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<blockquote data-quote="JPL" data-source="post: 7285302" data-attributes="member: 1964">I would argue that one of the key characteristics of D&amp;D is that it's always been this gumbo of every subgenre of pre-1975 fantasy fiction that ends up tasting like all of them and none of them simultaneously.&nbsp; It has always been Tolkien and Howard and Lieber and Lovecraft and Moorcock all in the pot together, along with everything from mythology to Kwai Chang Caine and Remo Williams.&nbsp; I am actually not sure how you take a D&amp;D group and get them to do &quot;Adventures in Middle-Earth&quot; --- do about five sessions of walking long distances and fighting orcs and the occasional giant spider, and I think everyone would be ready for a flail snail.Hey, there's your next campaign, right there.&nbsp; &quot;Adventures in Middle-Earth&quot; Done Wrong.&nbsp; Everyone rolls up hobbits and gets ready for walking and giant spiders, and then a bunch of modrons come out of the woods chased by a minotaur.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JPL, post: 7285302, member: 1964"] I would argue that one of the key characteristics of D&D is that it's always been this gumbo of every subgenre of pre-1975 fantasy fiction that ends up tasting like all of them and none of them simultaneously. It has always been Tolkien and Howard and Lieber and Lovecraft and Moorcock all in the pot together, along with everything from mythology to Kwai Chang Caine and Remo Williams. I am actually not sure how you take a D&D group and get them to do "Adventures in Middle-Earth" --- do about five sessions of walking long distances and fighting orcs and the occasional giant spider, and I think everyone would be ready for a flail snail. Hey, there's your next campaign, right there. "Adventures in Middle-Earth" Done Wrong. Everyone rolls up hobbits and gets ready for walking and giant spiders, and then a bunch of modrons come out of the woods chased by a minotaur. [/QUOTE]

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