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D&D 5E (2014) What Author or Authors are your biggest influence in the Fanatsy Genre/D&D
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Flexor the Mighty!
18/100 Strength!
The standard. Tolkien, Lieber, Lovecraft, Martin, Howard, W&H, and some others.
Some great authors here, I'll just add a couple.
I guess I have to add Andre Norton to the list because I named a major city based on her D&D book (all I remember now is that the people had dice bracelets and the name of the city). Of course I think I read the book when I was about 15 when I first created my world so there's no accounting for taste.
For pacing I get ideas from Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.
For ideas of military life/what a paladin is and world building Elizabeth Moon The Deeds of Paksenarion.
I guess I have to add Andre Norton to the list because I named a major city based on her D&D book (all I remember now is that the people had dice bracelets and the name of the city). Of course I think I read the book when I was about 15 when I first created my world so there's no accounting for taste.
For pacing I get ideas from Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.
For ideas of military life/what a paladin is and world building Elizabeth Moon The Deeds of Paksenarion.
MiraMels
Explorer
My games are most heavily and directly influenced by the worlds and stories of two authors: Laurie J Marks (Elemental Logic series) and Ursula K Le Guin (Earthsea series).
My games set in the Forgotten Realms also draw heavily on the world-building, tone, and narrative approach of Erin Evans Brimstone Angels series.
Also, Michel Foucault (Who is a french philosopher, not a fantasy author, but his work has had a lasting impact both on my world building as a DM, and my approach to the game as a player)
(Okay yeah, also Tolkien a little bit, but just The Hobbit, not any of the heavier stuff.)
My games set in the Forgotten Realms also draw heavily on the world-building, tone, and narrative approach of Erin Evans Brimstone Angels series.
Also, Michel Foucault (Who is a french philosopher, not a fantasy author, but his work has had a lasting impact both on my world building as a DM, and my approach to the game as a player)
(Okay yeah, also Tolkien a little bit, but just The Hobbit, not any of the heavier stuff.)
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Great. Now there's a book I'll never read.
Wait, did I say paladin? I meant cavalier with a soldier background*. And gnomes are definitely not part of her world either.
It's actually an interesting take on a D&D inspired world - it's not explicitly D&D but the fingerprints are all over it.
*And no I'm not just trying to trick you into reading the book so that you can suffer when you realize what her true path is only after it is too late and you get interested in the story. Bawahahaha
Ratskinner
Adventurer
Glen Cook's Chronicles of the Black Company
Andre Norton...a ton of stuff
Tolkien decreasingly so as I age.
Stephen Brust's Vlad Taltos Series.
Terry Pratchett's Disc World.
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Andre Norton...a ton of stuff
Tolkien decreasingly so as I age.
Stephen Brust's Vlad Taltos Series.
Terry Pratchett's Disc World.
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Ratskinner
Adventurer
Ooh! I should probably add Dresden Files, Peaky Blinders, and any number of other detective or crime series.
I've also had players say my game feels like being in Farscape, but that can change by system and campaign. (I hope).
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I've also had players say my game feels like being in Farscape, but that can change by system and campaign. (I hope).
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Twiggly the Gnome
Legend
L Frank Baum (Oz) and Frank Herbert (Dune).
That's why I like Eberron so much.
That's why I like Eberron so much.
