In the absence of D&D video games would likely (especially in the beginning when they were heavily based in Japan) lean heavily on anime and manga for its archetypes.I would add to everything else that while people are welcome to talk about the influence of anime, I'm gonna say that video games would be a much larger influence by a wide margin. Forget the idea that video games were influenced by D&D because I do think that video games have a pretty good sense for the sort of archetypes that people in quantities far larger than D&D's audience respond well to.
Since why I said D&D likely based on FiveMan Band and Ensemble casts as big nonD&D team based anime, cartoons, movies, books, are based of 3-8 person ensembles with different abilities.
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