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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeger" data-source="post: 8363719" data-attributes="member: 27996">The compilation in Appendix E is not from a single genre of fantasy.That D&D is an amalgam of several different writers points to the fact that D&D is very much it's own thing because many of the sources it draws from are very different from each other.The only specific 'genre' of fantasy that D&D hedges to is D&D fantasy.Appendix E is just sources of inspiration. The books listed have very different types of fantasy in them. They are not by any measure all the same 'genre' of fantasy. Even though they are all put under the 'fantasy' label.Tolkiens vision of fantasy is different from Moorcocks. Burroughs tales are very different in tone than Pratchetts. Howard, Dunsany, And Martin are very different in tone, worldbuilding, and magic levels.Listed in appendix E you have everything from weird fantasy, original mythology, sword and planet, sword and sorcery, pastiches based on D&D itself! Along with Tolkien and pastiches of Tolkien.D&D has taken inspiration from all that to then make its own unique thing.The unique genre assumptions D&D hard codes into its rules set bear this out. This is not a bad thing. It's just the way it is.That D&D is its own genre of fantasy is hardly a controversial statement, and I am not by any stretch the first one to point this out.Now as to whether or not the D&D rules set can do "All fantasy genre's"This argument has largely been dealt with before:[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.enworld.org/threads/d-d-compared-to-bespoke-genre-ttrpgs.679910/[/URL]I'll defer to the arguments and counterarguments presented in the linked thread.</blockquote>

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