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<blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 3969427" data-attributes="member: 31898">Of course, I didn't write &quot;classic&quot;, I wrote &quot;great&quot;!. It isn't that WOTC is ripping off contemporary popular fantasy and that I object; it's that they're making stuff up and expecting us to treat their creations as if they were already iconic. If WOTC was taking things from, say, Neil Gaiman and adding them to the game, that would actually be good. As it stands, however, WOTC is busily ignoring the actual popular mythology in favor of their own creations, which they can legally defend as Intellectual Property. Case in point: the new halflings (and I'm including 3rd edition). More people than ever know Tolkien's Hobbits, yet WOTC prefers their own silly creations. Another case in point: the Dragonborn. If WOTC paid attention to popular mythology, they would have created a reptilian race that used mind control magic and could assume human form (a la Howard and contemporary conspiracy theorists). My problem is that WOTC is not continuing the hodge-podge tradition of D&amp;D, but is trying to impose a boring, homogeneous mythology that they can claim Intellectual Property rights over.And I'm not touching the anime subject, because it seems to be the third rail of conversation on this site.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clavis, post: 3969427, member: 31898"] Of course, I didn't write "classic", I wrote "great"!. It isn't that WOTC is ripping off contemporary popular fantasy and that I object; it's that they're making stuff up and expecting us to treat their creations as if they were already iconic. If WOTC was taking things from, say, Neil Gaiman and adding them to the game, that would actually be good. As it stands, however, WOTC is busily ignoring the actual popular mythology in favor of their own creations, which they can legally defend as Intellectual Property. Case in point: the new halflings (and I'm including 3rd edition). More people than ever know Tolkien's Hobbits, yet WOTC prefers their own silly creations. Another case in point: the Dragonborn. If WOTC paid attention to popular mythology, they would have created a reptilian race that used mind control magic and could assume human form (a la Howard and contemporary conspiracy theorists). My problem is that WOTC is [B]not[/B] continuing the hodge-podge tradition of D&D, but is trying to impose a boring, homogeneous mythology that they can claim Intellectual Property rights over. And I'm not touching the anime subject, because it seems to be the third rail of conversation on this site. [/QUOTE]

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