Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
My point, I guess, is that if you want to see how these books influenced AD&D you should probably read the books. I didn't read either Three Hearts and Three Lions or the Dying Earth stories until a few years ago. When I did it became obvious to me where some of the ideas in AD&D came from.
Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar stories would read like someone's D&D fanfiction if he hadn't written them decades before.