Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
Middle-Earth, Westeros, the Wheel of Time and the Continent are all fantasy worlds. None of those have more than a handful of different races (often less).
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Which one? Star Wars? Game of Thrones or The Witcher? Tolkien? The SpellSinger series (anthropomorphic animals) or Conan? There are many, many visions of what a fantasy world would look like.
Nehwon, Black Company, Dread Empire...
Speaking of fantasy worlds, serious question. Other than books specifically set in FR or other D&D property, how many fantasy novels have anything similar to the number of different races that D&D has?
I mentioned the SpellSinger series from Foster, it was populated with all sorts of anthropomorphic animals. But most fantasy novels I've read? Only a handful. Then again I freely admit my selection is somewhat limited.
I mentioned the SpellSinger series from Foster, it was populated with all sorts of anthropomorphic animals. But most fantasy novels I've read? Only a handful. Then again I freely admit my selection is somewhat limited.
Vaalingrade
Legend
This is not helping the 'DM-as-frustrated-author' criticism.
Most fantasy novels have a competent magic system* too, but they never change that in D&D either.
*Vance's system was competent in his sci-fi series where it made sense and was fun. This has not translated into D&D.
Most fantasy novels have a competent magic system* too, but they never change that in D&D either.
*Vance's system was competent in his sci-fi series where it made sense and was fun. This has not translated into D&D.
Lyxen
Great Old One
Because what works in a novel does not work in D&D and vice-versa (and you can add video-game to the list of incompatibilities).
Actually it worked really well, especially with high level spells which you prepared for the day, and was fun. That being said, once more, what works for a medium does not work well for others.
Vaalingrade
Legend
Oh thank god, the unrequited jealousy of D&D players for videogames has made it to this thread!
JiffyPopTart
Bree-Yark
LotR has: Humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, different orcs, trolls, cave trolls, treants, whatever gollum was, sentient spiders, and sentient eagles. This is just the beings the fellowship encountered along their trail during the books. My sense is that if you explored the entire continent and better yet the entire planet there would be hundreds of different intelligent beings.
Also Lion/Witch/Wardrobe and Redwall have similar numbers of anthromorphic animals similar to Spellsinger.
Lyxen
Great Old One
Ha, it's video-games who are jealous of D&D.
Micah Sweet
Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
I'm curious. What exactly do you want D&D to be? How do you play? You seem to have an issue with several of D&D's core values (bounded accuracy and most of the lore, for example).
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