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D&D Is Not A High Fantasy Simulation Game

Posted on 07/06/2015 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

D&D is a melting pot of various fantasy tropes. D&D’s parents include Tolkien (honestly, I don’t care to argue about to what degree or how much Gygax did or didn’t like LOTR), Conan, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser, Elric, Vance’s stories, weird sword and planet stories, Lovecraft and other horror as well as folklore and mythology. When D&D was being

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In Defense of Metaplot: Living in a Comfortable Universe

Posted on 03/16/2015 by Jared Rascher 3 comments

Yesterday I saw the following thought provoking post pop up a few times in my Google+ feed: http://readthedamnbook.blogspot.com/2015/03/can-players-kill-luke-skywalker-or.html . . . and after having read it, even though it does not turn out to be completely negative in regards to canon and metaplot, I felt as if I had to write something on this same topic. The first thing I

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D&D Is Not A High Fantasy Simulation Game

In Defense of Metaplot: Living in a Comfortable Universe