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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8581359" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Can people please stop pretending that comedy and whimsy in fantasy are new things? Or that they are bad for the genre?Tolkien certainly didn't think that having comedy and whimsy in fantasy was a bad thing. Tom Bombadil proves this. Gygax and other early creators of D&D certainly didn't think that comedy or whimsy in the game were bad things. Gygax created Castle Greyhawk, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, the Beholder, the Gelatinous Cube, Displacer Beasts, and Owlbears. The Dragonlance books had Kender, Tinker Gnomes, and Fizban. Spelljammer and Planescape were both incredibly comedic and whimsy settings. Even Ravenloft and Dark Sun had their share of wacky creatures, Domains of Dread, and takes on standard D&D races (cannibal Halflings, psychic antfolk, and assassin-bards, anyone?).I could go on and on. Alice in Wonderland, the Chronicles of Narnia, the Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, tons of fairy tales and mythologies, the Princess Bride, and so on, and so on.Comedy and whimsy in fantasy have been a part of it for as long as it has existed in the mainstream (thank you, Tolkien), it's absolutely not a bad thing that it's a part of the hobby, and the fact that you grew up being ridiculed for liking fantasy does not justify you ridiculing a D&D book for having more comedic/whimsical aspects of it (especially because we still know almost nothing about what it's actually like).</blockquote>

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