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<blockquote data-quote="Silvercat Moonpaw" data-source="post: 4367654" data-attributes="member: 46652">You caught &quot;gritty&quot; just as I saw it that first time.&nbsp; And the thing about it is: this kind of stuff blows my mind.&nbsp; It shuts down.&nbsp; There's a certain amount of in-built hopelessness that acts like a black hole to my understanding.&nbsp; To me there has to be an obviously &quot;worth it&quot; component of the world to save, and most gritty settings don't propose one as far as I can tell.And now I get why gritty doesn't work for me, at least in your terms: I love episodic story where it's really a series of separate events that are connected by common characters and places but not much by events.I don't get it.&nbsp; Why do the multitude of elements need to make sense?&nbsp; I've always been very put off by peoples' insistence that everything in a fantasy world needs to tie into everything else in a way they can see.&nbsp; Aren't there things in the real world that you go through life not understanding?&nbsp; Why does a fantasy world have to be any different?[Someone tell me if I'm getting off-topic, please.]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silvercat Moonpaw, post: 4367654, member: 46652"] You caught "gritty" just as I saw it that first time. And the thing about it is: this kind of stuff blows my mind. It shuts down. There's a certain amount of in-built hopelessness that acts like a black hole to my understanding. To me there has to be an obviously "worth it" component of the world to save, and most gritty settings don't propose one as far as I can tell. And [i]now[/i] I get why gritty doesn't work for me, at least in your terms: I [i]love[/i] episodic story where it's really a series of separate events that are connected by common characters and places but not much by events. I don't get it. Why do the multitude of elements need to make sense? I've always been very put off by peoples' insistence that everything in a fantasy world needs to tie into everything else in a way they can see. Aren't there things in the real world that you go through life not understanding? Why does a fantasy world have to be any different? [Someone tell me if I'm getting off-topic, please.] [/QUOTE]

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