, has a dwarf character, Hugi, who speaks in a Scottish dialect.

In my current campaign the PCs have met only one proper royal. He was the Crown-Prince of Marut, the son of the Priest-King. He was...

I got into Tolkien and RPGs about the same time. I read LotR first, when I was maybe ten or so, and got MERP shortly after (not super...