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I did a radio interview!

🕑 Added 2021-11-15 20:25:30 +0000 UTC

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Anton Schleef

Dragon Lance and Forgotten Realms are written more like standard fantasy, with no game like elements visible. It's just that I was on the fringe of the D&D community back in the early 2000's, which is why I know they're based on actual 2nd Edition D&D campaign settings.

Jonathan Brooks

Those are definitely classified as GameLit! I believe the difference is what is classified as LitRPG with statistics and clear progression. I haven't read those books in a long time, so I can't remember if they had explicit stats, levels, and progression in them; a gamelike world is definitely GameLit, though, if not LitRPG.

Anton Schleef

I've listened to the radio interview. You didn't sound that strange to me. One question though, do you define a gamelit as having obvious game mechanics? I ask because if not, the genre goes back to the 1980's with the original Dragon Lance trilogy by Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman. It is labeled as being fantasy, but it is actually written from the 2nd Edition AD&D notes from an actual campaign they did. I don't remember which one was the DM, or if they traded that role, but there's a strong argument for those as well as the Forgotten Realms books by R.A. Salvatore being gamelit, again depending on whether or not you feel the book needs obvious game mechanics. Now, if you feel it does need obvious game mechanics to qualify as game lit then the genre only goes back to the late 1990's or early 2000's. I don't remember the name of the books anymore, but I did encounter a couple of such books in the early 2000's.