How to Write D&D

[yellowdingo]

1. Take a Louis Lamour Novel.
2. Change 'Indian' to 'Elf'.
3. Adjust People and Place Names to appropriate Setting.
4. Add a meaningless scene with a Dragon flying overhead at the beginning or the End.
5. Find some Cool Cover Art.

[Doodlebug Anklebiter]

On a similar note, I've been re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs's A Princess of Mars, and I realized one of the reasons I disliked it the first time.

Basically, take a white man's burden adventure story from the turn of the 20th century (something by, say, Kipling or Haggard) and replace black or brown humans with green Martians, and, voila!