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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kennew142" data-source="post: 3970272" data-attributes="member: 18490">I'm a child of the 70s/80s. I graduated high school in 1984 and I was an avid reader of Tolkien, Moorecock, Howard, Lieber and Clark Ashton Smith, not to mention mythology, medieval folk tales, etc... Anime didn't come into full blossom until I was already out of school and in the army. I have never liked video games very well. That said ....Our D&D experience has been somewhat similar. I have never felt that D&D was very good at emulating anything other than D&D. It was just a better game than anything else out on the market. I experimented with HERO, Runequest, GURPS and World of Darkness, but kept coming back to D&D because it was better than any of those games. Heck, I even demoed GURPS at stores and conventions, representing the company as MiB.Same for me.In my case it is more like three decades. Every new preview I've heard has made the game seem more likely to emulate my favorite type of fantasy as well.I have posted repeatedly that D&D has (IMO) been crammed into a LotR shaped box for all of its existence. I want D&D to draw from the entire range of fantasy.I'm with another poster who doesn't think that what I've seen of D&D 4e smacks too much of video games or anime. I believe it's drawing inspiration from these sources without being overwhelmed by them. D&D players should be able to play the style they want. You see anime, I see traditional fantasy (from before the D&D shaped box that much of modern fantasy has been crammed into).</blockquote>

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