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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3909436" data-attributes="member: 18280">I think that removing the hodgepodge nature of literary influences from the core is a mistake.  That is not the same thing as an insult.  Your comment about "Tolkien fellating", for example, is an obviously intentional insult, although the statement it is contained in is not mistaken (assuming, of course, that you really feel that way).Really?  I was born in the United States, and I've lived in the Bible Belt.  I never had a problem finding gamers even in Louisiana, where they still call the counties "parishes".  Of course, this was back in the days of 1e D&D, when the game was at its height of popularity.  Perhaps things have changed.One has to wonder, though, why (if it has nothing to do with fantasy gaming at all) you suggested earlier that changing D&D would make it easier to find players interested in the games that you are interested in.  One also has to wonder why, if you can find players for hodgepodge D&D (assuming you are playing at all), you can't convince those players to try the games you prefer.In any event, I feel for your pain.  RC</blockquote>