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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jehosephat" data-source="post: 1371013" data-attributes="member: 14128"><p>Not really sure, so I'm just throwing ideas out to see how they fly.  But it could have something to do with the fact that nothing captures the imagination like fantasy.  Superheroes, cops & robbers, aliens, space explorers, monsters, all that is cool stuff but I don't think it captures like fantasy.  As a child, before D&D, a few things really stick out in my.  Fairy tales were cool, also I had a good experience with fantasy everytime I encountered it.  I remember being glued to the TV set when they showed The Hobbit.  Likewise, the episode of the Superfriends where they all went to Middle Earth and were transformed into Hobbit-like beings still sticks in my mind.  Another cool thing was when my dad took me and my brother to see Jason and the Argonauts, the Ray Harryhausen version.  Gosh Talos and those skeletons were just sooo cool.  Then in 6th grade I was intoduced to D&D.  The local store, kind of a smaller, hometown version of Wal-Mart carried the PHB, the DMs Guide, and the Monster Manual.  I was captivated by the black cover of the PHB and the bright orange idol on the front, so much in fact that I never thought to look inside and find out just what an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook was.  Well at this same time a friend of mine was telling me about this game he was playing.  One day he told me he killed a blue demonic witch called a night hag.  He said she was riding him and digging her claws into his back.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> I thought, how wonderful, that sounds like cool stuff. The books and stories and movies and tv shows and my friend telling me about D&D all left vivid and indelible images in my mind.  That stuff is great stuff, the kind of stuff that all tales should be about.  I just think the fantasy genre invokes a stronger sense of imagination.  I think it's fitting that D&D was the first rpg because these were some of the first types of stores being told by people.  Stories about demons and mythological creatures and how some guy was either slaying them or outsmarting them.  I don't know maybe I am thinking way to hard, but I see something almost primal about these kinds of tales and I think that we here are some of the lucky ones that can connect to that.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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