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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TerraDave" data-source="post: 3602398" data-attributes="member: 22260">T Foster and others have noted the insperation. Which does include the pulp fantasy of the 20's and 30's. Lots of powerful wizards as the main charecter, though, like many D&D PCs, they may not be very nice.But, to the title of the thread. "Wizards", whatever. "Magic-Users" that makes things go boom. Essential for D&D. I think the amped up magic greatly helped the appeal of the game, even if it a uneasy fit with some other fantasy fiction or legend. As an aside, the boom part is also pretty easy to deal with in game. The game breaking stuff is the stuff from legend and myth. Flight, extremely powerful charms and illusions, instant death effects, shapechanging, real wahoo stuff like time stop and wishes...who needs a fire ball when you've got all that.</blockquote>