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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4777738" data-attributes="member: 2067"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Anime (take Naruto, take Pokemon, take Full Metal Alchemist, take BLEACH, take One Piece, take Cowboy Bebop, take Miyazaki, take AVATAR -- fantasy and episodic storytelling tropes are rife here)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Video Games (take Fallout, take WoW, take BioShock, take Portal, take World of Goo, take Legend of Zelda, take GTA -- gameplay elements and pacing strategies are key)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Movies (take superhero flicks, take  Twilight, take LotR...in general, you can skip the books). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fairy Tales/Folk Tales/Religous Texts (there's something elemental about Red Riding Hood and Rumplestiltzkin, Gilgamesh, heck even the story of Jesus -- this is how people perceive "magic" in their world). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Music (take Metal, take Folk, take Punk, take Rap, take them and learn their stories and their tropes, their heroes and their villains, their archetypes). </li> </ul>That's crazy broad, but, IMO, D&D should focus itself on getting these broad things right. The other stuff -- the exact races and classes, the level of "high" and "low" fantasy, the fantasy/sci fi split --- is easy and can come later. D&D needs to get at the core of what its unique experience is, what it does -- the social storytelling game -- before worrying about what that should look like (because what that should look like should vary between groups).</blockquote>

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