OT: Anathem

Jeff Wilson · 21 Sep 2008, 09:11 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:11:37 -0500
Subject: (urth) OT: Anathem
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Matthew Keeley wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/9/20 Rjyan Kadwallader <cexwell at gmail.com <mailto:cexwell at gmail.com>>
> 
>     I think I would let Gary slide, it's not cool to pick on D&D kids
>     they have enough problems as it is.
> 
> 
> And didn't he die a few months back? 
> 
> As I understand (from reading Michael Moorcock's comments on this), 
> early D&D was very upfront about the sources it used - apparently they 
> used to cite Tolkien, Moorcock, Leiber, Vance, et al. in the guidebooks. 
> Now - not so much.
> 
> I never played myself, but surely there are some "D&D kids" here? My 
> parents were always suspicious of it, so it wasn't really an option for 
> me. I got my watered-down fantasy through Japanese videogames, thank you 
> very much.

The most recent edition is more influenced by World of Warcraft, which 
was heavily influenced by earlier editions of both.

I've been a D&D player until I moved on to better things as well. 
Besides girls, I playtest with a rival publisher Steve Jackson Games, 
the same outfit that published the NEW SUN RPG supplement.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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