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<blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3966633" data-attributes="member: 31898"><p>Far more people have read LOTR or watched the movies than have played D&D or read the D&D tie-in novels. The word-count of D&D related products has nothing to do with it. Hobbits are an undisputed part of our literary culture. 3rd edition halflings are... well, even WOTC is forgetting about them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because the players already know what those tropes are, without having to study a boring rulebook? Some people actually want to roleplay classic archetypal characters and situations. All the great stories are essentially the same few stories re-told. Star Wars worked, not because Lucas came up with some innovative idea, but because he ripped off the plot of an old Western and populated it with stock characters out of mythology and Japanese samurai films.</p><p></p><p>Some of of think that Gygaxian fantasy, a rich and meaty stew of great fantasy authors spiced with classical mythology and medieval legend, just tastes better than WOTC's homogeneous corperate gruel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Clavis, post: 3966633, member: 31898"] Far more people have read LOTR or watched the movies than have played D&D or read the D&D tie-in novels. The word-count of D&D related products has nothing to do with it. Hobbits are an undisputed part of our literary culture. 3rd edition halflings are... well, even WOTC is forgetting about them. Because the players already know what those tropes are, without having to study a boring rulebook? Some people actually want to roleplay classic archetypal characters and situations. All the great stories are essentially the same few stories re-told. Star Wars worked, not because Lucas came up with some innovative idea, but because he ripped off the plot of an old Western and populated it with stock characters out of mythology and Japanese samurai films. Some of of think that Gygaxian fantasy, a rich and meaty stew of great fantasy authors spiced with classical mythology and medieval legend, just tastes better than WOTC's homogeneous corperate gruel. [/QUOTE]
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