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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vaalingrade" data-source="post: 8732978" data-attributes="member: 82524">Fantasy is a supergenre that contains hundreds of genres that also sometimes bleed back into its parent supergenre, Speculative Fiction.D&D started life as an already hacked together attempt to emulate all of the then-prevalent sword and sorcery, heroic fantasy, sword and sandal, science fantasy, and pulp fantasy. This is why it has LotR's orcs, Conan's Barbarians, Farid and the Grey Mouser's fighter and thief, Elric's alignment, Kung Fu's Monk, and a magic system derived from the very sci-fi dying Earth.The issue is that, being a game mired in tradition and a passionate fanbase that hates everything, it has been veeeeery slow in changing with the times and integrating modern fantasy. It usually does this in the form of spinning off a new setting to do the heavy work while it remains safely ensconced in its protective Forgottenhawk shell, stubbornly not adopting fresh new ideas, only emerging to devour things decades late.</blockquote>