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<blockquote data-quote="wicked cool" data-source="post: 8110029" data-attributes="member: 85714"><p>as someone who has lived through the 70's D&D doesn't exist without Tolkien and most of todays fantasy literature doesn't exist. In the 70's /early 80's most publishers wanted copycat writers of Tolkiens work. Most fantasy fiction was centered around elves, dwarves and races that resembled hobbits (Book 1 of Shannara etc) and not Conan. Basically the only quality fantasy movies we got were the animated LOTR/hobbit movies until LOTR movies. </p><p></p><p> Elements of other ideas such as conan made it into D&D but not in first edition and new elements were introduced into Advanced dungeons and dragons. AD&D gives us drow/etc but they are enemies and not PC friendly. first edition had elves, humans, dwarves and halflings and they basically were copycats of Gandolf/Frodo/gimli etc. Wasn't really until second edition that you were introduced to other races and you were still discouraged from having races branch off to certain class's (made no sense to have gnome barbarians). 3.5/4th edition almost 30 years later we come to the point where Tolkien has less of an influence but even today is still there (Halfling rogue, elven archer, dwarf with an axe). 5th edition giving you more than 1 option to uses as your best stat for certain class's. 2020 we now have a upcoming book removing race penalties </p><p></p><p>LOTR was a giant influence on gaming back then and I would bet that most DM's were readers of these books and used elements of them in their homebrews</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wicked cool, post: 8110029, member: 85714"] as someone who has lived through the 70's D&D doesn't exist without Tolkien and most of todays fantasy literature doesn't exist. In the 70's /early 80's most publishers wanted copycat writers of Tolkiens work. Most fantasy fiction was centered around elves, dwarves and races that resembled hobbits (Book 1 of Shannara etc) and not Conan. Basically the only quality fantasy movies we got were the animated LOTR/hobbit movies until LOTR movies. Elements of other ideas such as conan made it into D&D but not in first edition and new elements were introduced into Advanced dungeons and dragons. AD&D gives us drow/etc but they are enemies and not PC friendly. first edition had elves, humans, dwarves and halflings and they basically were copycats of Gandolf/Frodo/gimli etc. Wasn't really until second edition that you were introduced to other races and you were still discouraged from having races branch off to certain class's (made no sense to have gnome barbarians). 3.5/4th edition almost 30 years later we come to the point where Tolkien has less of an influence but even today is still there (Halfling rogue, elven archer, dwarf with an axe). 5th edition giving you more than 1 option to uses as your best stat for certain class's. 2020 we now have a upcoming book removing race penalties LOTR was a giant influence on gaming back then and I would bet that most DM's were readers of these books and used elements of them in their homebrews [/QUOTE]
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