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<blockquote data-quote="Testament" data-source="post: 2079793" data-attributes="member: 21833">Bingo, here's the heart of the matter.&nbsp; I'm 22, and the only reason I've even heard of Vance, Lieber and Moorcock is becase I know a lot of older gamers.&nbsp; And trying to find their books, at least for me, has been about three doors down from impossible.The source material has changed between the generations, we're the media generation.&nbsp; By and large for us, Fantasy has been shaped by a HUGE number of sources, not the least of which is myriad different video games.&nbsp; For me, fantasy has been shaped largely by Tolkien (and PJ's adaptation of it), the early writings of David Eddings (before he ran out of ideas), Warhammer, the games of Blizzard (especially Diablo), and to some extent, the Final Fantasy games.&nbsp; Ironically, a lot of these were shaped by D&amp;D, look how many tropes were carried across to Warcraft for instance.&nbsp; And you know as well as I do that the team at Blizzard are gamers, look at all the in-jokes.Mark my words, the next generation will be different again.&nbsp; Its inevitable.&nbsp; And it doesn't worry me in the slightest, I'm not gonna be one of those grognards who looks at the new settings and rants &quot;that's not D&amp;D!&quot;.Not that I'm taking a swipe at anyone here&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> .</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Testament, post: 2079793, member: 21833"] Bingo, here's the heart of the matter. I'm 22, and the only reason I've even [I]heard [/I] of Vance, Lieber and Moorcock is becase I know a lot of older gamers. And trying to find their books, at least for me, has been about three doors down from impossible. The source material has changed between the generations, we're the media generation. By and large for us, Fantasy has been shaped by a HUGE number of sources, not the least of which is myriad different video games. For me, fantasy has been shaped largely by Tolkien (and PJ's adaptation of it), the early writings of David Eddings (before he ran out of ideas), Warhammer, the games of Blizzard (especially Diablo), and to some extent, the Final Fantasy games. Ironically, a lot of these were shaped by D&D, look how many tropes were carried across to Warcraft for instance. And you know as well as I do that the team at Blizzard are gamers, look at all the in-jokes. Mark my words, the next generation will be different again. Its inevitable. And it doesn't worry me in the slightest, I'm not gonna be one of those grognards who looks at the new settings and rants "that's not D&D!". Not that I'm taking a swipe at anyone here ;) . [/QUOTE]

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