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<blockquote data-quote="Griffith Dragonlake" data-source="post: 4026817" data-attributes="member: 40379">I’ve thought about this some more and remembered that in High School sometimes I snuck in some wild and wooly anything goes stuff.&nbsp; I created cat-folk, lion-folk, dinosaur-folk, and winged humans as PCs.&nbsp; One time someone found a light saber in a hoarde.&nbsp; And one time a time-cop came to their time to kill them before they did something in the future (this was in the late '70s before Terminator).&nbsp; By the time I got to college I had gotten all the wahoo anything but the kitchen sink fantasy out of my system.After my experience in the SCA some things about D&amp;D combat breaks my fantasy for me.&nbsp; For example the fact that helms play no role (except for an obscure rule in the AD&amp;D DMG) and the proliferation of chainmail bikinis.&nbsp; And the armor doesn't provide DR.I guess what I'm really saying is that D&amp;D led me to explore history, literature, and Medieval semi-reenanctment.&nbsp; And those experience enriched my life but changed what I need out of D&amp;D and refined what breaks fantasy for me.&nbsp; Kind of ironic but I don't think my experience is unique given the number of people who left D&amp;D for Chivalry &amp; Sorcery, MERP, etc.Oh and I never left D&amp;D, I just houseruled the hell out of it. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Griffith Dragonlake, post: 4026817, member: 40379"] I’ve thought about this some more and remembered that in High School sometimes I snuck in some wild and wooly anything goes stuff. I created cat-folk, lion-folk, dinosaur-folk, and winged humans as PCs. One time someone found a light saber in a hoarde. And one time a time-cop came to their time to kill them before they did something in the future (this was in the late '70s before Terminator). By the time I got to college I had gotten all the wahoo anything but the kitchen sink fantasy out of my system. After my experience in the SCA some things about D&D combat breaks my fantasy for me. For example the fact that helms play no role (except for an obscure rule in the AD&D DMG) and the proliferation of chainmail bikinis. And the armor doesn't provide DR. I guess what I'm really saying is that D&D led me to explore history, literature, and Medieval semi-reenanctment. And those experience enriched my life but changed what I need out of D&D and refined what breaks fantasy for me. Kind of ironic but I don't think my experience is unique given the number of people who left D&D for Chivalry & Sorcery, MERP, etc. Oh and I never left D&D, I just houseruled the hell out of it. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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