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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9241035" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think the core party-level tropes are JRRT: the races, some of the classes, the whole idea of a &quot;fellowship&quot;.But Gygax's worldbuilding has strong REH elements - the WoG backstory is fallen empires and racialised migrations of peoples with barbarians and desert nomads a dime-a-dozen. It also has JRRT elements with the Kron Hills and Celene and so on.Ultimately I put it closer to REH than JRRT because, just as REH's world was created for storytelling in - it's purely a vehicle, a bucket into which he can dip to find tropes - so WoG is purely for RPGing in - a bucket into which players an GM can dip to find tropes.A corollary of the above is that I find attempts to take Greyhawk seriously - as if it could really be compared to, say, Middle Earth or even Le Guin's Earthsea - pretty pointless, even self-defeating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 9241035, member: 42582"] I think the core party-level tropes are JRRT: the races, some of the classes, the whole idea of a "fellowship". But Gygax's worldbuilding has strong REH elements - the WoG backstory is fallen empires and racialised migrations of peoples with barbarians and desert nomads a dime-a-dozen. It also has JRRT elements with the Kron Hills and Celene and so on. Ultimately I put it closer to REH than JRRT because, just as REH's world was created for [I]storytelling[/I] in - it's purely a vehicle, a bucket into which he can dip to find tropes - so WoG is purely for RPGing in - a bucket into which players an GM can dip to find tropes. A corollary of the above is that I find attempts to take Greyhawk [I]seriously[/I] - as if it could really be compared to, say, Middle Earth or even Le Guin's Earthsea - pretty pointless, even self-defeating. [/QUOTE]

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