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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3969336" data-attributes="member: 22779">Isn't it interesting though.  Much of the Gygaxian Fantasy" at the time when 1e was being written was hardly classic at all.  Take Three Hearts and Three Lions.  It was about 15 years old when 1e came out.  That's not classic.  Moorcock's Elric made his first appearance in the same year and the first novel five years later.  That makes Elric as "classic" as J. K. Rowlings in fact.If you go back through that list in the DMG, you'll find that many of those works were only a decade or so old at the time of 1e being released.  1e wasn't based on "classic" fantasy.  It was based on what was popular at the time.The more things change eh?</blockquote>