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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8273246" data-attributes="member: 7026617">Well, D&D has always been kind of a kitbash of a bunch of fantasy tropes that normally don't hang together, so it depends on how you perceive that.  I'm not qualified to talk about LotFR.  Shadowrun is absolutely an odd hybrid (it landed just as a number of such things such as TORG were in the wings), but fundamentally its just one of the more surface takes on cyberpunk with magic layered over it, but the magic only really changes the overall feel in some peripheral cases mostly (things like the whole insect spirit) but it doesn't change the main thrust of that kind of sort of surface cyberpunk much.  My feeling is Exalted seems to be exploring a broad strokes version of certain sorts of Eastern myth cycles in an accessible but high powered way, but I'm not altogether knowledgeable enough to judge it.  Vampire, I can't say I see as anything but a pretty common take on vampire culture in urban fantasy, with a bit of all of it rolled it together.So I have to disagree about most of them, at least.  The things that have been mashed together in a number of these don't really change the basic thrust of the genre involved (though in some cases they're mashing together pieces of it that don't normally go together, and arguably don't work as well together as it could).</blockquote>