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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with
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Again, I think the period from the early/mid 80s to the early 90s, D&D WAS medieval fantasy -- at least insofar as one might categorize... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Im surprised to hear that people never considered D&D to be medieval fantasy. Fantasy genre and subgenres are much better defined now...
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Flying Toaster reacted to I'm A Banana's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Personally, I think a lot of D&D's success can be attributed to doing a lot of different kinds of games well enough that it's fine. That...
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Flying Toaster reacted to TiQuinn's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
That’s interesting - I admit I’ve always tried to envision the weather in the locations in my campaign and being an American raised in...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
In what way is the climate in "D&D" usually depicted as hot and dry? Seriously, where is that coming from?
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Flying Toaster reacted to Burnside's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Yeah, this is a weird one. For that matter, maybe like 30% of America is hot and dry. Certainly not Lake Geneva, WI.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Well, again, we need to figure out whether we are talking about settings or the D&D metasetting. In the latter case, no. But Dragonlance...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I adored DL as a kid and would even re-read it (it being Chronicles and Legends) well into my 20s. But somewhere along the line I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Azzy's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
There's also the art of Jeff Dee, Errol Otus, and the like that were decidedly zany and not medieval.
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Flying Toaster reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I think Hopepunk and solarpunk can be seen in two ways, depending on how one sees the 'punk' of cyberpunk. Either: (as Cap'n Kobold...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Reynard's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
I don't know. I think mutually understood definitions of terms allows us to have fruitful conversations, rather than descending...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Burnside's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Yeah - my dad is a Boomer, and not remotely counter-cultural, but liked Tolkien and owned the 1968 U.S. paperback boxed set of the three...
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Flying Toaster reacted to James Gasik's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Or this, from "The Battle Of Evermore": The pain of war cannot exceed The woe of aftermath The drums will shake the castle wall The...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Autumnal's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Obligatory pedantry: “genus” and “species” are used in Roman-era Latin translations of Aristotle, which made them standard terms through...
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Flying Toaster reacted to EzekielRaiden's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
See, I don't even think it's "dark ages" per se. I think the key difference is that D&D went from something kinda-sorta-ish like...