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Originally Posted by Skywalker
I am not sure I would say that BL has a highly derivative D&D setting except that they both have traditional fantasy settings derived from the likes of Tolkien, which to be honest are used in many other gaming products.
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I was going to call it vaguely Tolkien-esque, but then I realized that's not the case. It's got the standard fantasy Goblins and Dwarves, also used by Tolkien, but the D&D core classes that BattleLore quotes directly are peculiar to D&D rather than to fantasy in general. In fact, the D&D core classes bear little relation to any traditional fantasy, one of the reasons I find them so off-putting.
Anyway. This is neither here nor there, really; to me, I think the fantasy "backstory" is not a big part of BattleLore as it is now (as Shannon points out). It's mostly about pushing around units and whacking people with them. It'll be interesting to see how this develops, if Days of Wonder tries to develop a BattleLore backstory with the many promised expansions, or if it'll remain a game about blasting people with cool figs and cards.