Post originally by Peter Knutsen at 2003-11-12 18:22:47
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Anyone who claims that D&D belongs to the same genre as "Lord of the Rings" or "Earthsea" has a severe perceptual bias.

And anyone who does not balk when faced with such an absurd claim is lacking in genre sensitivity.

D&D is a genre all of its own. It does not reproduce the "feel" or the "mood" of any works of written fantasy, except those which are very directly influenced by D&D, e.g. the Dragonlance novels.