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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9740887" data-attributes="member: 2205">I voted yes. That said, the data from the poll will be useless, because too many people will skim the poll without reading his explanation of what he means by "steampunk."That said, it's perhaps better or more interesting to talk about the ways in which and reasons why D&D no longer resembles medieval fantasy than to worry about what exactly the label is of what it does resemble. The way the thread started out was almost inevitably going to get bogged down in his use of the steampunk label.But it is interesting to me that D&D, which was built on a fascination with Medieval history, and which was certainly one of the main pillars of D&D as it was originally designed, and which it looked like for many many years... but which it no longer is assumed to do. Most things convenient about modern life, along with a heavily romanticized "utopian" interpretation of a kind of "ren faire" vibe is what I'd consider it now; any resemblance to actual Medieval Europe is almost on accident now, or just some kind of legacy inertia that hasn't been excised yet.But this vibe isn't unique to D&D; I'd argue that a lot of this has happened to the fantasy genre as published by Big Publishing, as put into streaming shows like The Witcher or The Wheel of Time, etc. That said, that doesn't seem to be the case for indie published fantasy, much of which outsells Big Publishing, so there's an interesting discussion to be had on what D&D looks like, or maybe what SHOULD D&D look like.</blockquote>

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