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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 3970149" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>Confession time. </p><p></p><p>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 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> </p><p></p><p>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. </p><p></p><p>However, 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.</p><p></p><p>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 <em>Bastard!</em>, 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.</p><p></p><p>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". </p><p></p><p>In short, its what I've wanted out of D&D for better than a decade. </p><p></p><p>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? </p><p></p><p>In short, anyone HAPPY about the move to add some anime and videogame elements into the old horse that is D&D?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 3970149, member: 7635"] 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 :eek: 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. However, 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 [I]Bastard![/I], 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? [/QUOTE]
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