[ SECRET POST #4045 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4045 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The earliest inspiration for that in gaming is probably the Harold Shea stories by L Sprague De Camp and Fletcher Pratt, which started in 1940 and were in Appendix N in the original D&D handbook. Also Poul Anderson's Three Hearts And Three Lions in 1953.

But, I mean, if we're just talking about the basic idea of a normal person going into a fantastical otherworld, that's one of the oldest themes in fantasy and folklore (what with Faerie, the underworld, the echtra, fantastical voyages, etc, etc, etc), and it was just massively widespread in early fantastic fiction to the point that it's not really worth listing examples. Honestly, I feel like it's probably one of the more distinctive features of Tolkien compared to his contemporaries that he doesn't have any characters from our world or connections to it.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I think Quag Keep is credible as a first novel about mundanes trapped specifically in an RPG because formalized RPGs were not popular or well known before the 1970s. The Harold Shea stories (at least the early ones) and Three Hearts and Three Lions appear to be portal fantasies into literary worlds or alt history.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, sure, i was just responding to the "normal person from the modern day gets sucked into/trapped in an alternate world" element

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I don't remember Quag Keep as that good, although I was a teenager and probably didn't really grok Norton that much.

[(Anonymous)]

Well I was specifically referring to anime because that was what the OP was talking about in their secret, but yeah, it's nothing new in any sort of media anywhere.