Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D

Adam Thornton · 09 Jun 2007, 19:38 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 14:38:31 -0500
Subject: (urth) Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D
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On Jun 9, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Dave Lebling wrote:
> In my opinion, D&D was influenced heavily by Vance, Leiber and Howard,
> and of course Tolkien. It goes without saying that contemporary  
> fantasy
> computer games are utterly in their debt as well.

Not that you're, uh, exactly blameless on that score, eh?

Adam

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