by Eric R.

With a band name like Silver Strain you know they're going to be a bit trippy. They're going to be a bit tougher to show videos of on here. But if you like trippier, there's a bunch more from Silver Strain where this came from. Their videos also have a midnight movie, belongs on mst3k vibe. Personal story: I've got asthma and it was really bad as a kid. There were a few times I had to be taken to urgent care because I was having such a problem breathing. At the time they'd treat emergency asthma with something in the adrenaline/meth family. You don't sleep after that. Afterwards my parents would plop me in front of the tv when they went to bed, knowing I wasn't going to sleep. At the time the local late night B movies were hosted by a Dr Jekyll style character and I stayed up and watched those. That cemented a love for old, terrible movies before MST3K hit it big. Gymkata!
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by GrimoireOfJank

mic_al wrote:

GrimoireOfJank wrote:

I could start yapping about authors like Michael Moorcock or Tolkein because their work has so clearly provided so much fuel to TTRPG's

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I always thought that maybe Robert E Howard should get as much recognition as Tolkien as a modern "father of fantasy."

Yes, Tolkien gave us somewhat clearly demarcated races/species popularizing Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, etc... as well as the trope of a dark lord, grand quest, archetypal wizard in Gandalf (well... at least after Merlin); but I think that most TTRPG stories and tropes actually fit the paradigm of a Conan adventure far more closely than LOTR (or even the Hobbit).

The whole concept of skilled mercenaries with different talents engaged in raiding a lost dead temple for treasure and encountering ancient hoary beasts and traps (i.e. what a typical a dungeoncrawl is, with a party of "adventurers") is much closer to a Conan story than Tolkien's lofty and symbolic mythology. Whether or not the D&D creators were aware of it (they were obviously aware of Tolkien's influence in inspiring them), those elements from Robert E Howard clearly permeate the whole conception of a typical D&D session; and it was definitely in their subconscious.

Him too, of course. I've just yet to properly read his work so it slipped my mind.

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