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<blockquote data-quote="Col_Pladoh" data-source="post: 213493" data-attributes="member: 796">Re: Re: Re: Re: Questions about EGGHeh, and that's a stretch and a half. As I have said often, I did indeed use the JRRT yarns for inspiration for coming up with new monsters for the players to encounter. By the standard you suggest, though, a medieval bestiary is a major source of inspiration for the D&amp;D game.This reminds me of what a snippy yound book editor once said when we were both on a panel at a SF/game con: &quot;You stole dwarves from Tolkien didn't you?&quot;&quot;No m'am, I stole them from the same source he did, Norse mythology.&quot;Cheerio, GaryBTW, in case you don't know, &quot;ent&quot; is the old Anglo-Saxon word for &quot;giant.&quot; JRRT did give it something special, though, in that his versio was really unique and interesting, tree-like giants of benign nature.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Col_Pladoh, post: 213493, member: 796"] [b]Re: Re: Re: Re: Questions about EGG[/b] Heh, and that's a stretch and a half. As I have said often, I did indeed use the JRRT yarns for inspiration for coming up with new monsters for the players to encounter. By the standard you suggest, though, a medieval bestiary is a major source of inspiration for the D&D game. This reminds me of what a snippy yound book editor once said when we were both on a panel at a SF/game con: "You stole dwarves from Tolkien didn't you?" "No m'am, I stole them from the same source he did, Norse mythology." Cheerio, Gary BTW, in case you don't know, "ent" is the old Anglo-Saxon word for "giant." JRRT did give it something special, though, in that his versio was really unique and interesting, tree-like giants of benign nature. [/QUOTE]

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