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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 3761531" data-attributes="member: 3887">Yup. Bog standard D&D is a superhero comic in quasi-Medieval drag. After the PC's acquire a few levels, that is. Whether it's become that recently is another issue.Right. There's been formal recognition. D&D's come out of the closet, so to speak. Or maybe I should say it's come out of the phone booth wearing tights and a cape. People are always saying this, and it is true, but it's also largely irrelevant. D&D began getting bigger, weirder, and less faithful to its oft-invoked source materials right from the start. When did Dave Arneson's  Blackmoor come out? Wasn't it one of the initial supplements for OD&D? The games I've seen have all bore more resemblance to the pun-heavy, genre-bending hodgepodge of settings like Blackmoor than they did to anything out of actual history or a serious counter-actual history a la Tolkien.The current D&D isn't deviating from its roots, it's just offering better and more explicit rules support for them. Which isn't to suggest you should like it any better, but claiming that's there's been a sea change to the overall timbre of the game doesn't hold up to scrutiny.Yes. The new editions don't contain enough six-shooter wielding demi-gods, trips to Alice's Wonderland and dungeons with laser-toting killer robots in their sub-basements...</blockquote>