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<blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 2510498" data-attributes="member: 20741">While they may not have read Howard - they are probably familiar with Conan as a character from film and TV and to a lesser extent, comics. Conan long ago moved into mainstream popular culture. They'll get by on what they know of him.&nbsp; The feel of Conan the Destroyer comes pretty close to iconic D&amp;D. I think Vance can be ignored and one's appreciation of D&amp;D will not actually suffer in the slightest.Lieber, however... that strikes pretty close to the heart. Especially with respect to thieves and the entire concept of a thieves guild and a city adventure in D&amp;D.&nbsp; Lieber in some ways is as close to &quot;gaming fiction&quot; as we had before TSR decided it needed to commission it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />We all need to sing the praises of Ill Met in Lankhmar more.&nbsp; (Though&nbsp; - do remember, Lieber has what may be perceived to be a somewhat sexist approach to his tales when read by a female audience).With respect to Harry Potter - the obvious solution to this is to license and market a Harry Potter RPG. It is an obvious &quot;in&quot; on the market.&nbsp; The fact that we have not seen a Harry Potter RPG or CCG suggests to me that JK Rowling is not a fan of the genre and has said &quot;no&quot;.&nbsp; (Alternatively - the price for her saying &quot;yes&quot; is deemed to be too high)A Harry Potter RPG using basic D&amp;D mechanics would be the obvious &quot;in&quot; with an entire generation of players...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steel_Wind, post: 2510498, member: 20741"] While they may not have read Howard - they are probably familiar with Conan as a character from film and TV and to a lesser extent, comics. Conan long ago moved into mainstream popular culture. They'll get by on what they know of him. The feel of Conan the Destroyer comes pretty close to iconic D&D. I think Vance can be ignored and one's appreciation of D&D will not actually suffer in the slightest. Lieber, however... that strikes pretty close to the heart. Especially with respect to thieves and the entire concept of a thieves guild and a city adventure in D&D. Lieber in some ways is as close to "gaming fiction" as we had before TSR decided it needed to commission it :) We all need to sing the praises of Ill Met in Lankhmar more. (Though - do remember, Lieber has what may be perceived to be a somewhat sexist approach to his tales when read by a female audience). With respect to Harry Potter - the obvious solution to this is to license and market a Harry Potter RPG. It is an obvious "in" on the market. The fact that we have not seen a Harry Potter RPG or CCG suggests to me that JK Rowling is not a fan of the genre and has said "no". (Alternatively - the price for her saying "yes" is deemed to be too high) A Harry Potter RPG using basic D&D mechanics would be the obvious "in" with an entire generation of players... [/QUOTE]

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