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Early modules, such as Keep on the Boarderlands, Village of Hommlet etc. it’s the same Wild West stuff that you find in Howard and...

I’m familiar with the word. What I can’t see is anything in D&D that is identifiable as distinctively medieval.

That term again. WTF is a medieval trapping????????? And Dragonlance couldn’t be more American if it dressed in Stars and Stripes and...

So, not D&D then. Lets look at a few things: Medieval Europe: monotheistic religion dominates politics. D&D: multiple polytheistic...

If you don’t know what a medieval trapping is, how do you know if a game has them or not?

What is a “medieval trapping” when it’s at home? And why can’t I have it in my imaginary world?

I suspect that if I ran a Dark Sun game with cannibal halfling as a player option, I would get a 100% halfling party.

I never understand how so many people seem to be scandalised by the traditional Athasian second breakfast. D&D is already full of...

So what’s the difference between fantasy medieval and fantasy imaginary?

The problem is, "Conan-esque" is even more elusive than "Tolkien-esque" as a term to nail down a kind of fantasy. Not only did Howard's...

Which part? Pretty much everything I have said is matter of fact, not of opinion.

There's also the art of Jeff Dee, Errol Otus, and the like that were decidedly zany and not medieval.

Maybe they were doing their best, but our understanding of history has changed since the 70s, and American education has always been...

The OPs argument is invalid - they claim it was medieval (which it never was) then they list a bunch of things that have always been...

One thing worth mentioning: Ed Greenwood was a hippie (and still is). Ergo it's unsurprising that FR is more influenced by Tolkien than...