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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 263468" data-attributes="member: 463">This is why I hate the Realms - to be accused of 'copying' a character as unoriginal as Elminster would be infuriating, when Elminster is such a knock-off of Gandalf, who in turn is a prettified version of Odin-the-Wanderer and all those other wise-old-men with beards from European mythology.&nbsp; The Realms comes across to me as unoriginal even by gamewolrd standards, yet its popularity means that people who know of little else use it as the standard to measure others by.&nbsp; I shudder to think of someone accusing Elric of being a Drizzt clone... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Eg I have a group of evil wizards in my game called the Red Wizards, Hel-worshipping necromancers - they existed well before the FR were ever published, yet I just know people will assume I copied the (obvious) name... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 263468, member: 463"] This is why I hate the Realms - to be accused of 'copying' a character as unoriginal as Elminster would be infuriating, when Elminster is such a knock-off of Gandalf, who in turn is a prettified version of Odin-the-Wanderer and all those other wise-old-men with beards from European mythology. The Realms comes across to me as unoriginal even by gamewolrd standards, yet its popularity means that people who know of little else use it as the standard to measure others by. I shudder to think of someone accusing Elric of being a Drizzt clone... :) Eg I have a group of evil wizards in my game called the Red Wizards, Hel-worshipping necromancers - they existed well before the FR were ever published, yet I just know people will assume I copied the (obvious) name... :) [/QUOTE]

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