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| | The Ultimate Dungeons & Dragons - American History Information Guide and Reference |
 | | The game was influenced by popular Greek and Norse mythology, the pulp fiction stories of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and many of the more contemporary fantasy authors of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, L. |
 | | The game developed the RPG concept of a referee, the Dungeon Master (the same role often being called Game Master in other similar games,) who creates the fictional setting of the game, plays antagonists and supporting characters, and moderates the action of the adventures. |
 | | Some religious individuals consider roleplaying games immoral or irreligious for multiple reasons, most commonly due to game uses of magic, spells, the worship of pagan gods, the glorification of violence, and the use of supernatural powers (whose game uses are not always distinguished from reality by observers). |
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