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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8437821" data-attributes="member: 30438">Systemic bias is a heck of thing. Having run open tables, yeah, the vast majority of people that show up don't really consider the behind-the-scenes people or deep history of gaming anymore than someone would consider the history or maker of Monopoly. I totally love gaming history, both within the games and of the games, but there's something kinda freeing about knowing that the younger generations are not beholden to it, are free to bring their own new stories to life. To make their own histories.My FLGS has had a copy of Cyborg Commando sitting on the shelves for months now. I did pick up Lejendary Adventures and quite liked that, though I think it's hindered in places by trying to be deliberately anti-D&D, making for some odd mechanics.Trying to imagine what Middle-Earth as a D&D setting in the 90s would've been like just boggles the mind. Would they have removed the classes and races that didn't fit, or shoehorned them into the world? About all I can say for sure would be that Aragorn would've 100% had a ponytail.Until the internet really came to prominence in the form we know now, gaming history existed in fragments and rumors. Dr. Fine's Shared Fantasy would've probably been the earliest study, but I wouldn't have even known to look that one up.</blockquote>