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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 5141998" data-attributes="member: 54846">You know, if you replace &quot;Race&quot; with &quot;Style&quot; or &quot;Source Material&quot;, you have a pretty solid statement about D&amp;D ever since the beginning.I mean, you have &quot;Tolkien Heroic Low Magic Fantasy&quot; with &quot;FR High Fantasy&quot; along side &quot;Howardian/Grey Mouser S&amp;S&quot;, next to &quot;Lovecraftian Horror&quot;, David Carradine's &quot;Kung Fu&quot; inspired Monk, and Steven King's &quot;Fire Starter&quot; inspired psionics.Go even further, and you have &quot;Grueling Hell of Psionics and Insectmen&quot; Dark Sun, and &quot;Plane Hopping Tieflings and Ubermagic&quot; in Planescape. D&amp;D has been a muddled &quot;catch all&quot; mess to emulate many kinds of fantasy. So making it cohesive and saying &quot;Damnit the source material should be cohesive&quot; is pretty counter to how things have been. Well honestly, if you look at LotR, the themes of &quot;Nature vs. Industrial&quot; and how Industrial/Tech was the Bad Guy, Wilden make sense in a Middle Earth goodguy way. I mean, Wilden are not a far stretch from Ents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 5141998, member: 54846"] You know, if you replace "Race" with "Style" or "Source Material", you have a pretty solid statement about D&D ever since the beginning. I mean, you have "Tolkien Heroic Low Magic Fantasy" with "FR High Fantasy" along side "Howardian/Grey Mouser S&S", next to "Lovecraftian Horror", David Carradine's "Kung Fu" inspired Monk, and Steven King's "Fire Starter" inspired psionics. Go even further, and you have "Grueling Hell of Psionics and Insectmen" Dark Sun, and "Plane Hopping Tieflings and Ubermagic" in Planescape. D&D has been a muddled "catch all" mess to emulate many kinds of fantasy. So making it cohesive and saying "Damnit the source material should be cohesive" is pretty counter to how things have been. Well honestly, if you look at LotR, the themes of "Nature vs. Industrial" and how Industrial/Tech was the Bad Guy, Wilden make sense in a Middle Earth goodguy way. I mean, Wilden are not a far stretch from Ents. [/QUOTE]

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