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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 36448" data-attributes="member: 2205">Lord of the Rings, definately is the biggest influence, but I'd like to be able to pick pulp era fantasy as well, because I read tons of that as a junior high kid.  Other influences, such as mythology, folklore, and more modern fantasy certainly have their place as well, but since Tolkien is a synthesis of northern mythology (in many ways) and modern fantasy is a synthesis of Tolkien (with rare exceptions) I'd say even those influences are indirectly Tolkien related, at least to me.P.S.  Ysgarran, you're from Ann Arbor?  I live in Canton, and I'm always on the lookout for a nearby group to play with.  The group I used to play with, which I'll probably join again now that our third kid is over four months old (and my wife can stand to be left alone for an evening here and there -- at least she better, she does it to me often enough! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />) is all the way out in Melvindale, or Lincoln Park, or somewhere (I don't know exactly where the apartment we meet at falls relative to city boundaries) and I could get to Ann Arbor just as easily.  If I can swing it, I'd love to have two groups...</blockquote>