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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7914517" data-attributes="member: 6895991">I just started rereading &quot;world of tiers&quot; by phillip jose farmer. It is from 1965. I am 100% sure planescape took some if not very much inspiration from this trilogy. Portals requiring keys of different sorts, (the first one is a silver horn which needs to be played with a certain tone combination). All sorts of pretty weird mobs.Everybody knows Jack Vance (Vecna) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :P"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Cordwainer Smith had humanoids with beast heads.Alan Burt Akers had his own fantasy universe with magic airships and 4 armed mobsSapkowski came later than all these authors, but genies tied to an element, or the 4 elements or dragons being golden (Chinese mythology) do not originate in D&amp;D. For the golden dragon, check its depiction in 2e MM. It absolutely clearly is much more similar to some oriental dragon than to all the other dragons within D&amp;D.In most cases it is rather D&amp;D is inspired by author than vice versa. I think I read soem of the original witcher stories but its decades ago. I though it to be quite different to other fantasy around then, but I cannot tell you why I had that feeling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 7914517, member: 6895991"] I just started rereading "world of tiers" by phillip jose farmer. It is from 1965. I am 100% sure planescape took some if not very much inspiration from this trilogy. Portals requiring keys of different sorts, (the first one is a silver horn which needs to be played with a certain tone combination). All sorts of pretty weird mobs. Everybody knows Jack Vance (Vecna) :P Cordwainer Smith had humanoids with beast heads. Alan Burt Akers had his own fantasy universe with magic airships and 4 armed mobs Sapkowski came later than all these authors, but genies tied to an element, or the 4 elements or dragons being golden (Chinese mythology) do not originate in D&D. For the golden dragon, check its depiction in 2e MM. It absolutely clearly is much more similar to some oriental dragon than to all the other dragons within D&D. In most cases it is rather D&D is inspired by author than vice versa. I think I read soem of the original witcher stories but its decades ago. I though it to be quite different to other fantasy around then, but I cannot tell you why I had that feeling. [/QUOTE]

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