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Why humans? D&D probably wouldn't have sold well if the main pitch of the game was "Buy this game and pretend to be an Orc..." Once...

I believe the implicit assumption is that as "elder races", the very essence of the dwarves and elves "as a people" are tired and simply...

Humans can reproduce a lot faster than Dwarves and Elves. Thats going to give the. A huge advantage in building population.

I agree with you. His world building wasn't as detailed or as deep as Tolkien's. In a lot of ways it might better for an RPG because I...

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.