<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 20, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Matthew Keeley wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">2008/9/20 Rjyan Kadwallader <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cexwell@gmail.com">cexwell@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div dir="ltr">I think I would let Gary slide, it's not cool to pick on D&D kids they have enough problems as it is.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></div></div></blockquote> <div><br></div><div>And didn't he die a few months back? </div><div><br></div><div>As I understand (from reading Michael Moorcock's comments on this), early D&D was very upfront about the sources it used - apparently they used to cite Tolkien, Moorcock, Leiber, Vance, et al. in the guidebooks. Now - not so much.</div> <div><br></div><div>I never played myself, but surely there are some "D&D kids" here? My parents were always suspicious of it, so it wasn't really an option for me. I got my watered-down fantasy through Japanese videogames, thank you very much.</div> <div><br></div></div></div></blockquote>Yeah, there are a few D&D kids here.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary Gygax did die a few months ago, and the earlier editions were pretty clear about where the inspiration came from. A lot of people, such as your humble correspondent, found their way to Jack Vance, Fritz Lieber, and Michael Moorcock from it, and thence outward.</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div></body></html>