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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8495162" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>Sure there are, but this is true of frontier towns from many cultures across the world. It's not a link to western frontier towns.</p><p></p><p>Again, true of many cultures around the world.</p><p></p><p>Really? The old west is all the wilderness the world has ever had?</p><p></p><p>Not legally, and not something even remotely limited to western frontier towns.</p><p></p><p>I can't recall that ever happening in a game I played or module that I've read. If you simply mean leaving after you've fixed the local problem, it's again something that applies worldwide and not limited to western frontier towns.</p><p></p><p>This is correct. I quoted the passage that said where the gold comes from. It didn't come from adventurers going out and mining it, or NPCs for that matter.</p><p></p><p>No clue. I don't know how much any particular thing influenced Gygax. And neither do you. I do know that he flat out said that the influx of money in D&D was due to successful adventurers, and did not say it was due to wild west like mining operations.</p><p></p><p>Nothing you listed is exclusive to western frontier towns and the game itself is written to be roughly medieval European, not American wild west.</p><p></p><p>If you're going to claim lots of wild west influence, you need to be able to show proof of that, not vague suppositions that more easily apply to other cultures around the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 8495162, member: 23751"] Sure there are, but this is true of frontier towns from many cultures across the world. It's not a link to western frontier towns. Again, true of many cultures around the world. Really? The old west is all the wilderness the world has ever had? Not legally, and not something even remotely limited to western frontier towns. I can't recall that ever happening in a game I played or module that I've read. If you simply mean leaving after you've fixed the local problem, it's again something that applies worldwide and not limited to western frontier towns. This is correct. I quoted the passage that said where the gold comes from. It didn't come from adventurers going out and mining it, or NPCs for that matter. No clue. I don't know how much any particular thing influenced Gygax. And neither do you. I do know that he flat out said that the influx of money in D&D was due to successful adventurers, and did not say it was due to wild west like mining operations. Nothing you listed is exclusive to western frontier towns and the game itself is written to be roughly medieval European, not American wild west. If you're going to claim lots of wild west influence, you need to be able to show proof of that, not vague suppositions that more easily apply to other cultures around the world. [/QUOTE]
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