Twiggly the Gnome
Legend
Remathilis said:And I still had celebrated lawn ornaments as a PHB race.
I then assume you're disappointed that celebrated cookie makers still infest it's pages.
Remathilis said:And I still had celebrated lawn ornaments as a PHB race.
Remathilis said:Confession time.
I'm a child of the 90's. I reached my teen years from 1990-2000 (exactly, as it were) and came into D&D in 1992. I vaguely recall the D&D cartoon, didn't read Tolkien or Moorcock till my 20's and my only connection to Howard is the Arnold "Conan" movies. Oh, and I never read Liebir
However, I grew up watching He-Man. I recall fondly hours lost to Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and its sequels. I recall BEGGING my mom for the "Record of the Lodoss Wars" box set after watching one episode on Cartoon Network (MSRP: $120). My influences in fantasy mostly consisted of Anime, Video-game (mostly JRPGS) and Sci-fi like Star Wars. Its no shock I found and fell in love with D&D, since it promised me the ability to create my OWN fantasies in the same vein as those listed.
... D&D never emulated my vision of fantasy well. I saw heroic knights performs amazing martial attacks, wizards who flew and faced each other fire, lightning, and summoned beasts. Intricate, detailed stories full of love, betrayal, darkness and redemption. Sure, I played, and loved, D&D. However, D&D was its own brand of fantasy and never emulated the grand heroes, dastardly villains, and epic battles I saw in my view of fantasy.
Third edition moved the paragrim further toward my vision. My core books had heroes that looked cool, not like Ren Fest Actors. My wizards were the sleek, agile sorcerers of Bastard!, not the stogy old Merlins I'd been given. However, the rules didn't catch up completely. My wizards still took naps 1/3 into the dungeon, my fighters still moved 5' at a time. And I still had celebrated lawn ornaments as a PHB race.
Now, 4e is coming and D&D is evolving to fit MY version of fantasy is.
Its got demon-people and hellfire. Amoral fey and shadowrealms. It has fighters with awesome maneuvers using fantastical weapons and armor, and mages who sling spells all day (only pausing to refuel there "big spells"). It has nimble rogues dodging and weaving around huge elemental creatures. It feels less like Led Zeppelin and more like DragonForce. Its fast-paced, exciting, and (to beat the word to death) "cool".
In short, its what I've wanted out of D&D for better than a decade.
Anyone else with me? Anyone else excited D&D is finally drawing inspiration from more modern and more worldly forms of fantasy traditions? Anyone else grow up on Final Fantasy and Everquest who is now excited their D&D games can evoke the same feel? Anyone happy that Squaresoft, Tokyo Pop and Blizzard have been added to list of inspirations next to Tolkien, Howard and Moorcock?
In short, anyone HAPPY about the move to add some anime and videogame elements into the old horse that is D&D?
ArmoredSaint said:Final Fantasy VII
A few. But if I see a 3-foot halfling lugging a 7-foot greatsword over his shoulder with one hand, I'd walk away from the table.Remathilis said:In short, anyone HAPPY about the move to add some anime and videogame elements into the old horse that is D&D?
I think your icon looks a lot more like a Keebler elf than a standard sidhe-type "eladrin" looks in R&C...Twiggly the Gnome said:I then assume you're disappointed that celebrated cookie makers still infest it's pages.
Mourn said:This makes me think you haven't actually played this game through, since the plot is far deeper...