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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2756846" data-attributes="member: 18832">Krynn wasn't exactly without hope. They did win.It's somewhat embarrassing, as I look back from my position now fifteen years later, that my introduction to D&D came about because of elves. Well, it was actually a novelisation of E.T. that exposed me to the game (which I bought a copy of shortly thereafter), but I thought elves were so great in that game (it was the UK printing of the Third Edition D&D Basic Set, the "red box" although this was one thick A5 book) that I got hooked on Dragonlance's "Elven Nations" trilogy shortly thereafter, and that led me into the wider world of those novels and eventually back to the game, as AD&D this time.I'm probably an unusual D&D player in that I had never read anything by Tolkien before I was exposed to bastardised versions of some of his ideas in D&D; I still haven't bothered to finish The Lord of the Rings nor The Hobbit and likely never will.As a young boy I grew up instead on my father's science fiction collection, and the closest I came to fantasy was an abiding interest in classical mythology from Greece, Rome, and Egypt, and reading C.S. Lewis' elf-free "Chronicles of Narnia". While I thought elves were cool at the age of ten and for a few years thereafter, I quickly outgrew it (probably because they come off badly as a culture in the Dragonlance "Chronicles", and weren't all that loveable in the "Elven Nations" trilogy either).Since I've been serious about the game itself, I don't think I've ever felt an inclination to play an elf or had much time for them in any campaign; the only exception that comes to mind is playing an elven cleric of Annwn the Celtic death god in a Planescape campaign, and I think the only reason he was an elf was because the Celtic deities were loosely associated with them in On Hallowed Ground, or such is my memory at the time.Now I also really like all of the elven cultures from Eberron, but I think it's fair to say that they're interesting because they're nothing like the standard, pseudo-Tolkienesque treatment of elves in D&D. Had I been into Dark Sun more when it was still being published I might have found those elves pretty intriguing too, for the same reason.</blockquote>

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