05-05-2014, 02:19 PM
Question, or statement, there? 
In gaming terms, I value the Midkemia series as first-hand, first-hour reception of the tropes established by D&D.
Feist and his group use similar sources to ourselves with our stuff, here, and for me personally, it's very interesting what they do about it.
Now, Feist is notorious for, ahem, "borrowing", and Blackmoor also gets a few quite substantial "nods".
As to the contact, well, Feist got a license by TSR to use their Tekumel stuff after the problems with the IP first surfaced, and Dragon Mag promoted Midkemia pretty heavily in the 80s. That points to some exchange, at least.
In gaming terms, I value the Midkemia series as first-hand, first-hour reception of the tropes established by D&D.
Feist and his group use similar sources to ourselves with our stuff, here, and for me personally, it's very interesting what they do about it.
Now, Feist is notorious for, ahem, "borrowing", and Blackmoor also gets a few quite substantial "nods".
As to the contact, well, Feist got a license by TSR to use their Tekumel stuff after the problems with the IP first surfaced, and Dragon Mag promoted Midkemia pretty heavily in the 80s. That points to some exchange, at least.