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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5388319" data-attributes="member: 22779">Marcq - I think you're misunderstanding Pawsplay here.  It's not that he's in any way saying that you're doing anything wrong in perfering not to blend genres.  It's just that for a lot of older fantasy fans, the dividing line between fantasy and SF was nowhere near as sharply defined as it is now.As Pawsplay mentions, loads of fantasy and SF authors jumped the divide all the time.  It wasn't until the huge bump that fantasy got in the 80's that you actually see "pure" fantasy authors outside of a very few names like Tolkien.  In fact, before the 80's, about the only way a lot of fantasy books could see print was to dress themselves up as SF.  So, it's hardly surprising that a lot of the earlier D&D works, like White Plume Mountain (fallen spaceship), Secret of the Slavelords Stockade (wagon mounted flame thrower - although that's perhaps less anachronistic than you might think), and The Dancing Hut (complete with miniaturized city and giant, fire breathing lizard) pick and choose all sorts of stuff from both sides of the fence.Heck, Mystara borrows very heavily on this - flying ships, six guns, all sorts of anachronisms.  There is a very long tradition in D&D to mix and match genres.</blockquote>