The Shadow People
The Vintage RPG Podcast
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The Shadow People: A Novel From 1969
The Shadow People was written by Margaret St. Clair in 1969 and is said to be formative for the creation of Dungeons and Dragons. From this book comes the idea of the Drow in the Underdark, among other fantasy trope stuff. "I love, why don't you find out where things got lifted from? Yeah, but like this is so much more like, you know, I've read a whole bunch of code"
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