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Flying Toaster reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with
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I'd recommend reading Three Hearts if you're interested in the sources of D&D, mostly because it's one of the two main inspirations for... -
Flying Toaster reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Personally I don't much like Drizzt do'Urden but Raven is one of my favourite fictional characters. The four travellers in The Wonderful...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
How appealing either is will depend on your familiarity with and attachment to the things being referenced. I know what most of the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Perhaps a more modern, and self-referential, version would be: D&D is the game where Locke Lamora, Drizzt do'Urden, Samurai Jack, the...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Doug McCrae's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
That's a great post. Yeah, D&D is the game where Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser team up with Aragorn, Sir Galahad, and Mazirian 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.
Since 2005, D&D has been primarily a mix of Late Classic Maya and Southern Yuan dynasty bolter porn. Everyone knows this and I trust I...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Clint_L's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Lol I literally live in Victoria, BC. Victoriana is our whole sub theme. I teach Victorian literature. You’ll have to try harder...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Charlaquin's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
To be fair, most folks can’t tell their Victorian from their Edwardian from their turn of the century American, etc. It’s all just...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Whilst I don't think D&D as whole has become steampunk, and it lacks many significant aspects of the genre (such as prevalent use of...
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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.
D&D is basically the buffet table of gaming. It's primarily a "fantasy" game, but it can be stretched to include just about any kind of...
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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.
The ability of upper classes to murder people in lower classes actually varied a bunch by time and place. The Holy Roman Empire had a...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Indeed! But my point is that Conan-looking barbarians and giant apes and dragons and faux-Vikings and chainmail-bikini Amazon...
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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.
I’ve never had a problem with folks seeing it as having some of the trappings of the Middle Ages with European style castles and armor...
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Flying Toaster reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Yes, but what I’m trying to say is that a very thin Medieval veneer is all it takes to be Medieval Fantasy. The more specific you get...
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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 mean, maybe, but very, very few games (TTRPG or CRPG) make any real effort toward anything more than a medieval veneer.