>>5888010>>5888010>earliest childhood memory, reading Harry Potter etcI really appreciated your soliloquy anon, it conveys the same sense of a genuinely heartfelt and earnest copypasta hehe
This makes me feel so old lol when I mention stuff like Knightmare (ancient children tv gameshow in the UK, featuring dungeoneering / medieval fantasy virtual world exploration; you can tell how dated it was from the graphics lol
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When I was growing up I felt a distinct dearth of fantasy, young adult novels did not really exist as a genre or market (this was all before Harry Potter or Twilight or Hunger Games created that demographic in the minds of publishing houses). I guess there were things you could read like Narnia, Narnia was the main "fantasy" thing in school libraries, Tolkien existed but nobody really knew of it, it was considered to be very boring (I have never read the Lord Of The Rings. I read the Hobbit because we were told it was "for children", I read it all and was turned off lol because it seemed dull). Narnia was ok but I found the CS Lewis blatant Christian stuff a bit strange (LOOK ASLAN THE LION IS A LAMB, he is BEING SACRIFICED on a pagan stone altar by a witch like LION JESUS). There was also Brian Jacques Redwall, with medieval swordfighting animals, I liked that series because of the beautiful art covers and illustrations.
So stuff like gamebooks, Fighting Fantasy,
>>5887964WFRP 1e etc just seemed like incredible escapist entertainment at the time. Dungeons and Dragons was basically unheard of to me as a child in the UK, nobody knew anything about it (it was too American too difficult to find) if you played roleplaying games there was Lone Wolf (Joe Dever, he was American but the gamebooks were pretty mainstream and common), that Hasbro Hero Quest boardgame, WFRP (this was also hard to find) and Fighting Fantasy gamebooks and that was pretty much it.
