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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1649820" data-attributes="member: 1328">You left out Vance. I hate you now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Just kidding, but man, how can one left out Vance?Among the authors I've read, Tolkien is probably the one that inspired my campaign the least. His only influence is the one he had on D&D. Oh, and I've pulled the "evil artifact that must be destroyed by moving it to a mystical place" trick, but it only superficially resembles the quest of the Ring.For one, the ring wasn't burried in dirt inside a chest carried by a Shield Guardian, and Mount Doom wasn't a fabled area no one knows where it is. [spoiler]It's in the center of the world. Beneath the dimensional folding that creates vortices toward the elemental dimensions. Beneath even the space-time aberration that slowly eats the world from the inside out and which is where fiends are building their hells and abysses. Just in the center, in the absolute nothingness. Alternatively, they could also flee toward the stars, in order to reach the Far Realms. In a way, it's the same non-place. So, even if they knew where it is, it won't help them much. Getting there is the real problem.[/spoiler]I'm more influenced by Vance, Leiber, and Lovecraft. But my campaign doesn't have too much literary influences, overall.</blockquote>

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