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[Rant] Is Grim n Gritty anything more than prejuidice?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 2251450" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>Deadwood is Grim and Gritty. 13th Warrior is Heroic Fantasy, with Grim and Gritty elements. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is High Fantasy, with tragic elements.</p><p></p><p>In Deadwood, people plot and scheme and murder and dispose of the bodies. Almost everyone is dirty (in many ways) and people are only portrayed in shades of moral gray, some extremely dark.</p><p></p><p>In 13th Warrior, heroes are gathered (the best of the best) to aid people that are doomed (but not helpless) to overcome great odds. There's no real magic and those who seem larger than life are so (a bit) because they manage to fight on through a fair number of wounds aren't unprecedented even in real life. Mind you that most who fight on for a bit wind up dead anyway. Many, many die on screen and we're sure that in that world many, many more will die from future carnage and disease...but for today there was a triumph. No one is coming back from the dead and they know it. Note, btw, that the sequel would have to be named The 4th Warrior.</p><p></p><p>In Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, people practically fly around and do impossible things. </p><p></p><p>We have very different ideas about what Grim and Gritty is or can be, I think.</p><p></p><p>To each his own but I prefer D&D games that are Heroic Fantasy, with a mix of Grim and Gritty elements, and a measure of magical elements sometimes associated with higher fantasy, but not so much that it becomes common place or taken for granted. Howard was my first and favorite author, and I think he captures it well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark, post: 2251450, member: 5"] Deadwood is Grim and Gritty. 13th Warrior is Heroic Fantasy, with Grim and Gritty elements. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is High Fantasy, with tragic elements. In Deadwood, people plot and scheme and murder and dispose of the bodies. Almost everyone is dirty (in many ways) and people are only portrayed in shades of moral gray, some extremely dark. In 13th Warrior, heroes are gathered (the best of the best) to aid people that are doomed (but not helpless) to overcome great odds. There's no real magic and those who seem larger than life are so (a bit) because they manage to fight on through a fair number of wounds aren't unprecedented even in real life. Mind you that most who fight on for a bit wind up dead anyway. Many, many die on screen and we're sure that in that world many, many more will die from future carnage and disease...but for today there was a triumph. No one is coming back from the dead and they know it. Note, btw, that the sequel would have to be named The 4th Warrior. In Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, people practically fly around and do impossible things. We have very different ideas about what Grim and Gritty is or can be, I think. To each his own but I prefer D&D games that are Heroic Fantasy, with a mix of Grim and Gritty elements, and a measure of magical elements sometimes associated with higher fantasy, but not so much that it becomes common place or taken for granted. Howard was my first and favorite author, and I think he captures it well. [/QUOTE]
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