How can you be said to even understand the genre of fantasy enough to run a fantasy game if you don’t read fantasy novels, short stories, nor poetry? If you don’t read, your “sandbox” will be barren. Your campaigns will be dry. Your characters will be simulacra of simulacra, false copies of false copies. You will not give your players anything worthwhile. You can’t just base your universe of video games and visual media.
Path to true creativity is though not consuming any media at all, that way your every though is guaranteed to be original.
>>97901480That’s even worse. There’s such a low barrier for entry to be deemed a fan of fantasy. Any unwashed retard who hasn’t read any other book but The Hobbit is deemed a fan of fantasy, for instance, but seems to also be seen as exemplary of fans of the genre. You should read way more than Tolkien or Rowling or Hobb or Redwall to be considered a fan. We know you can’t just say you’re a fan of sci fi just because you read one Star Wars novelisation. But we, for some reason or another, do not consider an illiterate Tolkiendrone as what they are: someone who doesn’t read. If you’re going to get into fantasy, you should draw from sword and sorcery, weird fiction, adventure romances, the Romantic period, and more.
>>97901461How can you be said to even understand the genre of fantasy enough to run a fantasy game if you don’t read fantasy novels, short stories, nor poetry?>poetryPOET HANDS WROTE THIS POST. DISREGARD THE WHOLE POST
>>97901487That's a common characteristics of fandoms, barrier of entry is usually very low. Many soccer fans don't even play the game. Vidya fans often fixate on just one specific genre. And so on. A fan is largely meaningless self-appointed descriptor.
>>97901461I think you should read all kinds of things, not just fantasy. Personally, every time I go "I'm running [game x] so im gonna immerse myself into the literary tradition of [genre x]!" I end up having a bad time. Just read a lot, read many different genres, read history, read nonfiction, and be quick to quit a book if it's not grabbing you. The rule I use is ([your age]-100) pages and if you aren't digging it, move on to the next one.
>>97901461Reading books takes effort and nu-fandoms are composed mostly of tourist who see hobbies as social events and not as things in which to invest time and effort.>>97901487Shouldn't you be completing your own book instead of seething about Tolkien, Martin the fat fuck?
>>97901461>Reading is somehow magically specialGet a load of this retardReminds me how those /lit/ faggots are all entirely about philosophy and haven't read a single farming manual or historical manuscript in their lives.
>>97901970>manual>historical slop>for writing good fantasywhy are zoom-zoom tourist so stupid
>>97902031>Why would knowing facts help me write fiction?>Why would knowing about the past and about how farming works help me write a fantasy?Christ, you children are doomed.
>>97901527You clearly do not own a vorpal sword
>>97902036>knowing random "facts" = good writing>knowing random historical facts = fantasyyou have to be 18 to post here
>>97902071Fuck, you niggers can't even READ.This is so bleak. How do I prevent this tragedy from happening again?
>>97902096try Alt + F4
>>97901461Proof?
>>97902099So the height of your wit is... trying to have me close a browser?Not even, like, a video game that could maybe take a minute to boot up and then have a full server, no, a browser who can be rebooted and back on the same page within the span of time it takes my hand to close.
>>97902173kek mad
>>97901461Ever tried reading a rulebook?
I give it 75/25 chance on weather the troll is the OP or if he just decided to make someone else's thread unusable on a whim.
