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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3222207" data-attributes="member: 22779">I think it has just a lot more to do with volume.&nbsp; In 1975, you'd be lucky to find a dozen fantasy books in a given store.&nbsp; At least a dozen that you hadn't read before.&nbsp; There have been more genre books written in 2004 (which I have stats for) than were written in the entire of the 70's.&nbsp; Some 200 per year and that doesn't count licensed novels like D&amp;D books or whatnot.&nbsp; Of course the archetypes have changed.I would say that the percentages are roughly the same, just that the genre is a hundred times larger now than it was then.&nbsp; And this generally means that most of the authors which inspired Gygax and co were virtually unknown other than perhaps Tolkein, outside of genre fans.&nbsp; The point was made that grandma who is not a genre fan will somehow &quot;get&quot; the archetype portrayed by 1e classes.&nbsp; I'm thinking that grandma who's exposure to fantasy is limited to the Mouse and others, is more likely to think wizards should be using wands - oh, but that archetype is too Harry Potter now I guess.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 3222207, member: 22779"] I think it has just a lot more to do with volume. In 1975, you'd be lucky to find a dozen fantasy books in a given store. At least a dozen that you hadn't read before. There have been more genre books written in 2004 (which I have stats for) than were written in the entire of the 70's. Some 200 per year and that doesn't count licensed novels like D&D books or whatnot. Of course the archetypes have changed. I would say that the percentages are roughly the same, just that the genre is a hundred times larger now than it was then. And this generally means that most of the authors which inspired Gygax and co were virtually unknown other than perhaps Tolkein, outside of genre fans. The point was made that grandma who is not a genre fan will somehow "get" the archetype portrayed by 1e classes. I'm thinking that grandma who's exposure to fantasy is limited to the Mouse and others, is more likely to think wizards should be using wands - oh, but that archetype is too Harry Potter now I guess. :) [/QUOTE]

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