I think maybe Jack Vance stuff too from the 1950s…
See “Cugel the Clever” “Rhialto the Marvellous” and “Dying Earth”
You have a kind of degenerate, dying world - the sun is dying and everyone is gonna die - you have some opportunists who go adventuring, and basically have fun and not think too much
Idea of D&D spell casting comes from Vance
CW
2024-02-28 21:36:10 +0000 UTC
About D&D I think the “genre”/style actually comes from Fritz Leiber stories from the 60s…
“Fafhrd & the Grey Mouser”
It’s those novels gamified
They’re exactly the ‘rogue’ archetype you described - not Gandalf or Aragorn
Interesting the two characters were based on Fritz and his buddy who invented and played wargames together
CW
2024-02-28 21:30:52 +0000 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ29Kv80S_A
Mathieu Dube
2023-12-19 14:30:06 +0000 UTC
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