The Nature of the Game

WTF? Goddammit - I had this cool essay started about how people have been complaining that fantasy has been cliché for over 25 years (citing examples in Dragon magazine), and that Eberron is simply a recycling of some of the root elements of D&D in a new form, but Blogger ate my post - I didn't even click on anything! It just errored on me.

Grr...

Anyway, I'm not re-typing all that. In summary:

• What's old is new again, etc., etc.
  
• Ravenloft, Spelljammer, Tekumel, Wilderlands from Judges Guild are all examples of how things have differentiated themselves from the LotR/Forgotten Realms standard.

Good enough. There's something profound there. Or not.