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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 2807346" data-attributes="member: 22882"><p>:\ </p><p></p><p>Meh, if D&D captures the feel of the Age of Faith for you, bravo. I can't say it does for me. The Age of Faith for me does not mean shoehorning characters into alleged archetypes that, if they are even archetypical and not merely stereotypical (if that!), are archetypical for second-tier fantasy inspired by, but inferior to, Tolkien, Vance and Lewis, not for historical reality. In fact, second-tier fantasy that is second-tier in large part because unlike traditionalists Tolkien and Lewis (I'm honestly not sure about Vance), its authors were steeped in "modern, post-Enlightenment" mores and brought those ideas to a fantasy world - where, frankly, they're shown to be as silly, untenable and unrealistic as they really are.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, I come at this from the perspective of an actual feudalist, totally anti-so-called-"Enlightenment" in political/cutural/sociological outlook. d20 Modern does my allegedly medievalesque fantasy better than D&D because d20 Modern doesn't tell me what kind of allegedly medievalesque fantasy I'm supposed to play. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool :cool:" data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> </p><p></p><p>If anything, I'd say D&D would work <em>better</em> for a world in which modern society, with its notions of what a medieval world was or should be, had influenced a later feudal system.</p><p></p><p>In searching for feats, Edena opened up the discussion to include third-party sources (Dragonlance and Kalamar), so it seemed d20 Modern would be a valid resource. It's been a staple of every D&D campaign I've played in since its release, and never been used for a modern setting. Nor a "post-Enlightenment" fantasy world like D&D, but then, that's another story, no?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 2807346, member: 22882"] :\ Meh, if D&D captures the feel of the Age of Faith for you, bravo. I can't say it does for me. The Age of Faith for me does not mean shoehorning characters into alleged archetypes that, if they are even archetypical and not merely stereotypical (if that!), are archetypical for second-tier fantasy inspired by, but inferior to, Tolkien, Vance and Lewis, not for historical reality. In fact, second-tier fantasy that is second-tier in large part because unlike traditionalists Tolkien and Lewis (I'm honestly not sure about Vance), its authors were steeped in "modern, post-Enlightenment" mores and brought those ideas to a fantasy world - where, frankly, they're shown to be as silly, untenable and unrealistic as they really are. Mind you, I come at this from the perspective of an actual feudalist, totally anti-so-called-"Enlightenment" in political/cutural/sociological outlook. d20 Modern does my allegedly medievalesque fantasy better than D&D because d20 Modern doesn't tell me what kind of allegedly medievalesque fantasy I'm supposed to play. :cool: If anything, I'd say D&D would work [I]better[/I] for a world in which modern society, with its notions of what a medieval world was or should be, had influenced a later feudal system. In searching for feats, Edena opened up the discussion to include third-party sources (Dragonlance and Kalamar), so it seemed d20 Modern would be a valid resource. It's been a staple of every D&D campaign I've played in since its release, and never been used for a modern setting. Nor a "post-Enlightenment" fantasy world like D&D, but then, that's another story, no? [/QUOTE]
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