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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8494847" data-attributes="member: 82524">It took me a while thinking about it, but I think we're missing something in the D&D / Westerns comparison.We're all thinking about the modern popular Westerns with cowboys and saloon towns that are common for our generation.However, we're missing the fact that Cowboy movies are the survivors of a larger Western genre that was about the greater founding of the American west rather than the Dying Days of established and eroding boom towns me have today.If we cast our eyes back, we have Settlers stories like Wagon Train! (exclamation point not negotiable), Little House on the the Prairie, Grizzly Adams, and Have Gun, Will Travel, which are set in an earlier time when homesteads that were far-flung with forts being the only major settlements and bandits and large predators being rampant and unchecked.This is where I see a lot of connections with the Points of Light concept that was around D&D a long time and was solidified in 4e.</blockquote>