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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8813725" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Nope, I don't work for Wizards of the Coast and I don't know anyone who works for Wizards of the Coast. Any other interpretation is misunderstanding my point.I am aware. I disagree with these people, as I have laid out. I even put up good reasons for my disagreement.It is impossible to have an artistic echo chamber if you pull from multiple media sources. Let's just follow the rabbit hole a bit, shall we? WoW was inspired by DnD, right? But what else was it inspired by? Well, it was inspired by Kung-Fu Panda. Which was inspired by Bruce Lee, and Kill Bill, and chinese mytholofy. So, what if DnD takes inspiration from WoW that was given to WoW by Kung-Fu Panda? WoW also has some pretty clear inspirations from some Christian Mythology. So does DnD. Would it bad to pass notes between the two things on better ways to use the same source material? Final Fantasy may have been partially inspired by DnD, but it also many times has pulled inspiration from Japanese culture and even Hinduism. So, if we are inspired to take things from Final Fantasy, we aren't just getting DnD, we are getting DnD with specific things added into the mix, and we can then even look at those things added into the mix and follow them back to THEIR sources. Even things that are purely American Fantasy can add elements that were not present in DnD, can give new takes on old ideas, and we shouldn't just ignore those. Because they can be better than what we have, And even if all of it is inspired by DnD, grabbing from WoW, Final Fantasy and American Fantasy Novels gives you three different sources. And all those things are likely going to be pulling from everything around them as well. Because no art exists in a vacuum. You can't make art that doesn't rely on something someone else made. Tolkien stole from other artists as well. Blatantly.Marvel Live-Action Movies? Sure. Marvel animated shows suck compared to DC's. And even Marvel Live-Action Movies have deep flaws in them that people are starting to notice after all these decades of them, and there are solutions out there for them, if they are willing to look at other properties and see what works.Um... we should absolutely ban ox-drawn wagons from the roads. It is illegal to go so far UNDER the speed limit for a reason. This has nothing to do with the analogy, just cold hard reality there.But more to your point, if you want to keep your ox-drawn wagon, you have it. But we can update to cars in the production lines for other people. Because there is no need to keep telling them that this is the best form of transportation we can make. If people want the wagons, musuems exist, people have pictures of them, people will still have some sitting in their barns, but we don't need to keep making them.You can't excise things from DnD's history. That doesn't make sense. You'd have to delete the old books, and no one is saying that.What you do is make better stuff for the current version of the game. You don't reprint the stuff from the history, you update it.Yeah, I know there is a difference. That's why I advocated for one, and not the other. And sure, it would be nice, but it is also largely impossible to do in any official capacity. Too much changes, the fundamentals of the systems are incompatible.</blockquote>

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