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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 3943884" data-attributes="member: 4086">Is this where I insert my usual grumbling about how the 'Tolkienesque roots' of D&D are nothing of the sort, and aside from a few race, class, and monster options and the 'party' structure, the game bears more resemblance to Howard's, Leiber's, and Moorcock's tales of brigands, ne'er-do-wells and anti-heroes seeking wealth and power than to the Professor's tales of heroism and self-sacrifice with a wistful/tragic undertone?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />   In fact, in Tolkien's work, 'taking stuff' or trying to do so often causes more problems than it solves (Smaug's hoard, the Ring, the Silmarils).</blockquote>