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There's a weird pocket dimension of lizard people, apemen, dinosaurs, and aliens. There's a lost city with an eldritch god lurking in the tunnels below. There's a psionic lizard sorcerer/scientist, weird artifacts, yetis, unicorns, and confederate soldiers hiding in caves.

There's a subgame of figuring out useful combinations of crystals to create effects.

It feels like someone just threw everything at the wall and looked what stuck, which likely is exactly like the series came to be.

It occurs to me that this is one of those series that definitely shaped the way people played the game, but which wouldn't have taken into account for e.g. Appendix N because it was out of Gygax' own experience. But Arneson said the whole idea of the first fantasy campaign came about with a bunch of old horror movies, and the whole idea of the monk as a class was due to the success of the Carradine Kung Fu series.

It might be interesting to see what stuff did actually shape the hobby back then

@kyonshi I think it was influenced by all kinds of pop culture. Creative people borrowed from all kinds of things. A friend told me recently that he stole most of his early adventures from Heavy Metal Magazine.

@deidungeon @kyonshi

Land of the Lost 100% inspired Hollow World, and possibly also Forgotten Realms.

@NinjaDebugger @deidungeon @kyonshi While I don't doubt Land of the Lost influenced some folks, I think Pelucidar is the common link between all of these properties.