Rolling the Twenty Sided Dice
Imaginary Worlds
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The Origins of Fantasy
When I was designing a magic school that's in my books, which is called Break Bills, I immediately knew that it had to be highly multicultural. For C.S. Lewis, one of the things that spurred him to kind of write fantasy, was an encounter with a poem by a long fellow about the Norse god Baldur. Longfellow left out his armor class and hit points. Another innovation which D&D brought to the world of fantasy, imagining magic on a budget.
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