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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadfan" data-source="post: 4776187" data-attributes="member: 40961">That's fine. What he's saying is that in his opinion its ok, even good, if D&D evolves to accomodate modern fantasy.  And then he's asking what modern fantasy it should evolve to accomodate, with an eye towards accomodating the fantasy that new players are likely to know. You see, the Elric/Conan/Tolkien trifecta that everyone references on ENWorld is, to a certain extent, "that stuff my Dad used to read" to people under the age of 30.  Younger readers still read fantasy- probably in increased amounts, as far as I can tell.  But they don't read the same authors.  And if D&D is to welcome in newer players, arguably it should, at least to an extent, involve fantasy tropes familiar to them. So maybe less Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, and more Tarma and Kethry.</blockquote>