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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 107330" data-attributes="member: 363"><p>I'm not sure if that is a good way to rephrase what I wrote. Actually, it isn't anything like what I was getting at, now that I've re-read it. If anything, they way I look at is a lot looser than the way you're interpreting it. It just naturally has always struck me that magic, if it existed, would have changed things a lot more profoundly than would be represented by a medieval Europe setting. It wasn't anything that my group ever really thought about back in 1979; the default never was a &quot;bring out your dead&quot; type of setting - it was &quot;wahoo - anything goes&quot; from the get-go. Just like when I first started reading comics; I always just assumed comic book worlds were a lot different than the real world, due to all the tights-wearing rabble-rousers running around tossing the landscape over. So it always strikes me as strange when someone sees D&amp;D as having a default medieval setting. And I mean &quot;strange&quot; as in &quot;different,&quot; not &quot;strange&quot; as in &quot;bad.&quot;</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 107330, member: 363"] I'm not sure if that is a good way to rephrase what I wrote. Actually, it isn't anything like what I was getting at, now that I've re-read it. If anything, they way I look at is a lot looser than the way you're interpreting it. It just naturally has always struck me that magic, if it existed, would have changed things a lot more profoundly than would be represented by a medieval Europe setting. It wasn't anything that my group ever really thought about back in 1979; the default never was a "bring out your dead" type of setting - it was "wahoo - anything goes" from the get-go. Just like when I first started reading comics; I always just assumed comic book worlds were a lot different than the real world, due to all the tights-wearing rabble-rousers running around tossing the landscape over. So it always strikes me as strange when someone sees D&D as having a default medieval setting. And I mean "strange" as in "different," not "strange" as in "bad." [/QUOTE]

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