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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 2513634" data-attributes="member: 4826">Apart from anything else, it takes time to make a classic. One of the interesting things about fantasy literature is that you can have a classic because of the fantasy, not the literature.I agree with Merric that influences move on and the contemporary will and should have an influence on D&D. After all, Vance, for example, was contemporary with OD&D and I'm pro-Vancian magic without being a Vance fan. Meanwhile, the only fantasy fiction I've read this year is Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. Even Heaney's foreword, which concerns itself primarily with language, is enough to inspire a DM.New blood will explore the classics but the response will be different to that of previous generations, influenced as it has to be by the present. I was watching Live8 Hyde Park with an old friend, when his seventeen year-old sent him a text message to say she couldn't believe she was actually seeing Pink Floyd live. I told him I couldn't believe she was sending a text message in the middle of the last live Pink Floyd performance.</blockquote>