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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 2142432" data-attributes="member: 1328"><p>It's not strange at all. D&D is, was, has always been, and will stay firmly pulp fantasy rather than heroic fantasy or sword & sorcery fantasy.</p><p></p><p>In everyone's mind, a world and a planet are the same thing. We're too accustomed to the idea we live on a giant space marble to instinctively adopt a flat world assumption, or think about cosmic turtles and elephants anymore.</p><p></p><p>The notion of planet was even more popularized by science fiction, of course -- all those space opera pulp -- and sci-fi pulp are as big an influence on D&D as fantasy pulp is. Look at the Derro (a.k.a. Dero, detrimental robots, google for the Chandler mysteries), the mindflayer, the beholder, the xill and displacer beast (ixtl and couerl from <em>Voyage of the Space Beagle</em>), the loxxo (the aliens in <em>Footfall</em>), the gelatinous cube and other oozes (variation on the Blob theme), and so on.</p><p></p><p>This mixing of genres was common at the time -- people will remember that the first Ultima games featured laser swords, starfighters, and time-travel machine, before those elements were expurged to get a pure medieval fantasy setting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gez, post: 2142432, member: 1328"] It's not strange at all. D&D is, was, has always been, and will stay firmly pulp fantasy rather than heroic fantasy or sword & sorcery fantasy. In everyone's mind, a world and a planet are the same thing. We're too accustomed to the idea we live on a giant space marble to instinctively adopt a flat world assumption, or think about cosmic turtles and elephants anymore. The notion of planet was even more popularized by science fiction, of course -- all those space opera pulp -- and sci-fi pulp are as big an influence on D&D as fantasy pulp is. Look at the Derro (a.k.a. Dero, detrimental robots, google for the Chandler mysteries), the mindflayer, the beholder, the xill and displacer beast (ixtl and couerl from [i]Voyage of the Space Beagle[/i]), the loxxo (the aliens in [i]Footfall[/i]), the gelatinous cube and other oozes (variation on the Blob theme), and so on. This mixing of genres was common at the time -- people will remember that the first Ultima games featured laser swords, starfighters, and time-travel machine, before those elements were expurged to get a pure medieval fantasy setting. [/QUOTE]
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