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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vonlok The Bold" data-source="post: 2079557" data-attributes="member: 29417">I've been wondering if I am a stick in the mud or a dinosaur for preferring more traditional Tolkienesque/Greyhawk type settings. I don't know why, but I have a really hard time getting into settings like Eberron, or even Iron Kingdoms with it's steam power.  Things like floating cities all over the place, with flying ships, rail connections don't inspire me to play middle age type fighters, clerics, or Merlinesque Wizards etc.   Yet these settings seem to be all the rage.  It might all come down to low magic vs. high fantasy type settings, but it might also just be a traditionalist(when it comes to gaming) mindset. I say that because I like playing other settings like Traveler or Sidewinder, which have things like that, but it's in what I feel appropriate settings.  I don't like undead or Wizards in Old West settings, or airships in D&D settings.  I understand there are a lot of people who seem to love these things, and I don't have a problem with it.  I'm just surprised that I seem to be in the minority.  That makes me a little scared that support for the types of gaming I like will evaporate. With all the hype around Iron Kingdoms, and Eberron I am wondering if I'm just being a stick in the mud, or if the types of gamers who like the more traditional settings are the dinosaurs of the gaming world.</blockquote>