D&D - historical or fantastic?

[The Hound]

I selected "5". I incorporate all of the standard D&D magic and fantastic monsters, but I like my societies to be gritty medieval European affairs with lots of dirty and oppressed peasants, marauding knights, ambitious clerics, and boorish nobles who eat with their fingers and spend their time plotting against their peers. I think it comes from reading G.R.R. Martin's novels.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Next session is storming a Keep in Pandemonium of undead Illithids and cannibalistic thralls in the middle of a town of the insane! That or headed through a portal in the Morgtuary to the Elemental Plane of Fire to stop some guys from reprogramming crazy people through imitating gods! Whichever the PCs decide to do. Maybe both!

10 all the way, baby!

 

[deClench]

I'm with MoogleEmpMog and werk (if he means it). 10.

 

[genshou]

I voted 7. Yay for status quo!

 

[Drowbane]

I voted 7. I like my Swords'n'Superheroes.

 

[ForceUser]

I voted 7. I like my Swords'n'Superheroes.

I'm a 5. I prefer at least a measure of gritty realism, even if it's only cultural or descriptive.

 

[Pants]

Gimme a 9.

I'd happily play a grim'n'gritty, historical RPG, but D&D has never been that. It has never been remotely close to being that. It's always been on the high end of fantasy with it's multitudes of races, the billions of +1 longswords laying around in kobold dung pits, and worlds festooned with illogical dungeons and creatures with ecologies that read 'made by crazy wizard.'

 

[mhacdebhandia]

If I wanted to play a historical roleplaying game, or a heavily-inspired-by-history roleplaying game, I sure wouldn't use D&D for it.

I voted 8 - fantasy all the way, and the less Tolkien it is the better.

 

[Melan]

I voted "6". While I do not for a second believe that D&D has any grounding in historical reality (and what precious little there is seems closer to the Ancient era and the Wild West period than the Middle Ages), I prefer a setting which is down to Earth in most of its aspects - making the dungeons and wondrous things the players encounter fantastic even in milieu.

 

[blargney the second]

I went with 10: D&D just feels like it wants to be Over The Top. Isn't there a feat named that?