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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 3026004" data-attributes="member: 1328">That's not a retort to what I was saying.So you cannot say that D&D is not as enduring as Homer. The Iliad and the Odissey survived from their creation to nowaday. D&D survived from its creation to nowaday. Therefore, D&D is as enduring as the Iliad and the Odissey, because all survived from their creation to nowadays.He also didn't say they don't have elephant trunks and a pair of antlers. If I was starting, say, a webcomic were elves have a trunk and antlers; and then a few years later many other comics/novels/games/movies/whatever depicted elves with antlers and trunks, I could argue that my elves influenced pop culture, and you would be there, arguing that it's actually Tolkien's elves, not mine, because Tolkien never wrote the elves didn't have such protuberancies...As was pointed out, there are no clear description for Tolkien's orcs either.Uh, yes it is.No. Psionics is rooted in the idea that a cheap pseudoscientific explanation was needed to insert magic into the sci-fi genre. Psionics are not admitted in hard sci-fi, but they're a staple of science fantasy.You should read a few books from Julian May's Many-Colored Lands. Or Wendy & Richard Pini's Elfquest, it's the same thing. They're an attempt at telling a classical fantasy story, with a classical fantasy setting, but in a sci-fi style. So, elves are described as aliens and magic is described as psionics, etc.</blockquote>

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