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<blockquote data-quote="JEB" data-source="post: 8198607" data-attributes="member: 10148"><p>Keeping in mind that we wouldn't likely get Magic: The Gathering without D&D, and definitely wouldn't get Warhammer, are there any other likely inspirations for color-based magic? "Black" magic and "white" magic are old traditions, but I dunno about any other color - those all seem like fairly modern innovations, invented as the fantasy genre expanded in the 1970s onward (a development which owed much to D&D).</p><p></p><p></p><p>As I pointed out upthread, while GRRM doesn't cite D&D as a source for the original A Song of Ice and Fire books, he was a known RPGer and clearly responding to tropes in fantasy literature of the time (much of which was helped along by D&D). Prior to ASOIAF, he was mainly known as an author of SF and horror fiction. It's hard to say whether he crosses over into fantasy fiction without D&D and the bump it gave the fantasy genre.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's interesting to consider a modern fantasy RPG that has a historical basis outside of medieval warfare - Rome and vikings could certainly be part of that. Certainly vikings have been a popular go-to for fantasy since well before D&D.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm skeptical whether or not we'd get The Witcher novels as well - the author's generally denied a D&D or RPG influence, but there still seems to be a lot in them that owes a debt to fantasy tropes popularized by D&D.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JEB, post: 8198607, member: 10148"] Keeping in mind that we wouldn't likely get Magic: The Gathering without D&D, and definitely wouldn't get Warhammer, are there any other likely inspirations for color-based magic? "Black" magic and "white" magic are old traditions, but I dunno about any other color - those all seem like fairly modern innovations, invented as the fantasy genre expanded in the 1970s onward (a development which owed much to D&D). As I pointed out upthread, while GRRM doesn't cite D&D as a source for the original A Song of Ice and Fire books, he was a known RPGer and clearly responding to tropes in fantasy literature of the time (much of which was helped along by D&D). Prior to ASOIAF, he was mainly known as an author of SF and horror fiction. It's hard to say whether he crosses over into fantasy fiction without D&D and the bump it gave the fantasy genre. It's interesting to consider a modern fantasy RPG that has a historical basis outside of medieval warfare - Rome and vikings could certainly be part of that. Certainly vikings have been a popular go-to for fantasy since well before D&D. I'm skeptical whether or not we'd get The Witcher novels as well - the author's generally denied a D&D or RPG influence, but there still seems to be a lot in them that owes a debt to fantasy tropes popularized by D&D. [/QUOTE]
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