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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8195721" data-attributes="member: 18">It is now, but I think you're completely misunderstanding how much it's influenced people, and will keep influencing people, no matter what it's creator says or does, because it's already out there.We'll probably see some big Potter-influenced YA/fantasy series in the next decade be super-successful, I'd guess.I say all this DISLIKING Harry Potter, having given up on the fourth book (a friend insisted I read them) in the early 2000s because I had just had enough of both Harry himself and the universe (which is very... I dunno even know what the word is.. stratified? Elitist? Something like that - and that's glorified to some significant extent).And I think it's inevitable that it would influence the spellcasting system of a D&amp;D game developed in say, 2019-2020. I'd be absolutely shocked if one of the main core classes wasn't &quot;Harry Potter-style Wizard&quot;. The ideas are again, already out there, and in the brains how people, especially younger people, think about spellcasting and so on. I admit I'm assuming this game is written by 30-somethings mostly, who, shocking though this may be to you, would have been kids and teenagers when HP arrived, and if they books didn't influence them, the movies likely would. If they were any younger, the influence is only likely to be stronger.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8195721, member: 18"] It is now, but I think you're completely misunderstanding how much it's influenced people, and will keep influencing people, no matter what it's creator says or does, because it's already out there. We'll probably see some big Potter-influenced YA/fantasy series in the next decade be super-successful, I'd guess. I say all this DISLIKING Harry Potter, having given up on the fourth book (a friend insisted I read them) in the early 2000s because I had just had enough of both Harry himself and the universe (which is very... I dunno even know what the word is.. stratified? Elitist? Something like that - and that's glorified to some significant extent). And I think it's inevitable that it would influence the spellcasting system of a D&D game developed in say, 2019-2020. I'd be absolutely shocked if one of the main core classes wasn't "Harry Potter-style Wizard". The ideas are again, already out there, and in the brains how people, especially younger people, think about spellcasting and so on. I admit I'm assuming this game is written by 30-somethings mostly, who, shocking though this may be to you, would have been kids and teenagers when HP arrived, and if they books didn't influence them, the movies likely would. If they were any younger, the influence is only likely to be stronger. [/QUOTE]

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