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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3972255" data-attributes="member: 3887">Let me get the dating-myself out of the way: I turned 11 in 1980, in New Jersey, no less. I like to think if the 80's were a place, they would be New Jersey.I've been a fan of the literature and film of the fantastic since I was a kid. I started with Star Trek and Japanese monster movies, both readily available on the television stations of my youth. I moved on to... wait, no, I added Dune and LotR, old Hugo award-winning stories, Niven, Moorcock, then Delaney and Gibson and the rest, a mix of Scifi Book Club selections and the typical Waldenbooks bait. Then came 1st edition D&D, a kind of literature all its own. Sometime around college I got into comics through the usually latecomer sources; Miller, Moore, Gaiman, and Morrison. Then anime as it got easier to come by. Oh, then there's the more literary literature of the fantastic; Kafka, Borges, Lessing, the magical realists, etc. Sometime during school I picked those up too.Years after that I discovered the joy of Japanese console RPG's. Which I can't really explain beyond saying some of them really work for me. They bring me a kind of overwrought, over-cute, turn-based joy that I secretly suspect is some form of really clever cultural criticism that I'm not quite getting. Or perhaps they're just nutty junk, either way, they make me happy.My point, if I have one left, is I don't really understand categorically disliking any specific part of the literature of the fantastic. I'm not so much a fan of any particular part that I'm tempted into orthodoxy.  All this stuff occupies one big, messy (incestuous, even), brain-space for me, therefore I welcome anime and video game influence in D&D. Not that convinced we're actually going to see much of that in 4e...</blockquote>

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