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Elvenhome
May 26 2020, 3:16pm
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Tolkien's Influence on Role-playing Games
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Dungeons & Dragons was rather obviously influenced by Tolkien's Middle-earth, firstly by game's take on Dwarves, Elves and Halflings as player-races and the class of Rangers. There are also many monsters and other creatures borrowed from Tolkien, from Orcs to Giant Eagles to Wear-bears. And more specifically, Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms campaign is greatly influenced by Tolkien. Of course there have now been many licensed tabletop games, card games and video games directly set in Tolkien's Middle-earth including at least four role-playing games or settings.
I've never made it beyond Terry Brooks' first Shannara book for the same reasons you've given.
The Bone comic-book series by Jeff Smith is often (rightly) described as The Lord of the Rings meets Carl Barks (Disney's good Duck artist).
#FidelityToTolkien
(This post was edited by Otaku-sempai on May 26 2020, 3:18pm)
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