Black Dougal
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I follow. Some of my players are exactly the same and we all started in 81 so that interests me. I think many people may have been exposed to medieval fantasy first as kids. For example, many of us encountered the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings prior to Lovecraft at our young ages in 1981. I was raised by a Lovecraft obsessed father and older brothers. I also remember Gary Gygax spoke a bit on the topic. But it's odd when half my group thinks of a Mind Flayer as D&D and I always saw it as Lovecraftian, thanks to my father and upbringing lol.And many of them I never used because of that nor did I think of them as very "D&Dish" (medieval fantasy).![]()
But it is funny to hear a guy my age we played with all out lives finally figure out aberrations are pretty much cosmic horror and many of the planes are akin to outer space or alien worlds.
It's an interesting rabbit hole for sure with all kinds of tangents. I love this stuff and these games.