08-28-2011, 11:34 AM
You're wrong. 
That's a false dichotomy, actually. :twisted:
We have no effin' clue where Arneson got such generic tropes from;
thus, everything can be right, and everything can be used for reference.
(Inspiration then again, is a totally different matter - don't I tell oh so frequently that I mainly got into my Blackmoor mood
by reading the Osten Ard novels by Tad Williams?!)
As to CAS, I honestly don't think he was any more of an impact than other authors -
his importance again was likely exaggerated by the reception of the infamous Appendix N.
Actually, I think Poul Anderson wrote something about a frog god cult somewhere, but the bloody bastard wrote 120 novels.
I WILL investigate this, though.
That's a false dichotomy, actually. :twisted:
We have no effin' clue where Arneson got such generic tropes from;
thus, everything can be right, and everything can be used for reference.
(Inspiration then again, is a totally different matter - don't I tell oh so frequently that I mainly got into my Blackmoor mood
by reading the Osten Ard novels by Tad Williams?!)
As to CAS, I honestly don't think he was any more of an impact than other authors -
his importance again was likely exaggerated by the reception of the infamous Appendix N.
Actually, I think Poul Anderson wrote something about a frog god cult somewhere, but the bloody bastard wrote 120 novels.
I WILL investigate this, though.