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Old news, but since Tolkien and Moorcock both influenced D&D so much I was wondering what other enworlders thought.
Here's the essay of Epic Pooh
Here's a bit from the Wiki-about Epic Pooh:
I tend to think of myself as more a Moorcock D&D DM/player than a Tolkien. When reading Ptolus, I get a strong Tolkien vib, but it is an urban setting. It has a ton of gray making me think of Moorcock (and Lovecraft.) Groups that a player will like/agree with are sided with villians and things like that....Ptolus can make you think or be totally brainless (choice of the players and DM, a setting that fits everyone)....
When I read Eric Boyd's post about Dragons of Faerûn...the whole Unther vs Mulhorand issue makes me ponder and think rather than calms. ...all the moral issues.
There is the Difference between FR, Eberron, Middle Earth, Greyhawk etc. thread where it is discussed that there really isn't much difference between the settings... (however after reading Eric Boyd's post, I tend to see FR as a complex beast of different authors...i.e. some parts are Tolkein and others are not)
Here's the essay of Epic Pooh
Here's a bit from the Wiki-about Epic Pooh:
Moorcock criticises a group of celebrated writers of epic fantasy for children, including Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Richard Adams. His criticism is based on two principal grounds: the poverty of their writing style, and a political criticism. Moorcock accuses these authors of espousing a form of "corrupted Romance", which he identifies with Anglican Toryism. The defining traits of this attitude are an anti-technological, anti-urban stance which is ultimately misanthropic, that glorifies a vanished or vanishing rural idyll, and is rooted in middle-class or bourgeois attitudes towards progress and political change.
and more from the wikiThe title arises from Moorcock's claim that the writing of Tolkien, Lewis, Adams and others has a similar purpose to the Winnie-the-Pooh writings of A. A. Milne, another author of whom he disapproves: it is intended to comfort rather than challenge.
I tend to think of myself as more a Moorcock D&D DM/player than a Tolkien. When reading Ptolus, I get a strong Tolkien vib, but it is an urban setting. It has a ton of gray making me think of Moorcock (and Lovecraft.) Groups that a player will like/agree with are sided with villians and things like that....Ptolus can make you think or be totally brainless (choice of the players and DM, a setting that fits everyone)....
When I read Eric Boyd's post about Dragons of Faerûn...the whole Unther vs Mulhorand issue makes me ponder and think rather than calms. ...all the moral issues.
There is the Difference between FR, Eberron, Middle Earth, Greyhawk etc. thread where it is discussed that there really isn't much difference between the settings... (however after reading Eric Boyd's post, I tend to see FR as a complex beast of different authors...i.e. some parts are Tolkein and others are not)