Author: Ben Brown (---.crl.com)
Date: 07-24-2001 08:07
Tolkien is certainly influential, but isn't the real seminal work in world-creation for fantasy games. Sure some of the superficialities are there, especially in the "standard fantasy races", but most game worlds have different emphasis and a totally different tone than Lord of the Rings.
On the other hand, the works of Howard, Moorcock, Leiber, Vance and Anderson have all had influences as well.
The real problem with a lot of fantasy worlds isn't that their creators have read only Tolkien. It's that they haven't read any of the classic fantasy works without already having pre-concieved ideas of what the elements in them are.
The real seminal work in fantasy game world-creation is 1st edition AD&D.
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