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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aesmael" data-source="post: 1877318" data-attributes="member: 22503">Would have been Narnia or The Hobbit, both being read to a class in primary school (the Hobbit would have been sitting with an older class). Read my father's collections of Asimov Robot/Foundation/Empire stories and H.G. Wells stories (This is two seperate volumes of stories), given the Hobbit and later Fellowship of the Ring as gifts after showing interest in these things - don't you think it a cruel thing to give a child just the fellowship? When I was about 9 I had to spend more than $30 of my own money to get the rest of the story.Influence, well, desire to be a writer must have been essentially instant. In 3rd grade I was assigned to work with the girl who would be my best friend throughout primary school on a writing project, our first secondary world. Extreme environmentalist bent in that one, lots of fun creating endless biological permutations.For gaming, as with stories, it is the world that is my first love. Always the framework, the structure, the background. It is the story of the world and its mechanics that must come first. Then place the characters within it and they may do what they will, and that creates the story. Perhaps more to do with personality (or a minor frustration with my early experiences - Narnia, LoTR, Brooks, Donaldson, Eddings, Feist, although I enjoyed reading them) but stark portrayals of good and evil without shades of grey get on my nerves, and have since I was ten. It just feels gratingly, painfully wrong when people paint the world that way.The only D&D relaated books I have ever read was the first three of the Spelljammer series I received as a gift. It is from this that my love of illithids and beholders stems.</blockquote>

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