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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7372268" data-attributes="member: 19675">I don’t find it difficult at all (gamer since ‘77).&nbsp; Nor, I suspect, do many others, especially the younger gamers.&nbsp; My cousin T is in his early twenties, and has been gaming...8 or so years?&nbsp; Staying in our house post-Katrina, he learned about RPGs, but I didn’t include him on game night.&nbsp; He started playing with his school buddies, which continues to this day.&nbsp; He knows Conan (TV &amp; movies); he knows Amber.&nbsp; But he’s entirely unfamiliar with any of Moorcock’s writing.&nbsp; Or Fritz Lieber.&nbsp; Or Vance.Ask him about fantasy-themed anime, however...So I googled the character &amp; novels.&nbsp; Here’s a good clue as to why he’s not known to me:Said contest was in Fantastyka, a Polish science fiction and fantasy magazine. And not all of the Witcher material has been translated into English.When “The Witcher” was published, I was graduating from high-school, had been gaming for nearly a decade, and reading mythology and sci-fi/fantasy/horror since 2nd grade.&nbsp; A short story that hadn’t yet been translated into English was not going to be on my radar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 7372268, member: 19675"] I don’t find it difficult at all (gamer since ‘77). Nor, I suspect, do many others, especially the younger gamers. My cousin T is in his early twenties, and has been gaming...8 or so years? Staying in our house post-Katrina, he learned about RPGs, but I didn’t include him on game night. He started playing with his school buddies, which continues to this day. He knows Conan (TV & movies); he knows [I]Amber[/I]. But he’s entirely unfamiliar with any of Moorcock’s writing. Or Fritz Lieber. Or Vance. Ask him about fantasy-themed anime, however... So I googled the character & novels. Here’s a good clue as to why he’s not known to me: Said contest was in [I]Fantastyka[/I], a Polish science fiction and fantasy magazine. And not all of the Witcher material has been translated into English. When “The Witcher” was published, I was graduating from high-school, had been gaming for nearly a decade, and reading mythology and sci-fi/fantasy/horror since 2nd grade. A short story that hadn’t yet been translated into English was not going to be on my radar. [/QUOTE]

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