Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D

Iorwerth Thomas · 11 Jun 2007, 21:07 · from 2007-June.txt.gz

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From: iorweththomas at hotmail.com (Iorwerth Thomas)
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:07:40 +0100
Subject: (urth) Vance and Tokien as influences on D&D
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>At first, I was somewhat embarrassed at bringing up D&D on this list,
>seeing how it was somewhat offtopic and derailed the conversation from
>matters of Wolfe.  However, a lot of interesting posts have come out
>of it (especially Adam's above)!  I have very little to add,
>considering many of these authors are on my to-read list, but alas
>have not yet been read.

I wouldn't feel overly bad about it; a while back on this list I referenced 
an Ars Magica supplement in a discussion on the Kabbalah and Severian...

Iozz -- plush Cthulhu owner and appalling geek

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