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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8495074" data-attributes="member: 6855114">D&D a western? Don't get me laughing.The lonely village in the wilderness is not an exclusivity of westerns. The little village in Europe, Australia, Africa, South America and Asia say hello to you. These little villages are literally all around the world. And almost all of them have... a tavern or an inn... Even today you can get in these little villages in Europe and all around the world. Heck, I live in America and and just a few miles from town you have small villages with less than 800 souls and they do have a bar... The "wild" in D&D is exactly that, a wild unexplored or unsettled piece of land. Here be dragons is not an elucubration in D&D, it is a real thing. Empires fell to hordes, dragons, magical disasters and any other causes. Take an old dragon. Angry at the settling of its land. The beast wait for the dead of winter, set aflame the village's food resources and housing. The people will die from cold and starvation. Cruel, but efficient. In the spring, the dragon comes back to pick on the survivors and to get whatever riches they might have had. Many empty zones in the world's of D&D are empty for a good cause. Dragons, giants, orcs and so many other treaths exists that "civilization" is often destroyed. And this is where we get our beloved dungeons to explore. Maybe an evil cleric got mad and buried the castle/town in an earthquake? Who knows. But one thing,  American Westerns are not the inspiration for D&D as a whole. For some scenari? Sure, I could believe that. For the whole game? No way....</blockquote>

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