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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 3285723" data-attributes="member: 48965">Its funny you mention that I just traded my corebook two days ago for the runequest book (Yes I admit it I really want to play in the Lankhmar setting.)  I really wasn't into Dragonlance like that, thought the original novels were cool when I was  younger but stopped reading them and was a little lost now as to where to pick up.I guess lately I've been jonesing for some sword and sorcery/dark fantasy as opposed to epic(high?) fantasy and the only settings I actively support now are Greyhawk(for my C&C game), Dark Legacies(D&D), and Iron Kingdoms(D&D or true20).  Was into Eberron for a while but IMHO, Eberron draws more from anime and two-fisted tales type stories than anything I consider sword and sorcery.Of all the old settings I would be most willing to purchase Planescape, it caters to the Neil Gaiman, China Mieville and Simon R. Green type books i've really taken a liking to lately,  but crosses it with the Imaro/Conan/Eternal Champion/Lankhmar stories I grew up on and still love.  Books such as the Lord of the Rings/Shannara series etc. bored me.  This may sound funny for someone who has played D&D since they were nine but I didn't read LotR until I was in college and only after a now ex-girlfriend cajoled me into it.  We traded my Elric books for her LotR books, and she totally loved the Elric stories(still haven't gotten those books back    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> but its okay cause this girl is hot and it gives me a reason to call her once in awhile, in fact....<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  ) Sorry about that, back on subject, I found LotR kind of well meh.  Later I read it again and liked it more but my heart is with sword and sorcery.  This I think is becoming a divide between older players and younger players(on second thought might have nothing to do with age, maybe its just sensibilities).  It's the genre that Dark Sun most emulated and I also feel that's why the setting appealed to so many.  As alien as Dark Sun and Planescape were to "standard fantasy" their roots were firmly in the Sword and Sorcery genre.I understand some of the reasons people have given, but like I said I can't understand why a one book campaign book, with a limited print run would be that big of a risk, no more that a supplement like Book of the Nine Swords or even the Tome of Magic.  In fact I think that if they announced it was a limited release and then took pre-orders alot of people would order the books just because they had a limited print run.  And before anyone gets to spoutting about this being a money grubbing scheme, Lets remember they did release limited edition PHB, DMG and MM1P.S. I didn't mean to stray this far off topic, sorry for the rambling and oh yeah...BRING BACK Dark Sun and Planescape!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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