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<blockquote data-quote="werecorpse" data-source="post: 8136178" data-attributes="member: 55491">From what I know I would put the Gygax Arneson in a class of their own (at the top) with the people like Moldvay, Holmes (the Basic and 1e rules people) just below them. Then I would put the 3e rules people like Cook, Tweet, Williams then the 5e authors then 2e and maybe 4e who while it wasn’t my jam I’m sure the 5e authors would say they drew some stuff from it.after this comes setting authors and Gygax gets the gong for the open world kitchen sink fantasy setting, then Hickman and Weis for the strong storyline setting and all others come after them.I am not sure how much influence Greenwood had as FR really seems just like a version of the kitchen sink setting that Greyhawk is but it was pushed to the fore during the big days of the mid to late 80’s due to internal TSR politics. Plus when TSR bought it they seemed to do so in a way that let them put any number of creative authors ideas into the realms so it hard to know which parts of the realms pastiche are Greenwood and which are other authors (though I admit I haven’t delved into this issue as I don’t really care - it is now what it is)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="werecorpse, post: 8136178, member: 55491"] From what I know I would put the Gygax Arneson in a class of their own (at the top) with the people like Moldvay, Holmes (the Basic and 1e rules people) just below them. Then I would put the 3e rules people like Cook, Tweet, Williams then the 5e authors then 2e and maybe 4e who while it wasn’t my jam I’m sure the 5e authors would say they drew some stuff from it. after this comes setting authors and Gygax gets the gong for the open world kitchen sink fantasy setting, then Hickman and Weis for the strong storyline setting and all others come after them. I am not sure how much influence Greenwood had as FR really seems just like a version of the kitchen sink setting that Greyhawk is but it was pushed to the fore during the big days of the mid to late 80’s due to internal TSR politics. Plus when TSR bought it they seemed to do so in a way that let them put any number of creative authors ideas into the realms so it hard to know which parts of the realms pastiche are Greenwood and which are other authors (though I admit I haven’t delved into this issue as I don’t really care - it is now what it is) [/QUOTE]

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