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Originally Posted by greatdane
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Two human cities (Waterdeep with its rich port and and Baldur's Gate as a more rural region with large stretches of land around it--ring any bells?) and a swampy troll city, a neolithical-themed ogre city. Leuthilspar, the city of gnomish inventors. The dreamy elven forest city of... honestly, I can't remember the name. There was your frigid northern city of the barbarians, your stronghold of the dwarves deep in the mountains...
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Originally Posted by Izmael
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Just like Sojourn didn't plagiarize Tolkien or whoever invented the halflings.
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These are all very common fantasy tropes anyway, existing before all this in literature. How many human ports next to the plains have been there? Oh look there's one
https://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Map_of_Sanctuary
I mean if I was making a world I would definitely be putting barbarians somewhere cold and trolls right in the swamp and of course the elves live in the forest.
(Yes you could put barbarians in the jungle but then they would be called 'savages'. Don't ask me, it's just the way it is.)
And the classes, well those are all tropes too, the warrior, the wizard, etc. Everyone was copying from everyone else those heady days. It was like a pandora's box was opened. All of a sudden fantasy has become cool in the past few decades with Tolkien and D&D becoming popular and computer fantasy games and people were miniature gaming with 40k and things like that, and everyone was generating content and ideas as fast as they could. Remember that was right before the apex of Fantasy Frenzy which hit in 2001 with the first LOTR movie being released and really kept up for like decade. I don't think it would have been feasible to release a fantasy product back around then without stepping on some one else's ideas.