People think of D&D as being the most generic of generic fantasy, a sort of baseline fantasy default but in actuality D&D is this weirdly extremely specific thing where in many cases entire mechanics or setting pillars are all derived from one guy. Like for example, the entire idea of rangers dual wielding weapons is derived from one wildly popular tie-in novel character, up to the point where in 5e the rules were subtly changed to make it easier specifically to dual wield scimitars (something that the 3e rules made weirdly awkward)
throw my better self overboard
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in reply to @bruno's post:
One day in the 70s Ed Greenwood woke up horny as FUCK and decided to permanently alter the Western fantasy canon (a lot of much better and only slightly less horny writers came in later to help)
My favourite is how, Gary Gygax having been a lifelong Jehovah's Witness, the alignment system was heavily derived from very specifically Watchtower ideas about morality. Which I believe is where the whole "good people don't use poisons" thing probably came from
tb to when Gygax said it is lawful and good for paladins to commit war crimes