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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6601738" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>The only fantasy fiction I read is REH Kull/Conan and Tolkien. I prefer Tolkien but enjoy REH.</p><p></p><p>In film, I like John Boorman's Excalibur (which is broadly in the same romantic style as Tolkien) and Hong Kong-style martial arts (Tai Chi Master and Bride With White Hair are probably my two favourites in the "B" style, and Ashes of Time and Hero my two favourites from the more "art" style).</p><p></p><p>In music I like the Led Zeppelin songs with Tolkien referenes ("Misty Mountain Hop"? - my memory for the titles isn't great) and Wagner (the Ring Cycle, and Parsifal). Wagner is interesting because it combines the romantic tropes of Tolkien with the more modernist outlook of REH.</p><p></p><p>In FRPGing I tend towards either "cosmological" fantasy or "historical/political" fantasy. Of the two RM campaigns I ran from 1990-2008, the first was historical/political, and broke down around level 24(? or thereabouts - my memory has faded) because the default RM magic and action resolution system doesn't cope at those levels.</p><p></p><p>The second RM campaign I ran (1998-2008) involved some deliberate depowering of the magic rules (RM being the original "modular" fantasy RPG) and was more "cosmological" in scope (it included material from OA7 Test of the Samurai, which involves an exiled animal lord trying to attain immortality by alchemically transforming the atmosphere; and from Bastion of Broken Souls, which involves interference with the "natural" cycle of souls). This campaign finished successfully at 27th level.</p><p></p><p>My current 4e campaign is cosmological/mythical in scope - this is what default 4e supports. For pulp fantasy using 4e you would want to confine play to Heroic tier, I think, or maybe low Paragon.</p><p></p><p>My current Burning Wheel campaign is historical/political. BW doesn't do "cosmological", at least by default, though it has very mythic Tolkienesque elves and dwarves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6601738, member: 42582"] The only fantasy fiction I read is REH Kull/Conan and Tolkien. I prefer Tolkien but enjoy REH. In film, I like John Boorman's Excalibur (which is broadly in the same romantic style as Tolkien) and Hong Kong-style martial arts (Tai Chi Master and Bride With White Hair are probably my two favourites in the "B" style, and Ashes of Time and Hero my two favourites from the more "art" style). In music I like the Led Zeppelin songs with Tolkien referenes ("Misty Mountain Hop"? - my memory for the titles isn't great) and Wagner (the Ring Cycle, and Parsifal). Wagner is interesting because it combines the romantic tropes of Tolkien with the more modernist outlook of REH. In FRPGing I tend towards either "cosmological" fantasy or "historical/political" fantasy. Of the two RM campaigns I ran from 1990-2008, the first was historical/political, and broke down around level 24(? or thereabouts - my memory has faded) because the default RM magic and action resolution system doesn't cope at those levels. The second RM campaign I ran (1998-2008) involved some deliberate depowering of the magic rules (RM being the original "modular" fantasy RPG) and was more "cosmological" in scope (it included material from OA7 Test of the Samurai, which involves an exiled animal lord trying to attain immortality by alchemically transforming the atmosphere; and from Bastion of Broken Souls, which involves interference with the "natural" cycle of souls). This campaign finished successfully at 27th level. My current 4e campaign is cosmological/mythical in scope - this is what default 4e supports. For pulp fantasy using 4e you would want to confine play to Heroic tier, I think, or maybe low Paragon. My current Burning Wheel campaign is historical/political. BW doesn't do "cosmological", at least by default, though it has very mythic Tolkienesque elves and dwarves. [/QUOTE]
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