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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7489858" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>It sounds like multiple old stories, really. Only it doesn't sound like much of D&D. Very often you get rewarded by the settlement(or even not) and there is no more powerful monster. Very often there isn't even a monster for the adventure. Sometimes you go to another plane of existence. Sometimes you have a naval or completely underwater adventure. D&D isn't much like Beowulf at all. It sounds like you're grasping at straws to try and force D&D to be Beowulf just because occasionally it matches that story.</p><p></p><p>There are no new stories, so pretty much everything you come up with is going to sounds like dozens of stories that have been told before. That doesn't make those old stories inspiration. Beowulf isn't mentioned, where Tolkien is. If you can't show me some explicit proof, then I'm just not going to buy the tenuous(at best) connection that you've come up with.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Or, you know, he could just have mentioned Beowulf as being an inspiration. He didn't. He does name Tolkien multiple times, though. And use more than one name unique to Tolkien.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7489858, member: 23751"] It sounds like multiple old stories, really. Only it doesn't sound like much of D&D. Very often you get rewarded by the settlement(or even not) and there is no more powerful monster. Very often there isn't even a monster for the adventure. Sometimes you go to another plane of existence. Sometimes you have a naval or completely underwater adventure. D&D isn't much like Beowulf at all. It sounds like you're grasping at straws to try and force D&D to be Beowulf just because occasionally it matches that story. There are no new stories, so pretty much everything you come up with is going to sounds like dozens of stories that have been told before. That doesn't make those old stories inspiration. Beowulf isn't mentioned, where Tolkien is. If you can't show me some explicit proof, then I'm just not going to buy the tenuous(at best) connection that you've come up with. Or, you know, he could just have mentioned Beowulf as being an inspiration. He didn't. He does name Tolkien multiple times, though. And use more than one name unique to Tolkien. [/QUOTE]
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