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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5388286" data-attributes="member: 18253">That's an interesting historical perspective and perhaps there is a disconnect between one of the games creator's view on the matter and how most of the players view it but Gygax’s world preferences are hardly sacrosanct. If many players don’t like science fiction with their fantasy and they run their games accordingly, what difference does it make if one of the early gamers liked to mix the two? Myself? I absolutely play D&D to experience a Tolkien type world and other similar “high fantasy” settings. My early gaming views are mostly lost in the haze of long ago decades but the intent to recreate a LOTR type feel I do remember (I even remember running some sessions that were siege of Minis Tirith-ish complete with laughable siege weapon rates of fire; hey, I was 13 or so.) In any case, an aversion to mixed genres is not terribly hard to understand. Do you want harry Potter handing James Bond a magic acorn to turn his foe to stone at the end of the movie? Sticking to a genre is part of the implicit contract in most media. More power to Gygax for helping to launch a hobby I cherish. But as far as his specific game, setting and other decisions? Never been especially impressed with them. I've found far more thoughtful folks on this board, whether I agree with them or not. I suppose I blaspheme... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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