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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhacdebhandia" data-source="post: 2926175" data-attributes="member: 18832">Nah. I've got no time for the novels and I found the films only slightly less ponderous. Plus, for me, the "Epic Quest to Save the World from Darkness" is such a tired plot idea, it's comatose.I like some classic fantasy - Leiber, Howard, Vance, for instance - but then again, I would never lump those writers in with Tolkien.My preferences are strongly for "modern" or "contemporary" fantasy stories, stories which don't take place in some pseudo-medieval western European Tolkien-pastiche setting. It's one of the reasons I like Eberron so much: Wizards of the Coast is producing a setting suitable for my tastes and preferences, while still supporting the "traditional fantasy" of the Forgotten Realms.(I can appreciate the argument advanced by some Greyhawk fans that the Forgotten Realms is too "high fantasy" to really cater to the traditional mold, but I can also understand why Wizards of the Coast would want to support only one of their "traditional" fantasy settings so as to reduce market fragmentation, and why they'd choose the setting with the best-selling novel lines and even computer games over the world which never had either.)</blockquote>