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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7764077" data-attributes="member: 6873517">Some of the classic modules are clearly directly inspired by novels or stories. The most notable example of this is G1: Steading of the Hill Giant King, which is very clearly based on the first de Camp and Pratt Incompleat Enchanter novel. The claim though (responding to my post about Raistlin) was that Dragonlance was originally played in a different game, not D&amp;D. At least from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance" target="_blank">Wikipedia entry</a>, Dragonlance was conceived by Tracy and Laura Hickman on their way to Lake Geneva for a job interview in 1982. I would not be surprised if the &quot;Raistlin being tired when he got low on spells&quot; trope was RP fluff that whoever played Raistlin in the original games put on combined with the fact that Raistlin's Con was fairly low. Certainly it's the kind of thing that Tolkien had had Gandalf say in LotR so it makes sense that it was a way to RP. But it's nowhere in the game itself.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7764077, member: 6873517"] Some of the classic modules are clearly directly inspired by novels or stories. The most notable example of this is [I]G1: Steading of the Hill Giant King[/I], which is very clearly based on the first de Camp and Pratt [I]Incompleat Enchanter[/I] novel. The claim though (responding to my post about Raistlin) was that Dragonlance was originally played in a different game, not D&D. At least from the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance"]Wikipedia entry[/URL], Dragonlance was conceived by Tracy and Laura Hickman on their way to Lake Geneva for a job interview in 1982. I would not be surprised if the "Raistlin being tired when he got low on spells" trope was RP fluff that whoever played Raistlin in the original games put on combined with the fact that Raistlin's Con was fairly low. Certainly it's the kind of thing that Tolkien had had Gandalf say in LotR so it makes sense that it was a way to RP. But it's nowhere in the game itself. [/QUOTE]

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