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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3910419" data-attributes="member: 22779">Y'know, while Rechan may be tact challenged, his point is still valid.  RC and others are saying that D&D's strength is in its hodgepodge nature.  I agree with this point.  But, it appears to me that their idea of hodgepodge is limited to a small list of dead authors.  Anything that comes afterward should be ignored in order to preserve the purity of the game.After all, if D&D is truly a hodgepodge of fantasy, then why not use recent fantasy in basic design?  Why should we be limited to Tolkien races for example?  After all, there's LOADS of fantasy out there that has moved away from the traditional Tolkien races.  Why should we be stuck with the idea of the fighter as stodgy, traditional (and probably not historical since historical knights trained in martial arts just as much as Eastern ones did) knights who only swing swords.Fantasy has its roots in Tolkien and others, but, those roots have grown pretty bloody far from the source.  Why shouldn't D&D reflect that?</blockquote>