2020年8月25日 · American Fantasy Defined As described in The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, the tenets of American Fantasy include a contrast between real world struggles and a fantasy land (Kansas vs. Oz), the Garden of the World set in the midst of the Great American Desert (Oz), and pastoral qualities that encompass the heartland like corn fields, crows, wildcats, and field mice. Baum's Oz is ...

2025年1月24日 · They all come from distinct cultures with their own language and customs. How do you distill all Native Americans into some form that's acceptable at the game table? Coyote and Crow did this by suggesting Non-Native players play members of fictional tribes. But if you have a setting like Shadowrun, what Native American groups are in charge?

2024年10月18日 · Fighting Fantasy and Steve Jackson Games announced a deal to release the series of solo choose-your-own-adventure style gamebooks in the United States for the first time in over 20 years. The Fighting Fantasy series, written by Sir Ian Livingston and Steve Jackson (not the same Steve Jackson of...

2020年8月28日 · L. Frank Baum's Oz series established American Fantasy as a genre, and yet it hasn't had much influence on popular tabletop role-playing games despite several American fantasy authors providing the inspiration for co-creator Gary Gygax's Dungeons & Dragons. Why not? Picture courtesy of...

2024年2月29日 · “Colonial Gothic is a supernatural historical horror roleplaying game set during the dawn of the American Revolution.” The original designer who is currently working on a fourth edition, Richard G. Iorio, was kind enough to talk to me about his RPG, his design choices, and his upcoming work...

2020年9月9日 · American Fantasy Defined As described in The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, the tenets of American Fantasy include a contrast between real world struggles and a fantasy land (Kansas vs. Oz), the Garden of the World set in the midst of the Great American Desert (Oz), and pastoral qualities that encompass the heartland like corn fields, crows, wildcats, and field mice. Baum's Oz is ...

2018年8月20日 · For all their American influences, D&D heroes are still small in the weave of the world. In early D&D games, they died by the handfuls at the whim of dice, a lesson distinctly at odds with American determinism. D&D has come full circle to influence the fantasy that created it.

2017年10月27日 · Eberron is a D&D setting defined by a very long civil war that only recently ended. It has some elements of of WWI/II and the five nations also take some very broad influences from Europe with Breland being the US/England, Aundair being kind of French, Karnnath being vaguely Eastern European, Thrane being superficially Catholic (so I suppose Italy), and Cyre being a kind of idealistic fantasy ...

2020年8月25日 · Doesn't "American Fantasy" sorta dominate the Urban Fantasy market? You say American Fantasy and I automatically think of "shooting a necromancer" or "driving to a vampire lair" So that's where I'd see the American RPG with more urban flair or small town drama. But I could see more talking animals. Click to expand...

2020年8月27日 · American Fantasy Defined As described in The Fantasy Tradition in American Literature, the tenets of American Fantasy include a contrast between real world struggles and a fantasy land (Kansas vs. Oz), the Garden of the World set in the midst of the Great American Desert (Oz), and pastoral qualities that encompass the heartland like corn fields ...