D&D General D&D Archetypes that spread out to other settings and media

[Tonguez]

The ones that alway amuse me is the ubiquity of armoured Clerics in Anime

And Slimes, I am aware that Nuppeppō exist it Japanese folklore but their existence in Anime is a fusion of folklore and DnD inspiration turned Otaku weirdness.

 

[Mecheon]

Almost no one actually involved with Dragonlance the setting wants to connect them, it is a push from outside designers. Which makes sense because it cheapens Dragonlance as its own thing for the sake of "muh multiverse".

If they wanted them to be unique stand-alone gods, they should have given them unique stand-alone designs and not gone "oh this character that looks 100% identical to Tiamat? yeah that's not-tiamat who's 110% different with no connections despite sharing her job description and personality"

It doesn't even work as a Powermaster Optimus Prime and Ginrai thing because canonically Ginrai's just using a stolen body intended for Optimus

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If they wanted them to be unique stand-alone gods, they should have given them unique stand-alone designs and not gone "oh this character that looks 100% identical to Tiamat? yeah that's not-tiamat who's 110% different with no connections despite sharing her job description and personality"

It doesn't even work as a Powermaster Optimus Prime and Ginrai thing because canonically Ginrai's just using a stolen body intended for Optimus

Weis and Hickman never accepted that Dragonlance was work for hire. In fact they were the outsiders (especially Weis) on a group project by TSR, managed by Gygax and with regular TSR bods such as Doug Niles making major contributions. I'm sure TSR always took it as read that the five headed dragon queen in Dragonlance was the same five headed dragon queen that was in the monster manual.

Its a huge contrast to Keith Baker, who has always been "well in my Eberron I would do this, but there is no canon version so you do you". And as such continues to have a good relationship with the IP owners.