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<blockquote data-quote="Arcane Runes Press" data-source="post: 1812124" data-attributes="member: 402">warlord said&nbsp;Err... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f635.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="O_o" title="Er... what?&nbsp; &nbsp; O_o"&nbsp; data-smilie="12"data-shortname="O_o" />?Tolkien's writing have influenced D&amp;D for a long time now. No, it's not an all pervasive influence, but denying it's there is silly. then someone else said &nbsp;What's &quot;classic fantasy&quot;?Many of the works considered classics of fantasy are very, very different from one another in style and subject matter, and this has been true for the better part of a century. There is no specific definition of what &quot;classic fantasy&quot; is - A Wizard of Earthsea is undeniably a fantasy classic, but it's very, very different from the Lord of the Rings. Likewise, Howard's Conan stories are fantasy classics, but so are the Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, and they couldn't be more different. The tone and style of D&amp;D has changed, and will continue to change as old styles falter and new styles come into favor - but implying the older editions were &quot;connected to classic fantasy&quot; is displaying considerable tunnel vision as to what the fantasy genre encompasses and what D&amp;D can be. Patrick Y.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arcane Runes Press, post: 1812124, member: 402"] [b]warlord said[/b] Err... O_o? Tolkien's writing have influenced D&D for a long time now. No, it's not an all pervasive influence, but denying it's there is silly. [B]then someone else said[/B] What's "classic fantasy"? Many of the works considered classics of fantasy are very, very different from one another in style and subject matter, and this has been true for the better part of a century. There is no specific definition of what "classic fantasy" is - A Wizard of Earthsea is undeniably a fantasy classic, but it's very, very different from the Lord of the Rings. Likewise, Howard's Conan stories are fantasy classics, but so are the Chronicles of Narnia and Alice in Wonderland, and they couldn't be more different. The tone and style of D&D [I]has[/I] changed, and will continue to change as old styles falter and new styles come into favor - but implying the older editions were "connected to classic fantasy" is displaying considerable tunnel vision as to what the fantasy genre encompasses and what D&D can be. Patrick Y. [/QUOTE]

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