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[Mannahnin]

I don't understand the value of Rorschach blots, anyway. What's the big deal about cards that all have pictures of gin and sex?

Oh, you need to get one of the other decks with more variety!

Mine all have pictures of gin and goth girls and OSR D&D.

 

[mamba]

Things like Lizzy Dripping and Catweazle look like direct influences on HP, but are probably unknown to anyone who didn’t grow up in the UK in the 60s/70s.

I know Catweazle, was on German TV too Must have been late 70s though

 

[Joshua Randall]

I don't understand the value of Rorschach blots, anyway. What's the big deal about cards that all have pictures of gin and sex?

Psychiatrist: "Judging by zee Rorschach test reezults, you zeem to haff an obzzezzion wit sex."

Patient: "Don't blame me, doc. You're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!"

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Psychiatrist: "Judging by zee Rorschach test reezults, you zeem to haff an obzzezzion wit sex."

Patient: "Don't blame me, doc. You're the one showing me all the dirty pictures!"

What a perv. He isn't even showing the deck with the gin!

 

[MGibster]

...I am getting concerned that my non-post has a lot more comments that some of my actual posts do!

Your non-post was easier to read than one of your posts.

 

[Deset Gled]

Your non-post was easier to read than one of your posts.

I actually read everything in this one, from top to bottom. Twice!

 

[Maxperson]

In the other hand Terry Pratchett joked about having been “occasionally accused of literature”.

Was that before or after he forged his own sword in the fires of Mt. Doom?

 

[MGibster]

In all seriousness, I wonder if we're most influenced by the people we actually game with. Especially back in the old days, pre-internet, D&D players were a fairly fragmented bunch in my experience. Outside of our immediate group, many of us only interacted with RPGs through publications like Dragon or on the rare occasion we might hit up a game convention. At least in the Dallas area, I didn't even see a game store that had space for people to play games until the late 1990s.

But then I would have also been heavily influenced by movies like Excaliber, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Conan, Beastmaster, Krull, etc., etc. I expect people in their 30s would be heavily influenced by Dragon Ball, Harry Potter, and whatever other skibidi things young people like. Even if it isn't necessarily in the DNA of D&D (yet), it might still influence how the game is played.

 

[Scribe]

Oh, you need to get one of the other decks with more variety!

Mine all have pictures of gin and goth girls and OSR D&D.

 

[Hussar]

Thing is, for someone in their 20’s, Harry Potter is old. It’s something their parents probably read. It was rather eye opening to realize nearly none of my uni students had actually read the books.

But DnD’s influences are always a bit older. Just because that’s the age of the writers of the game.