@Gwideon It's the weekend, things are slow here. And people may not respond if they don't have something useful to add, preferring to wait for more knowledgeable users. So not getting an immediate response is not any indication of censure.
I think it's difficult to talk about influences as trees branching out from a single source; a lot of things influenced by Narnia are also going to be influenced, directly or indirectly, but those things which influenced Narnia.
I'm curious, because I don't really see it. In what way? What's shared between Narnian centaurs and D&D centaurs which aren't shared by Narnia's source material for centaurs?
I clearly haven't thought about this as much as you have, so I want to learn!
(Not that I think D&D particularly drew on Chiron directly, rather that I think Chiron is the template for most modern depictions of centaurs and D&D is generalizing from many sources including Narnia which share that root.)
well narnia obviously draws on chiron for it's centaurs not general centaurs. In greek mythology most centaurs are very similar to the popular conception of satyr's, being loud and loving to party. narnia is one of the first works that I can remember that took the concept of chiron stretched it across the entire race.
It's an interesting line of thought; certainly Narnia is one of the better-known 20th century IPs to feature centaurs; though, there are none in the most popular book of the series, so the broadness of their exposure to the public probably pales in comparison to, say, the Pastoral Symphony scenes in Disney's Fantasia?
But a modern centaur connection, even an undeniable one, seems insufficient to support a claim that Lewis is a stronger influence than, say, Poul Anderson or Hammer Films, or Edgar Rice Burroughs?
Authors like Burroughs and Howard inspired franchise-defining class options, while Jack Vance's novels are the reason people call D&D-style magic "Vancian."
(One last thought: the clearest connection I can think of between Narnia and D&D is their shared depiction of a pseudo-pantheon composed of jealous monotheisms that are sorted into Cartoonishly Evil and Declared Good sides (and a dose of xenophobia to drive the point home).)
(But I don't think I can attribute it solely to Lewis, as it's not an obscure lens.)
Yeah, I think Lewis was a few centuries late to the party to invent that particular way of looking at the world, but he probably helped popularize an allegory that made it more acceptable to talk about in the modern era.
If a spell has a duration that lasts until the end of the caster’s next turn, such as booming blade, and the caster dies before then, is the spell ended when they die or does it continue until when their turn would have occurred?
I am planning out my campaign's first BBE and am going with an aboleth.
In the rules an aboleth has a number of regional effects that reach up to a mile. This aboleth is currently in an underground pool in a mine about a mile underground. So would the characters see any evidence of the aboleth ef...
Can an Order of Scribes Wizard's Awakened Spellbook communicate in any way? This seems like it would be up to the DM but it's not clear whether it is a possibility or an expectation.
Arguments against communication
No rules text gives the spellbook any languages or abilities to communicate, eithe...
I find fortitude confusing, do not know whether or not it is good, bad whatever. I did look up what fortitude is and the explanation is more than confusing. I did also look up What happens if Fortitude sinks to 0? as well as https://rpg.stackexchange.com/search?q=fortitude . The game itself seems...
If a spell has a duration that lasts until the end of the caster’s next turn, such as booming blade, and the caster dies before then, is the spell ended when they die or does it continue until when their turn would have occurred?
