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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mokona" data-source="post: 3825726" data-attributes="member: 24891">Human nature being what it is this poll will be heavily pro-folklore.  I believe it was JRR Tolkien who studied the fact that similar myths exist across cultures (for example, a dwarf race).  The closer that an author's fiction matches universal "stories" with a fresh twist the more likely they'll achieve popular success.Familiar themes and things (swords, mythological creatures) make readers/players more comfortable.  This could explain why Fantasy generally sells better than Science Fiction (the future is fundamentally more difficult to know and predict than the past).  A concept like Archetypes might also apply here which is to say that there must be some inherent reason humans reuse concepts.</blockquote>