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* The [[Standard Fantasy Setting]]'s [[Trope Maker]] was ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''; the Trope Codifier was ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.<ref>As a minor footnote, the concept of a Trope Codifier was originally suggested by the fact that Dungeons And Dragons clearly pioneered and set in stone certain aspects of the [[Standard Fantasy Setting]], but didn't seem to qualify for full [[Trope Maker]] status.</ref>
** Except for [[Vancian Magic]], which was [[Trope Maker|made by]] ''[[Dying Earth (novel)|Dying Earth]]'' and codified by ''D&D''.
*** ''D&D'' can also be seen as the Trope Maker of Fantastic Miniatures War Games (Chainmail was the [[Ur Example]] of a Mini's games featuring fantastic elements, and D&D was originally just the "small warbands" variant of it), but [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40000]] are the Trope Codifiers.
** Another Trope Codifier was Terry Books's novel ''The Sword of [[Shannara]]'', which showed that [[Doorstopper]] fantasy novels that weren't written by Tolkien could also go on to sell zillions of copies.
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' is the Trope Codifier for many detective tropes; [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''Dupin'' stories were the [[Trope Maker]], including such tropes as the less astute [[The Watson|Watson figure as narrator]] and the far-reaching deductions based on attention to seemingly trivial details.
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