If I’m not mistaken, if it wasn’t for Gary Gygax’s friend really pushing for something more based on elves and orcs and dwarves, D&D would have been more based in the Hyborian Age.

Its pretty much why early D&D editions pushed for the DM vs Player style with adventurers being a grim lot focused more on killing monsters and looting dungeons than altruistic goals. With a more focus on action than speech (also a result of the Chainmail roots).

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