How large an influence would you say Michael Moorcock has had

>>55166128
You could more or less posit that he's responsible for the Alignment System in Dungeons and Dragons, and all the endless debates that came with it. But in regards to direct themes and references, I'd say he's only minorly influential outside of Britain. Inside Britain, though, he's the living god of sword and sorcery, or at least that's how he's introduced in all those special editions of Elric.

>>55166193
>You could more or less posit that he's responsible for the Alignment System in Dungeons and Dragons, and all the endless debates that came with it.
Which is funny, since most of his protagonists defy the alignment system altogether.

>>55166193
Alignment system was actually due to Poul Anderson's books, and to a lesser extend Gordon R. Dickson.

>>55166840
To be fair, Michael Moorcock was hugely influenced by Poul Anderson.

>>55166128
I didn't read his books but I believe I would hate them from what I heard from you guys.

>>55166995
Why?

Warcraft was influenced by Moorcock and GRRM, as it became poppular it influenced TRPG. There are mostly undirect influences, because Blizzard did not steal everything just some stuff, you can't really have Moorcock in TRPG, for you would need one special charachter and the rest to be his lackeys, people don't like that.