Robert Bohl Such mixed feelings on that, and I agree with you. But lordy.
This gets back to my megapost about genre tropes way back when. But I get this kind of… sick feeling in my stomach when I think about a big swath of RPGs and RPG play culture as settling on being derivative of other fiction. That’s judgy! And I haven’t fully unpacked my feelings about that. It’ll show up at some point, and then I can have a bunch of uncircles again.