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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5451437" data-attributes="member: 3887">Absolutely. But after a long, twilit struggle with the various editions of D&amp;D, I've come to conclusion D&amp;D is best suited as a wretched hive of scum, villainy, and more-or-less wide open options. How does the quote go? &quot;D&amp;D is a game where Conan, Gandalf, and Lancelot team up to fight Dracula&quot;. A lot of the pleasure, and challenge, I've derived from my last two long-running campaigns came from finding ways to place my own <s>idiosyncratic/plagiarized/inherently masturbatory</s> particular aesthetic spin on D&amp;D's strongly-implied kitchen-sick environment. Plus, I like the collaborative nature of letting the players bring whatever mad piece of fiction they choose to play to the table. I see it as something of a challenge.Put another way, over the years, I've grown less interested in the game settings I can create alone and more interested in the ones I create with my group, so I'm less concerned with PC's that necessarily &quot;fit in&quot;. The fun is in making them fit, even if it requires an enormous metaphoric hammer to do so.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 5451437, member: 3887"] Absolutely. But after a long, twilit struggle with the various editions of D&D, I've come to conclusion D&D is best suited as a wretched hive of scum, villainy, and more-or-less wide open options. How does the quote go? "D&D is a game where Conan, Gandalf, and Lancelot team up to fight Dracula". A lot of the pleasure, and challenge, I've derived from my last two long-running campaigns came from finding ways to place my own [s]idiosyncratic/plagiarized/inherently masturbatory[/s] particular aesthetic spin on D&D's strongly-implied kitchen-sick environment. Plus, I like the collaborative nature of letting the players bring whatever mad piece of fiction they choose to play to the table. I see it as something of a challenge. Put another way, over the years, I've grown less interested in the game settings I can create alone and more interested in the ones I create with my group, so I'm less concerned with PC's that necessarily "fit in". The fun is in making them fit, even if it requires an enormous metaphoric hammer to do so. [/QUOTE]

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