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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 2923517" data-attributes="member: 22779">Thinking about this a bit.Looking back at older settings - Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance and the like, it would seem that Rounser's approach to campaign creation has been the rule.  Of the older settings, only Mystara really took the existence of magic to heart, as well as Planescape and perhaps Spelljammer.It has only been in the last few years that ensuring that the fluff matches the physics of the world as described by the mechanics.  Ptolus, Eberron, and the low magic worlds like Thieve's World and Conan have all begun to really wed fluff to crunch.  Really, I think this is simply a maturation process in the genre.  Twenty five years ago, we watched Star Wars and thought it was great.  A few years ago, we had new Star Wars and it was generally panned.  Why?  Because consumers are an awful lot more particular now.  We've had a steady diet of fantasy, good and bad, for the past few decades and we are much better armed to make discriminating choices.Compair Narnia to Harry Potter for a second.  In Narnia, the children enter a fantasy realm, but are always held separate from the magic.  Things are given to them, but, they never see how it works.  Harry Potter, OTOH, is right in the thick of things and is shown exactly how things work to the point where he can recreate it on his own.  This is a serious shift in the genre away from Gandalf where magic is unknowable, to, well, magic as science - repeatable and predictable to some degree.  And, I don't think this is a bad thing.  We've ignored the fallacies of the genre for decades, IMNSHO, it's time to roll up our sleeves and really make a functioning fantasy world.</blockquote>

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